Insanity

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by Insanity 4mo ago
If this topic interests you, I recommend reading “Animal Liberation” by the philosopher Peter Singer. I discovered it during my philosophy classes at university, and eventually became vegetarian as a result of this about 15 years ago. Hones
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by Insanity 5mo ago
This might say more about the quality of modern apps than the power of the iPhone lol.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Ha, I did the same about 15 years ago. Nowadays don’t need the file anymore but it was a good way to get rid of that initial automated behaviour.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Which bomb would advertise itself as such.. this is something I’d expect in the movie Airplane!, not something to happen in real life.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Say MTHFR one more time, I dare you. Never heard of the acronym though so not sure what the mutation implies.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
At the risk of sounding stupid. Doesn’t this mean it would mask actual kidney disease? So you’d be ignoring potential warning signs.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
I mean the ideal sales window within a year, e.g period leading up to Christmas.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
I guess because they also learn there’s still plenty of money to be made in other engineering domains. And to be honest, I think games are a good stepping stone towards a career in software engineering / computer science. Especially ba
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by Insanity 5mo ago
The games industry is notorious for this, yet far from the only industry working against deadlines. Deadlines are a good way to timebox work, but they need to be set in a realistic way rather than an optimized happy-path. I do understand th
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by Insanity 5mo ago
I’m not really sure why someone would hire Ive to design a car. I don’t know much about him, but to me he’s mostly known for designing Apple products, not luxury vehicles. Hiring someone because of their name recognition in a role they aren
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Reads like more AI fearmongering because it fits a convenient narrative.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
+1. It seems like there is just a vocal minority who complain about the missing HW buttons etc. I’m sure Amazon has enough actual customer data to make their product decisions based on what moves the most volume.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
There is a Kindle Color<something>. Haven’t used that yet either.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Yea, but I’m not sure customers or mgmt get that
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Code quality matters to engineers. Find a senior manager who cares. Or worse, find a customer who cares. While they obviously want a high quality product, no outages, a responsive system etc, I don’t think they necessarily understand why yo
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by Insanity 5mo ago
In fairness, Chime had tons of internal use and I quite liked it. For Kiro, I agree with you, it seems like wasted effort and Anthropic / OpenAI are miles ahead in their tooling.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Wonder if Amazon will do the same with CC and Kiro now that we internally have access to both. I think Kiro might have some “first mover” advantage internally, but CC feels better to use.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
TBH that is what attracted me to Pulumi to manage IaC. My brain doesn’t find YAML appealing as a configuration language, and having a known fully-fledged language available makes life a bit easier.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
You snor so loud it damages your own hearing? Can you wear ear plugs to sleep?
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Sounds like they vibe coded that instead. Google has such poor UX flows at times, it doesn’t surprise me.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Agreed, but I think that might be our tech bubble. My non-tech family still just types searches in the URL bar of their browser first, and I'm sure others just have google as their browser homepage. I assume that's actually a pret
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by Insanity 5mo ago
They used a puppet to play Rocky? Was not sure how they did it, don’t think I would really care, but that’s cool.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
I wonder how much the 'inflection point' is a thing vs marketing. I'm sure the models got somewhat better, but even now when I'm trying to 'vibe code' a game with the latest models (combination of Codex w/
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by Insanity 5mo ago
True, I agree. But it does suck working in tech on a “medium” salary when your overseas colleagues do the same work and earn much more. What I probably miss the most about EU (apart from family) is good food.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
This is a fair point to be honest. But I about 4x’d my take-home salary and get to work on more cutting edge tech, with more impact than in EU. I did work on some cool medical device and ML tech back in EU, associated with a university and
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by Insanity 5mo ago
As a European I want mistral and EU to do well. But at the same time, I wouldn’t actually give up my well paid engineering job outside of EU to even entertain working for them in EU. Too low salaries and too high taxes.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Only somewhat. I’d argue the internet could be considered a basic utility to function in the modern world, yet that just builds on electricity.
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Technically (nitpicking) it mentions no _approved_ vaccine. There can be vaccines without being approved for use in said countries. But I have no clue how far along vaccines are, and even if they exist how feasible it would be to use in e.g
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by Insanity 5mo ago
High token usage does not mean high token usage in the same session / context window. But yeah, context rot hits hard, I find that with Codex/GPT5.4 after about 50% context window usage it's hard to get anything useful out of
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by Insanity 5mo ago
Devil's advocate - this is a forcing function to get people to try out AI whom might be reluctant to try it. I'm speaking from personal experience, I was 'forced' to use the tools as it is being tracked, and found genuin

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