codyb

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by codyb 9mo ago
What, as opposed to the people on painkillers, xanax, caffeine, nicotine, and of course the actual worst... too little sleep, too much alcohol, and their phones.
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by codyb 9mo ago
There's a really interesting story I read somewhere about some application which used neural nets to optimize for a goal (this was a while ago, it could have been merkel trees or something, who knows, not super important) And everythin
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by codyb 9mo ago
I believe we should judge folk based on their actions not their gaffes personally. Under Biden the US reduced inflation faster than any other peer country, reduced student loan debt by billions, secured 1 trillion in mostly green infrastruc
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by codyb 9mo ago
Nobody builds anything modularly. It's very weird. I've come into codebases at my current big co where 15 tables that all looked and acted exactly as terribly as one another (no sorting, no discernible sort, no filtering, limited
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by codyb 9mo ago
Really? Talk about denial, or abject lack of paying attention. The idea Trump is not in cognitive decline is easily rent asunder by watching any clips of his recent speeches and comparing them to clips from 2016 and 2020. He's falling
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by codyb 9mo ago
It's important to put this in the global context that every country in the free world shifted rightward post pandemic. Even if the Democrats had run a perfect campaign they might not have won. And they probably came closer than many pe
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by codyb 9mo ago
Compare how Biden was covered whenever he made a gaffe to how the current president is covered when he gaffes constantly and you'll see what I mean. For instance, Trump has said "oranges" instead of "origins", said
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by codyb 9mo ago
Didn't work for Biden He was incredibly successful at tackling hidden charges, and dark patterns, and extra fees tacked on after the fact The country ate alive the nicest, most well meaning president we've ever actually had as far
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by codyb 9mo ago
I guess the broader impact is cause the people on here actually do have assets and can donate, vote, call, and influence. So if the upper middle and lower upper classes are being hollowed out... Well... what's that leave? Just the supe
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by codyb 9mo ago
Nice, thanks for the details! Very weird for Taylor Swift...
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by codyb 9mo ago
I'm not sure how your math stacks out... but 2/3rds of 330 million people is not 75 million votes. The fact is, the American electoral system is heavily stacked against the actual population due to... - Citizens United allows indi
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by codyb 9mo ago
The article claims Grok was generating nude images of Taylor Swift without being prompted and that there was no way for the user to take those images down I don't know how common this is, or what the prompt was that inadvertently gener
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by codyb 9mo ago
What I love is how their own features don't even play well together anymore... For instance you can "hide your e-mail" by using Apple's relay, but if you do so... your payments using Apple Pay will fail unless you fill a
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by codyb 9mo ago
I always take January off from a variety of things... This year I added in my phone which I keep across the room all day and haven't been taking when I leave the house. I'd already gotten rid of social media, and blocked most news
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by codyb 9mo ago
MacOS 26 highlights were... and this was _Apple's_ opening modal... "Icons that look like shit!" and "Notification summaries that may not be correct!" In general I feel as if Apple's software feels buggier and
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by codyb 10mo ago
I've gone in a bit of the opposite direction in that I've basically abandoned my phone and youtube and social media, and now... life is so silent a lot of times... that I just start doing things when I get tired of staring at the
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by codyb 10mo ago
The less I use tech these days the happier I seem to be. I'm basically down to Anki cards, Chrono Trigger, and the Money Matters newsletter on my phone (plus calls and messaging). Recently I've dropped Youtube in favor of reading
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by codyb 10mo ago
They're pretty good near me And of course, there's this idea everything needs to be done like the house is on fire, but I'm usually fairly happy if I see someone getting a break to look at their phone and doesn't notice
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by codyb 10mo ago
Immersion's best in my experience... and you can create immersion Things I do more and more often as time goes in Spanish - Subtitles in Spanish always on whenever possible - Audio (music (just bought some Bad Bunny), television, sport
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by codyb 10mo ago
I mean look at Mac OS 26... The features were the ugliest icons I've ever seen and notification summaries that may be wrong. Great.
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by codyb 10mo ago
American Hegemony or Pax Americana (post WWII until present) is the most peaceful period of human history, despite the myriad atrocities which have occurred during that period, from myriad different parties, including the USA itself A big r
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by codyb 10mo ago
So many cults of personality these days between Musk, Trump, Altman, Neuman (WeWork guy)... Maybe it started with Jobs, maybe it's always been a thing in other spaces (politics, religion...) and is now coming to business and these uber
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by codyb 10mo ago
"Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI (github.com)" Nailed it
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by codyb 10mo ago
I haven't done much, my theory here is... A) I barely get to do any coding these days anyways B) Reading code is harder than writing it (and thus, easier to gloss over), and by the time I'm ready to write code I've already do
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by codyb 10mo ago
The Erlang space vs the Elixir space (can't speak for agent based code generation here) would seem to give credence to this theory. When I would explore Elixir forums with much larger communities there'd be myriad base level quest
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Ya know, ya really waited until the second comment here to add in the "pretending" lol
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Writing a giant unit test suite being the primary example that stuck out to me from that article really doesn't give a lot of credence to the question? And yet, the conclusion seems to be as if the answer is yes? Until AI can work orga
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by codyb 10mo ago
Yep, exactly, and amazing. And it's such a blind spot in the industry that the people most able to build and estimate features and software are left to be the least equipped to see through the end user's eyes. As such, when you en
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by codyb 10mo ago
This was definitely a huge factor for me. Since it was on the skin I waited for a dermatologist when I should have gone to any doctor immediately, I'm sure it would have been fairly clear since I eventually was able to suss out that it
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by codyb 10mo ago
This administration does appear to be flaming out a bit at least. Seems like there's a chance the Dems take the House before the 2026 midterms. I think there's a chance Trump's term ends early.

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