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by jjav 11mo ago
> write a failing test for a single behavior, Outside of work I've been running a pure vibe-coding experiment where I don't look at the code at all, ever. I'm using this approach of telling it a specific scenario has to wo
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Nobody wants fleet-wide flag days anyway. Crowdstike raises their hand..
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by jjav 11mo ago
Sounds like insurance in Canada is very cheap. Here in California we pay about $400/month. This is for a couple with no accidents in 30 years, in the sweet spot of old enough to have plenty of driving record with zero accidents but not
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by jjav 11mo ago
> It's relatively reliable In most places it is not, which is a big drawback. Every week I hear on the news how the train shut down some stations or got massively delayed for random reasons. I couldn't possibly rely on that if
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by jjav 11mo ago
> The United States is freaking huge. Completely irrelevant. I'm not interested in public transport across vast areas from city to city, I can drive or fly for those (very rare) occasions. Public transport is most useful for the hyp
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Auto insurers don't face a "catastrophic liability" bankrupting scenario like home insurers might in the case of a natural disaster or fire. This changes with self-driving. Push a buggy update and potentially all the sam
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Apartment complexes is how people should rent. Why would you get to decide that? Some people like to rent single family homes. Some because they have a large family. Some because that's just what they want. It's not ok to tel
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by jjav 11mo ago
IME vibe coding works spectacularly for simple one-off scripts that do a fairly simple thing. I can describe the work in ~10 minutes and save 2-4 hours of scripting. Just last weekend I wanted a script to process a csv file and produce some
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by jjav 11mo ago
> > Cap how many rentals an individual can own. > Yes. Cap to 0. That is saying let's eliminate rentals entirely. If nobody can own a rental, there can be no rentals. Some people do prefer to rent. I wouldn't, but I know
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by jjav 11mo ago
Cassettes were always a pain, but LPs are an awesome medium even today. While it's convenient to just listen to anything with a click, the joy of the experience is gone. Purposefully pulling out an LP and setting it on the turntable, s
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by jjav 11mo ago
Just a couple months ago I converted to mp3 some cassettes I recorded in the very early 80s of a local band. Not perfect audio, but sounded quite good still. Not bad for a ~45 year old tape.
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by jjav 11mo ago
This is about cryptocurrencies, not actual cryptography.
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by jjav 11mo ago
Brakes will always overpower the engine unless the braking system is severly damaged. This is simple physics. Cars decelerate far faster than they accelerate, which is to say, the brakes can generate far more horsepower than the engine can.
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by jjav 11mo ago
I don't know where the majority of the money goes, if you're looking for a precise breakdown. The point I'm making is that only a very very tiny fraction of the bill goes to the people actually providing healthcare (the nurse
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by jjav 11mo ago
This is why we must have open interoperable standards, like the Internet used to and was meant to be.
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans. Deductibles can be higher, but more importantly it's very important to undertand that "out of pocket maximum" does not mean the same thing to n
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Where does all that money go to, though? Nearly all of it goes to grifters who hang on to the system but don't contribute anything. The obvious ones are all the insurance company employees who don't provide any healthcare, ju
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by jjav 11mo ago
> generate 5 paragraphs of nauseating slop Which then nobody will ever read, they'll just copy it into the AI bot to summarize into a few bullet points. The amount of waste is quite staggering in this back and forth game.
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by jjav 11mo ago
A couple of these are easy to answer. A - Never. Cash with no return is just decaying with inflation. B - Depends on interest. If your mortgage interest is lower than no-risk interest (e.g. SGOV) then no, you'd be throwing money away b
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by jjav 11mo ago
> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin The initial impression that we don't need to hire many people because AWS takes care of everthing, fades away pretty quick. You still need to h
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Kubernetes is not a fad. DynamoDB and MongoDB is not a fad. Golang is not a fad. These are indeed good examples of things that are merely tools, not fundamental knowledge. Time-transport me an expert C programmer from the 80s and I&#x2
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by jjav 11mo ago
> but even a year away from hands on technical work is going to leave you likely stranded and unable to execute on the technical aspects This is an interesting myth, but certainly a myth. I guess if we consider technical skill to be inti
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by jjav 11mo ago
> We are a dictatorship and we are headed towards a dictatorship are not the same thing. While there is truth in that, it is also important to note that there is no such thing as a clear-cut line where we go, ok this is it, now it&#x27
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Denser areas are cheaper per housing unit. That's not exactly true. Now sure, if everything else is equal then yes it is true. Building a small apartment building on the same land as a single house will result in more units than t
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by jjav 11mo ago
> There is no mustache-twirling villain who has a great idea on how to !@#$ people out of their money. Unfortunately, that's not correct. A multi-trillion dollar company most absolutely has not just such a person, but many departmen
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by jjav 11mo ago
That's the whole point and I sure use it every day. Starting a GUI app on any machine on the network and have its windows display on my local screen is vital functionality.
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by jjav 11mo ago
> Certainly timing the market is difficult for everyone. Timing the market is a lot easier for industry insiders and politicians, however.
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by jjav 1y ago
> I do not understand or fathom why this program is run in such a cruel, uncaring way. For the current administration, maximizing cruelty is the whole point and goal.
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by jjav 1y ago
> It is always a wonder to me when people downplay something that is "just" 1.5% of nearly $7 TRILLION If (assuming correct) it is 1.5%, then it is 1.5% Which is a tiny percentage. That's how percentages work. Adding that
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by jjav 1y ago
> You don't starve 41 million people even if you think there is some corruption, that's absolutely inhumane shit. Enemy of humanity shit. Agreed, of course, but realize that for the current administration the cruelty is the who

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