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by macNchz 1y ago
I think comfort/discomfort is a highly individualized thing where your range gets calibrated by your experience, and that modern western lifestyles have created a very narrow band of what’s comfortable for many people. I’m a big Type I
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by macNchz 1y ago
I’ve always said this as well, having done lots and lots of early stage building and prototyping, and suffering plenty of proto-duction foibles, however my view has shifted on this a lot in the last year or so. With current models I’m able
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by macNchz 1y ago
Definitely a thing in NYC—had an ice cream truck that would sit down the block from my place playing music all day long and many years later that "hello" is like nails on a chalkboard.
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by macNchz 1y ago
I guess the fact that some manufacturer integrations are flaky is hard to reconcile for me as far as the promise of "having multiple kinds of smart devices isn't really a problem". Regardless of whose fault it is, those fla
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by macNchz 1y ago
Perhaps I never put enough effort into it, but I've slowly coalesced on only having IKEA smart home products after years of acquiring piecemeal stuff and trying to wire it together with Home Assistant. I've shut down HA, and wit
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by macNchz 1y ago
In addition to defense-in-depth—simply adding a bunch of imperfect layers and acknowledging that no individual layer like this is all that effective on its own—there’s a component of creating signal: it can be pretty trivial for a motivated
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by macNchz 1y ago
> In this case, when you see anything about the rich and famous are they likely to live in "high density" the way developers think of it? There are an awful lot of exceptionally wealthy people living in buildings in Manhattan w
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by macNchz 1y ago
I’ve taken early stage apps through a bunch of security review processes and never encountered questions about the specifics of the auth backend, beyond whether it can support the client’s specific SSO requirements. These days I tend to fav
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by macNchz 1y ago
I definitely think the bigger context window helps. The code quality quite visibly drops across all models I've used as the context fills up, well before the hard limit. The editor tooling also makes a difference—Claude Code pollutes i
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by macNchz 1y ago
I'm all about clear prompting, but even using the verbatim prompt from the OP "ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4", the smallest current models from Google and OpenAI (gemini-2.5-flash-lite and gp
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by macNchz 1y ago
Lack of complete e2ee is a feature for many large organizations—they still want everything encrypted, they just want a master key to be able to audit communications for compliance/investigations/insider threat identification. They
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by macNchz 1y ago
Yeah I've mostly just embraced having to remove them as part of a code review, helps focus the review process a bit, really.
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by macNchz 1y ago
I've been intending to try some side by side tests with and without a conventions file instructing it not to leave stupid comments—I'm curious to see if somehow they're providing value to the model, e.g. in multi-turn edits.
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by macNchz 1y ago
Using all of the popular coding models pretty extensively over the past year, I've been having great success with Gemini 2.5 Pro as far as getting working code the first time, instruction following around architectural decisions, and s
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by macNchz 1y ago
Not a doctor, but to my understanding there are two main issues with CT scans in this context: the radiation from the scan itself, and the fact that it can lead to "incidental findings" which then might cause a cascade of other, m
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by macNchz 1y ago
It's effectively malware—this article has some more detail: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are... Basically, they created a channel between the browser and a localhost webserver
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by macNchz 1y ago
The NYT does have a direct-sold ads business and first-party data platform for targeting them: https://open.nytimes.com/to-serve-better-ads-we-built-our-ow...
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by macNchz 1y ago
I love when I ask it to remove things and it doesn't want to truly let go, so it leaves a comment instead: # Removed iterMod variable here because it is no longer needed. It's like it spent too much time hanging out with a
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by macNchz 1y ago
I find the way that it handles errors to be super annoying—I type fairly quickly and hitting backspace is built into my muscle memory in a way that just seems totally incompatible with that site, even with the "Stop cursor on error&quo
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by macNchz 1y ago
> Disagree. Some learn, not all and decreasing numbers career to learn This is an organizational issue then—someone who is operating at a junior level who demonstrates that they don’t care to learn should be let go.
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by macNchz 1y ago
It was founded by two Radio Shack employees!
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Where I've found LLM coding assistants really effective in my client consulting work is around iteration: I can deliver so many more versions of an application UI in a given amount of time that it really changes the entire process of h
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by macNchz 1y ago
The Walmart in the area from this article is separated from the main town by a four lane road with no sidewalks, across which the nearest crosswalks are more than half a mile away in either direction—so you’re either playing high stakes Fro
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by macNchz 1y ago
There is certainly a wide spectrum in how people behave, and an important factor is also how they would like to be perceived by others. Rundowns on how wealthy people live will tend to overindex on the behavior of people who want others t
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by macNchz 1y ago
The great majority of lower-income people commuting into Manhattan are not doing so in cars, and those that do are eligible for a discount.
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by macNchz 1y ago
As an anecdote about any amount of parking winds up being used if it's free: there's a guy a block over from where I live in dense, transit-connected Brooklyn who has, at any given moment, at least 6 cars parked on the street, tha
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by macNchz 1y ago
Somehow appropriate for a crowdsourced experience of driving.
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by macNchz 1y ago
Windowless office spaces are so miserable to me. Often under-ventilated and over lit with unpleasant artificial light as well. On this topic, something window-related that’s common in France but rare in the US is functional shutters—it’s s
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by macNchz 1y ago
I've wanted to do a similar thing for "sweatiness" for a while, to try quantify the amount of time each year you can do outdoor activities or have the windows open without feeling too hot, based on dew point/humidity + t
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by macNchz 1y ago
Having been on both sides of this—working behind a counter and answering phones at various jobs long ago, and being someone who often surprises family and friends with my ability to extract good outcomes from customer service—I think it’s s

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