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by sumeno 1y ago
You are still selling a product that says it can count calories when fundamentally it cannot. The fact that people believe you and pay you money for it doesn't change that fact. You are lying to people. > SnapCalorie is the first ap
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by sumeno 1y ago
+/- 20% is way better than being off by 3x like in the example in this article
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by sumeno 1y ago
There may not be a silver bullet but adding randomly generated numbers is not an improvement
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by sumeno 1y ago
What about when people give up because you massively underestimate their calories? Or when people develop eating disorders because you massively overestimate their calories? If the goal is to learn then accurate information is important, al
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by sumeno 1y ago
And how is it going to tell how much oil or butter was used in a dish?
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by sumeno 1y ago
It can also be a negative value. If I diligently track calories using one of these things and don't lose weight I'll say "screw it" and stop bothering because obviously counting calories doesn't work. I think this i
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by sumeno 1y ago
I can't believe lawmakers are focused on this when there is a nationwide rash of incidents where some lady breaks into a child's bedroom to steal their teeth. Leaving a quarter does NOT absolve anything
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by sumeno 1y ago
Numbers can hurt you quite a bit when they are wrong. For example, numbers are the difference between a bridge collapsing or not
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by sumeno 1y ago
Someone could have said "The Google you use today is the worst Google you will ever use" 15 years ago and it may have sounded wise at the time.
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by sumeno 1y ago
His mommy wouldn't let him do it
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by sumeno 1y ago
> The next 4 weeks of my life consisted of 100s of calls recruiting the smartest people I’ve ever talked to This kid needs to talk to more people
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by sumeno 1y ago
This isn't your typical SV startup. Move fast and break things works for garbage like Juicero or Uber for Dogs or whatever silly idea gets VC funding this week, it does not work when you're talking about the lives of millions of p
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by sumeno 1y ago
A disaster was the expected outcome to anyone paying attention. We were screaming to the rooftops that this was going to end in disaster! Nobody should be playing the "shucks nobody realized this was going to be bad" card
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by sumeno 1y ago
Have you stopped to consider that the intelligent people actually do understand it?
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by sumeno 1y ago
cisgender is not a slur
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by sumeno 1y ago
Even the patent thing was just a scam. You're free to use Tesla's patents as long as you promise to not sue them for violating any of your patents. It wasn't some altruistic thing
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by sumeno 1y ago
100% true, although even if Musk wasn't toxic I wouldn't get a Tesla because of the poor build quality, touchscreen controls, and the overpromise/underdeliver history.
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by sumeno 1y ago
I don't want more anecdotes from beta testers or massaged numbers from Tesla. I want truly independent verification. For every anecdote about how great it is there's another video showing a Tesla swerve into a tree or turn onto tr
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by sumeno 1y ago
https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-y-ev-safety-qual... https://capitalmotorcars.com/tesla-model-y-reliability/
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by sumeno 1y ago
Given the quality issues of their most recently released vehicle, a truck that makes the Ford Pinto look respectable, I'm skeptical
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by sumeno 1y ago
My doctor was in a pilot program for this exact thing. It recorded our conversation and created the after visit summary. It's summary was that I wasn't taking my antibiotics (I was, neither I nor my doctor said anything to the con
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by sumeno 1y ago
Sure they did, or at least the ones who survived did. Offshoring went from the thing that was going to kill the US Software Engineering industry to a fairly minor portion of it with US based engineers being even more in demand than they wer
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by sumeno 1y ago
And eventually they learn the lesson that many companies learned in the early 00s with offshoring. You get what you pay for
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by sumeno 1y ago
This seems to just be a wrapper around a bunch of LLM prompts. What value is being added in the (eventual) pay version? As a free github project it seems.. I don't know, it's not peer review and shouldn't be advertised as s
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by sumeno 1y ago
There's a big difference between private citizens saying things and the federal government punishing speech. Of course, you already know this, you're doing a false equivalency as a transphobic dogwhistle (or whichever bigoted opin
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by sumeno 1y ago
Don't recall the federal government doing that at all
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by sumeno 1y ago
You're doing your boss's job for them by making this an engineer vs engineer thing instead of an engineer vs management thing.
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by sumeno 1y ago
Sure, but maybe we should do this before we make our own replacements. They aren't going to do it for us after the fact
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by sumeno 1y ago
Because every technology does eventually
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by sumeno 1y ago
When I was in college if AI was available I would have abused it way too much and been much worse off for it. This is my biggest concert about GenAI in our field. As an experienced dev I've been around the block enough times to have a

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