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I probably have a weird gene or something but cumin smells like disgusting body odour to me and any food that has any trace of it I cannot eat or I will gag

This doesn't happen to me with anything else, I'm not a picky eater and will happily eat literally anything else

Some of us already have a lifetime subscription, why move to Jellyfin?

I'd have to set it up and tell all the consumers of my server to move apps, and not all of them are tech literate. It would take a lot of enshittification to force me to move.

That's cool but who is going to pay the upfront cost for the heat pumps? The sources I could find say we currently have 412 heat pumps per 100k people in the UK.

Ordinary people can't just afford to drop 10k for a heat pump + installation for it to pay for itself 20 years down the line.

Yeah after investing in countless cat toys from the pet store, I found out that my cat's favorites are (in no particular order):

- McDonald's paper straw

- Bird feather from outside

- Empty toilet paper roll

- Shoelace

- Strap of Velcro

- Bottle cap

Yep, archiving feature flags and deleting the dead code is usually thing number 9001 on the list of priorities, so in practice most projects end up with a graveyard of them.

Another issue that I've ran into a few times, is if a feature flag starts as a simple thing, but as new features get added, it evolves into a complex bifurcation of logic and many code paths become dependent on it, which can add crippling complexity to what you're developing

Even disregarding CUDA, NVidia has had like 80% of the gaming market for years without any signs of this budging any time soon.

When it comes to GPUs, AMD just has the vibe of a company that basically shrugged and gave up. It's a shame because some competition would be amazing in this environment.

I want to recommend a game you can pull out and explain in a couple of minutes that everyone tends to enjoy. I've played many a board games with people and this one has had unparalleled success in terms of enjoyment and replayability across broad audiences

It's called "So Clover!" and it's a word association themed game where each person gets four pairs of words, you write a one word clue for each pair, and then the rest of the group has to work backwards to figure out the original orientation of your cards (the cards themselves each have four words as well)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/329839/so-clover

Qwen3-Coder-Next 6 months ago

I'm hoping so. What's amazing is that with local models you don't suffer from what I call "usage anxiety" where I find myself saving my Claude usage for hypothetical more important things that may come up, or constantly adjusting prompts and doing some manual work myself to spare token usage.

Having this power locally means you can play around and experiment more without worries, it sounds like a wonderful future.

That was literally the opposite of my intention. Maybe the choice of word wasn't perfect, but basically, I was trying to highlight that domain expertise is still valuable in the specific scenario of software engineering.

The same could be said about any other job, if you put me against a construction worker and give us both expensive power tools, he will still do a better job than me because I have no experience in that domain.

A software engineer with an LLM is still infinitely more powerful than a commoner with an LLM. The engineer can debug, guide, change approaches, and give very specific instructions if they know what needs to be done.

The commoner can only hammer the prompt repeatedly with "this doesn't work can you fix it".

So yes, our jobs are changing rapidly, but this doesn't strike me as being obsolete any time soon.

A few months ago I was going through my secondary email and noticed I was getting a $0.01 monthly bill from AWS.

Having not used AWS for years, I logged in to check it out, navigated through the Kafkaesque maze of their services until I found what I was looking for:

A lone S3 storage bucket, with one file, "Squirrel.jpg". A 200kB picture of a squirrel that I uploaded 8 years ago and can't remember why.

Personally I love it and find it very intuitive.

It allows you to do stuff so much faster than having to type everything manually into the terminal. Also really enjoy the "Undo Last Commit" feature and how I can easily see all modified files at once and shuffle around stuff between the staging area.

Doesn't Firefox make them the lion's share of their profits just from the Google payments?

If they let Firefox atrophy to the point it will have no market share, let's see how that works out for them

GPT-5.2 7 months ago

This looks cherry-picked, for example Claude Opus had a higher score on SWE-Bench Verified so they conveniently left it out, also GDPval is literally a benchmark made by OpenAI

To save the situation, a consortium of US banks provided a $1.1 billion line of credit to the brothers which allowed them to pay Bache which, in turn, survived the ordeal.

It seems once you amass a certain amount of wealth, you just get automatically bailed out from your mistakes

You're not a real programmer if you don't have a "I vibe code AI slop in NextJS" sticker on your MacBook

I'm also very disappointed with the Airpods Pro 3

I use them mainly for running, and after I accidentally put my Pro 2s through a washer/dryer cycle, I ordered the Pro 3s, but I've noticed they feel heavier in the ears and make this annoying loud thumping sound every time my foot hits the ground, making them almost unusable for my primary purpose

Also sometimes I fall asleep in bed with them while listening to a podcast, and have experienced the same painfully loud screeching as described by the article when the microphones brush against the pillow