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farnsworth commented on The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs   benshoemaker.us/writing/c... · Posted by u/straydusk
GalaxyNova · 12 days ago
> I don’t read code anymore

Never thought this would be something people actually take seriously. It really makes me wonder if in 2 - 3 years there will be so much technical debt that we'll have to throw away entire pieces of software.

farnsworth · 12 days ago
Yes, and you can rebuild them for free
farnsworth commented on Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding   github.com/addyosmani/gem... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah
farnsworth · 3 months ago
Am I stupid? I run /corgi, nothing happens and I don't see a corgi. I have the latest version of the gemini CLI. Or is it just killedbygoogle.com
farnsworth commented on A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos   quantamagazine.org/a-sing... · Posted by u/pykello
codethief · 5 months ago
> the early universe was building them in parallel with — or before — galaxies

Reminds me of the "blowtorch theory"[0] discussed here on HN a while ago.

[0]: https://theeggandtherock.com/p/the-blowtorch-theory-a-new-mo...

farnsworth · 5 months ago
I absolutely don't know enough to know how legit or ridiculous that idea is, but it's been stuck in my head ever since I read about it here, and it's been fun to mull over.
farnsworth commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
baby · 6 months ago
It doesnt let you change to chatgpt, thats my biggest issue with the Gemini integration.
farnsworth · 6 months ago
I'm happy with Gemini, I just meant I want a native chatgpt-like service (unlike Siri)
farnsworth commented on Pixel 10 Phones   blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium
baby · 6 months ago
I switched to the previous google phones (9) for the folding phone, even though I'm not too much of a fan of the android experience I cannot switch back to Apple right now because:

* the AI integration on google phones is just amazing

* the folding phone has insane screen estate on-demand anywhere any time, I wouldn't be able to go back to a single screen

farnsworth · 6 months ago
What do you like about the AI integration? I'm considering leaving iPhone just to have basically native chatGPT integration, assuming gemini works that way, and assuming it can read and write to my calendar and access other personal data.
farnsworth commented on The Prehistoric Psychopath   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/Petiver
TeeMassive · a year ago
I'm surprised that there are no mentions of uncontacted tribes (ctrl-f of 'uncon' and 'native' yields no matches). It seems that violence and extreme xenophobia is the cultural norm, not the exception from a few psychopaths. And the methodology seems dubious, trying to estimate social behavior, norms and statistics based of people long gone and whose remains are scattered far and wide both in place and time.
farnsworth · a year ago
> and extreme xenophobia

Maybe it's the norm for tribes that have managed to survive and remain uncontacted in the modern world

farnsworth commented on Two in three shoppers won't buy products in locked display cases   retailbrew.com/stories/20... · Posted by u/kawera
vel0city · a year ago
I steal a bunch of candybars from a convenience store. What am I going to do, sell them for $1-2/ea just like the bodega? The high-margin goods like beer and wine require licenses to sell; I lose any benefit of plausible deniability in where I got these goods when I try and fence these on the street or online. Selling them without proper license is always a crime and practically impossible online.

Meanwhile I steal a bunch of vitamins and OTC drugs I can sell at $10-20/bottle, packs of underwear at $10-20 a package. A lot of this can even be sold through Amazon at full retail pricing, I don't even have to try and sell it on the street.

farnsworth · a year ago
The shops I'm talking about have vitamins and OTC drugs
farnsworth commented on Two in three shoppers won't buy products in locked display cases   retailbrew.com/stories/20... · Posted by u/kawera
vkou · a year ago
Here in Seattle, all the worst-for-shoplifting stores are still open.

Mysteriously, a bunch of locations that were not bad for shoplifting, but were bad for overall sales (because of shitty layouts, small footprints, limited selection) ended up closed.

Perhaps shoplifting was just the excuse regional management gave for why they closed badly ran locations.

farnsworth · a year ago
I've always wondered why all the big chains are closing stores, blaming shoplifting, to the point where Belltown no longer has a single pharmacy. But I haven't seen any of the small independant shops/bodegas close, including a small grocery shop right next to the 3rd/bell bus stop. I can't imagine that nobody is shoplifting from those. I'm no expert but it's never added up to me.
farnsworth commented on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”   spectrum.ieee.org/motor-d... · Posted by u/belter
duxup · 2 years ago
Why does cycling have such a reputation for this kind of thing?

Is it just that we see it more there? Or is there actually more cheating in that sport than others?

farnsworth · 2 years ago
It's harder to hide the motor in gymnastics
farnsworth commented on TypeScript: Branded Types   prosopo.io/articles/types... · Posted by u/arbol
aleksiy123 · 2 years ago
Anyone else sometimes get more sucked in to perfectly typing stuff instead of writing code.

I guess working in the pure logic and formalism of types is just addictive.

I love it.

farnsworth · 2 years ago
Yes, if you do a good job it removes a lot of mental overhead for building the feature or refactoring it later.

Although if you do a bad job it might add a lot...

u/farnsworth

KarmaCake day1397December 6, 2009View Original