floriannn (u/floriannn)

floriannn commented on A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I nytimes.com/2025/05/17/st... · Posted by u/ripe

Glyptodon · 3 months ago

An acquaintance of mine is in college for CS and he says his classmates use AI for everything and don't really learn the material. He dreads group projects because he'll be paired with classmates who have AI write code that doesn't work and they don't understand. But also it's apparently lead to a lot of writing code by hand on paper for assignments and tests and stuff and he is also annoyed that he'll get dinged for stuff like overlooking a semicolon that would be an obvious compile-time error when writing code on paper.

I feel bad for him because it seems like it's going to be hard for him to find a job next spring. (And in all fairness, I don't know how good or bad he actually is at CS.)

floriannn · 3 months ago

Ugh, group projects in college were just the worst even before AI. In the real work environment, if someone doesn't show up, doesn't do any work, or is just not good at their job, they can be fired. In college group projects they just drag everyone else down and either people do their work for them or others get a bad grade.

floriannn commented on How to bike across the country brooks.team/posts/how-to-... · Posted by u/benjbrooks

beezlebroxxxxxx · 5 months ago

At your fitness level, you're more than capable of doing a long bikepacking trail.

The hard part isn't really fitness (for any moderately experienced biker unless your trip has a specific time or FKT goal), it's the logistics of food + shelter, the mental grind, and dealing with possible repairs.

floriannn · 5 months ago

Yeah I have done some trips before, max was 8 days with 85-100 miles each day, some decent elevation (max 11k feet in a day, but others around 5-6k) pretty bad weather, mix of paved and gravel. No chance I’m coming anywhere close to Lachlan’s time on GDMBR but I do need to finish in under 40 days.

This guy was using Rockbros bags and rack and I’m wondering if I should swap out my Tailfin for a more durable OMM rack…

floriannn commented on How to bike across the country brooks.team/posts/how-to-... · Posted by u/benjbrooks

floriannn · 5 months ago

I have 2500 miles so far this year and could do a century any random day without preparation and I’m doubting whether or not I can do GDMBR, meanwhile this guy didn’t even own a bike, didn’t even do more than 30 miles once he did, and just set off across the country. I guess I should just do it.

floriannn commented on An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force aftermath.site/ai-video-g... · Posted by u/Doches

bluefirebrand · 5 months ago

I have never had a job where completing tasks faster wound up with me having more personal free time. It always just means you move on to the next task more quickly

floriannn · 5 months ago

This is a fair bit easier as a remote worker, but even in-office you would just sandbag your time rather than publishing the finished work immediately. In-office it's more likely that you would waste time on the internet rather than working on a personal project though.

floriannn commented on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

Speedy218 · 5 months ago

> but now it is “overmedicating” a vulnerable fraction of the population.

Makes sense, but the intention also is that many people do not brush their teeth, or at least do not brush them as often as they should, and so fluoride is added to drinking water to compensate so people's teeth don't start to fall out at an alarming rate.

floriannn · 5 months ago

> many people do not brush their teeth

many? (!!!)

Googling it all I found was one dentist website that said 2%, but didn't seem that reliable

floriannn commented on Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software tedium.co/2025/03/29/seve... · Posted by u/shortformblog

astrange · 5 months ago

This is a "midbrow dismissal".

Yes, the fire marshal has also thought of the first thing you just thought of to post. They aren't stupid.

floriannn · 5 months ago

Grenfell Tower was "fireproof", and yet...

floriannn commented on The Burnout Machine unionize.fyi... · Posted by u/flxfxp

stared · 5 months ago

Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode" (I moved from academia over a decade ago, and I know the difference). This blog post tries to paint it differently - and it feels like it lacks perspective compared to virtually any other occupation.

> We’re living in a world where billion dollar tech companies expect us to live and breathe code, demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of "passion."

Yet, it is up to us. In some software jobs (AAA game dev and a certain type of startup), you are expected to crunch beyond limits. In other places, you can have a typical 40h/week job at a salary way better than the average 9-5 job. Or you can freelance a dozen hours a week and live in a remote cottage. Or work from Thailand when it's winter. Or take a gap year to regenerate, or reinvent, yourself.

Not many career choices support this freedom. In some (e.g., medical careers), grind is not optional—you won't finish university, you won't get established, and that's the end of the story. In many other jobs, if you were freelancing a dozen hours a week, you would literally not be able to afford food. In many professions, quitting means the end of a career - or at least a serious setback; in tech, it means getting many messages on LinkedIn.

Don't get me wrong - I am all for criticism of grind and exploitation. But let's not paint ourselves, members of one of the most privileged occupations, as victims of the global system.

floriannn · 5 months ago

I have a sub-40 week at one of the big tech companies, idk why this article is being so confident that we are all pushing 80 hours?

We are tech workers, we need time to go to the bouldering gym and to take our Patagonia hoodies to see the outdoors.

floriannn commented on Big LLMs weights are a piece of history antirez.com/news/147... · Posted by u/freeatnet

jgalt212 · 6 months ago

It's funny you say that, but when travelling abroad I wondered how Europeans and Japanese stay sufficiently hydrated.

floriannn · 6 months ago

Is this a thing about how restaurants in some European countries charge for water?

floriannn commented on The Future Is Niri ersei.net/en/blog/niri... · Posted by u/mattjhall

alabastervlog · 6 months ago

I thought that was a totally different program, not a fork? If it's a fork, I guess that simplifies figuring out which alternative to switch to the first time Spectacle gives me any trouble at all.

floriannn · 6 months ago

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

It says “based on” in the README, which could just mean “inspired by”, but it’s also in the license so I thought that it was an actual fork. Looking at the actual history would reveal the answer, but idk, works basically the same.

floriannn commented on The Future Is Niri ersei.net/en/blog/niri... · Posted by u/mattjhall

alabastervlog · 6 months ago

I'll occasionally do quarters. Especially half on one side, two quarter-windows on the other, for a 3-window arrangement. On Mac.

My key bindings are a little different because I use the defaults in Spectacle to do it. More than a decade like that. Program's discontinued but still works and has never given me so much as one problem this entire time, so I'm going to keep using it until it stops working.

floriannn · 6 months ago

There is a maintained fork called “Rectangle” now.