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foolfoolz commented on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome   academic.oup.com/pnasnexu... · Posted by u/MattSayar
puppycodes · a month ago
Interesting, I wonder what else this might lead too! Encouraging we might be getting somewhere.

I used to live near a Down syndrome center where a bunch of folks lived and I remember this one lady who was kitted out with Britney Spears everything, lunchbox, t-shirt, hat, and headphones. Everyday I passed by the bus stop she would be dancing her heart out to a Britney track waiting for the bus and it made my world a little brighter.

foolfoolz · a month ago
we are going to become very good at this. eliminating genetic errors, choosing to be straight, tall, etc
foolfoolz commented on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August   theverge.com/notepad-micr... · Posted by u/ghoulishly
janalsncm · a month ago
Pay close attention to these demos. Often the AI is ok but not amazing, but because it’s shaped like the right thing they don’t look any deeper.

It makes selling improvements fairly hard actually. If the last model already wrote an amazing poem about hot dogs, the English language doesn’t have superlatives to handle what the next model creates.

foolfoolz · a month ago
usually less perfect is a better sign of integrity
foolfoolz commented on First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb   bbc.com/news/articles/c78... · Posted by u/gmays
Teever · 4 months ago
This is really cool but it's ultimately a stop-gap measure.

Where we want to end up is with artificial wombs because that will ultimately give individuals much more control over their reproduction and will do away with the onerous physiological and psychological stresses that pregnancy puts on women.

foolfoolz · 4 months ago
brave new world
foolfoolz commented on Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury   bps.org.uk/research-diges... · Posted by u/domofutu
vasco · 4 months ago
Whenever you have these feelings, go watch actual real life combat footage. A great recent one is a knife fight to the death where one soldier admits defeat and asks the first one to leave him to die https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/tAUwd2MWqT

Watch that and tell me if you think it's still cool and normal life is boring. I find that it snaps me right back out of "Hollywood war" thinking and makes my stomach turn.

foolfoolz · 4 months ago
there are vets who return from a deployment and can’t adjust to life at home. and they re-deploy many times over. i’m not going to call one cool and one boring, you’ll have to ask those guys what their motivation is
foolfoolz commented on ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser   flausch.social/@piegames/... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
foolfoolz · 4 months ago
somehow location tags on my photos got turned off for a bit. i would use this to restore them
foolfoolz commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers   spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins
decimalenough · 4 months ago
All things being equal, why would you pay for lighting if you don't need it?
foolfoolz · 4 months ago
it’s mentioned many times in the linked article happy cows produce more milk
foolfoolz commented on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak   knowyourmeme.com/memes/ev... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon
shipscode · 4 months ago
The take on 4chan on here is super intriguing. I always felt that the current social media/doomscroll/memesharing landscape which has become so common worldwide is indiscernable and in some ways worse than 4chan. It feels like 4chan left it's homepage and went worldwide sometime in the early 2010s when iPhone-style phone use became more commonplace.

I remember that 4chan users had more honor than users on the internet today. One example would be 4Chan's "Not your personal army" mentality vs. the widespread doxxing/"call their place of employment!" witch hunts, driven by huge accounts on IG/Tiktok/etc, that hit normal people daily.

The modern social media landscape has become far more hectic, harmful, and downright scary than 4chan. Dodging explicit imagery is harder on Instagram's explore page than on 4chan, and the widespread popularization of OF creators has zero bounds across the socials. DOXXING is no longer frowned upon and now commonplace. And memes have become less unique and funny and more commoditized.

foolfoolz · 4 months ago
modern 4chan has a certain authentic charm to it. this is missing from most other places. you have to sift past loads of junk to get it, but you have to do that on any app to get the content you want.

with no names, likes, virality, accounts, etc there’s less focus on writing the basic filler comments. less companies trying to sell me stuff. less focus groups trying to tell me what to think. and with less censorship you end up seeing more creativity

foolfoolz commented on Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python   github.com/ariebovenberg/... · Posted by u/pkkm
apeters · 4 months ago
Am I the only one to stick with the std lib, read the docs and changelogs carefully, and implement functions I really need the way my application makes use of them?

I learned the hard way, that dependencies kill projects.

Not saying this isn't great, thanks for creating it! It does have its use cases, of course.

foolfoolz · 4 months ago
this is a great idea if you want to slow down your project. most projects start with few rules and “best practices” like this. everyone is free to pull in dependencies as needed. because they are needed. but then once the project grows larger, those who have been around longer want to reverse course and gatekeep dependencies. but this is the opposite of what helped the project grow initially. and later contributors have a harder time making similar progress because they have to fight to add basic libraries. ensuring that efficiency per engineer goes down
foolfoolz commented on Strengths Are Your Weaknesses   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/kiyanwang
kwakubiney · 5 months ago
I think this goes in line with companies as a whole as well. I work at a place where features are pushed at a very very high speed and we have realized that the tradeoff is us missing pretty crucial edge cases in our development. Now i’m not sure if people have worked in a place where they shipped products fast but were able to minimize bugs but i’d love to hear how your company achieved that. Is it even possible? Does it all come down to hiring to suit your fast paced needs?
foolfoolz · 5 months ago
it depends on the business and industry. at some phases in a business’s life you need to get features out more than stability. some industries are more sensitive to bugs than others. it’s not a one size fits all approach.

to shift the culture from “fast” to “safe” is mostly a team-based effort because not all teams need to shift. and even within a team you may have experimental and mature products.

i’ve seen this shift happen successfully multiple times. it must come from leadership. C-level and down. even if it’s just for one team. or one product. you need the buy in all the way up. and then your people in the chain will adapt to changing expectations

foolfoolz commented on Default styles for h1 elements are changing   developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/soheilpro
codedokode · 5 months ago
> The plan is to roll out to 5% of users on the Firefox 138 stable release, ramp up to 50% of users

What an awful idea. How is a web developer supposed to test the website when he and user might have different browser behaviour? It looks like someone read about deployment at Facebook and wanted to implement the same thing without any valid reason. Firefox is not a server-side software and this style of deployment doesn't make much sense.

foolfoolz · 5 months ago
this is clearly an edge case and most (all?) modern websites will not run into any problems. this is a very reasonable change given the impact

u/foolfoolz

KarmaCake day2778May 1, 2012View Original