jaapbadlands (u/jaapbadlands)

jaapbadlands commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

beAbU · 8 days ago

Isn't the struggling with docs and learning how and where to find the answers part of the learning process?

I would argue a machine that short circuits the process of getting stuck in obtuse documentation is actually harmful long term...

jaapbadlands · 8 days ago

Feel free to waste your time sifting through a dozen wrong answers. Meanwhile the rest of us can get the answers, absorb the right information quickly then move on to solving more problems.

jaapbadlands commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone

dragontamer · 2 months ago

The Moon directive was set by Donald Trump in 2017.

This is just the same deadline being pushed another year because of failures. Deadlines that get constantly pushed aren't deadlines at all.

As I recall, SpaceX and Artemis project was supposed to be Moon by 2024. At least originally. But then SpaceX blew up all the rockets (successfully testing them or something) and now we've wasted damn near a decade.

jaapbadlands · 2 months ago

Testing rockets that fail is still progress. Deadlines that get pushed isn't an argument against deadlines.

jaapbadlands commented on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome academic.oup.com/pnasnexu... · Posted by u/MattSayar

squigz · 5 months ago

This person has the support they need (institutional and otherwise) to be healthy and happy and they have something they can connect to and express themselves with. How is that a token manner?

jaapbadlands · 5 months ago

That's not what they said.

jaapbadlands commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

RS-232 · 6 months ago

Not many people these days like to hear this (I myself was one of them), but the answer to this is in Genesis.

There's a reason some of the most famous mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and philosophers of all time believe(d) in God.

The Hebrew name of God, YHWH, literally means "He Who Is." In other words, the Self-Existent One. The father and originator of all things that were, are, and will be, who exists outside of spacetime.

jaapbadlands · 6 months ago

That explains nothing.

jaapbadlands commented on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code ghiculescu.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jermaustin1

emeraldd · 8 months ago

If you're forgetting to use the tool, is the tool really providing benefit in that case? I mean, if a tool truly made something easier or faster that was onerous to accomplish, you should be much less likely to forget there's a better way ...

jaapbadlands · 8 months ago

There's a balance to be calculated each time you're presented with the option. It's difficult to predict how much iteration the agent is going to require, how frustrating it might end up being, all the while you lose grip on the code being your own and your head-model of it, vs just going in and doing it and knowing exactly what's going on and simply asking it questions if any unknowns arise. Sometimes it's easier to just not even make the decision, so you disregard firing up the agent in a blink.

jaapbadlands commented on The Future of MCPs iamcharliegraham.substack... · Posted by u/tylerg

kaycebasques · 8 months ago

If you're sold on MCP, what was your "wow" moment? I've read the docs and tinkered a bit but it was a decidedly "meh" experience personally. It seems very similar to ChatGPT Plugins, and that was a flop. I don't really like the fuzzy nature of the architecture, where I never know what server will be invoked. And I have to manually opt-in to each server I want to use? To be unexpectedly useful, it seems like I would have to opt-in to tens or hundreds of servers. Yet I've heard that clients start to struggle once you have more than 20 servers plugged in...? Please excuse any fundamental errors I've repeated here, if any...

jaapbadlands · 8 months ago

The first use case I found relevant and useful was the Supabase MCP server, allowing Cursor's agent to query my Supabase project. It meant no longer describing my database to Cursor, it could simply go and get the information it needed, as needed.

jaapbadlands commented on Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM github.com/bodo-run/yek... · Posted by u/mohsen1

csmpltn · a year ago

> "But you will not write or edit a lot of lines anymore"

> "I wrote a small python file that I can start with"

Which one is it, chief?

jaapbadlands · a year ago

> not a lot of lines > small python file

They mean the same thing, chief.

jaapbadlands commented on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Anon84

blindriver · a year ago

The biggest takeaway is don’t lie to the public, no matter how moral you think you are being. Credibility of and trust in the scientific establishment has been ruined for an entire generation.

Telling people under 18 to get the vaccine or not attend school, or that vaccine immunity was somehow magically better than natural immunity were the two things that really turned me against it. And this is after I myself got the vaccine very early (March 21), because I trusted the science.

Now I have no trust in anything the government or any pharma company tells me anymore because it’s clear we have been lied to on several levels.

jaapbadlands · a year ago

Building immunity via vaccines rather than naturally deprives the living virus a potential host to evolve in. It also means you don't have to contract the virus in order to build immunity, meaning the first time you get the virus, a vaccinated person's body would be more prepared, which means more people could more contract the disease at once, without collapsing the health system - allowing it to be safer at the community level to free up movement. I just think you misunderstood the reasoning, you weren't being "lied to".

jaapbadlands commented on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency' theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

jaapbadlands · a year ago

Good lord, take a walk outside man.

jaapbadlands commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

_DeadFred_ · a year ago

Not pro Trump here. The Dems failed to understand that telling people who are really struggling (my community is really struggling, it's sad to see people in the grocery store barely able to afford food, this is the reality, heck I'm struggling) that the economy is doing great isn't a winning message. They should have ran on 'we are working really hard on fixing things and this is what we have accomplished'. But a campaign telling people suffering that 'the economy is doing great' resonates 0% and just tells those struggling that the campaign doesn't see them/care that they are suffering.

jaapbadlands · a year ago

I never once heard Harris say 'the economy is doing great'.