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nkozyra commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
vinkelhake · a day ago
I live in the bay and occasionally ride Waymo in SF and I pretty much always have a good time.

I visited NYC a few weeks ago and was instantly reminded of how much the traffic fucking sucks :) While I was there I actually thought of Waymo and how they'd have to turn up the "aggression" slider up to 11 to get anything done there. I mean, could you imagine the audacity of actually not driving into an intersection when the light is yellow and you know you're going to block the crossing traffic?

nkozyra · a day ago
Driving in most of the city isn't that bad. Even most of Manhattan is fairly regular driving compared to most of the country. It really isn't until you're near midtown that the insanity kicks up.
nkozyra commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
candiddevmike · 2 days ago
The way Go parses time strings by default is insane though, even the maintainers regret it. It's a textbook example of being too clever.
nkozyra · 2 days ago
By choosing default values instead of templatized values?

Other than having to periodically remember what 0-padded milliseconds are or whatever this isn't a huge deal.

nkozyra commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies   bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
declan_roberts · 9 days ago
Everyone calls X a "dumpster fire" etc, but when I go on there I see see great tech conversations. Database people having fun and chatting about projects. Lots of hackers. A much larger network than bluesky.
nkozyra · 9 days ago
The dumpster fire aspect is mostly that it's a thunderdome of engagement bait at this point.

Just thousands of people posting whatever nonsense they can to get their $5 in adshare revenue.

The way they do this - topics, language - is less bothersome to me than the underlying economy of it.

nkozyra commented on Mostly dead influential programming languages (2020)   hillelwayne.com/post/infl... · Posted by u/azhenley
Qem · a month ago
If we assume peak Perl was in the 00s, say 2005, an impressionable teenager of ~15 learning by then probably will keep using it for the rest of their life, even in absence of uptake by new people. Assuming a lifespan of 85, I estimate this day won't arrive before the 2070s.
nkozyra · a month ago
I think peak Perl was before then, but that's about when Perl fell off the map and started getting replaced by Python or PHP to replace CGI since it had some syntactic overlap.

This is when I started professionally and we were asked to replace "slow, old Perl scripts" As a new entrant, I didn't ask many questions, but I also didn't see any of the replacements as improvements in any way. I think the # of devs left to take over messy Perl projects was shrinking.

As you might imagine, this job involved a lot of text processing. People still point to that as the arrow in Perl's quiver, but it seems especially quaint today since any language I'd reach for would blow it out of the water in terms of flexibility and ease of use.

nkozyra commented on Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant   chat.eko-bazaar.com/... · Posted by u/dammsaturn
crab_galaxy · 2 months ago
I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone
nkozyra · 2 months ago
A chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers.

If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.

nkozyra commented on Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"   pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... · Posted by u/derbOac
dottjt · 3 months ago
As someone who has been weight lifting for the past few years and previously was really into keto diets, one thing I've realised is that carbs are simply necessary in order to have the energy to push very heavy weights. Fat just doesn't give you the required energy to do so.

With that said, if you're only pushing moderately heavy weights or if you're a beginner and you're starting out with low weights, then it usually can be done.

Though the compromise is usually to eat high carb/low fat on workout days, and low carb/high fat on rest days. Fasting as well helps a ton.

nkozyra · 3 months ago
Carbs are extremely helpful for strength, but there's a middle ground between ketosis and the standard American diet.

Most who lift and do low carb time their carbs before and after workouts for specifically this reason. Some also do carbs before bed.

But the rest of the day is close to no carbs. This still works. You can get < 100g of carbs a day and not have strength and energy negative impacts.

nkozyra commented on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs   devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/soheilpro
Meph504 · 3 months ago
I wonder where the divide of "shebang" vs "hashbang" lands geographically and chronologically, During college and for many years in the early 90s and 2000s in the south it commonly called hashbang, didn't hear shebang until C# became a thing, I know it predates that, just never heard it before then.
nkozyra · 3 months ago
I believe the dividing moment came with Ricky Martin circa 2000.

Lame joke aside, I only heard "shebang" prior to around that time, then "hashbang" and now I get a mix of it. Google trends indicates "shebang" always dominated.

nkozyra commented on Tariffs in American History   imprimis.hillsdale.edu/ta... · Posted by u/smitty1e
matwood · 3 months ago
The administration still routinely presents VAT as a tariff. To think there is any real policy thought behind the actions is akin to looking for meaning in the clouds.
nkozyra · 3 months ago
"Clouds are simply a negotiating tactic"
nkozyra commented on The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding   thewayofcode.com/... · Posted by u/CharlesW
nkozyra · 3 months ago
A reasonable reaction
nkozyra commented on Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper   github.com/jaypyles/Scrap... · Posted by u/jpyles
michaeljx · 3 months ago
I was in a similar boat with my scrapers. Started with Selenium 5-6 years ago and only discovered Playwright 2 years ago. Spend a month or so swapping the two, which was well worth it. Cleaner API, async support.
nkozyra · 3 months ago
Playwright was miles ahead of selenium but what I think is really overlooked is chromedp

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