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thi2 commented on Good EU regulations   actuallygoodregulations.e... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Aaargh20318 · 4 months ago
> “Cars must include modern life‑saving tech like automatic braking and lane‑keeping.”

I rarely drive my car. When I do, 99% of the time it's within a few kilometers of my house. I have no need for lane keeping or automatic braking in city traffic, it's barely moving to begin with.

My car is also getting old and will soon need replacing. Ten years ago you could buy a brand new small car for well under €10k. Sure, it didn't have all the bells and whistles but I have no need for those anyway. Nowadays, you're looking at €30k+ for a new, small car precisely because of the safety regulations, emission standards and the fact that it's practically impossible to buy a car with an ICE anymore.

I understand the need for these things for cars that are driven daily, but why do they have to apply to cars that are mainly used for short trips to the grocery store? It's making cars unaffordable for the vast majority of people.

thi2 · 4 months ago
What kind of strawman are you trying here?
thi2 commented on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot   romanklasen.com/blog/beat... · Posted by u/remuskaos
AdieuToLogic · 6 months ago
Here is a gradated set of exercises to determine one's phone addiction, if any, in increasing levels of potential difficulty.

  1 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use,
    put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and
    do not use or look at it.

  2 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use,
    put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and
    leave your residence for at least one hour.

  3 - leave your phone at home when either meeting friends,
    getting lunch, or going to the grocery store.

  4 - leave your phone at home when going into the office
    for one day.

  5 - leave your phone in a dresser drawer for an entire
    weekend.

  6 - leave your phone at home when traveling for more
    than a day (vacation, visiting family, etc.).

thi2 · 6 months ago
The hardest challenge is not using your phone when sitting on the toilet
thi2 commented on Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative   omarabid.com/claude-magic... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
rvnx · 6 months ago
Many of the complainers don't know how to use them and how to write prompts, and then blame the LLMs.

Or simply use LLMs that struggle at writing good code (GPT, Gemini Pro, etc).

You need to be in the shoes of a product owner, and be able to express your requirements clearly and drive the LLM in your direction, and this requires to learn new skills (like kids learn how to use search engines).

thi2 · 6 months ago
Would you mind sharing good and bad examples of prompts? I always read comments like yours and miss examples.
thi2 commented on I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits   maxemitchell.com/writings... · Posted by u/maxemitchell
tptacek · 6 months ago
Seniority means you've held the role for a long time.
thi2 · 6 months ago
There is no real definition of a senior engineer. Just looking at years served seems is wrong imho.
thi2 commented on Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited by the Berlin Authorities   eidel.io/digital-dinosaur... · Posted by u/olieidel
thi2 · 7 months ago
I worked for two years on a medical app. From my limited experience with audits it was more focused on everything being compliant with the ISO 9001 & ISO 13485. Actual tech audits never happend and stuff like Emailing scanned letters never occured. However this was in Hessen and not Berlin.

My point being I guess its ok-ish to not know what software libs are, the paper workflow is still horrible.

thi2 commented on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
kinnth · 8 months ago
Buffet reminded me a lot of Angela Merkel.

They stood clearly and simply for good moral judgment, fair systems and looked at the bigger picture to carry most people forward. They also based all their decision in facts, truth and science. They learn't their trades (economics & politics) over time and weren't afraid to adapt as times changed.

Their slow and steady presence did more for equality and fairness than many others. We will need to find these values again after the current times have played out.

thi2 · 8 months ago
That has to be about a different Angela Merkel, the one I know had one priority: preserving status quo.
thi2 commented on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data   sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-... · Posted by u/bko
GaggiX · 8 months ago
It does work well with images you have taken, not just Geoguessr: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
thi2 · 8 months ago
> I’m confident it didn’t cheat and look at the EXIF data on the photograph, because if it had cheated it wouldn’t have guessed Cambria first.

Hm no way to be sure though, would be nice to do another run without Exif information

thi2 commented on Try Switching to Kagi   daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/Ch00k
icar · 8 months ago
Kagi is nice, I guess. I paid for 3 months, and it suffers from the same fate as all other search engines besides Google: bad search results for anything but English (and maybe Spanish?). Anyway, my language, Catalan, is an afterthought -searching in it will display results in other languages, specially Spanish, which is _very_ bad. Hopefully one day we can have a non-Google search engine that does i18n searches right.
thi2 · 8 months ago
For german it works fine, how is duckduckgo doing with catalan?
thi2 commented on Try Switching to Kagi   daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/Ch00k
thi2 · 8 months ago
My initial feeling with kagi is that it feels like google used to before it went downhill. So far I'm testing my first premium month and will continue to use it. It would be nice to have a unlimited search tier without AI thats a bit cheaper tho.
thi2 commented on The hidden cost of AI coding   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
CrimsonRain · 8 months ago
You are just bad with prompting or working with very obscure language/framework or bad coding pattern or all of it. I had a talk with a seasoned engineer who has been coding for 50 years and has created many amazing things over lifetime about him having really bad results with AI tools I suggested for him. When I use AI for the same purposes in the same repo he's working on, it works nicely. When he does it, results are always not what he wants. It comes down to a combination of him not understanding how to guide the LLMs to correct direction and using a language/framework (he's not familiar with) he can't judge the LLMs output. It is really important to know what you want, be able to describe it in short points (but important points). Points that you know ai will mess up if you don't specify. And also be able to figure out which direction the ai is heading with the solution and correct it EARLY rather than later. Not overloading context/memory with unnecessary things. Focusing on key areas to improve and much more. I'm using AI to get solutions done that I can definitely do myself but it'll take a certain amount of time to hunt down all documentation, API/lib calls etc. With AI, 1/10th time is enough.

I've had massive success with java, js/TS, html css, go, rust, python, bitbucket pipelines/GitHub actions, cdk, docker compose, SQL, flutter/dart, swift etc.

thi2 · 8 months ago
> You are just bad with prompting or working with very obscure language/framework or bad coding pattern or all of it

You just described every existing legacy project^^

u/thi2

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