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NotGMan··on Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
2 to 3 colonoscopies per ~1k to 2k people cause severe rupture of the intestines that require urgent surgery.
NotGMan··on SpaceX IPO reads like Hollywood fantasy version of the future
That's also what people said when SpaceX said they will make reusable rockets that fly back and land.

Critics should almost always be ignored, it's the people fighting in the arena that actually create progress for humanity.

NotGMan··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
His argument is the equivalent of saying in ~1910 when the 1st mass produced Ford car came out "Where are the carbon brakes? Where is the hybrid motor system? Where is the ABS? Where are the rear parking cameras"?

Moving the goalpost.

NotGMan··on An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
This will probably be how things will work in future: devs will shift to specifying features which will be validate through tests.

The AI will then be middle layer that will iterate until tests pass.

Layer 1: Specs (Humans)

Layer 2: Code (AI mostly)

Layer 3: Tests (AI + human checks).

NotGMan··on The Disappearance of the Public Bench
This.

Even an extremely small population of homeless/junkies is enough to "taint" benches.

The same with parks.

NotGMan··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
Singapore works as a multi-ethcnic multi-cultural society because of measures like this and an understanding that you cannot have a functional democracy in a multi cultural, multi racial and a multi-ethnic society: each race/culture votes for his own and against others on racial/ethnic lines.
NotGMan··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
You can never fight against a bully with words.

The only real way for a kid in school to stop being bullied is for him to challange or beat up his bully.

Nothing else works.

NotGMan··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Thats what happens when you put engineers/programmers in charge of UI & UX development.

Engineers should be delegated to the worker-bee level and you should just get some gear heads and some soccer moms to design to UI.

NotGMan··on Claude Design
Claude used 65% of my Design budget for one run: a website (4 ref images and ~3 pdfs).

Can't even test two designs. No idea if PDFs used up so much budget.

NotGMan··on Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories
Some youtuber tested cooled rice or something to test regular vs resistant starch using a glucose monitor and found zero difference in his blood sugar response.

So while there might be gut bacteria effect changes of it some people at least show no different blood glucose response.

Since Ozempic came out it should be obvious even to the most hardcore "all calories are the same" people that this is blatently false and that the hormonal response to foods is what drives satiety, not "calories".

NotGMan··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Who actually uses RSS compared to email? 1% of your customers?
NotGMan··on Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Men don't want to work in jobs where stasi style political correctness is prioritized compared to actual competence.

And its women that are driving this primarily.

NotGMan··on Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia
Yes, but since blood donations are not tested for this you don't know what you get so people are already getting PFAS contaminated blood.

You could just do phlebotomy (blood letting) where your blood is discarded in case you have insanely high PFAS.

NotGMan··on Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia
Interesting, best of luck with this, microplastics really are the modern lead.

You said it removes them from the blood: does the body dump microplastics in the gut for your product to remove them from the blood or how does it work (if you can answer due to proprietary reasons)?

Are saunas and blood donations not also effective for this?

NotGMan··on One item purchased, ten emails
Another reason for this is for the seller to protect themselves and give themselves proof against scumbag customers who then lie to get the product for free etc...

The more emails and info you can demonstrate that you sent to the customer the more proof you have in case they try to scam you.

NotGMan··on Ultraplan with Claude Code
Or just use Claude in VSCode with their plugin or Kilocode and you have nice IDE with as many tabs as you want open one click away?
NotGMan··on Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change
>> ... Meeting the needs of this segment is crucial, not just for the current stability of the journalism industry, but also for the future of democratic societies as young individuals transition through adulthood

Sure buddy. Keep telling yourself that.

Mainstream media can't die quick enough.

NotGMan··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
My main issue with Epic' Store is that it doesn't have a rating/review system just like Steam has.

Since game journos are completely woke and unreliable using Steam's game ratings from REAL players is a God-send.

Without it you simply wouldn't know if a game is any good or not.

NotGMan··on Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
Why not both?
NotGMan··on Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill
Yes

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rsn1tm/it_a...

NotGMan··on [dead]
Daily reminder that each humans tries to pick the best mate to mate with.

Men try to pick the most beatiful women.

And women try to pick the most "alpha" (rich, high status, and also good looking) men.

Animals do the same.

Therefore each time that you pick a better mate than a subpar mate you are a dirty, dirty Eugenist! Bad you!

Does this mean that biology is eugenic? Bad nature! We must destroy it and replace it with communism!

NotGMan··on Claude Code's binary reveals silent A/B tests on core features
By that definition humans are not professional since we hallucinate and make mistakes all the time.
NotGMan··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
Focusing on fiber while leaving out glyphosate, sugar etc... is myopic.
NotGMan··on The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19
This is a peak silicon valley tech bro mentality view.

Instead of doing what the body is natural designed to do lets go fully against it because of the current environment.

NotGMan··on Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3
How is that different compared to a human dev that would miss bugs?
NotGMan··on MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games
We used Monogame at a previous company and it's a nightmare to be productive in it. The lack of any kind of an editor makes any kind of dev a nightmare: 3d adjustments? Good luck, guess it.. UI adjustments: good luck, try it 300 times until you get it right.

Switched to Unity, best choice ever.

NotGMan··on Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?
There are two restaurants, one owned by a capitalist and the other by the community.

But which has better food?

NotGMan··on RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge
Funny they say that since pro-vaccine policies are unreviewable since max 1 vaccine had a legit placebo controlled trial and none others, which means that we have no idea about their safety.
NotGMan··on AI companies aim 'not to help workers, but to replace them'
It is what it is.

100 years ago tractors and machinery were replacing farm workers etc...

Obviously AI is a step up since you at least needed humans to operate many machines.

Some kind of UBI might be inevitable, higher taxes for large/most profitable companies might fuel it. But that's my idealistic view of it.

NotGMan··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
>> In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects!

I find this impossible to believe.

If this were so all devs for apps, games, etc... would be talking about this but since this is the first time I'm hearing about this I'm seriously doubting this.

>> This is a bit skewed because users with flaky hardware will crash more often than users with functioning machines, but even then this dwarfs all the previous estimates I saw regarding this problem.

Might be the case, but 10% is still huge.

There imo has to be something else going on. Either their userbase/tracking is biased or something else...

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