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abid786··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
No you shouldn’t. The blatant disregard for the law is prevalent in South Asia but it’s not an excuse to do it yourself
abid786··on Nearby Glasses
Seems like GP spent more time testing this than the author did
abid786··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
More and more of the social networks are just the algorithm though - tiktok, X, Facebook, etc. How much of your feed does the average use personally know now?
abid786··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
This site is not all representative of the average internet user though
abid786··on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
In comparison it’s much faster to draw, infinitely more portable and much less distracting. I use pen and paper for self notes that are throwaway in nature or exploring ideas. For artefacts that are meant to be shared with others I use a computer
abid786··on Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without pilots
Autopilots don't do any of those things without human in the loop
abid786··on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
Doesn’t load_json throw if the file doesn’t exist?
abid786··on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests
Can you give some examples? Super interesting to me as someone with no children
abid786··on How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way
Not sure I follow. The constants like Price or Currency would be available across threads.

Also, if you’re writing a custom data class, you’d need to write code to support immutability which this article’s approach handles

abid786··on RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
Because everything in Ruby is an object and everything is a passing messages (ie a method call).
abid786··on Rails is better low code than low code
Could you give some examples of what the use cases are where Rails makes it hard to stray from the beaten path?
abid786··on Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project
This is a bunch of pseudoscience that isn't proven by anything at all and isn't peer reviewed either
abid786··on Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
Except that if you’re an exceptional candidate you might get uplevelled or they might find money in the budget for you that didn’t previously exist for the role (more so if it’s a small company)

By asking these questions up front you might weed yourself out even though the role might have been a good match.

abid786··on After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers
A union strike requires a union. That’s why it works because everyone votes the same way. What we have now is prisoners dilemma; some photographers will take pictures of ULA launchers and others will not.
abid786··on Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)
Why are they an ADA violation? Who are they discriminating against
abid786··on The Effects of Meaningless Work
Even if you’re curing cancer a lot of the actual work you do is pretty meaningless
abid786··on Taliban Militants Fed Up with Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit
Three buildup of troops by Russia along the Ukrainian border started in 2021, which is when the US left Afghanistan.

I'm not the parent nor am I saying the two wars are related but it's not unfathomable to think that American intelligence could have predicted a war between Ukraine and Russia at the same time as they were exiting Afghanistan

abid786··on Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life
There's also those of us who don't have kids, don't want them and would love to go to a theme park without dealing with 5 year olds crying or toddlers throwing tantrums.
abid786··on An AI bot is (sort of) running for mayor in Wyoming
I'm just wondering who the globalists here are
abid786··on Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope
Sadly it's a dying art form. 40-50 years ago every scientific university department used to have a scientific photographer to allow the researchers to publish their photos in articles. My own godfather was a scientific photographer who retired and started commercializing scientific photos.

Unfortunately now, due to shrinking budgets and the proliferation of iPhones the need for such photographers is vanishing.

abid786··on AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson
I'm in the same situation (mobile Safari, French phone) but if you use Chrome it works
abid786··on Air Canada ordered to pay couple $2k. Instead, it's taking them to court
This hasn't been true for a long time now, more so for major routes.

Just to check, I looked up prices for flights from LAX-JFK and compared them to a flight from Vancouver to Toronto, both in the middle of July.

The Canadian flight was $18 cheaper, if you exclude low cost carriers. If you include LCCs, the Canadian option was about 10% more expensive.

Canadian oligopolies are very real and exist in telecom, grocery, banking, energy and mass media, the airline industry has gotten slightly better over the past decade

abid786··on When did dogs become our best friends?
You’re not allowed to carry pepper spray in Canada for self defence purposes
abid786··on In Nome, where the muskoxen roam controversially
Where in Canada are you getting 2$ for a liter of milk? It’s almost double that everywhere I’ve seen.
abid786··on Handedness as a determinant of lateral bias in human functional cradling (2023)
It’s originally British and was slightly derogatory there: https://amp.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/oct/01/guardian...

When used in American English I think the derogatory aspect is no longer present but that’s my opinion

abid786··on Architecture.md (2021)
What would that practically look like? How would circular dependencies be resolved, for example?
abid786··on GenAI and erroneous medical references
LLMs are better at this and it’ll probably marginally improve the output quality but there can potentially be hallucinations (false positives or negatives) even in this evaluation task.
abid786··on Things I Learnt in 2023
Half a liter is ⅔ of a standard bottle of wine. Even if it is only 11% ABV, this still equates to 55 ml of ethanol. An average 14 year old male weighs 112 lbs, about 70% of an adult’s size.

So if we extrapolate linearly, 55 ml of ethanol would be equivalent to 78 ml of ethanol for an adult, which is 6.5 shots, assuming a 1 oz shot

abid786··on ChatGPT for Teams
It's absolutely insane to trust that they won't do this.
abid786··on Dumbphone Finder
I imagine the battery life in a dumb phone (assuming you opt for the ones that don’t run Android) would be much longer.
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