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engine_y··on How the Claude Code team does code review
It's like it's trying to impress you with poetry in comment: "What the function does, it does well, and only just once"
engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Tons of pictures and videos were published by both sides.
engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
What makes you believe this? Please show hard facts, not just wand waving
engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Unfortunately this is a story as long as time itself, with tons of narratives to it so I can't write as a HN comment.

I wish I was eloquent and knowledgeable enough to write it, I'd probably write a book.

engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
There are several factors involved as I see it - a lot of money from Qatar flowing to make sure Israel is always shown as the aggressor, anti-semmitism is still prevalent, most people can't grok what the issue is in the Middle East anyway, people don't understand what living 10km from people who want to kill you looks and, and war is horrible and it's always easier to side with the people who seem to be the underdog.
engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
What was there before Hamas?
engine_y··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
have you seen the extent of tunnels that were there?
engine_y··on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Over engineering is subjective / evolving.

You could have bought a bell...

engine_y··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Could it be related to the anagram it's planting?

If it's wasting inference attempting to also fit in some anagram, it would make sense why answers are so dogmatic.

engine_y··on Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Yes, I think that with all these videos what you actually see is aliasing...
engine_y··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
There's another parameter worth considering - how efficient is it to convert sunlight vs. gamma radiation into biologically usable energy.

What if for some reason gamma radiation changes the equilibrium constants for ADP --> ATP?

engine_y··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
Yes... that's what the Muslim media monitoring organization says.

It's like the olden Google days - where people were doing SEO campaigns measured in deepness of the links...

engine_y··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
Like Qatar?
engine_y··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
I read the article but not sure which pro Israeli editorials the BBC has published.

My experience is quite the opposite with BBC having a clear anti war stance.

engine_y··on Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice
The article starts with statistics. Quoting deaths / person. Is this the right metric?

Since the US is huge and sprawling - it'd probably be better to use Death / km driven.

I checked this: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/road-accidents.html?...

Which paints a very different picture than what's stated in the article.

engine_y··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
I pay our lawyer quite a lot and he also makes mistakes. What have you not - typos, somewhat inconcise language in contracts, but we work to fix it and everything's ok.

People are looking for perfect instead of better.

engine_y··on Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
Welp. We used it in prod for ~18 months or so but the experience was not something we'd repeat.

The configuration of Traefik, in our case, embedded in the docker-compose file was not clear. What was supposed to be a 'auto-detection' of services ended up looking like a hodge-podge of configs between several files.

The logging was sub-par - we couldn't properly debug issues.

And then we ended up migrating terminating HTTPS on AWS's ELB so the let's encrypt integration became not relevant which catalyzed us going back to nginx.

engine_y··on Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
A couple of years ago, we tried replacing nginx with Traefik. The main reason was its https integration with lets encrypt.

Let's just say it takes a lot these days to choose something that is not nginx.

engine_y··on Ruby in Jupyter Notebook
Well maybe it should be. I was thinking the same about languages which are better suited for data wrangling. But to me, the reason python is the DS language shows how good evolution is and survival of the fittest. You and I would probably argue that a DS language should have strong static typing but in nature what prevailed was the opposite. A nimble, easy, no fuss, comedy oriented named language.
engine_y··on Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer's disease model mice
Thanks for having 'in model mice' in the header.

Unfortunately mice disease models have not been showing efficacy in humans.

engine_y··on Self-Serve Dashboards
I wonder what people here think. Would self serve BI work for something which is more context specific? So for example self serve BI for your own sales. What would it take? Why not?
engine_y··on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
Might be a 2:1 but we also have to take into account the level of evidence each study provides.
engine_y··on I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
I have done it myself multiple times. Whether you can eat the skin depends on the mango strain. Some are really thin.
engine_y··on Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
Tnx. That's helpful to know.
engine_y··on Let insects eat your plants
I was bought my vegetables from a guy who used absolutly no insecticides or pesticides. It was really great. He had a pretty decent area of land where he grew a plethora of crops. He told me that sometimes some of the plants were eaten but he had others so it's fine. The vegetables were very tasty and fresh and we loved it. We were glad to pay a bit more for fresh and poison free stuff.

Unfortunately, after a year or so he went out of business because he let the insects eat his plants.

engine_y··on Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers
We've been using Traefik in prod for 2 years. While I used NGINX in the past, I decided to migrate to Traefik mainly because of the automatic let's encrypt integration. I am sorry for that decision. Traefik's documentation does not make sense to me or my team. It is finicky and misbehaves without proper logging. As an example - when I want to recreate the certificates - it fails sporadically leaving prod down for an indefinite amount of time.

We're moving back to NGINX.