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jimbobimbo··on What do the next 4000 emoji look like?
Still no diaper emoji. :(
jimbobimbo··on You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents
"Why is this function here? *Discuss.*"
jimbobimbo··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
I have similar issue with dark mode applied to content - hurts my eyes. I prefer to have window chrome in dark, to make "fade away". The only application which allows me to have my cake and eat it is Firefox: I can run Windows in dark yet read web in light mode.

I wish Windows would steal this feature for the whole OS: I don't want Notepad to use dark for text, but per-app setting usually turns the whole app light.

jimbobimbo··on Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
I think of my AI use as me contracting an offshore team (no skin in the game) but I can be as micromanaging as I want to.
jimbobimbo··on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
Thank you! Looking into this now.
jimbobimbo··on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
Thanks, yes, I own the domain for 20+ years, but pay yearly renewals.

I never really had any issues w/ GoDaddy, but am looking to change to Cloudflare now. I don't understand what am I paying $20+ for.

jimbobimbo··on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
GoDaddy.
jimbobimbo··on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
I just renewed domain name I own for maybe 20+ years, for $23/yr. This is nuts.
jimbobimbo··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
"To drive the point home she [Pelosi] picked up a water glass next to her and said: “This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts.”"

Let's not pretend that only one 40-45% part of the population votes on a party line.

jimbobimbo··on Beauty in DVD Menus
Unfortunately, it depends on the disc. Some discs always start from barely skippable junk.
jimbobimbo··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
Thank you, well put! Bots reviewing code written by bots is a self licking ice cream cone.
jimbobimbo··on Plan mode is dead
I use similar approach, but use gpt to review plan written by opus.
jimbobimbo··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
I have a picture of my car in street view photo made by Bing. Sold the car long ago, nice keepsake.
jimbobimbo··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Behind the scenes is unbearable.
jimbobimbo··on I hate you Microsoft
Alternative headline: my university had bought a (cheaper?) plan which doesn't tick all necessary boxes.
jimbobimbo··on How to write an effective software design document
My problem recently is to have people read design docs I'm writing.
jimbobimbo··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
The most surprising part, however, is that when one model slops this into a plan, another model somehow is able to interpret it correctly enough to produce code to spec.
jimbobimbo··on The revolt of the reader
I see this at work. People are "writing" specs and design proposals with bots. This is noticeable and is a huge turn off. I don't have issues with using bots to aid research, but I'm not reading the doc you slopped together.
jimbobimbo··on Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
"Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда."
jimbobimbo··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
My instructions for agents have "find a synonym to 'resolve'". Otherwise I havea bunch of Resolver classes with every other method called ResolveThis or ResolveThat.
jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
It is very efficient until it's not. When it's not, it sucks. You don't have to have full on diabetes to experience the suck.
jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
My story is: I had a really bad crash after eating a chocolate, which never happened before. That prompted the bloodwork, which shown that A1c was not where it's supposed to be.

I bought CGM myself, without any doctor's input. Didn't know they exist before reading some selfhelp book which my wife found.

Echoing another poster, it's eye opening how some of the foods you'd never think of, are spiking glucose levels.

Overall, after both me and my wife adjusted diet, much better energy through the day, no crashes.

jimbobimbo··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
That's what I thought too, until I got my last bloodwork results and started wearing one of the OTC continuous glucose monitors.

That device helped a lot to switch diet habits.

jimbobimbo··on The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode
To be fair, the guy on the picture doesn't even look like Jim Carrey, so...
jimbobimbo··on When I reject AI code even if it works
This is the way. I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan and provide feedback; repeat this multiple times until gpt is either satisfied or starts to nitpick on unimportant stuff. Then sanity check the plan myself and have gpt implement it.

Each implementation is also reviewed by me before merging to master. I complete PRs only when I'm satisfied with the implementation, my feedback is addressed, and I fully understand what is going on. Agents are the replacement for typing and productivity multipliers.

I have big picture view of the product, each plan implements only a part of it, scoped to avoid merging unreviwed slop. Probably slower, but result is much better.

jimbobimbo··on Kirkland Roundabouts
The new 85th St & I-405 interchange is horrible. I took it twice and both times it's too stressful and takes much longer to get off 405.
jimbobimbo··on The Future of Email
As a fastmail user I'm glad there was no announcement. Every time a company starts telling me about some bright future, this usually means my user experience is about to sink.
jimbobimbo··on A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
Why would this even be in the chat? Showing recent transactions is a basic functionality of a bank.
jimbobimbo··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
I asked Claude to describe an app I was working on and it managed to describe the purpose of the app by looking only at implementation, no relevant docs in the repo. This was truly oh shit moment and I'm using AI assistance on that app since then.
jimbobimbo··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
>I kinda just expect it to be all “AWS” trust.

This would be very unwise from security standpoint. Internal access to customer stuff is granular and made hard for internal staff to gain, to minimize chances of screw up intentional or not.

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