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johsole··on Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
+1 for htmx + Django, really my favorite stack for development.
johsole··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
Looking at the Ferrari and it's missing that certain look, styling, and tradition Ferrari's have. This design looks like a nice modern electric car, but doesn't have the wow of a Ferrari.
johsole··on He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
Thank you for linking the study.

Some good news from it. If you weigh the food instead of depending on the package size then the labels become much more accurate!!

"Serving size, by weight, exceeded label statements by 1.2% [median] (25th percentile −1.4, 75th percentile 4.3, p=0.10). When differences in serving size were accounted for, metabolizable calories were 6.8 kcal (0.5, 23.5, p=0.0003) or 4.3% (0.2, 13.7, p=0.001) higher than the label statement."

If you look at the table "Deviation of metabolizable calories from label calories" [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3605747/figure/F1/] you'll see that most labels even for service side are pretty good and there are some that are really bad.

If you'll look at one of the worst offenders Tostitos, the label has "Tostitos Tortilla Chips - serving size 24 chips", but chips vary a lot in size, so you could have a huge variance in weight. If instead you weighed them, which I do with my chips, I bet the calories are much closer to the label.

Body composition comes down to routine. I've found found I love to eat, but I pretty much eat the same meals week over week, that makes it extremely easy for me to lose or gain weight depending on my goals.

johsole··on 3.4M Solar Panels
do you have a blog or some links of walking through the process of getting everything setup?
johsole··on Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?
If I'm building something for myself it's always Django + HTML/jQuery, it's crazy how productive that is for me.

For work it's react/TS/express/...

Both have there uses and places.

johsole··on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
My DVD and BR collection has been growing. I just buy used for both and I can usually pick up great stuff pretty cheaply. I also subscribe to YouTube premium for both ad free YouTube and ad free YouTube Music.

YouTube premium also has a number of free movies, the type of stuff you used to see on cable TV. Not the big hits

johsole··on Robots eat cars
Really looking forward to seeing Optimus and what the timeline actually will be.
johsole··on Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]
This is a great pdf and well worth the read. I've had a lot of the same questions in my head and glad to see they are concerns others are facing as well.
johsole··on Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
love to see it, my auto researcher is getting more capable with less effort every release
johsole··on Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
I make mistakes when writing code, but I know what types of mistakes I make. With AI it's like a coworker who makes mistakes, sometimes they're obvious to me and sometimes they're not, because I make different mistakes.
johsole··on Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
Nice work.
johsole··on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment
I think Microsoft probably picks up all of OpenAI if OpenAI gets in financial trouble.
johsole··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
> I personally welcome nuclear war and anything else which will help wipe out the human race

If you hate humanity, you hate yourself, and that is a miserable way to live. Reprogram your brain, by repetition, it works, and you can find joy.

johsole··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
The US had a version of this as well. At the height of lockdowns and social distancing a lot of health officials were saying protesting racial injustice was more important than Covid 19, which we closed a lot of businesses for.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-hea...

johsole··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
> living according to Christian principles brings benefits _in this life also_

It does, in this life and the next.

johsole··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
HTMX :)
johsole··on Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
if I could retire, raise my kids and homeschool them, and do housework instead I would in a second. Nothing is more interesting, more fulfilling, and more challenging then raising the next generation.
johsole··on Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
For me (40s) my Leetcode skills have gotten noticeably worse over time even though I'm a much better IC than I was. I'm sure I could improve my skills by practicing but I have a family and other responsibilities. I think Leetcode does weed out older folks, not necessarily because of skill, but because of the time needed for practice.
johsole··on Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
Cool project! I've been doing software for so long but originally got an EE degree. I miss messing around with hardware.
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