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lan321··on We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
This sounds incorrect. You didn't find it but you're gaining domain knowledge and excluding options, hopefully narrowing down the cause. It's not like you're just chucking random garbage at Jenkins.

Of course, if it's a difficult bug and you can just say 'fuck it' and bury it in the backlog forever that's fine, but in my experience the very complex ones don't get discovered or worked on at all unless it's absolutely critical or a customer complains.

lan321··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
We all have relatives all over the place, many have multiple passports/citizenships, most are well educated and/or make good money, most speak 3+ languages.. It'll work out. Countries take in refugees with much different cultures and lower education in the hopes of adding to their workforce. Someone will gladly take us.

I'm guessing in the worst case South America/AU/NZ/JP/UAE/Canada would be the goals.

The only real risk I see is essentially waiting too long and getting detained right as they begin to close off the borders for people of fighting age.

lan321··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
In my eyes it's more so that we don't care in that sense. My friend group is mostly just keeping in mind that they might have to dip to another country/continent at some point, maybe, unlikely though.

I'm pretty sure everyone I know would rather get imprisoned than go die in the mud to protect property they don't own, on the orders of a government that doesn't care about the same things they care about.

When we talk about it, it always boils down to a discussion on how to best desert/escape at different stages.

lan321··on Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
Can we please not ban either and just put the people who can't differentiate GTA from IRL in asylums?
lan321··on Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban
Discord and Roblox are probably the grooming/edating center of the net right now. The banned ones are just SFW sites where they can see some titties.
lan321··on Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero
The best way with finite money is racecarsdirect or some other similar platform.

Cons are you're getting someone else's project.

Pros are they've already sunk stupid money into it.

You can get great cars on there if you have someone in the know to bounce deals off of.

The best way with infinite money is either some very high end small batch restomod or to even commission one of the large OEMesque motorsport shops to plan and build a one off. Smaller, specialized shops are also an option but the amount of people who're learning on customer vehicles is high and they'll be so hyped to get a large project they'll promise you the moon with entirely good intentions and then fail spectacularly.

lan321··on A $1k AWS mistake
I'd say it's a racket for enterprise but it makes sense for small things. For example, a friend of mine, who's in a decent bit of debt and hence on the hunt for anything that can make some money, wanted to try making essentially a Replika clone for a local market and being able to rent an H100 for 2$ an hour was very nice. He could mess around a bit, confirm it's way more work than he thought and move on to other ideas for like 10$ :D

Assuming he got it working he could have opened service without directly going further in debt with the caviat that if he messed up the pricing model, and it took off, it could have annihilated his already dead finances.

lan321··on Gemini 3
It's kind of what Kiro does.

You tell it what you want and it gives you a list of requirements, which are in that case mostly the rules for Solitaire.

You adjust those until you're happy, then you let it generate tasks, which are essentially epics with smaller tickets in order of dependency.

You approve those and then it starts developing task by task where you can intervene at any time if it starts going off track.

The requirements and tasks, it does really well, but the connection of the epics/larger tasks is where it crumbles mostly. I could have made it work with some more messing around but I've noticed over a couple projects that, at least in my tries, it always crumbles either at the connection of the epics/large tasks or when you ask it to do a small modification later down the line and it causes a lot of smaller, subtle changes all over the place. (could say skill issue since I oversaw something in the requirements, but that's kind of how real projects go, so..)

It also eats tokens like crazy for private usage but that's more so a 'playing around' problem. As it stands I'll probably blow 100$ a day if I connect it to an actual commercial repo and start experimenting. Still viable with my salary, but still..

lan321··on Gemini 3
The problem is by that point it's much less useful in projects. I still like them but when I get to the point of telling it exactly what to do I'm mostly just being lazy. It's useful in that it might give me some ideas I didn't consider but I'm not sure it's saving time.

Of course, for short one-off scripts, it's amazing. It's also really good at preliminary code reviews. Although if you have some awkward bits due to things outside of your power it'll always complain about them and insist they are wrong and that it can be so much easier if you just do it the naive way.

Amazon's Kiro IDE seems to have a really good flow, trying to split large projects into bite sized chunks. I, sadly, couldn't even get it to implement solitaire correctly, but the idea sounds good. Agents also seem to help a lot since it can just do things from trial and error, but company policy understandably gets complicated quick if you want to provide the entire repo to an LLM agent and run 'user approved' commands it suggests.

lan321··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
In eastern europe they do. It's a decent revenue stream. The loop for many friends is:

Put on tint.

Get pulled over (hopefully) a while later

Police demand you remove it and usually write you a ticket for ~50 eur

Maybe you plead that the car is your dad's if it's not registered to you and get to keep the tint if they decide to do you a favor

Otherwise you remove it and go pay another X eur a week later to have new one put on

Since there's no license point deduction, it's just a money/inconvenience issue.

lan321··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
My point is about bumfuck nowhere. Places where at night you may or may not see another car for the X km it takes you to get home. That with time people tend to forget they have their high beam bound to the beacon of god, with or without an extra switch, is a separate issue. The light itself makes sense.

If there's a constant stream of vehicles I'm not really worried about visibility all that much. The suicidal wildlife is mostly culled, for potholes you can track the person in front...

lan321··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Slow down is kind of the general tip, but I find it kinda BS. I can drive slowly focusing on the bushes on the way to/from work in bumfuck nowhere, or I can get some beacon of god aux LEDs for cheap and turn night into day.
lan321··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
What bothers you about tints? I've never bothered to get one since it's illegal where I'm at but the new ones seem pretty cool for cave dwellers who fear the light. They tint well during the day but you can still see at night from what I've seen on friends cars.
lan321··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
TBH if someone discovers how to easily make garage WMDs we're fucked either way. That shit will leak and it will go into mass production by states and individuals. Especially in countries with tight gun control, (organized) crime will get a massive overnight buff.
lan321··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
>And don't give me that "but other people would have had guns and stopped him" crap. It rarely works out like that.

Due to regulation. If instead of forcing gun free zones and similar bs you push for ~everyone being armed ~24/7 it'll work exactly like that.

lan321··on Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain
Damn, how did a rabbit fuck you up so bad? Infection?

I've always seen them at the level of chickens. We even had some as livestock when I was a kid but they were in a cage all the time.

lan321··on Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k
We all collectively move. Unless you have a massive amount of unmovable property to lose, that you're willing to die for, going to get torn to pieces by a drone seems like a stupid idea. Even if I'm the reason we win the war, my mom and dad probably won't be too happy receiving me in an urn with a complimentary food voucher. We can get a new house, No need to die over its bombed remains.
lan321··on The Future of Fact-Checking Is Lies, I Guess
Doubt they'll be able to transition. They are too deep in the slop.
lan321··on Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
Depends on who you ask. From my grandma (97), it apparently stops being as fun when you start losing autonomy and all your relatives your age are dead.
lan321··on Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
Gotta rotate your access eyelenses every 3 months office policy incoming. /s
lan321··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
In Mazda we trust! Apparently they'll try to make the NE under a ton.
lan321··on The Farmer Was Replaced [video]
The farmer is taking the next step in their career journey!
lan321··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
For me Migadu has been good
lan321··on Facts about throwing good parties
Also probably to do with cost. Acoustic panels are pretty expensive. I can imagine selling this to a manager/owner won't be easy since it's not clearly bound to return on investment.
lan321··on Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)
Until you see the expected delay going up and you have to start doing the maths of whether you can run from X to Y in under a minute, frantically googling for a second connection and how much a taxi would cost.. (my DB experience since I usually travel by train for flights)
lan321··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
> Does it become ok if we redefine wronging you so it's no longer a crime?

In a way, yes. Of course, it's different nowadays in that if I don't like how country X is treating me I just move to country Y so I won't touch that too much. If we make it equal to where I get sold (how did I become property? Debt? War? Kidnapping? The country just decided to cover some debts?) to go plow fields in bumfuck nowhere, I likely won't be happy, but that's so outside of modern life I have no idea how I'd feel since people are kinda weird under stress.

The thing is that it wasn't morally or legally wrong for a long time. So it's just holier than thou modern people judging people of the past and wanting retroactive punishments for legal actions to people who have nothing to do with said actions. Sure, it could have happened faster, it also could have not happened at all.

And again, the people who'll be punished by a retroactive application of a law will punish mostly people who had nothing to do with it.

> The last US school to desegregated did it in the 1990s, it very much is within memory.

No clue if that's true, apparently two high schools in Cleveland got merged in 2017 due to segregation. Anyway.. This is covered clearly as of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). So anyone who had an issue with it could sue based on it. It's how the system is supposed to work. Not via redistribution systems based on "reverse" racism/sexism/etc.

lan321··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
I had girl friends who did it to get attention from their parents/boyfriends/classmates. They acknowledged it back then. It wasn't some secret. It was essentially for attention, aesthetics and the light headed feeling. I still have an A4 page somewhere with a big ass heart drawn on it by an ex with her own blood. Kids are just weird when the hormones hit. The cute/creepy ratio of that painting has definitely gotten worse with time.
lan321··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
> A child thinking about suicide is clearly a sign that there are far greater problems in their life

TBH kids tend to be edgy for a bit when puberty hits. The emo generation had a ton of girls cutting themselves for attention for example.

lan321··on PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
One is a crime though. For 'daily' crimes I believe essentially every country has some form of Statute of Limitations. If I decide to pursue a theft 20 years after it happened the courts will tell me to fuck off because it's no longer relevant..

The issue with reparations or w/e though is that it's punishing people who committed no crime for something that's now a crime but back in the day, wasn't, done by their ancestors long enough ago that most have no real life recollection of it anymore.

lan321··on AI can code, but it can't build software
If you can get the specific documentation for it. Sadly many companies don't want you using the API so they just give you a generic payload and the methods and leave you to it. LLMs are good in the sense that they can tell what type StartDate, EndDate is (str MSDate), maybe it also somehow catches on that ActualDuration is an int.. It also manages to guess correctly a lot of the fields in that payload that are not necessary for the particular call/get overridden anyway.
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