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spike021

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Software Engineer. San Francisco.
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spike021··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
No mention of the GR Yaris, huh?
spike021··on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
huge plus one. Also the Brewers got Kyle Harrison a ring.
spike021··on Hex Raises $100M
scrolls fine for me in an iPhone.
spike021··on Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M
we have one of those by our office and it's funny how every day it says sold out but there's never really anyone there.

one time we did walk up to it as a few unscrupulous looking guys were hanging out and we figured they're just waiting for a restock. I don't think those vending machines really do anything to prevent people from getting as much as they want.

spike021··on How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
that's interesting! when i was a child I could eat canned tuna as well but sadly no longer.
spike021··on How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
Fish sauce has yet to cause any issues for me as well. I even have a bottle that I use for myself when cooking Thai dishes.
spike021··on How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
I'm actually very curious about the process.

I'm allergic to fish (can't eat tuna, salmon, etc.) but I can eat food made with pretty much any type of bonito-based dashi I've ever tried.

Especially Japanese food like nabe, nikujaga, Aomori-style thick niboshi soup base ramen.

Never really understood it.

spike021··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
if yours even works. i went through four or five with varying issues. yellow light of death, blinking red light
spike021··on Agents fail like engineers, so I review them like engineers
I like how you break down each type by how the agent compares to human behavior.

Granted I don't know the specifics behind training LLMs but at the end of the day they are typically trained on data that originated from humans.

So in some ways it's better to try and understand their contributions to our work from that mindset than just saying they are computers/text generators.

spike021··on Claude Duet
One other disadvantage you didn't mention is it's difficult to get a visa that makes buying a home there worth it, for the average Joe.

Most regular people can only visit Japan for 3 months out of the year. Even if you buy a home you can't get a visa just for that.

Maybe in your case the visa thing isn't an issue because of your wife but that won't be the case for most people.

spike021··on Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
how is there zero supply risk? claude will still package dependencies into a homemade solution at some level...
spike021··on Learning to live with Waymos
I remember riding in one in SF and while it was at the curb about to merge into traffic it saw a bike coming from down the block on our side and patiently waited long enough for them to pass.

On the other hand, I've had times while walking my dog across the street or through my apartment driveway and waymo's don't really slow down and do more of a faster pass right by us than I'd prefer, especially because a dog, like a child, can be pretty unpredictable.

spike021··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
I've been spending a lot of time iterating on feature implementation plans with Claude (at work) and GPT (for personal projects).

I then make sure they write a lot of tests and that if functionality is changed or added/removed then tests are updated alongside.

Generally I try to review changes myself and ask it to explain the changes.

It's not perfect but I feel like the planning step being iterative isn't all too different from my old research -> think about implementation -> implement loop.

At that point, reviewing any code changes goes hand in hand with how I coded before LLMs.

The major difference is I usually have it make any changes for things I don't like.

spike021··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
I find a lot of the websites I shop at for certain things do "dropshipping". So the product page will say "X in stock!" or similar when in reality they're telling you the inventory at a shared warehouse or even the original manufacturer and once you actually submit your order, the product needs to be shipped first to the store you ordered from. Then they ship to you. But both legs can take an unknown amount of time.
spike021··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
It's crazy how after this whole thread I think you are missing the point but that's the internet for you.
spike021··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
It's surely subjective and changes project to project. I built a personal app on iOS with GPT last month because I didn't really like any of the flash card apps I tried for free. The way it works works very well for me and if I have any feature requests, I get to actually tell a thing to implement them, rather than sending a dev an email and hoping maybe they'll consider my idea.

At work I've been building an end to end system to do a certain process. The codebase is definitely more spaghetti than ideal and I really am concerned about maintenance down the road. But on the other hand I was able to POC it faster than anyone on the team would've before LLMs came along. We're already getting useful results from it too.

spike021··on New Apple TV 4K
well I play games on my PS5, which supports it, on my OLED TV that definitely supports it.

Maybe at some point I could play games on the Apple TV that do?

spike021··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
I've never tried a fasted state like that unfortunately so I couldn't say.

My pediatric neurologist at the time actually suggested trying some wine (with adult supervision of course) because some people seemingly respond well to that. But I've of course tried all kinds of alcohol by now years later and none seem to do the trick.

Another doctor more recently also suggested trying CBD (non THC) but no obvious improvement from that either, although I really only ever tried one type of CBD supplement and maybe it wasn't the right dosage.

spike021··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
OK but as a high school student I never drank coffee or smoked and I wasn't the type who eats out/unhealthy foods often.

My grandfather on the other end of the spectrum and who also had it didn't do those things either.

spike021··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
I've tried multiple things over the years with no improvement.

Are there any studies with results showing this as a suitable way to reduce tremors?

spike021··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
I have essential tremor. Hearing about new treatment options is exciting. At one time my pediatric neurologist basically said the only kind of treatment had real nasty side effects, and most recently the prescription pill I tried also presented side effects that weren't worth it.

I'm going to look into this when I can. would love to try it if it's financially feasible.

ETA: Looking at their website and all the models in the photos are older people...

As someone diagnosed with ET since high school that's kind of funny.

spike021··on New Apple TV 4K
I have the last gen Apple TV 4K and I just don't see enough reason to upgrade.

It doesn't even look like this supports 120hz, which would've been nice since my OLED TV does.

spike021··on Leaving Tech
at my last job I joined in 2022 and was one of the last to get an allowance to pay for most of a nice desk. the policy stopped soon after. meanwhile my current role I began this year has no policy whatsoever.
spike021··on PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP
it's an interesting idea for sure but there's always been a plethora of homebrew emulators for the PSP. do they not work well anymore? Or does the Pi just have more modern emulator options?
spike021··on Why are coding agents so dumb?
Just using subagents was a pretty useful gain. My only issue is sometimes I forgot to tell the agent to use them. Probably need a hook or skill to do it so I don't need to remember.
spike021··on Time Travel in Braid (2015)
I always wish more games were clever when using time travel as a mechanic. Prince of Persia did a pretty good job and I enjoyed one particular mission in Titanfall 2 that incorporated it.
spike021··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Imagine you have application code with a function to parse some json. But every time you decide to use it, you re-implement the entire function. This is despite it working the same way every time.

It's not like it's being rewritten for efficiency. "Just because".

spike021··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
I think whichever one is used, there needs to be a way to enforce what's written.

If I say "use jq instead of writing a python script to parse json" it should never write adhoc python scripts to parse json. Yet that constantly happens to me anyway.

spike021··on Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video
what are you using for a Maps app if not Apple? Google is (probably) much worse and does pretty much all the same things. Even in nav mode it shows a bunch of sponsored pins like chain restaurants or stores.
spike021··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
I follow baseball and multiple members of the team I watch have had articles written about death threats they get. For instance https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/mlb-threat...
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