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New comment by farnsworth in "CVE Tracker"

farnsworth — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:47:13 +0000

I think the argument would just be, “why should the government do this when someone else could be making money off it”

New comment by farnsworth in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

farnsworth — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:08:57 +0000

Yes, and you can rebuild them for free

New comment by farnsworth in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

farnsworth — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:51:08 +0000

Am I stupid? I run /corgi, nothing happens and I don't see a corgi. I have the latest version of the gemini CLI. Or is it just killedbygoogle.com

New comment by farnsworth in "A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos"

farnsworth — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:50:46 +0000

I absolutely don't know enough to know how legit or ridiculous that idea is, but it's been stuck in my head ever since I read about it here, and it's been fun to mull over.

New comment by farnsworth in "Pixel 10 Phones"

farnsworth — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:18:11 +0000

I'm happy with Gemini, I just meant I want a native chatgpt-like service (unlike Siri)

New comment by farnsworth in "Pixel 10 Phones"

farnsworth — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:10:10 +0000

What do you like about the AI integration? I'm considering leaving iPhone just to have basically native chatGPT integration, assuming gemini works that way, and assuming it can read and write to my calendar and access other personal data.

New comment by farnsworth in "The Prehistoric Psychopath"

farnsworth — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:07:37 +0000

> and extreme xenophobia

Maybe it's the norm for tribes that have managed to survive and remain uncontacted in the modern world

New comment by farnsworth in "Two in three shoppers won't buy products in locked display cases"

farnsworth — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:02:30 +0000

The shops I'm talking about have vitamins and OTC drugs

New comment by farnsworth in "Two in three shoppers won't buy products in locked display cases"

farnsworth — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:20:57 +0000

I've always wondered why all the big chains are closing stores, blaming shoplifting, to the point where Belltown no longer has a single pharmacy. But I haven't seen any of the small independant shops/bodegas close, including a small grocery shop right next to the 3rd/bell bus stop. I can't imagine that nobody is shoplifting from those. I'm no expert but it's never added up to me.

New comment by farnsworth in "How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”"

farnsworth — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:15:46 +0000

It's harder to hide the motor in gymnastics

New comment by farnsworth in "TypeScript: Branded Types"

farnsworth — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:46:50 +0000

Yes, if you do a good job it removes a lot of mental overhead for building the feature or refactoring it later.

Although if you do a bad job it might add a lot...

New comment by farnsworth in "Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon"

farnsworth — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:26:49 +0000

I agree and even though I usually have a lot of complaints about Stephenson's later books, I just keep reading them for some reason. There are real high and low points. He's the only author who I've read completely and I love to complain about him.

New comment by farnsworth in "US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'"

farnsworth — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:52:18 +0000

Tulum is a weird example, you can't really even walk from town to the beach. PDC, on the other hand. I agree with your general point.

New comment by farnsworth in "McDonald's pushed customers to the brink on price. They're starting to push back"

farnsworth — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:06:37 +0000

To segment your customer base, like any company that offers "basic" and "premium" versions of basically the same thing. In this case, you get some people who walk in, order whatever is on the menu in front of them, then are maybe slightly annoyed by the price but will take out their wallet anyway. On the other side, you have people who are willing to put in a little effort to find the coupons, and buy the more basic menu items and buy the McChicken instead of the McCrispy Chicken Deluxe.

My dark dirty secret, as someone who frequents fast food restaurants, is that McDonalds is... actually not that bad, even good, and at the least it is very consistent and good value (if you use the deals, sometimes even without) and the people who think it's disgusting are just engaging in a little classism and can go home and watch Super Size Me again.

New comment by farnsworth in "McDonald's pushed customers to the brink on price. They're starting to push back"

farnsworth — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:31:59 +0000

I think it's an open secret that McDonalds uses the app to segment customers by price. If you just walk in and order off the normal menu, you pay a lot and they push all the pricier special items on you. If you use the app, you can find surprisingly good deals every time, especially if you can take advantage of 2 for 1s. It's like a totally different menu.

New comment by farnsworth in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

farnsworth — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:23:50 +0000

Same, I thought I was terminally online but I've never seen this before.

New comment by farnsworth in "Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?"

farnsworth — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:54:23 +0000

The blog post says small, medium, large, this shows about 8 different sizes, which is... even funnier somehow. The designers needed to see all the options in game.

New comment by farnsworth in "Copilot for Docs"

farnsworth — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:13:35 +0000

If you're only using stackoverflow to have someone read the docs to you, then I feel you're missing the point. There is so much between the lines, and the LLM isn't 100% there yet.

New comment by farnsworth in "Drought in Brazil's Amazon reveals ancient engravings"

farnsworth — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 02:15:42 +0000

They might not have interbred- dogs existed in the Americas but left very little genetic mark. The chihuahua is a European breed that was bred to look like a dog that existed in Mexico.

New comment by farnsworth in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

farnsworth — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:45:06 +0000

Everybody says that transit isn't practical because suburbs exist. But nobody said that cars were impractical before suburbs existed (well probably some people did and it turns out they were right)