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New comment by honkycat in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

honkycat — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:47:57 +0000

i feel like close to half the adult population having an eating disorder has to be chocked up to a bug in the human brain at some point.

we evolved to eat caloric foods, in case of a famine that will never happen in the modern world.

I think we are too soft on people and we let dirtbags get away with way too much in the US but saying "its not that hard" is a cop out.

we get it you're a macho conservative. nobody cares.

New comment by honkycat in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

honkycat — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:21:29 +0000

I've had good results from SDD, and so have some of my teammates. The guidance I've heard over and over again is: the more you define, the better it does. I find that breaking things out into individual steps is helpful. However, your mileage may vary. Things like Gastown and GetShitDone, I have not found to be particularly useful.

New comment by honkycat in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

honkycat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:57:54 +0000

This is what spec driven development tries to solve.

Multiple rounds of generating small contacts documents that grow from the original idea , trying to keep each slice small enough to process for a human to approve/disprove .

Eventually it leads to a long list of tasks grouped by functionality. You start a new context and the orchestrator agent dispatches tasks to sub agents with a limited amount of information provided to each sub agent.

Also should have adversarial review and approval gates with other agents and roles.

New comment by honkycat in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

honkycat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:10:27 +0000

This is the kind of stuff Republicans in the US hate.

"big government wasting their money on a bunch of critters"

I'm pretty left. The one thing I will never understand is how the right does not care about nature. Just insane to me.

New comment by honkycat in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

honkycat — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:01:18 +0000

Or you could use hosted k8s and be future proof.

I would take a kube cluster over a bunch of VMs I have to hand wire: wire releasing to, managing processes, restarting crashed processes, log aggregation, load balancing, networking, secret injection, cert management, DNS management, monitoring, etc... Any day of the week.

You just don't know what you're talking about, sorry. Kube is really easy now.

New comment by honkycat in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

honkycat — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:55:57 +0000

Lol no you got em

I would say:

- deployments - pods -services - ingress - namespaces - cert-manager - external DNS - external secrets - configmaps - hpa - docker - volumes/pvc

That's the basics

New comment by honkycat in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

honkycat — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:20:01 +0000

Aren't you glad the govt let them import a bunch of cheap labor they can treat like trash to undercut the US economy?

New comment by honkycat in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it"

honkycat — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:13:48 +0000

to be fair, at any large scale you need infra people.

New comment by honkycat in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

honkycat — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:12:58 +0000

Recently my company bought another company, and we kept zero of the original engineers, we just had to run the ghost ship.

We walked in, and it was fine. Because it was all kubernetes and laid out like every other app for the most part.

The kube hate is just sad at this point. You need to know like 15 concepts that are all applied in the same way. It mostly just works.

New comment by honkycat in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

honkycat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:38:52 +0000

You're describing reaper. Super great for scripting

New comment by honkycat in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

honkycat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:37:49 +0000

I hate max so much. I wish this could extend to the push 3, I've been working on an orchid clone.

It would be TRIVIAL in any other language, but noooo, I have to write a fucking max patch and deal with their trash visual syntax and runtime.

New comment by honkycat in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

honkycat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:07:13 +0000

BS. Pairing works great over zoom

New comment by honkycat in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

honkycat — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:22:08 +0000

There are a lot of people who are not in unions who do no work.

It is a plague in the programming field.

Not having unions is not a silver bullet for that problem. So maybe it is a false attribution/bias on your part

New comment by honkycat in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

honkycat — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:05:16 +0000

we have had several manhattan project in the last 100 years, but they have all been for stuff like:

- creating a new addictive form of entertainment we can use to brainwash people

- Creating expensive data centers that MAY end up being extremely useful in the long run

and never for saving the lives of the people on our planet.

Humanity is doomed. We deserve it.

New comment by honkycat in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

honkycat — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:13:11 +0000

ISPs and OSs should be the ones providing these tools and make is stupid easy to set up a child's account and have a walled garden for kids to use.

New comment by honkycat in "Sega co-founder David Rosen has died"

honkycat — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:04:50 +0000

SEGA has lost it's shine over the years, but IMO they are the greatest game company of all time. Their arcade output was STELLAR, their game dev teams were the most elite all through the mid 00's.

Seriously, look at their list of output. Just banger after banger. Not to mention their arcade hardware was top notch and was widely adopted.

Rest in peace David! Thank you!

New comment by honkycat in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

honkycat — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:47:31 +0000

My parents made me do everything, and were so fucking mean about everything, I ended up missing out on the things I actually enjoyed b/c I didn't want yet another thing to get yelled at about.

Specific: guitar and music

To be fair: part of it was to be rid of me and to not have to watch me.

Beauty pagents? Go take a good long look in the mirror. That is pathetic. Is that what you want your kids to value? Passivity? Whatever the fuck beauty pagents encourage?

At least dance is a skill.

New comment by honkycat in "Thin desires are eating life"

honkycat — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:34:35 +0000

reads like an edgy high-schooler jerking off at how much better they are than everyone else.

Its like reading Rick Rubin from a loser whose opinions I don't value at all.

New comment by honkycat in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

honkycat — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:17:39 +0000

Hicks with overpriced trucks don't want EVs, shocker!

They are a status symbol for middle class workers with no taste

New comment by honkycat in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

honkycat — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:16:31 +0000

I don't care how it is done just dont rely on your database schema for data modeling and business logic