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New comment by horstmeyer in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

horstmeyer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:15:52 +0000

Well GitHub is Microsoft who bet everything on AI and trying to force-feed it into anything. So I wouldn't hold my breath. Maybe an agent that detects AI.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs"

horstmeyer — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:20:57 +0000

I have seen that pattern before, and for me it's a bit of an antipattern. Usually you wouldn't look for substantial code there, and in most cases it is nicer to organize your code in modules. You can import from those in the __init.py__ file, this way achieving the same effect as having all code live in __init.py__. But it's a matter of preference.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Study shows glyphosate impairs learning in bumblebees"

horstmeyer — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:03:34 +0000

Thomas Sankara said it better: https://twitter.com/Beardington/status/1685213481010667520?s...

New comment by horstmeyer in "Study shows glyphosate impairs learning in bumblebees"

horstmeyer — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:19:16 +0000

US bulk agriculture exports are what keep vast swathes of the developing world from sustaining themselves. Wheat, corn and other heavily subsidized crops are how countries are incentivized producing cash crops like coffee, tea and Kat instead of food.

I don't really understand why the rest of the world doesn't whine, when the US is the country actually keeping millions of the global population poor.

New comment by horstmeyer in "X.com Now Points to Twitter.com/"

horstmeyer — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 01:26:49 +0000

The moment I personally really started to dislike him, was when he gleefully destroyed the dreams and hopes of people by pumping and dumping his favorite shitcoin. I don't want to know how many people in dire conditions lost their life savings while he was mocking them.

New comment by horstmeyer in "X.com Now Points to Twitter.com/"

horstmeyer — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:31:00 +0000

"can have some overlap."

I would argue in an economic system that rewards the most ruthless competitor "can" is a very nice word here.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Time is running out on the Climate Clock"

horstmeyer — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 18:42:16 +0000

Out of curiosity: what do you think your country stands for?

New comment by horstmeyer in "Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers"

horstmeyer — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:15:09 +0000

I had a organic chemistry professor when I studied biology at university, who said he was convinced that microwaves split amino acid chains in proteins, thus leading to free radicals which could be cancerogenic.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

horstmeyer — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:36:16 +0000

Ever heard of Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib?

New comment by horstmeyer in "The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat"

horstmeyer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:07:10 +0000

I really prefer such factories over the way a lot of tofu is produced (by burning plastic): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/world/asia/indonesia-tofu...

New comment by horstmeyer in "The Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat"

horstmeyer — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:04:48 +0000

I can't believe in let's say 200 years from now humans will still consume animals - if our species survives that is. I'm sure this will be looked upon as very barbaric to breed real animals and eat them.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome"

horstmeyer — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:28:48 +0000

Yeah, diet is at least 70% and exercise at most 30%. Unfortunately.

New comment by horstmeyer in "Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome"

horstmeyer — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:27:02 +0000

Yes, to some degree. But what people do when their dogs get too fat? They reduce the amount of food they give them, and after a while their weight goes down. There are many factors like stress, microbiome and sleep, but in the end it still boils down to calories in calories out.

New comment by horstmeyer in "HTTP Feeds"

horstmeyer — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:09:03 +0000

Does SSE work reliably in mobile browsers nowadays? A few years back when I tried, it was working OK in Chrome for Android but mobile browser support didn't seem complete.

New comment by horstmeyer in "A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people"

horstmeyer — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:03:20 +0000

Someone made a tool for this purpose: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

"You may call it cheating but considering my poor memory, I call it caring."

New comment by horstmeyer in "A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people"

horstmeyer — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:56:24 +0000

When I miss people, I often don't have time to reach out. When I have time, I often don't remember that I wanted to reach out to people. Sometimes life keeps us too busy.

New comment by horstmeyer in "World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded"

horstmeyer — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:46:46 +0000

Too bad you can't go skiing, but I'm a bit more worried about plant and wildlife that "thinks" it's spring and then will get killed when it gets cold again later.

New comment by horstmeyer in "GnuPG is now financially self-sustaining"

horstmeyer — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:15:17 +0000

It was because Germany is a paradise for lobbyists, and Microsoft agreed to build their Microsoft Germany headquarters in Munich.

More info here: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170301-01.html

New comment by horstmeyer in "The software that flies SpaceX rockets and starships"

horstmeyer — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 14:59:01 +0000

MongoDB is web scale, not universe scale.

New comment by horstmeyer in "“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”"

horstmeyer — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:00:58 +0000

My understanding is that when Copilot automatically inserts some GPL licensed code fragment into your project, your project automatically has to become GPL licensed, whether you want and realize or not.