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New comment by kfarr in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

kfarr — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:44:59 +0000

QA / code review is like 80% of my time now! Like coding now is QA. That's it.

New comment by kfarr in "Jev meets the Trolley Problem"

kfarr — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:49:13 +0000

The ambiguity is the stories!

New comment by kfarr in "Apple HomeView"

kfarr — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:02:20 +0000

I was going to say the same thing -- we already solve all these use cases in our household now with an old iPad and there is nothing wrong with it.

New comment by kfarr in "Lobbying is corruption"

kfarr — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:31:58 +0000

The ability for a constituent to talk to their elected official about an issue important to them is lobbying. It is the foundation of democracy. It is not corruption.

New comment by kfarr in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

kfarr — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:38:43 +0000

Yes I like to think of humans with built-in accelerators for certain tasks -- our visual and spatial reasoning is off the charts presumably because it's a life or death skill!

New comment by kfarr in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

kfarr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:42:57 +0000

Oh man I'm introducing bit rot on a meme about bit rot!

New comment by kfarr in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

kfarr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:48:04 +0000

We're sailors on the moon, we carry a harpoon!

New comment by kfarr in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

kfarr — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:45:43 +0000

Totally helpful and I believe accurate. I find the times where I’m actually most productive with coding agents are not super fun, instead it’s iterative manual qa and code review hell. But while that actually results in good, usable code it’s not addictive, quite the opposite it feels like work. Whereas starting from scratch vibe coding a whatever-ma-jigger sure feels like a blast until I actually start pushing at edge cases.

New comment by kfarr in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

kfarr — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:17:14 +0000

Admittedly these are out of order, but these are both sentences in this blog post:

> The thing we considered the most troubling was whether AIs could autonomously acquire resources by running businesses.

> Today Andon is releasing Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously.

I’m starting to understand the torment nexus mentions…

New comment by kfarr in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

kfarr — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:14:30 +0000

True WebXR for the Apple ecosystem will never come. At least that’s what I’m assuming given their behavior so far

New comment by kfarr in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

kfarr — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:17:44 +0000

I've also found the OpenAI image models to lose fine detail on image edits compared to Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details. I was hoping this might be different but it sounds similar to previous OpenAI image models where something is lost in translation during image editing.

New comment by kfarr in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

kfarr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:39:46 +0000

It’s great! Agreed don’t feed the trolls.

I’ve helped with a few other zoning visualization projects recently, similar workflow. The only similarity is that each city/jurisdiction makes its data available in a different way. It’s usually accessible but it does mean there’s a lot of work munging the data to a usable format.

Here’s one of the projects: https://github.com/kfarr/zoningviz

New comment by kfarr in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

kfarr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:33:33 +0000

And don’t forget prop 13, there’s negative incentive for property to change hands and develop.

New comment by kfarr in "IBM Bob"

kfarr — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:35:49 +0000

I'm sure tons of companies have retainer spends with IBM for software, hardware, consulting, etc., and this is another way for their corporate clients to spend down / increase their retainers faster

New comment by kfarr in "JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps"

kfarr — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:45:05 +0000

Love this and as a fellow GIS software traveler I’ll share optional guidance that ESRI has trademarked that term for a very similar product. Might be worth thinking about alternative naming ideas.

New comment by kfarr in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

kfarr — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:29:16 +0000

Also Google already has a huge built in training corpus with YouTube, gphotos, and geospatial data

New comment by kfarr in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

kfarr — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:35:40 +0000

This is awesome and if it's legal I'd love to do similar things on geospatial projects I work on. However I don't think Apple will be OK with this use of their data. I know that Google closely limits its 3D tiles data through a specific API and Apple does not make a 3d API available, therefore this has to be against ToS.

From the ToS linked from OP site:

> 1.3 Restrictions. You will not and will not permit or authorize a third party to: (...) (xiv) decompile, decrypt, reverse engineer, attempt to derive the source code of or disassemble the Service or any portion thereof (except as and only to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law or by licensing terms governing the use of any FOSS components that may be included with the Service)

I would love for people to prove me wrong that Apple will embrace this use of their geospatial data!

New comment by kfarr in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

kfarr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:35:22 +0000

I agree, one must actually use a language for it to contribute to brain plasticity in later ages.

New comment by kfarr in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

kfarr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:10:24 +0000

Learning new languages (and actually using them) is a great way to do this for all ages!

New comment by kfarr in "Mario Meets Pareto"

kfarr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:15:47 +0000

The key here is to have a foreground layer that always responds to scroll and informs the background layer based on its position