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New comment by nbaugh1 in "When did Google get so weird?"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:14:13 +0000

Also - capitalism doesn't like "works just fine". We call that stagnation. For better or worse they're going to continue to try to "innovate" new ways of squeezing some KPIs out of their products

New comment by nbaugh1 in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:18:27 +0000

> AM radio sucked.

Right? Also it still exists and can be listened to. The ads were interesting? What?

I don't even know what the ads are on the podcasts I listen to because I can skip them instantly

New comment by nbaugh1 in "I'm Tired of Being on the Network"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:14:51 +0000

I was definitely disappointed when I saw that the last half was essentially an ad for this gaming console

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Snap launches $2,195 Specs smart glasses"

nbaugh1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:47:29 +0000

Different use cases currently.

Specs are AR with interactive “lenses” that are similar to traditional apps

Meta glasses seem to be more video content creation + AI camera tie-in focused, no AR

You’d be more likely to casually wear the meta glasses and the Specs for a specific purpose

New comment by nbaugh1 in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:35:29 +0000

Who wants any ads?

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

nbaugh1 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:22:08 +0000

Because you sign up for the service, agree to the terms, and voluntarily get into the car.

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

nbaugh1 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:20:43 +0000

Yeah I don’t get it. You’re getting into a privately owned vehicle. You agree to the terms of service when you sign up and ask for a ride. You should assume you have zero privacy in those cars.

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:25:09 +0000

Yep, found these as well

"Its indexed June archive shows tens of thousands of links, many created within seconds by distinct cloud addresses; some aliases explicitly say ...REPLY, ACK, or R2 confirmed, and one points straight back to a known DseWiki collaboration page"

New comment by nbaugh1 in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:31:22 +0000

I've got 33. I don't know how that stacks up against other but a large percentage of them came just from my backyard. Just got added a Baltimore Oriole that showed up this week.

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:52:42 +0000

This doesn’t even 100% mean that the code was generated using Claude, only really means the commit message was.

Write some code and then ask Claude to diff your changes and write a commit message. Now the internet hates you

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:42:15 +0000

I think a lot of people have a sort of “slot machine” experience with it at some point. You just start firing off prompts on some new project, wait a few seconds, see what prize you got. Then you start doing that over and over just letting the LLM code and code and not even review what it’s doing. It really is like getting hooked on gambling. You’re getting a thrill from anticipation, not the actual results.

This is what I personally consider “vibe coding”, not simply using LLMs or agents or whatever in your workflow

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:28:54 +0000

It really is an odd feeling to be in between the 2 extremes

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:33:20 +0000

Like I just mentioned in another comment, they're also a way to get you back to work ASAP. Just about everyone NOT working a comfy white collar office job needs to be working in order to make money. Time off is less income, people can't afford that so they do what they need to do to get back to work.

Sprained ankle? Injured back? Headache? Broken bone? All things that people work through everyday with some NSAIDs because calling out sick means losing income

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:29:10 +0000

Well for one thing, in America, you gotta get back to work.

Work a manual labor job or one where you're on your feet all day and sprained your ankle? Would you rather miss a week of pay (or worse lose your job) or take some pain killers and work through it?

New comment by nbaugh1 in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:30:36 +0000

The new engagement bait technique is "vague posting" so that people need to click into the comments and ask for specifics, its terrible

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:32:04 +0000

So is the internet, computers even

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:26:15 +0000

We don't, that's why we do review it. We also do things like communicate with teammates, have expectations of not wasting other people's time, and try to uphold standards and meet SLAs. Maybe people should worry about why their teams are so dysfunctional rather than how the code was produced

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:17:10 +0000

And yet, you clicked the link

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:49:55 +0000

I think the response would be something about the value of enjoying art and "supporting the film industry" when streaming vs what that person sees as a totally worthless, if not degrading, activity. I'm more pro-AI than anti-AI, but I keep my opinions to myself IRL currently. The economics of the situation have really tainted being interested in the technology

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

nbaugh1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:05:38 +0000

Not at all. Submitting untested PRs is a wildly outside of my experience. Having tests written to cover your code is a pre-requisite for having your PR reviewed on our team. "Does it work" aka passing manual testing, is literally the bare minimum before submitting a PR