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New comment by rndmio in "Project Gemini"

rndmio — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:08:55 +0000

That was a terrible experience. For a start that site has an expired certificate, as do many of the pages it suggested, and of the pages that worked it was mostly people that dipped a toe in a few years ago and never came back or other broken function.

New comment by rndmio in "How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep"

rndmio — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:42:26 +0000

It might be because it wasn’t a technique as such. I don’t visualise not thinking, I just stop thinking about things, but I also don’t have a constant inner voice talking to/with me as I understand many people do.

New comment by rndmio in "How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep"

rndmio — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:52:38 +0000

Sounds trite but my surefire method is to stop thinking. I literally lie down, close my eyes, and stop thinking. Sleep comes quickly.

New comment by rndmio in "The "most hated" CSS feature: cos() and sin()"

rndmio — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:11:55 +0000

In the UK it was “Attack Henry Cooper, outside his shop, on a Tuesday” no idea why the random violence but I never forgot it

New comment by rndmio in "Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer"

rndmio — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:25:22 +0000

The repetition of adjectives in adjacent sentences is much more of a tell than using the word delve, imo.

New comment by rndmio in "They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?"

rndmio — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:03:08 +0000

I don't know, maybe the 10 prior weeks of sleeping in hypoxic tents might have had some effect too. If they walked off the street, huffed some Xenon then blasted up Everest that'd be amazing, but it sounds like people are overfocusing on the Xenon bit.

New comment by rndmio in "ChatGPT Is a Gimmick"

rndmio — Thu, 22 May 2025 10:28:40 +0000

How are you supposed to know in advance if it is going to be able to usefully answer your question or will just make up something?

New comment by rndmio in "The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles"

rndmio — Wed, 21 May 2025 10:47:23 +0000

You might, just as ages ago when people were complaining about juniors c+ping stack overflow answers you might have said you used them to learn from. LLMs are a turbo charged version of the same problem, only now rather than copying a code fragment from stack overflow you can have an LLM spit out a working solution. There is no need to understand what you're doing to be productive, and if you don't understand it you have no model or reasoning to apply in the future to other problems, maybe AI will save you there too for a while, but eventually it won't and you'll find you've built your career on sand.

Or maybe I'm wrong and we're all headed for a future of being prompt engineers.

New comment by rndmio in "The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles"

rndmio — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:24:34 +0000

Training people is a cost, an investment, if everyone does it the cost is amortized across the industry. If I can cut that cost by using AI I'm now at a competitive advantage, everyone will look to cut that cost because the downside of paying for training juniors that may leave is worse for that company than the downside of the whole industry not training juniors any more.

New comment by rndmio in "The Future of Junior Software Engineering Roles"

rndmio — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:20:44 +0000

But they don't learn from that, they turn the crank of the AI tooling and once they have something that works it goes in and they move on. I've seen this directly, you can't shortcut actual understanding.

New comment by rndmio in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server"

rndmio — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:40:36 +0000

The why is because we can, but damn am I finding the tools being built with, or having tacked on, AI depressing. Is this a small glimpse of the future we're building for ourselves? Communication is valuable because thought and effort went into it, lowering the bar on producing content doesn't mean more choice, it means lower quality. Already I see a reaction against this amongst some peers when they find out something they were asked to review was AI generated, why should they put effort in if the other person didn't.

New comment by rndmio in "Buy European Made. Support European Values"

rndmio — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:25:48 +0000

I think you're ignoring the externalities of supporting a business/country that is doing things you don't agree with. If ACo can sell me widget cheaper than BCo because they dump the polluting manufacturing waste in a local river it's perfectly rational to decide not to deal with them. The intent is to make them change their behavior by impacting their business. Should we ignore the effects of our purchases just because we can get something cheaper or better?

New comment by rndmio in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

rndmio — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:56:29 +0000

An endless supply of content you like is infinitely more problematic than just shovelling irrelevant slop at you. With the latter you’re going to put it down.

New comment by rndmio in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

rndmio — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:16:42 +0000

Just listened to the Buck Bumble soundtrack and that is very much garage not jungle.

New comment by rndmio in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"

rndmio — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:03:53 +0000

There isn’t one, as you say it’s over 2000km between them, the only link is that when Britain was administrating them it did so as a single territory. This is not some reunification of a country separated by a colonial power.

New comment by rndmio in "Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm"

rndmio — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:55:25 +0000

I thought the translation of the first of the trilogy was stilted and flat, I could appreciate and enjoy the underlying story but the prose felt like a mechanical translation. The latter two books though I thought read much more naturally.

New comment by rndmio in "How babies and young children learn to understand language"

rndmio — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:42:04 +0000

Consider for a moment that maybe your experience isn't universal. I took both of mine to baby sign classes and both were able to communicate things such as hungry, tired, milk, nappy etc long before they were able to talk. Along with other parents at the same classes it was absolutely not a waste of time in terms of being able to communicate better with the children before they could talk.

New comment by rndmio in "Falling in love again with disposable cameras"

rndmio — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:55:27 +0000

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

New comment by rndmio in "Stop Acting Like You're Famous"

rndmio — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:48:08 +0000

I would suggest you don't understand the equivalence because it's not there. They aren't saying that creating something with polish is expecting to make money off it. They're saying when you start a new hobby or interest forget about trying to tailor your output to an audience that doesn't exist and focus on skill. Maybe you really want to produce something polished, but the reasoning for that should be for your own development and edification not because you want it to appeal to others. Prioritise what makes you happy and gives you enjoyment not what you think other people want.

New comment by rndmio in "Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel"

rndmio — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:36:13 +0000

It feels like AI in an OS is going to be the next Internet Explorer. MS are going to bundle their version with special hooks and integrations and it's going to be impossible to completely remove or replace theirs with any other models and/or they will suffer from an inferior experience. All while I'm not even sure I want this future they're trying to sell me.