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New comment by rokob in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

rokob — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:27:49 +0000

Because hypertrophy is generally pointless compared to strength. The hyperthrophy that naturally accompanies strength work is sufficient but the strength that accompanies hypertrophy work is far less beneficial.

New comment by rokob in "The (real) dead economy theory"

rokob — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:14:32 +0000

> something is valuable because some people think other people will pay more for it in the future, and not because it does useful things

This has been the definition of finance for hundreds of years. I don't know why it comes across here like this is a new phenomenon.

New comment by rokob in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

rokob — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:55:48 +0000

I mean I think hating practices and efforts to exploit people is good. I think hating the adverse consequences of our inventive structures and lack of protections for basic human rights is good. But I think hating AI is pointing at the wrong subject for scorn. If you want positive change you can’t point at something that a lot of people are getting value out of (individuals as well as corporations) and say fuck your experience. It is also wrong for a billionaire to say fuck your future and deal with it, but that should mean hating on that person not the technology.

New comment by rokob in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

rokob — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:48:04 +0000

Why not require putting up some money, say $20, to submit a bug eligible for a payout? If you know what you’re doing you wouldn’t mind this at all because you’ve proven it to yourself and you’ll get paid $1000. If the bug turns out to not be legit and it was a good faith effort then you can return the deposit as well. Slop doesn’t get a refund.

New comment by rokob in "A History of IDEs at Google"

rokob — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:46:03 +0000

Dude I was there 2019-2022 and mdproxy was a huge win when I realized I could work while traveling. I remember following some incantations on someone’s personal page to get it running. Then covid happened and I was ahead of everyone for a few weeks because I already had been doing real work on my laptop. Thanks!

New comment by rokob in "Interaction Models"

rokob — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:39:31 +0000

Yes they can. Your research papers are not the whole story. It’s like google could open source their entire monorepo and very little would change. No one else could operate it.

New comment by rokob in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

rokob — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:34:18 +0000

Depends on the state. Illinois refusal of everything is typically a 3 month suspension. But if you are guilty that is better than submitting to evidence that gets it suspended for 6 months+. If you are innocent, it is in your interest to pass the test.

New comment by rokob in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

rokob — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:32:00 +0000

You can. Refusing the field test allows them to arrest you. But it isn't sufficient to charge you. They also have to offer you a breathalyzer at the station and you can refuse that but demand a blood test.

But your car still gets towed even if you pass the tests at the station and don't ultimately get charged because you refused the field test.

New comment by rokob in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

rokob — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:24:19 +0000

No I think they are saying no one would say they want wrong answers. People say they want fast answers and they are implying they should also be correct.

New comment by rokob in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

rokob — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:05:54 +0000

> However, when their software gets to waymo level of autonomy

Luckily that won’t happen.

New comment by rokob in "Generalised plusequals"

rokob — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:35:41 +0000

Yeah this looks like lenses at first glance

New comment by rokob in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

rokob — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:10:53 +0000

This is actually a false premise pushed later to justify layoffs. They started overhiring in 2018-2019. They just continued a preexisting trend through 2021.

New comment by rokob in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

rokob — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:07:36 +0000

Wait what

New comment by rokob in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

rokob — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:23:08 +0000

It’s weird because I could see raising money on the premise that GitHub is garbage, not git. But then you can’t say I co-founded GitHub as your bona fides.

New comment by rokob in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

rokob — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:44:47 +0000

Are you saying Herman Miller chairs are uncomfortable?

New comment by rokob in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

rokob — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0000

> architecture is what happens when all those local pieces interact, and you can’t get good global behaviour by stitching together locally correct components

This is a great article. I’ve been trying to see how layered AI use can bridge this gap but the current models do seem to be lacking in the ambiguous design phase. They are amazing at the local execution phase.

Part of me thinks this is a reflection of software engineering as a whole. Most people are bad at design. Everyone usually gets better with repetition and experience. However, as there is never a right answer just a spectrum of tradeoffs, it seems difficult for the current models to replicate that part of the human process.

New comment by rokob in "Codegen is not productivity"

rokob — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:29:10 +0000

I’ve found them to be pretty good if you tell them to be more critical and to operate as a sophisticated rubber duck. They are actually pretty decent at asking questions that I can answer to help move things forwards. But yeah by default they really like to tell me I’m a fucking genius. Such insight. Wow.

New comment by rokob in "LLM=True"

rokob — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:38:10 +0000

I agree with you very much, if what you are building actually benefits from that much client side interactivity. I think the counterpoint is that most products could be server rendered html templates with a tiny amount of plain js rather than complex frontend applications.

New comment by rokob in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

rokob — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:45:39 +0000

I’m so happy I kept reading these comments and came across this gem. Sprites are cool and all but a sandwich tournament is next level.

New comment by rokob in "Fossil versus Git"

rokob — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:46:55 +0000

Facebook moved to mercurial because of specific problems related to the size of their monorepo. Moreover the git maintainers were unwilling to work with Facebook to improve git to solve some of these problems. Mercurial was a better fit and was open to the help. But all that said if you don’t have a truly enormous monorepo like Facebook or Google then git is arguably the better tool given the network effects. I don’t think Facebook wanted to promote Mecurial as some vastly superior solution outside because for most people it isn’t.