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New comment by rubzah in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

rubzah — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:38:03 +0000

I get the sentiment, but it seems to me like a crutch that should be worked on getting rid of. It can't be that painful to be with other people, if it is, we need to work on ourselves and the culture. The jump from "I'm bored/uncomfortable" -> "might as well get drunk" seems wrong and a slippery slide to boot.

New comment by rubzah in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

rubzah — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:28:49 +0000

Thing is, you already have limited space for context. A CLAUDE.MD larger than about 150 lines will exceed it. That is not a lot of space to describe, for example, a complex code base, development conventions, and all the other important stuff.

New comment by rubzah in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

rubzah — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:23:06 +0000

The way it works right now, it is just accumulated cruft of incredibly useless stuff that pushes out important context. The only 'memory' you should have is: Always ask me before adding a memory. Then you just ignore the suggestions, marveling at the kind of crap it wants to store into an already limited context window.

New comment by rubzah in "The senior engineer death spiral"

rubzah — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:10:04 +0000

I guess "senior" just means older, but in the usual sense, the more senior you are, the more your job involves coordinating with other people. So I don't see how you could disappear when promoted. But I think in this case it's just "you do more work".

New comment by rubzah in "iPhone Duo"

rubzah — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:39:06 +0000

Only people who have not used foldables worry about crease. I've used one for 5-6 years, and even with an older generation it has never been an issue. Half the time it's literally bent, so obviously there is a kink. At this point my screen has hairline fractures down the middle and even that doesn't actually bother me.

New comment by rubzah in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

rubzah — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:43:45 +0000

Completely agree. Saying this as someone who loves handcrafting code and has been doing it professionally for decades, it looks like a dead end at this point. LLM generated code might not be pretty, but these damn models are already so good at handling complexity, that they can actually work fine with a byzantine code base (which honestly would also describe most human-derived codebases I have worked with). I am still reeling from this realization and trying to figure out what it means.

New comment by rubzah in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

rubzah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:36:23 +0000

I recently heard, for the first time, what Space Quest sounded like with a Roland board attached. It was mindblowingly amazing. And all most anyone ever experienced was bleep, bloop.

New comment by rubzah in "The Shape of Things to Come"

rubzah — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:04:11 +0000

I smell an architecture astronaut getting high on abstractions. Taken far enough, it starts to look like psychedelic ramblings of a manic schizophrenic losing grip on reality.

Interestingly, the author actually has a product, something usually missing in claims of the new LLM powered productivity nirvana. Hopefully, with time, there will be a way to verify the effectiveness of all of this fire and fury, measured in actual worthwhile deliveries of this product.

New comment by rubzah in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

rubzah — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:15:31 +0000

I feel the same way, the odds are part of the story. The UFC has removed them now, I guess as part of the Paramount deal. This actually makes the events less interesting.

By the way, the UFC chews through athletes so fast (part of their somewhat exploitative business model), it's no wonder it's hard to keep up with the latest names.

New comment by rubzah in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

rubzah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:20:12 +0000

Saying it seems to have become a taboo, probably because of the existential horror of it possibly being true.

New comment by rubzah in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

rubzah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:25:13 +0000

Suno also runs on WASM. Pretty good showcases, both, imho.

New comment by rubzah in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

rubzah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:49:12 +0000

> the students of Paris threatened a general strike

Paris in 1200 was at least somewhat recognizable.

New comment by rubzah in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

rubzah — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:24:30 +0000

It's because Claude is so scary good that unleashing it would destroy the world.

New comment by rubzah in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

rubzah — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:14:15 +0000

They're very high value by weight, very fungible, and there is much less regulation about carrying them across international borders.

New comment by rubzah in "Ferrari Luce"

rubzah — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:10:18 +0000

I always wondered about this. Who races their cars around like a madman on public roads? Very few I would imagine (and hope), and even fewer take their car to a track. For a Ferrari, possibly a bit more (still probably 99% of the time they are on public roads). But every car review discusses these things at length, as if normal people race around the countryside or mountain roads, putting the cornering and stiffness of their Toyotas and Fords to the test.

New comment by rubzah in "Ferrari Luce"

rubzah — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:58:38 +0000

The Mustang Mach-E makes a fake engine sound: https://www.drive.com.au/news/ford-mustang-mach-e-v8-exhaust...

New comment by rubzah in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

rubzah — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:17:29 +0000

> Claude is a phd level mathematician

... that can't even count.

New comment by rubzah in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rubzah — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:33:24 +0000

For the health benefits, without some of the downsides, I believe it is preferable to drink coffee when you are not tired. This way you don't get a crash later, because there is no adenosine build-up (the 'tiredness' signaling molecule that caffeine blocks). I believe this also helps to prevent addiction, because there is also no up-regulation of adenosine receptors.

This works great if you drink coffee for the taste, rather than as a way to stay awake (which works in a pinch but is counter-productive over the long term).

New comment by rubzah in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

rubzah — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:42:27 +0000

thanc = tanke (thought)

uuldurfadur = alfader (all-father)

uundra = under (wonder)

halig = hellig (holy)

New comment by rubzah in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

rubzah — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:47:22 +0000

This is the text in Old English for anyone looking: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47296/caedmons-hymn-5...

Actually, here is the full text with the modern English inserted:

  Nu scilun herga hefenricæs uard
  Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian,

  metudæs mehti and his modgithanc
  the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts,

  uerc uuldurfadur sue he uundra gihuæs
  the work of the glory-father—of every wonder,

  eci dryctin or astelidæ.
  eternal Lord. He established a beginning.

  he ærist scop ældu barnum
  He first shaped for men's sons

  hefen to hrofæ halig sceppend
  Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator;

  tha middingard moncynnæs uard
  then middle-earth mankind's guardian,

  eci dryctin æfter tiadæ
  eternal Lord, afterwards prepared

  firum foldu frea allmehtig
  the earth for men, the Lord almighty.