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New comment by seff in "Grok 4.5"

seff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:56:32 +0000

It's almost like there is no replacement for human expertise when we need to make usable products for other humans.

New comment by seff in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

seff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:18:33 +0000

When we were in college, one of my friends joked that their stream library was their largest financial asset.

When stream trading was more of a thing, and we had a ramen diet, it was probably true

New comment by seff in "Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline"

seff — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:02:06 +0000

I feel like the obvious answer this topic is circling is that the left expresses more empathy to those outside their immediate circles (caring for the planet), while the right focuses their empathy inwardly (family values.)

I think this is bait because it's the sort of thinking that 'feels right' without thinking too hard about it.

New comment by seff in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

seff — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:47:18 +0000

It's very true. As a merchant acquirer, everything is BigDecimal, only the auth path needs real performance, and FX occurs at a fixed rate per-day which is easy to reconcile.

It's fun reading all the different ways fintech has to adapt their systems for their specific niche.

New comment by seff in "Australia Kangaroo Coin, the World's Largest Gold Coin"

seff — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:44:03 +0000

About 60 litres if liquid gold. That's 30 2 litre soda bottles for scale. Who needs a banana

New comment by seff in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

seff — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:00:43 +0000

I view the current tools as more of a multiplier of base skill.

A 1x engineer may become a 5x engineer, but a -1x will also produce 5x more bad code.

New comment by seff in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

seff — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:40:39 +0000

Can you say more as to why? The concept is not complex and in our situation at least provides a lot of benefits.