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New comment by veryfancy in "Does anybody like React?"

veryfancy — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:24:20 +0000

Chesterton’s framework.

New comment by veryfancy in "GitHub is sinking"

veryfancy — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:32:38 +0000

I’m with you here. Further: Even though I disagree with it, “GitHub down, Microsoft bad” is a defensible take, but we’ve seen it ad nauseam at this point.

New comment by veryfancy in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

veryfancy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:19:52 +0000

And it’s great.

New comment by veryfancy in "LLMs can be exhausting"

veryfancy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:45:33 +0000

In agent-mode mode, IMO, the sweet spot is 2-3 concurrent tasks/sessions. You don’t want to sit waiting for it, but you don’t want to context-switch across more than a couple contexts yourself.

New comment by veryfancy in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

veryfancy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:04:21 +0000

GitHub Copilot with Opus 4.5 as the model is great. I have not tried Claude Code, so maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.

New comment by veryfancy in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

veryfancy — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:46:14 +0000

Our problem with modern lego is that the sets are so cool and complex that the kids don’t want to take them apart after they’re built.

The 11yo wants few new sets now because he doesn’t know where he would put them, and declines to swap out his assembled sets.

New comment by veryfancy in "Most technical problems are people problems"

veryfancy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:47:42 +0000

Saw this post title and immediately thought of Jerry.

New comment by veryfancy in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

veryfancy — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:43:50 +0000

Hubber here. This didn’t affect us.

New comment by veryfancy in "The Recombobulation Area (2023)"

veryfancy — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:46:26 +0000

Beloved Milwaukee institution.

New comment by veryfancy in "Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids"

veryfancy — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:34:44 +0000

> Noting down the exact type adds complexity to be honest.

Strongly disagree. Metabolic-syndrome diabetes is so different from autoimmune diabetes that it should really have a different name.

New comment by veryfancy in "Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse"

veryfancy — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:27:17 +0000

So like dating?

New comment by veryfancy in "All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)"

veryfancy — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:59:53 +0000

Conspicuously near the Great Lakes (NA)

New comment by veryfancy in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

veryfancy — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:41:34 +0000

Everyone’s got a basket of things they can love or hate about this place when they’re in the mood to love or to hate. That’s something to love, I think.

New comment by veryfancy in "Scientist Wants to Block the Sun to Cool the Earth"

veryfancy — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:04:17 +0000

Immediately thought of Monty Burns when I read the title.

New comment by veryfancy in "Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030"

veryfancy — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:22:49 +0000

It’s not unreasonable. I like Messi as a better suggestion though.

New comment by veryfancy in "Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, says expert"

veryfancy — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:16:07 +0000

Bananas are amazingly cheap. At least here in the US Midwest. Even the organic ones. They’re my reference for “cheap food”.

New comment by veryfancy in "FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor"

veryfancy — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 05:36:36 +0000

Wondered this too. Diabetics are at risk for hypoglycemia because of the insulin they take, not the diabetes itself. Maybe metformin for a prediabetic could have this effect?

New comment by veryfancy in "Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It"

veryfancy — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:24:57 +0000

It is surely news to some.

New comment by veryfancy in "Are cooking videos making us better cooks?"

veryfancy — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:46:36 +0000

Really dig Kenji’s low-stakes YouTube vids. He makes it look easy in a way that ends up actually being easy.

New comment by veryfancy in "Are cooking videos making us better cooks?"

veryfancy — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:44:41 +0000

Chef John is a delight. Charming man, straightforward recipes.