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New comment by warmedcookie in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

warmedcookie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:00:10 +0000

I love a good cathartic rant

New comment by warmedcookie in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

warmedcookie — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:30:02 +0000

I don't recall Alaska being particularly bad when I went in July. The mosquitoes I did encounter were huge though.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

warmedcookie — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:35:45 +0000

n=1, been lifting weights for 25 years and lost 40 lbs on Zepbound and counting.

I can still do my routines easily with no issues. My muscles look slightly smaller I think, but maybe that's the fat around them that's been diminished.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

warmedcookie — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:49:58 +0000

We set time limits on tablet and rules like getting your homework done first, but my 9 year old specifically begs me to let him have Roblox, which I think he is too young to play.

I told him he can play it, but he has to beat Chrono Trigger (tablet version) first. He didn't even get to the county fair and gave up, saying it was too boring, the nerve!

New comment by warmedcookie in "Weight-loss jab could be made for $3 a month, study finds"

warmedcookie — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:52:53 +0000

Mounjaro/Zepbound is $450 a month without insurance (assuming you aren't on the starter dose through some third party, but ultimately LillyDirect.)

n=1, Insurance price is $25 a month (covered by my company if you have prediabetes+ or sleep apnea, otherwise $225 monthly subsidy if BMI is 25+ )

New comment by warmedcookie in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

warmedcookie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:10:30 +0000

What's frustrating is that a lot of these keys were generated a long time ago with a small amount of GCP services that they could connect to. (Ex. Firebase remote config, firestore, etc.)

When Gemini came around, rather than that service being disabled by default for those keys, Gemini was enabled, allowing exploiters to easily utilize these keys (Ex. a "public" key stored in an APK file)

New comment by warmedcookie in "Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake"

warmedcookie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:37:17 +0000

Is it wishful thinking for Microsoft to reflect on their Windows 11 UX mistakes and turn around like Chilis did?

New comment by warmedcookie in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

warmedcookie — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:28:16 +0000

I'm curious as to what your thought process is for suggesting "the app" (not sure what app you are referring to) as an alternative for someone who essentially rage quits when they see a cookie banner, given that apps on average are even more so an invasion of privacy and riddled with dark patterns.

New comment by warmedcookie in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

warmedcookie — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:37:35 +0000

I like the cookie banners since it is an immediate indication to me that I should leave the site. It's an innate reflex at this point.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

warmedcookie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:17:25 +0000

Outside of Dota, it's called "Group Chats" (below your friends list) and it looks very similar to a basic Discord interface. You may have to join a dota guild in order to see it, although everyone in my guild just uses discord.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

warmedcookie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:35:45 +0000

It would be nice if Valve filled in the gaps here. They already got a lot of community features built into Steam.

New comment by warmedcookie in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

warmedcookie — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:53:21 +0000

Let's presume / speculate for a moment that companies will only need 1 developer to do the job of 10 developers because of AI. That would also mean 10 developers can do the job of 100 developers.

A company that cuts developers to save money whose moat is not big enough may quickly find themselves out-competed by a company that sees this as an opportunity to overtake their competitor. They will have to hire more developers to keep their product / service competitive.

So whether you believe the hype or not, I don't think engineering jobs are in jeopardy long-run, just cyclically as they always have been. They "might" be in jeopardy for those who don't use AI, but even as it stands, there are a lot of niche things out there that AI completely bombs on.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

warmedcookie — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:33:09 +0000

I see this sentiment everywhere, but I eat more than I did now that I am on Ozempic (1.7). I've always been perpetually starving + lift weights every day since I was a teen though.

Haven't noticed muscle mass decrease either, at least from the perspective that I can do the same reps / sets for my weight routine.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

warmedcookie — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:44:27 +0000

If you want a bunch of tailwind class slop, then yes. Otherwise, A lot of context engineering is needed if you want it to write modular tailwind components properly for large projects where consistency is important.

New comment by warmedcookie in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

warmedcookie — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:02:21 +0000

I appreciate the info, thanks.

New comment by warmedcookie in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

warmedcookie — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:59:35 +0000

Yep, when my kid was taking selfies with my phone and playing with Google Photos, I appreciated that Google didn't let any Gemini AI manipulation of any kind occur, even if whatever they were trying to do was harmless. Seemed very strict when it detected a child. Grok should probably do that.

New comment by warmedcookie in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

warmedcookie — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:52:28 +0000

Do you need photos of humans to create photorealistic inappropriate material? Could it be derived from 3D art / cartoons?

New comment by warmedcookie in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

warmedcookie — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:48:28 +0000

Simplistically and ignorantly speaking, if a diffusion model knows what a child looks like and also knows what an adult woman in a bikini looks like, couldn't it just merge the two together to create a child in a bikini? It seems to do that with other things (ex. Pelican riding a bicycle)

New comment by warmedcookie in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

warmedcookie — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:04:12 +0000

Big brain play: he decided to post this when someone on his team put in their two weeks that he did not like.

New comment by warmedcookie in "UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating"

warmedcookie — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:19:31 +0000

In order to be a good little cog in the capitalist machine, all you need is passion and interest in the subject you are pursuing. Classes not relevant to your subject (ex. Liberal Arts) are mostly a waste of time for such things, which I would have gladly used AI generated flash cards for.

Memorize the things they want you to learn and move on. It's not like you are going to recall it later on because you don't have a passion or interest for it. The only things I recall in those classes are from professors who had passion in the subject, hence why I now have a weird interest in 1920s American History.