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New comment by warmedcookie in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

warmedcookie — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:44:01 +0000

I feel like there is also the "Nerd Factor" to consider which is this unrelenting passion to type away at a screen all day, whether that is yesterday's code or tomorrow's prompt. Few non-technical people have the attention span to suffer such monotony. (Even most devs don't have that to varying extents)

New comment by warmedcookie in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

warmedcookie — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:56:50 +0000

Interesting. I would like to know if central heating (gas) has similar effects.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

warmedcookie — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:47:41 +0000

N=2. My Inspiron 9300 Dell laptop from 2005 still works fine, although 32bit Windows 7 with 2GB of ram without an SSD makes it painfully slow by today's standards. In addition, I got a Lenovo Z710 from 2014 (replace my 9300) that still performs great, recently put Linux Mint on it and it feels like a new laptop.

I say that to say this isn't exclusive to Apple and I think your sentiment is mostly good marketing by them. No Apple hate here, enjoying my company-supplied MBP too.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

warmedcookie — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:55:55 +0000

I've done a lot of match aggregation in dota2 using stratz / opendota. It's a lot of fun and it will definitely make you a better programmer given how much data there is.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

warmedcookie — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:26:30 +0000

Would using Stable Diffusion Image to Image with a low noise ratio disable most steganographic techniques? I imagine the pixels would be scattered enough to erase most embeddings. I've never had to scrub images in my career, but that's what I would try.

New comment by warmedcookie in "The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II"

warmedcookie — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:24:35 +0000

Good movie, time to rewatch

New comment by warmedcookie in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

warmedcookie — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:29:57 +0000

Yeah, I wish the article had brought Vitamin K2 into the mix since that seems trendy to pair with your D3 these days.

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

warmedcookie — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:23:32 +0000

I don't know much about gambling but is it not common to set for yourself max bets so your pool of cash doesn't deplete like you do when buying stocks or trading options so you can leverage up or down. I know it's a little different, but there is a similar principle.

Maybe only allow people to spend 1/5 their pool of cash per bet so it never reaches zero

New comment by warmedcookie in "AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk"

warmedcookie — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:43:50 +0000

Drone armies will prevent such things this time around though.

New comment by warmedcookie in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

warmedcookie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:17:04 +0000

I use CC/Codex/Cursor.

CC is mostly my default for large tasks / features (ex. Plan > execute plan ) Biggest gripe with Claude Code is that it is painfully slow relative to the other two.

Cursor for small stuff like bug fixes since it has a lot of models to choose from. I love the review/ diff / checkpoint features. It's planning feature is on par with CC. I'd probably use Cursor as primary driver if it had better cost efficiency. Next version or two of Composer may fill that gap in cost/quality/speed.

Codex isn't allowed at my work, but I use it for personal projects. It has the best balance of quality / cost / speed even if it's planner is poor and quite frankly the codex harness needs to catch up with the other two.

CC for quality / cost. Cursor for quality / speed. Codex for balance of the 3.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

warmedcookie — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:53:43 +0000

Another N=1 here, a family friend in their late 60s died of a heart attack while biking.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

warmedcookie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:38:55 +0000

I played it in Twilight Princess and I did not have fun and Link probably didn't either.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

warmedcookie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:10:40 +0000

Having had my 2FA Facebook account banned 3 years ago because a bot signed up under my email for Instagram (which I did not have), I can confidently say the email verification issue has been a problem for a long time at Meta.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

warmedcookie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:07:19 +0000

At least in America, most people do not like nuanced takes on issues / people, even if you are being playful.

I'm afraid you need to go fit inside one of the echo chambers and conform to a given narrative good sir.

New comment by warmedcookie in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

warmedcookie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:14:48 +0000

Not a YEC, but you, the sentient being made in God's image, don't join a MineCraft world that is still a molten ball of lava/magma with no solid surface.

New comment by warmedcookie in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

warmedcookie — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:28:01 +0000

Indeed, although today I got on a plane at LaGuardia and they made me check my carry on at the gate even though there was plenty of space in the overhead bins ( 60% capacity flight, about half of us had to do this) so YMMV.

No idea why they made us do that, but I had to grab my bag at the luggage claim.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O"

warmedcookie — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:48:25 +0000

I do this kind of parallelism with a little merge request tool I slopped together. I spin up multiple small agents and assign them specific code review tasks (security, coding standards, etc.) and have it spit out a gitlab API draft json object with code examples for the MR I can deterministically validate against. If it fails to insert code examples (depending on the task) and the proper json object schema, I have "ask it to try again" logic in place.

Works fine, forcing LLMs to output parsable responses is a good workaround to get them to do what you want until they improve. It also allows you to use the fast models (ex. I spin up the Gemini 3.1 flash lite model for these tasks) to have these tasks done in seconds rather than minutes.

New comment by warmedcookie in "Technofascism"

warmedcookie — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:30:34 +0000

Indeed, how could it not have been more obvious than when Biden made it illegal for the railroad workers to strike in Dec. 2022. The sides are the same when it comes to an actual threat to the status quo.

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.