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bluGill ,

I've been writting a lot of code with ai - for every half hour the ai needs to write the code I need a full week to revise it into good code. If you don't do that hard work the ai is going to overwhelm the reviewers with garbage

bluGill ,

I'm writing code because it is often faster than explaining to the ai how to do it. I'm spending this month seeing what ai can do - it ranges from saving me a lot of tedious effort to making a large mess to clean up

bluGill ,

That can help - but ai reviews still miss a lot of bad code. Still a first pass - if the ai finds something it is rarely wrong - so fix things the ai finds before you bother others, or justify why the ai is wrong. But if all you do is an ai review of ai code you get garbage

bluGill ,

I took typing in school several times using QWERTY. I learned the IBM typewriters were really nice to type on, and what the "correct" way to type was. It didn't make any difference though at the time because typing speed was never the limit, it was thinking speed. Then in college I got into IRC and most things didn't need deep thinking and so typing speed was the limit so I learned to apply the "correct" way because it was faster which I needed. (I never did meet a worthwhile girl on IRC so it didn't do anything for me even though I now type faster)

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bluGill ,

I find ai can turn out code fast - but then I spend a week or more turning it into good code and so the time saved isn't near as much. I'd be embarressd to call it my own and as a professional can't allow garbage-

bluGill ,

Do you need anything? Bodyweight exercise can get you a long way. In bodyweight training they will tell you start with a pull up bar. Then get a squat rack with free weights if you have the budget/space. Some will tell you to get rings instead of or with a pull-up bar. There is no complete agreement, but in general the advice is you don't need anything other than the above unless you are doing a competition that you need to practice for.

Of course the real problem is you never said what you goals are. There is a big difference between enough fitness for good health; looking good for their girls/guys; and winning competitions. That is a start of different lines that could be your goal, but is by no means a complete list. The more important thing to note is sometimes the above are in conflict and so you can't have all 3 and sometimes can only get 1.

bluGill ,

It works if you believe your religion. If you are a roman swearing by Jupiter you are asking Jupiter to strike you with lightening if you lie - and as a believer you honestly think that will happen. since most people are christians they swear on the bible knowing they are asking to go to hell if they lie - even if otherwise they are good enough to be forgiven. Muslins generally swear of the quarn - to similar reasons (i'm not clear on what muslins believe happens if they lie, but they believe in it which matters)

of course a large number of people are not religious these days - so this is often pointless.

bluGill ,

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/28/collections-oaths-how-do-they-work/ has a very interesting discussion and you should read it all. Not everything applies to modern world but the majority does

bluGill ,

If you are not using a standard fastener you need to provide a lifetime warranty on whatever can't be removed by standard parts. Lifetime means you need to escrow with a third party enough money to fix it in case you go bankrupt.

bluGill ,

Wood breathes. You will need something watertight lining the inside. Paint is not enough. 8mm plastic is my first thought - but many plastics also allow moisture through and I'm not sure what is safe. An epoxy finish on the inside might work. But getting a continious layer could be a pain.

bluGill ,

don't be sure - democrats are likely to follow with some stupid thing that turns it around.

Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals?

I have been thinking on how to celebrate my birthday, I thought of inviting my parents to my favorite restaurant. When I brought it up, they were all upset "why don't you invite us to your home? Why don't you cook for us? Restaurant is all reheated food, home cooked fresh food is much better" etc. ...

bluGill ,

Depends one where you live. In the US where I live until you get to $50/person or more all restaurant meals are exactly as your parents say - reheated in some way. Even at that high price level many of the meals are the same reheated things the cheaper ones are serving with better arrangement, but at least then some things are cooked yourself.

You live in Europe - there are some great restaurants there that are cheaper. However there are also a number of reheated garbage just like we have in the US.

It isn't hard to learn to cook for yourself, and once you do it is hard to see why people pay so much money for just garbage food. But people do all the time and don't see anything wrong with it - some even call it good.

bluGill ,

I can do anything in any Turing complete language. However some languages provide some nice syntax advantages, or are less error prone. If you are need to do OOP C++ is a better choice than C because the syntax is much better than the mess needed in C. (D or Ada come to mind as better choices than C++ - you might have your own opinion)

bluGill ,

Maybe a decoy account. We know the CIA is only obvious when they want you to look away from something else

bluGill ,

People in the west who have access to classified information are acting like the think Russia's nukes work. We also know that at the fall of the soviet union the people who lead the nuke programs got more power. As such I think Russia has working nukes - if there is any decay in the program it would have started at most 2 years ago - not long enough for there to be many failures.

That is different from sabre rattling - they get plenty of propaganda value from a threat that they are unlikely to use. They are well aware that launching a nuke means they and all their loved ones die (it is unlikely more than a few thousand humans would survive the result), so they are unlikely to use their nukes, but reminding everyone they have them is helpful. And they have a few deranged people (likely everyone) that we can't assume they won't.

bluGill ,

Decay is always lumpy. In general you are correct, but this topic isn't the general state of Russia, but the state of their nuclear program. By all reports that program has done much better than the typical program.

bluGill ,

I'm blind without my glasses. I've thought about surgery but I'm wear ansi safety glasses anyway - I know what it is like to go to the bathroom without my glasses - that is okay in the middle of the night - but I have no interest in my whole life being like that so I'm protecting my eyes as best I can.

Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

I've never had a WFH job and I generally don't think I'd personally want/be successful with one. My sister is fully remote and she actually hates it, but I think its more the job she doesn't like than the WFH aspect. She says its lonely and isolating on top of disliking her daily tasks. I'm not anti WFH for others at all, to ...

bluGill ,

Somewhat, but it also scares me.

I know that I'm very introverted. I like to go "heads down" writing code all day. However I'm also painfully aware from experience that not talking to others means I'm out of the loop and soon I'm developing great code for something the company doesn't need. I need to spend time in the office listening to others talk - I get much less done, but at least what I get done are things the company cares about, and in turn I'm much more likely to keep my job (having to find a new job is one of the worst things that can happen to an introvert - I have to convince strangers to hire me)

Right now I go to the office about 16 hours a week, which seems to be enough. I also live close enough to work that I can ride my bike - in turn commute time is also exercise time, something I need to get more of anyway.

bluGill ,

There are useful things about internet connections and phone home. Maybe not for you, but for many.

For company vehicles when the car is due for an oil change the mechanics should be informed not the driver. Likewise the company should be able to track where their cars are and when they are driving (and restrict them from driving outside of their territory). For things like snow plows the company needs to track where they have plowed already.

When it is cold it is nice to tell the car to start warming up 5 minutes before you get into it. For electric cars that are currently plugged in this is important as it lets you spend grid energy to warm up the car instead of range.

It is also useful to have up to date maps on the car - there are things a built in system can do that android auto / apple carplay cannot do. Though you have to drive a lot for this to be worth it. (My car as GM's onstar and no android auto - I don't pay for it, but I could see in a 10 minute test drive how onstar is better if you are driving the car for hours every day - since I mostly work from home or bike it isn't worth it, but I can see how it is better despite not being better)

But there needs to be a non-charge option for things like remote start.

bluGill ,

All spying needs to be owned by the person who owns the car. GM or however might have data, but it needs to not be accessible by them except by my agreement. Do I want my dealer to know when I need an oil change - maybe (depends on if I trust my dealer), or maybe I want my independent mechanic to know this, or maybe I change my own oil and want only me to know.

bluGill ,

You are not wrong - but the point is there is value here, are just not getting it to the right people.

bluGill ,

That depends - 3% is a safe withdrawal rate gowing your income with inflation and not running out. However you won't live forever and so can touch some principal and so can go higher - how much is the question.

bluGill ,

Onless you will die in a few years growth should be where most of your retire early money comes from. As you get older you need less growth though.

bluGill ,

You forgot inflation. If you are happy with 40k today that could be 80k by the time you retire and likely will be over 150k by the time you die.

bluGill ,

Sort of - but there is no reason to think we will ever be able to make something that won't break. Even intersellar is questionable just because the odds of the ship breaking in the time needed are too high.

bluGill ,

We can't even make radio waves that travel that far. Our best radio telescopes focused on something near that we suspect might have life don't have enough power for us to think they can be received by an arbitrarily advanced civilization on the other end (assuming there is that happens to be listening when the signals arrive). And that is stars in our own subarm of the milky way.

Space is just bigger than you can imagine.

bluGill ,

One maybe not. However there are not a lot of airplanes (or pilots) and so it doesn't take too many crashes before people start noticing they can't get airplanes to someplace at all, or if they can they have to book early because they are all full (and soon after they notice seats they have booked get canceled - they won't know it is because the plane crashed, but they know they can't get there)

Why or how do people become sex traffikers like Epstein? Did he and his wife wake up one day after work and say hey lets traffik teens? Or was he or she forced into it? or something else?

I cannot fathom doing that to another human being let alone teenagers. Not really asking for a how to guide but more like do people like that have a disease or something?

bluGill ,

you can't fathom it because you were raised that way. Different parents / society and you would call those normal and partake.

there have been too many through history to think it is anything else.

bluGill ,

Fad. Someone started doing it, and it caught on so no everyone does. The iPod started the iEverything phase. A local car dealer near me uses NameTube.com because they decided they needed a website about the time youtube got a lot press. There are many more things over the years that became a fad for a while, and there will be more.

bluGill ,

ML is run by people who are not only communist, but also communists can do no wrong, capitalists can do no right. Just being communist most of us could live with, but the second is a problem. When someone cannot agree things like genocides that various communist governments are a bad it is really hard to have productive conversations.

bluGill ,

Arms and legs allowed in are still really bad. You can't run fast in snow, and you are more likely to trip.

bluGill ,

In some cases. However most often when there is a stack trace it is because something I didn't expect happened - I can't tell you how we got there or how to correct it because if I knew I would have just had the code do that in the first place. If the error is something the user did though I'd expect a clean error message.

bluGill , (edited )

I read it for a while a few years ago, I don't remember how far I got it. I do remember realizing that it was just a "number go up for both the hero and the monster" - nothing was really changing/new anymore even though there were more words. A good read for a while, but it gets tedious after a while and so I stopped. There are too many other books our there that are much better. A large part of better is the authors just wrote "the end" when they ran out of original ideas.

Is your city building a ton of banks and gas stations?

I keep asking myself why this is happening here or if its common. I keep seeing more and more banks and gas stations being built here. Like, why!? We have a shit ton already. You can't go a block without seeing a gas station. And why the hell do we ned physical banks? 90% of money is fake and digital. It has to be a land grab so ...

bluGill ,

Yes. My town was 5k people in 2000, 20k in 2020, and expected to be over 100k in 2030. Everyone is trying to get into the grab. People who move in are more likely to find a new bank, so the banks want to be here early to get the customers.

Gas stations are not something people are loyal to, but they still need to go in to support all the people moving into a car centric environment.

Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong ( www.phoronix.com )

Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils. ...

bluGill ,

What broke? If it was a GNU ism that wouldn't work on *BSD either, than it is your own stupid fault. There are other linux distros that also don't use the gnu core utils that would break things do.

A Tunisian company is selling small electric vans whose rooftop solar generates enough energy to pay for the cost of the vehicle in 8 years. ( edition.cnn.com )

“The solar cells provide us with more than 50% of our needs,” says Boubaker Siala, founder and CEO of Bako Motors. “For example, the B-Van, for commercial use, you can have free energy for about 50 kilometers (31 miles) per day… 17,000 kilometers (10,563 miles) per year. …….. The B-Van, which can carry 400 kilograms ...

bluGill ,

And how much power can you even get from a solar panel in a typical outside environment where you'd freeze to death?

Day or night? As a kid we used to heat with wood - every morning I'd wake up and start the first and then take my shower... The fire was out by 9am, but the house was noticeably warmer at 12 than 9am anyway from solar, and we didn't need to light the night fire until 7-8pm (the sun went down around 4pm), and it would burn on low all night.

The coldest days tend to also be clear skies. Cloudy days did not get nearly as much solar heat, they needed less, but we would have to light a fire again at noon to get through the day.

Which is to say you can get more than enough solar to save your life if there is a reasonable amount of insulation in the car if it is daytime - but it wouldn't be enough to get through the night when you need the heat most.

bluGill ,

Unions work depending on how 'in it together' you feel.

If you resent the people standing around doing nothing they start to fail. If you resent the people who do worse work than you for the same pay they start to fail. note that on an assembly line the above isn't possible in the first place - which is why they work great there. (Bus drivers and police are also not really measureable like that)

bluGill ,

The drinks that major sports teams use are designed to be exactly what is needed for that sport, and only contain sugar if nutritionists (and other real scientists) say it is needed, and then only in the amount needed. Different sports have different needs, and so will get different drinks (if there is enough money in the sport to pay scientists to design it).

The sports drinks you buy in the store share only the name/logo with the above drinks.

bluGill ,

In practice that is zero - you are not allowed to take off unless you have enough fuel to fly for an hour after landing. flying is safe in large part because of hard learned rules like this.

bluGill ,

that depends on the pilot. it doesn't apply to bold pilots. There are bold pilots and old pilots - but no old and bold pilots.

bluGill ,

Note that those are minimums. The pilots I know try to be well above the minimums as a personal rule. Landing without fuel is something they practice in the simulator, not something they ever want to try in real world conditions.

bluGill ,

Ask my wife. I've followed dozens of direction, none work for me - I get the peel and half the egg white off. She manages to get a nice peel every time.

i don't think it is genetic, but whatever it is nothing works.

bluGill ,

That only sometimes works. Make sure you never go to that station again, and tell your friends. Buycotts work best if a lot of people boycott over a sustained period of time.

i now have an ev, so I can't join anymore.

bluGill ,

Every car at a gas station has an exhaust system with temperatures well over the ignition point of gasoline. If there was a problem we would have to let our cars tool for half an hour a quarter mile away from the pumps before we pushed them there by hand.

fortunately gasoline only burns in a narrow range of mixtures which are impossible to get in open air.

bluGill ,

Huh? Who doesn't know how to cook? It is easy and very common in mowt circles. I think you need to readjust your life if you think that is rare. eating out is not only expensive it is also unhealy most of the time.

bluGill ,

From looking at history this seems confined to one generation - in 1950 the "ideal family" was a man going to work 9-5, and the women staying home to cook/clean. For a while it even worked out that way for a lot of people, but over the 1960s there was a culture revolution and women started working, while men learned to help. This process is continuing on.

Look longer over history though you see that in almost all cultures men would regularly get into situations where there were no women around to cook. Hunting, or working in the field all day often meant men and women were separated and so men had to cook for themselves if they were to eat. (women between 15 and 40 were regularly pregnant or nursing a baby - men cannot do these things, and they limit what a woman can do so some activities become men's work.) Not to mention war which typically was mostly men, though "camp followers" did cook for the army in some cases.

Which is to say, maybe your Grandpa didn't cook. However that men in his generation didn't cook was an outlier. Over history men and women both cooked.

bluGill ,

Just another recession. Don't invoke depression - things are not nearly that bad.

bluGill ,

After thinking a couple weeks, what trucks need (and other evs that can tow) is a standard trailer light connector with ability for the trailer to provide power while moving. Many trailers could have another 1000lbs of battery. Campers in particular - and they also should allow pluging the camper in to charge both at once. You can rent a generator trailer for longer trips - and in many applications the generator is helpfur when you ret there.