yareally

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Comment · 13 days ago
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Comment · 18 days ago
> "Honestly Opus 5.5 had gotten good enough I've been considering a project to have it build a new browser based on the open source Chrome and keeps the v2 in place."

You wouldn't be worried about vulnerabilities that the vibe coded browser could produce? I use plenty of LLM generated code, but a browser wouldn't be something I'd try on the Web.

Comment · 1 month ago
There was a coding horror story I read some years ago where a developer bragged that he improved performance by artificially increasing iterations on some critical path in an app and then lowering the iterations occasionally while bragging to management about squeezing out more performance.

Kind of reminds me of that, but with more smoke and mirrors

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
It has them. It just lacks some of the features
Comment · 4 months ago
Swiping feels a bit more accurate than Gboard overall. I'm not seeing a way to add a word to the dictionary. Am I missing something?
Comment · 5 months ago
The United States did not win the invasion of Canada during the revolutionary war.
Comment · 5 months ago
I work for an org that makes research software for chemistry and other branches of science and it's definitely hit us in sales. No one wants to spend money if they don't know if they're going to get or keep the grants they petitioned for.
Comment · 5 months ago
> Gets wrecked by horse archers. That ends up being typical for Romans

I don't think the Western Romans ever really learned from it did they? The Huns ended up wreaking them pretty hard.

I know the Eastern Romans did learn at some point out of necessity by creating their own professional units and hiring mercs.

Comment · 5 months ago
My parents live in Ohio and rotate wheat/soy/corn every year as do their neighbors
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Comment · 6 months ago
That's really cool! If I'm up near Calgary in the future I'm definitely checking that out. I miss the penguin march they would do here, but I understand why they stopped

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