He seems to be one of the less accurate ones, yes. Turns out when you use really wide brackets for numbers predictions, that makes it easier to get things right (who’d’ve thunk) and even then he only gets like 50% of claims right.

But it would still phone home though? It’s not like great firewall blocks all traffic, it blocks traffic the CCP doesn’t like.

I thought this was a 20 year old photo but that car in bottom left corner looks newer.

Docker will let you run as many database containers as you want and route things such that each service only sees its own database and none of the others, plus even processes on your host machine can’t connect unless you’ve configured ports for that.

Luckily you guys have land borders. Unluckily they might start patrolling them for people escaping too.

Between China and the US I’d currently be less worried about visiting China. And I’m a white dude who has bashed the CCP online plenty.

Perfect fit

Gamers.

He targeted gamers.

That’s me. Wanted to move there because software engineer. Now I’m 30 and fuck no. Major changes would need to happen and even then I’m not sure I’d feel safe. It’s not the damn shootings that bother me even, it’s that so many people support Trump and ICE. Those people will still be around even when Trump is gone. Meaning at any time the US could elect a less incompetent version of Trump.

I have an HDMI cable somewhere that stops working temporarily when there are changes in temperature, air pressure or planetary alignment.

This is not an HDMI vs DisplayPort issue.

Fairly sure children in Germany can have beer at home too (SOME of them), but this one is a toddler lol

Gotta have that emergency döner

For commercial software, definitely. It’d be web and MAYBE Windows unless there’s a Qt nerd spearheading the project or something.

FOSS is actually better off here IMO, since it’s done by people as passion projects, so there’s no need to pinch pennies by eliminating target platforms. HOWEVER there’d also be more need for the devs to have different platforms to test on.

Also a very local chat program.

There are, but few of them also work on the web as an alternative to the desktop. Writing one shitty web app and offering Electron wrapped versions of it gets you a webapp, a Windows app, a Linux app and a MacOS app. And you already have web devs on the team because everyone does.

It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans

Hell yeah

Tbf I’ve never had to go more than a couple of hours without power. Which is good because a couple of days of power with heating could be couple hundred kilowatt hours once I actually replace my wood furnace with a heat pump. Right now I just have one air to air heat pump to help out, but eventually air to water is needed. Can’t do ground source unfortunately.

Solar doesn’t really do anything here in the winter when the batteries would likely be drained. We get like 6 hours of daylight and you it’s almost always overcast all day. It’s great in the summer though, assuming said batteries can be drained to sell to the grid when power is expensive and recharged when the prices are too low to sell to the grid.

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created.

Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there.

Does a director create the movie? They don’t usually edit it, they don’t have to act in it, nor do all directors write movies. Yet the person giving directions is seen as the author.

The idea is that vibe coding is like being a director or architect. I mean that’s the idea. In reality it seems it doesn’t really pan out.

You can’t use soap with free lye in it. Any modern dish soap is fine. Just don’t go making your own soap out of lye and fat like in the olden days, because then you’ll probably have free lye in it.

There’s a bunch of imaginary rules around cast iron, some of which was relevant 40 or 50 years ago and some of which has always been misleading.

Truth is, the more you cook with a cast iron pan, using oil or whatever other fats, the more it’s seasoned. You don’t have to re-season it at all unless you somehow manage to strip the existing seasoning.