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Programming is not art. In the end, nobody will care whether software was painstakingly hand-chiseled by humans in a dungeon or "vibe coded", as long as the result is good enough. (I'd argue that art will "suffer" from the same "problem".)

What is notable here is that someone is demonstrating that the systems are reaching a quality where this is possible.

> Did any of it make you a better programmer?

By conventional metrics, if the job got done well enough in less time, yes, even if less skill is involved.
"don't forget to make it secure"
I'm rather fond of The Black Dog's Music for Real Airports, myself. https://ra.co/reviews/7404
If React is good enough to power Facebook, it's good enough for your <1k users app.
Heist and The Score, both from 2001, make it into the same list as Heat and Ronin for mine.
For those people cachyos or perhaps garuda is a netter option. Manjaro does stupid things with their repos that causes breakage. Cachyos was my personal choice coming from manjaro and i javent looked back
That could be shortened to

names.ForEach(name=>Console.WriteLine($"Hello, {name}! Enjoy your C#"));
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This is so crazy. How did you gather recepies
> nematic liquid crystals,

- "Tunable entangled photon-pair generation in a liquid crystal" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07543-5 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815388 .. SPDC entangled photon generation with nematic liquid crystal

NewsArticle: "A liquid crystal source of photon pairs" (2024) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240614141916.h...
Or BD-Rs. 50GB on a single dual layer disc. Haven't finished the last spindle I bought, but I assume they're the cheapest per GB by now.
Will be interesting to see how Australia goes. They have extensive rooftop solar already, and one of the major parties in the current election is proposing to build nuclear power plants rather than go farther with renewables.

FWIW I think the nuclear plan as proposed would be a flop, but given that there are currently zero nuclear power plants there and Australia has a strong track record of opposing nuclear power, it's interesting to note that the idea has even been brought up without becoming instant electoral poison.
Also wow, pho from scratch in 30 minutes? https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_f0IwybXaymnGzp/spicy-pho...
I don’t believe SQLite has that kind of permissions system.
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I read it as solar + batteries, not solar alone.
Instead of complaining, why don't you click the link that was spoon fed directly to your cursor for the canonical answer within 3 seconds?
More pranks, this time after I got a job in the corporate world working for Big Company in the late 1980s:

Corporate Prank #1: Back in the DOS days, when the standard office computer was an IBM AT with a small built-in speaker capable of being programmed to beep, I set up the autoexec.bat file for several workstations to play (quickly, and at low volume) the first eight notes from the melody from "Brazil." The movie had just come out, and I thought the tune would be a fitting commentary on the parallels to the corporate life.

Corporate Prank #2: Every year or so the cafeteria would print surveys on blue cardstock and put them on all the tables asking questions like "Were the cashiers friendly?" and "How was the temperature of the food?" My friend and I found matching cardstock and mocked up copies, but changed the questions subtly, e.g. "How was the temperature of the cashiers?" and "Was the food friendly?" and distributed them to all the tables. Never found out what happened, but I'm sure management wasn't happy.

Corporate Prank #3: One day I went with my friends "B" and "C" to a different corporate cafeteria where you paid a flat rate just before exiting. "B" managed to find an emergency exit door just before the cashiers which let him make his way to the elevators without paying. Now the setup for the prank: every few months one of the departments would distribute company-wide security memos (on paper) which would get distributed to every desk. Me and "C" mocked up one of those security memos (complete with a police artist style sketch of "B", who had skipped out without paying) which warned everybody to be on the lookout for the suspect who was last seen exiting the cafeteria through an unmarked door, and should be considered dangerous. We made photocopies and put them on every desk.
Most of it is extrapolation. Yes, it'll triple productivity. But from what we've seen with frameworks etc, that just ends up creating jobs. We work more hours today than before the computers came in.

The other problem is the unfortunate naming. Nobody talks about Jetbrains taking coder jobs but it's essentially doing the same thing, allowing people write more lines of code with less typing. How many jobs were eliminated with Zapier or Pipedream? "AI" implies that it replaces a human.
That unnecessary intro before the homepage is displayed reminded me of those awful flash intros sites had back around 1999–2003.

(I tried to find an example but they're all broken now since Flash is dead.)
Getting a 400 on generate.

Is this a joke? Or should it generate something?
I made a board similar to this that is based on an ESP32 eink screen (the Inkplate, which I highly recommend). The easiest way to render a dashboard like this is with a website, versus making the ESP32 render custom components and call a bunch of APIs). There isn't enough power on the ESP32 to render a website, but there is enough to fetch and render an image, but something has to generate that image. On mine, I use Home Assistant and pre-render a custom dashboard into a PNG, which the Inkplate grabs and renders. This guy skipped all that by just having the Pi do all the work in the first place, which is a fine way to do things if you can get the display working how you like.
Except it isn't - the V-22 fleet is currently limited to flight 200nm or less due to mechanical concerns. [1] I'm not sure what the US Navy is currently doing or planning for near-future COD. (Beyond ordering more Ospreys. [2]) Pray they don't end up in a real hot war with a peer adversary, I guess?

1. https://news.usni.org/2025/02/11/navy-marines-learning-to-ma...
2. https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/us-navy-...
Doesn't Android have a lot of accessibility options built in? I know Material Design certainly does, but many apps don't use it. Maybe use it in a similar manner to fully blind people.
Yeah, without trying to be dismissive I'm a bit unsure where the 35kLOC are going?
I‘m pretty sure it‘s from a region in the wotld were weather is very presictable, typically good, and people go out woth kids only in nice days, because there are so many.
You have a typo in the code, run_alogrithm() :)
Microplastics are everywhere: Is it possible to reduce our exposure? (2024)
It is so hard to reconcile my view of Karpathy as a world class instructor who does great things like making you work out gradients via the chain rule even though you don't need to anymore with this version of Karpathy.
It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something. Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway? I wonder if it would be more useful to talk about quality-life-years (QUALYs) lost as a result of pollution. Probably much harder to get that data though.
Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
I have similar thoughts and I have come to conclusion that that's the beauty and the curse of this technology. If one relies too much on it - it's gonna be a curse. However, if technology is used with care - it's a beauty. Not only does it keep SWE jobs "secure" - it really helps a lot for those who know what they are doing.

I think in the end AI will be more advanced tool, but a tool nonetheless. Like methodologies and principles, good practises etc. - they only work if you use it with care and added thought and adaptation to your case. DRY it a great principle. But sometimes it's better if you repeat yourself. For one reason or another. And these are the the tradeoffs that human in the loop should be making imho.
This is a weird response - that's not what the review says at all. (I should know. I wrote it.) I'm also a YIMBY - although, as a renter, it doesn't exactly take any moral courage.

As I state clearly in the review, I share Klein and Thompson's view of the housing issue and I called that part the strongest section of the book.

My point is that what the book calls "abundance" is an incoherent mishmash of ideologically incoherent anecdotes. It's not a policy framework and it's not an agenda. So what is it?
How to Live Inside a Mall for 4 Years
That's a great observation! Instead of seeing it as a limitation, it can be treated as a feature. Users can handle Unicode normalization using Python's built-in unicodedata module to ensure proper case conversion. Thanks for pointing that out!
It would, but I believe the cause and effect is roundabout.

The first thing to go down will be rental yields, because those are more directly and immediately impacted by real market forces (number of renters versus available housing stock on the rental market), instead of speculation or the wealth effect or chasing a store of value, which are factors that drive the price of housing ownership but don't drive rents.

After rental yields decline, housing as an asset class will be less lucrative and higher risk compared to the cost of capital, which then causes an unwind as investors move to other asset classes.
>a toy with very little operational utility

A perfect match for the modern Marine Corps! (Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but a Marine Corps that has abandoned amphibious assault and port seizure in favor of helping the Navy with sea control has arguably lost its reason for existing.)

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-...
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Neural network based computer vision models also existed for decades. They weren't very good and weren't really used, till early 2010s when people figured out how to make them work. Now they are vastly superior to all the other ways.

This is quite common across the sciences. Some technique doesn't seem to work because of missing crucial insights or technology. Then somebody fills the gaps, and the technique works.

These types of models in economics might or might not become viable at some point.
I think you'd get near-universal agreement that some regulations somewhere are ineffective and/or counterproductive. If that's all the book is attempting to achieve, it's an extremely modest goal IMO.

The problem is getting that same level of agreement about specific regulations - or, failing that, making a strong case for a specific reason why a regulation that many people think is necessary and good is actually bad. But Klein and Thompson, for the most part, avoid doing this.
It was poured 14B years ago according to fizz buzz theory
Idea1: Selling simplification is more profitable than implementing it.
> LLMs are supposed to save us from the toils of software engineering

Well, cryptocurrency was supposed to save us from the inefficiences of the centralized banking system.

There's a lesson to be learned here, but alas our sociiety's collective context window is less than five years.
A bank replacing their engineering dept with AI is all sorts of wrong. What do you want to bet in a few months they'll be scrambling to hire devs after some AI screwup lost them millions of $$.
usually 99%
One cohort susceptible is asthmatics.

Most asthmatics can live a long, healthy life - certainly not die at the age of 9 https://apnews.com/article/asthma-europe-london-air-pollutio...

I, along with other asthmatics, did notice a marked improvement in symptoms during the Covid 19 lockdowns as there was less traffic on the roads - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8011425/

This is the problem with "Well, these people are frail, and you have to die of something" assertions. See also, Covid 19 and "most people who died weren't healthy, they had other conditions!".
It takes no effort at all to see that CA HSR is an unmitigated disaster. It takes much more effort to figure out a coherent policy common denominator that shames CA for outsourcing the project to consultants while praising OWS for doing the same.
80 liters of human diarrhea would be a big problem:

https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_N1VSPtXzCJVV3l/diarrhea-...
> Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway?

What point are you trying to make? I mean, you don't seem to dispute that pollution can and does kill people.
It's extremely expensive. At $17 or $21 a month which works out to $250 a year you could go to a million other places. For $5 dollars a month wordpress will include a domain and 6 gigs. Hostinger is $2.99 with domain.

Wix doesn't let you move your files.
What a cool project. I really think music is one of our greatest examples of shared heritage.

My only comment is I think this would of benefited from some interviews or commentary by actual musicians. It felt really really surface level.
diarrhea walnuts - https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_N1VSPtXzCJVV3l/diarrhea-...
This is really cool. Any chance you can make the backend selfhostable with ollama as an option for the LLM?
Eventually Green Tests
A set of size N=20, has total number of subsets equal to 2^N = 1.05 million. You must have had other degrees of freedom to bump that to 1E26.
Glad you finally found Claude Code useful, Tom ;)

On a more serious note: I've found that for debugging difficult issues, o1 Pro is in a league of it's own.

Claude Code's eagerness to do work will often fix things given enough time, especially for self-contained pieces of software, but I still find myself going to o1 Pro more often than I'd expect.

A coworker and I did a comparison the other day, where we fired up o1 Pro and Claude Code with the same refactor. o1 Pro one-shotted it, while Claude Code took a few iterations.

Interestingly enough, the _thinking_ time of o1 Pro led us to just commit the Claude Code changes, as they were both finished in around the same time (1 min 37s vs. 2+ minutes), however we did end up using some feedback from o1 to fix an issue Claude hadn't caught. YMMV
>then complain entirely about glibc

You can ship all of your of the libraries you use with your executable. This isn't possible to do with glibc. It's the exception which is why it's talked about the most.
Linked from the article this seems interesting: https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

But from my understanding most deaths attributed to pollution, specially indoors, relate to fireplaces, cooking, oil lighting or other "I'm making smoke indoors" activities which will cause lung issues later on. Even having candles on all the time isn't good for you.

The rest as far as I understand is all estimated by putting a finger in the air and subdividing lung cancer deaths into what they feel like the causes were.
Really wish they showed deaths per capita instead of raw deaths for all their data sources. It would be better for doing country by country comparisons
I think pollution is better thought of like starvation, as something that makes you frailer so that you end up dying over something that a healthier person would have survived. Pretty much the opposite of the perspective you take.

You don't see a lot of people arguing that starvation doesn't mean much because the deaths of starving people are more directly caused by disease or injury.
Your comment didn't deserve to be downvoted. This might not be the primary factor behind local opposition, but it is a factor in why it's difficult for state or federal politicians to enact real reform, even something like amending tax policy. Two thirds of the population don't see the housing crisis as a crisis, for them it's either a housing bonanza, or it's something that they don't want to see happen but are afraid of being personally injured if it's fixed due to their leverage being multiple times their annual income.
That's only for two way relationships, you need N way relationships, which is N^N.
That they are, energy is energy. I was part of a Battlebots team and that is where I learned the smell of various rechargeable battery chemistries when they burned :-). We also had an exothermic adventure with a battery pack we built, fortunately it was not at an event, it was in earlier testing, but it forever gave me a healthy respect for those batteries.
Because it allows readers to get the information straight from the source, instead of relying on some random unsourced comment that's probably going to mangle the definition of a term as nebulous as "vibe coding".
If you have an old mac, you can take out the SuperDrive and use that!

Worked flawlessly in contrast to a no-name USB DVD drive I bought on AliExpress
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> It's 2025 and the closest I can find is a dictation app on my newest phone that uses online AI service, yet it's still not that great [...]

> Is there anything equally effective for any of you nowadays?

I'm not affiliated in any way. You might be interested in the "Futo Keyboard" and voice input apps - they run completely offline and respect your privacy.

The source code is open and it does a good job at punctuation without you needing to prompt it by saying, "comma," or, "question mark," unlike other voice input apps such as Google's gboard.

https://keyboard.futo.org/
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I'm the founder of microbooks, an API based accounting saas. I've been struggling to drive adoption mainly because the people who need accounting i.e business owners/accountants do not understand tech (REST), and those who do don't understand accounting. With the MCP protocol I'm thinking I could bridge this gap by say, allowing anyone to make accounting entries simply creating prompts to an MCP server that's aware of the API's context. What do you guys think?
Klein notes that one project is a dismal failure and the other a stunning success. Both are true statements, and there's really nothing you can say to make that not true. The idea that there's a single coherent set of policy prescriptions that gets you reliably to the successes and away from the failures is exactly the thing Klein doesn't claim to be offering --- in fact, you open your review by complaining about exactly that.
> Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Mozart ripped of Händel. For example parts from his famous Reqiuem are a rip of of Händels Messiah. And a lot of classical Composers (ex. Beethoven) ripped of from their "godfather": J.S Bach. Altough they did not call it rip of, but learning.
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Particles from tires and brakes account for a significant chunk of pollution. I'm in the middle of reading Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles which goes into those details.

https://www.amazon.com/Dust-Story-Modern-Trillion-Particles/...
Programming is more art then anything since it's definitely not a science, nor is it mathematics or engineering.

It's similar in principle to architecture or interior design.
Scientists merge two 'impossible' materials into new artificial structure
Have you tried reaching out to the guy for a copy?
You mean universities of applied science, not schools, they call themselves that in English, but even that has different meanings in other countries.
It's basically a more practical and school like university with smaller classes and more practical material.
> I have similar thoughts and I have come to conclusion that that's the beauty and the curse of this technology.

I agree. When I read these articles on vibe coding I can't help to think that these guys are basking in the glory of the impressive maze they built around themselves. Of course running these things in production and having them reach the state of legacy code is an entirely different thing. Building a maze is one thing, having to run around it is an entirely different challenge.

It's like one of those world expos: everything looks fantastic, but the moment the event ends everything just crumbles.
> Using F-keys for the most shortcuts was standard across DOS apps.

That doesn't make it a good idea. In UI design, people don't say 'we're using this because it was used in 1980s DOS programs'.

You may find it to be fine - I don't mind function keys, but I they aren't nearly as efficient. But we're talking about the general public.
What exactly does Marc Andreesen have to do with Klein and Thompson's advocacy for zoning reform?

The answer to your question is simple. In fact, you dance around it in your review! The politics of reform are about navigating the disagreements in the Democratic coalition. Indeed! The point of the book is to present a positive vision of what a Democratic coalition focused around an agenda of demonstrated competency would look like and accomplish. The book is about the persuasive effort.

It doesn't seem plausible that you'd be so unfamiliar with Klein that you didn't know he records one of the most popular policy-driven shows in the country.
The series was so bad that Disney took it down from their streaming service.

It did get on a bunch of "most watched" lists, and it wasn't grimdark like all fantasy needs to be nowadays.
>It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something.

People can die because they don't have access to energy or agricultural products.

I wonder what would be the word population now had we not used fire, coal oil, haf we not grew rice and cereals, had we not raised cows and sheep.
What still baffles me is the reduction in SO2 emissions due to regulations on shipping fuel.

How did the shipping industry accept / manage / afford to switch fuels (presumably, to more expensive ones) in order to follow the regulation ; as opposed to delay / deny / deflect, or plain old lobbying the hell against the changes ?

Are we in a "Montreal protocol" situation, where the alternative was existing and acceptable and in the same price range ?

Or did one actor implement coercion differently ? Was a standard change made, that enabled drop-in replacement ?

(If we were living under Discworld-like physics where narrativium existed, I would understand _why_ the change happened : it's making climate change worst, so of course there is all the power of narrative irony.

Are we in a world governed by narrative irony ? That would explain so many things...)