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adoxyz

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Full stack developer passionate about sharing what I know. Currently Director of Developer Advocacy at Sourcegraph, previously led developer relations at DigitalOcean, MongoDB, and Auth0.

My blog: https://ado.xyz

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kukicado

YouTube: https://youtube.com/adoxyz

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adoxyz··on Zed AI
Hey golergka, sorry to hear about Cody slowing down your VS Code. Would you be able to share more info about this? I haven't seen Cody users complain about this in the past, so trying to understand what the potential issue might have been.

Feel free to email me at ado.kukic@sourcegraph.com if you'd prefer.

adoxyz··on My 2024 AI Predictions
Have you tried Cody (https://cody.dev)? Cody has a deep understanding of your codebase and generally does much better at code gen than just one-shotting GPT4 without context.

(disclaimer: I work at Sourcegraph)

adoxyz··on Carta doing unsolicited tender offer outreach to their customers' investors
Companies typically use Carta to manage their cap table, shares, and overall ownership of the company.

This requires a high level of trust as there is a lot of financial information at stake.

Carta seems to be taking this confidential information and is potentially sharing it with other investors and soliciting investors to sell their shares.

This is a big no-no.

adoxyz··on Tesla Cybertruck needs separate battery pack in the bed to get promised range
A separate battery pack that costs an extra $16k, and still doesn't get the promised range. Cybertruck has missed the mark big time.
adoxyz··on People no longer know how much to tip
Tipping has gotten absurd in the US. I am unironically waiting for the self-checkout machines at grocery stores to start demanding tips.

I still cave and end up tipping almost every time, since it's not the employees fault, but man - going to a frozen yogurt place, preparing everything myself, and having the checkout employee swing the tablet around for a tip always irks me.

adoxyz··on Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger
Good luck with that.

I'm pretty sure that it has been the case in 99% of scenarios were consolidation always ended up in a shittier experience for the consumer and employees regardless of the promises the merging companies made.

But money talks at the end of the day.

adoxyz··on Cody AI with Starcoder reaches 30% completion acceptance rate at 2x speed
The StarCoder model is running on Fireworks.ai - and their blog has some more details as well: https://blog.fireworks.ai/accelerating-code-completion-with-...
adoxyz··on Starfield’s 1k planets may be leap for game design
From everything I've read, it seems that Starfield is a generation or three behind that on NMS.
adoxyz··on Starfield’s 1k planets may be leap for game design
I don't see how. I haven't played Starfield yet, but from what I've read, all the planets are pretty much the same with a few textures and biomes swapped out and a few random encampments added. You can't even explore the entire planet, just whatever the game engine decides is a planet.

No Man's Sky already did the "trillions of planets" thing, and with that game you could seamlessly go from planet to planet, where in Starfield, it's all loading screens.

Seems like a paid, propped up article, to promote a mediocre game.

adoxyz··on Show HN: Video Tap – Turn your videos into endless content
Out of the ~3,000 users we have so far, many would fall into the "core creators" category and are finding value. With Video Tap, our focus is allowing them to better focus on video creation, and easily getting other content out of the videos they create.
adoxyz··on Show HN: Video Tap – Turn your videos into endless content
The primary goal is to repurpose the content. Creating and editing videos takes up a lot of time. If you can create the video once, and get a blog post, promotional materials for it, and other content out of it automatically, it will help you reach a broader audience.
adoxyz··on TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken
38,xxx/50,000. Fun app!
adoxyz··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
most tech stocks have tanked compared to 2021 all time highs.
adoxyz··on Temu Is Losing Millions of Dollars to Send You Cheap Socks
I really don't get the appeal of Temu. I checked it out a while back and it's literally the lowest quality garbage at the lowest price possible. I was curious enough to see what I'd receive if I bought anything from them and spent like $10 on 7-8 products. They did arrive within 2 weeks but were absolute garbage that went straight into the recycling bin.

Am I missing something?

adoxyz··on HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
Nothing wrong with this imo. I actually hope more open source projects start with a business source license if their ultimate goal is to become a SaaS platform.

I think we've seen time and time again large enterprises abusing the spirit of open source for their own monetary gain, contributing nothing back, and just acting in bad faith.

adoxyz··on Being a short-term rental host has become much harder
I think early on in AirBnB's existence I've had the delightful experience, interesting hosts, etc.

The last 2-3 years though, it has been less than stellar with both super host and non-super hosts stays for a majority of the stays, so I stopped using AirBnB. I'm sure there are still a lot of hosts that have a property they treat properly, treat the guests good, and care about hospitality etc. but the general vibe I get is that a lot of superhosts are folks with a bunch of properties doing the bare minimum while charging the absolute maximum. Just personal experience in the US though.

adoxyz··on Being a short-term rental host has become much harder
AirBnB hosts are unrealistic with their expectations. The raising costs, ridiculous cleaning fees, absurd "house rules", etc. make AirBnB pretty much a no-go for me these days.

Hotels have great amenities, really good customer support, and not too much BS.

With AirBnB it's an absolute gamble if you're going to get a good host or a wannabe slumlord. I don't think this is AirBnB's fault though, just general human greed, wanting to make easy money by providing as little value as possible.

adoxyz··on xAI
I'm not saying anyones opinion is incorrect. FSD may work better in some places and worse in others. But I live in Las Vegas. We have wide roads, both highways and regular roads well maintained, great weather, and other elements that would make you think FSD would work great.

In my experience, it does lane keeping great and going in a straight line, slowing down for traffic. But that's about it. Making turns, the overall jank is unbearable in person (it doesn't come off as bad on video, but as a driver or passenger, getting constantly tossed around is not fun), and also just the unpredictability of the system makes it unusable for anything more than a parlor trick.

You're free to have your own opinion or listen to whoever you want, but I can tell you my experience has been consistently terrible and hasn't improved by any meaningful amount over the last 18 months.

adoxyz··on Ask HN: What happens to new versions of acqui-killed startups?
All the time.
adoxyz··on xAI
I've had access to FSD Beta since like the very first version. It hasn't made any significant progress to be honest. It still does the dumbest most unsafe things at the absolute worst time. In super ideal conditions it may be ok, but for the most part, I don't even try to use it anymore.
adoxyz··on xAI
I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.
adoxyz··on Elon Musk's Jet
The Streisand effect.
adoxyz··on Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months
Even before owning an EV, whenever I would do a road trip, I would rent a car/SUV. it gave me a piece of mind. I wasn't putting 100s of miles on my car. It was much easier.

A road trip is an outlier for me. I go on maybe 1-3/yr. The other 360 days, my driving is local, and with home charging I never worry about filling up.

adoxyz··on Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months
Which is exactly what the poster above said. Buy car for 99% of use cases and hire out for the outlier.

EVs are perfect if you road trip once or twice a year. If you’re road tripping every weekend then they may not be a good solution for you.

adoxyz··on Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?
I can't believe Google hasn't sent any information to Domains users so far. All I've learned about this has come from Twitter, HN, etc. Google Domains website doesn't mention the sale at all. Seems sketchy af.
adoxyz··on The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
I don't think anyone thinks AWS pricing is justified and in fact many complain about it, but AWS is a behemoth and if you want to reach your customers, you're going to spend money with them.

With AWS you get charged on consumption only. If you consume 10GB of bandwidth, you get charged $0.20. With ISP's you pay $80-120 upfront for 1TB whether you use 10gb or 500gb, and then an extra $50 for unlimited on top of that. Why offer 1Gbps service, if your customers are not supposed to use it and would max out the data cap within a day of actually making use of the 1Gbps service?

adoxyz··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
Honestly so many Amazon items are literally Aliexpress drop shipped items. For most results when you get a random brand name like XYZKA, DKSJD, etc. if you search for that product on Ali, you'll find it at 1/5th the cost and it's literally the same exact item.
adoxyz··on The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
Data caps are the biggest rip off and just a way for ISPs to extract extra revenue from customers that don't have a choices. I live in a newer community that has 2 providers that offer 1Gbps service. Neither has a data cap.

My parents live 5 minutes away in a slightly older community that only has 1 high speed provider, and another provider that maxes out at 15Mbps. They have a data cap of 1TB/month, despite the ISP offering 1Gbps service. They then offer Unlimited Data for an extra $50/month.

Consuming 1TB/month is pretty easy to do if you do any gaming/streaming. Most games these days easily consume 50-100GB to download and install.

adoxyz··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
I am both. It's still a frustrating experience and eventually shareholders will be negatively impacted.
adoxyz··on FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
The whole Amazon.com experience has been getting worse and worse as the years go by. Everything from the products they sell, quality control, customer service, dark patterns in the UI, etc.

I wonder how long until you have to call someone or mail in a 1,000 word letter on why you don't need Prime to cancel it.

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