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bob_theslob646··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
What's the typical response time for Gemini compared to other models?
bob_theslob646··on Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
What happens in the age of self driving cars?
bob_theslob646··on I Learned to Read Again
This is a great question. I would love to know the answer to this as well. +1
bob_theslob646··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
>In this case, even using the least robust form of MFA that Instagram offers — a one-time code sent via SMS — likely would have blocked the exploit: The hackers who released the video on Telegram said their exploit failed to work against any accounts that had MFA enabled.

Why would they not have this set up?

bob_theslob646··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Can you link to this?
bob_theslob646··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
The real question, is how many colleges in the United States actually proctor their in person exams?
bob_theslob646··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
My pleasure! How does someone support someone going through cancer? I would especially like to know how to best support someone upon initial diagnosis. It seems like you have an amazing support system and I would like to be that for someone.
bob_theslob646··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Here is a video if you want more detail.

https://forum.openai.com/public/videos/event-replay-from-ter...

"Event Replay: From Terminal to Turnaround: How GitLab’s Co-Founder Leveraged ChatGPT in His Cancer Fight"

bob_theslob646··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
It's mentioned in the slide deck on the url linked. I highly recommend clicking through all the slides. It's absolutely one of the most fascinating decks I've come across. His sheer will to want live is impressive and inspiring.
bob_theslob646··on Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
Thanks for sharing this. I just donated. Been using them for many many years.
bob_theslob646··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Have you ever considered using a knowledge graph?
bob_theslob646··on The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming
Apparently it's controversial

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1g2l3wc/bo...

bob_theslob646··on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
>Why we as a society should give a fuck if someone can’t stop prompting?

It is not prompting, it is the constant feeling that you always have to be "on."

bob_theslob646··on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
Throw in the fact that clawdbot can work 24/7.

It reminds me of why people wanted financial markets to be 24/7.

We as a society should probably take a look at that otherwise it may lead to burnout in a not so small percentage of people

bob_theslob646··on The Waymo World Model
Is that exactly true though? Can you give a reference for that?
bob_theslob646··on Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
Please forgive me for my ignorance, but are there currently any ways of being able to write data down at that speed? I see 2026 PCIe 5.0 NVMe advertising theoretical 14gb/s but not sure how feasible even that is.
bob_theslob646··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
> I had many friends who worked on Amazon Go, so it's a bit sad to see that work come to an end.

What did they do?

bob_theslob646··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
How does bluefin compare to Linux Mint? I ask because I always thought mint was Linux for babies.
bob_theslob646··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.

bob_theslob646··on Wolfram Compute Services
They do
bob_theslob646··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
>A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

Why would someone need this? How do you use this?

bob_theslob646··on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
How do you get home if you do not have transit? What is the typical cost of a cab then?
bob_theslob646··on Maybe you’re not trying
>I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves

Thank you for taking the time to type this up. I would be extremely interested in any sort of research around this and may add( maybe others face the same ) that's incredibly difficult to introspect yourself and solve problems for yourself as easily as you can for others.

bob_theslob646··on Reasoning models reason well, until they don't
Why 40kb?
bob_theslob646··on Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers
>And if you’re dead set against Apple devices, you should check out the web version of Hacktivate – it’s not as powerful or as fun, but it’s entirely web-based and free!)
bob_theslob646··on Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
This is a great question
bob_theslob646··on Toxic Fumes Are Leaking into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers
Is there any easy way to book flights that displays the plane model information?
bob_theslob646··on Toxic Fumes Are Leaking into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers
Is there any simple way to detect the presence of this while aboard?
bob_theslob646··on Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables
How hard is it to write in swift?
bob_theslob646··on GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning
Do the problems you highlighted still appear with higher quality training data?
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