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bromuk··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
Same! Ready to send random samples from Sheffield
bromuk··on Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
Feels like a single shot from an AI agent, pretty horrible and buggy
bromuk··on Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
On the flip side, I work with colleagues that would ask before using an LLM / do some quick research on the web.
bromuk··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
How times change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
bromuk··on London Mayor Blocks Palantir
I think a good consideration here is how would the outcry be if it was a Chinese company being woven into governmental and national health systems.
bromuk··on Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
huge if true
bromuk··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
I mean the US have nukes and they’re hardly stable and predictable.

Allow them to have nukes, who are you lol

bromuk··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
As a European citizen I hope it becomes law to have this data processed in the EU rather than the US.
bromuk··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Really great investigation, what's the URL of the "vibe coded" site with the access links?
bromuk··on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
Username checks out
bromuk··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
saas are really owning themselves by pulling crap like this.

I work in education sector, over the last year or so multiple saas providers have pulled this, we've inevitably gone in house, self hosted, open source. Saved tonnes of money and have bought skills back in house.

bromuk··on How well do coding agents use your library?
Was this vibe coded itself? Just wondering cause the login screen had this warning

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bromuk··on Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?
Spend about 20% of my salary on (varies depending on month) - Eating out - Video games - PC Parts - Joint account with partner

Impact of life; is that I'm not miserable. (I was obsessive about not spending early on in my career and got really bad depression, i.e. working really hard, not allowing myself to enjoy the fruits of my labor)

Things I'd like todo if I had more money are: - Travel to see family abroad - Tidy up the nitpicky things in my house that bother me - A car with more doors (3 door at the moment)

My philosophy is to have enough saved for a rainy day, then excess goes to pension / investments and then provide myself with a small amount of ££ for myself (And research the hell out of the thing I'm buying)

bromuk··on Manufactured consensus on x.com
Interesting
bromuk··on Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
What’s the windows equivalent?
bromuk··on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Dissapointed that buck bumble wasn’t mentioned.
bromuk··on Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
Pretty much correct, I received a fake razer mouse that I ordered last month.

Luckily it was a direct replacement for the same one I purchased > 3 years ago so could compare.

Amazon provided no way to report the counterfeit and when talking to their support just wanted me to return it as fault. No doubt this will go back into the supply chain and someone unbeknownst to counterfeits will receive it.

bromuk··on How we communicate
Love the idea of daily “what have you done today”. I did this in a few of my previous roles, and it kept the team accountable for their work.

We don’t do it in my current job and it means; weeks or months of someone being on the same task.

bromuk··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
404s and heartbreaks https://support.spotify.com/us/404/
bromuk··on Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions
ooh, love it. Would be great to have some installation information within the repo for people who aren't savvy at enabling dev mode in chrome extensions
bromuk··on Just Use jQuery
Or just use vanilla JS
bromuk··on SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Fail?

So much success, the fact that it got off the ground and is providing tonnes of data to ground control.

Agile rocket building ftw.

bromuk··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
Funny how Cities: Skylines 2 got announced after I’d commented on this earlier
bromuk··on SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
Such a shame, I was very excited for this game and though hated it I did enjoy the graphic style, it looked great. (What a palava with the "online" simulation that was found out to be faked)

Cities Skylines really put a nail in the coffin of SimCity for me, the huge playable area, no faux online requirement, realistic cim routines and the amazing mod support (I've only used the steam workshop)

Now Colossal Order just need to make a sequel with more in depth mechanics akin to some of the mod tools made available (traffic management, I'm looking at you), also I don't know much about the Unity Engine but making the sequel more efficient on multicore CPU's is a must.

bromuk··on Gmail spam is out of control
I don't suggest trying outlook if you're troubled by spam. Gmail seems to do a lotter better in prevention in my case.
bromuk··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
Agree with them, however I think true black #000000 is useful in this day and age on OLED devices. Having something fade in to the bezel of the device is a nice design statement.
bromuk··on Nvidia’s hot adapter for the GeForce RTX 4090 with a built-in breaking point
EVGA breaking away from working with NVIDIA was a warning sign of things to come.
bromuk··on Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (1991)
Did anyone else get taught Eiffel (by Bertrand) when they were at University? Such a cool little language for teaching object oriented paradigms. I think multiple inheritance was it's selling point, never seen it in industry though lol.