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zadkey··on Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can't explain it six months later
Seems like a skill issue. You could have had it create documentation along the way. The idea that prompts can't be versioned or iterated is patently false. Anything in the repo can be versioned.
zadkey··on Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump
Everything I've ready points to the same.
zadkey··on Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
yeah there needs to be a corresponding increment improvement in model archetecture.
zadkey··on Opus 4.6 is getting BAD [video]
Claude 4.6 has likely become a distilled version of it's former self.
zadkey··on A lot of population numbers are fake
I don't trust China's population numbers at all. Officially before the one child policy they were at 800 million. After 30 years of 1 child policy somehow they were at 1.2 billion. The math isn't mathing. How do you have explosive population growth when birth control is brutally enforced?

The official fertility rates for that period was 1.3. For reference: 2.1 is the replacement rate.

If anything their total population went down during one child policy.

zadkey··on Ask HN: Should I open source my video game?
Thank you for that. That's great advice.
zadkey··on Ask HN: Should I open source my video game?
Honestly, I'm not really sure.

I assume regret. Perhaps someone else will take it and finish it release it on steam and make bank. Who knows.

Part of the reason of asking the question is I was hoping to hear from other people who have done something similar so they can share their experience and feelings on the matter.

zadkey··on Show HN: Torque – A lightweight meta-assembler for any processor
Excellent work man! I know some low level guys who would really appreciate this.
zadkey··on All estimations are wrong, but none are useful
I mean saying ALL estimations are wrong is exaggeration.

As they say, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day"

This has been my experience. I don't disagree with the content of the article, really just the exaggerated title.

Every now and again we do get a 100% correct estimation. It doesn't happen often. In fact it's quite rare. But its more than never.

zadkey··on Windows debloat script made by Microsoft
I'm not sure I trust Microsoft's take on a debloat script for their own OS.

Sure it will have less stuff, but I suspect there may be some remnants purposefully left behind.

zadkey··on Some gut bacteria could make certain drugs less effective, study indicates
No surprise here.

Certain drugs rely on being chemical broken down into certain things to be absorbed. Gut bacterial help with this process.

Additionally bacteria can release their own byproducts that can function as catalysts or inhibitors.

zadkey··on US gov seized 33 Iranian state linked news sites over alleged disinformation
Is this even legal?
zadkey··on Congress introduce decriminalization bill for all drugs
Interesting idea here, but will it pass?
zadkey··on Divisive Covid ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers
Yeah I have heard both sides of the debate.

Strongest argument for lab leak seems to sourced here:

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...

zadkey··on Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
Also having sound output issues especially with a soundbar. It's kind of sad. I've decided it's better to just not use the soundbar.
zadkey··on AWS bill capping feature request thread still unanswered after 10 years
I don't think they are going to implement it. It's too juicy financially to do so. Furthermore, it's bad PR to say they aren't going to do it. So they will keep stringing us along as long as they can.

Well, that's what the incentives would suggest.

zadkey··on Software Development Outsourcing: Our Story
"They were doing great work for us but eventually, there was a business event where they left."

What the hell does "business event" mean?

zadkey··on The Parler Bans Open a New Front in the 'Free Speech' Wars
Twitter allows porn, and Parler was an alternative to twitter.
zadkey··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
I saw ruby on the github, what else is in the tech stack?
zadkey··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
Are these positions full-time or contract?
zadkey··on Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
I didn't see anything in the article that attempted to refute his claim that

"Poll watchers [were] not allowed into polling locations"

zadkey··on Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)
Its true that we (Americans) don't have a the right to free speech with a private company.

But that doesn't mean we should stop talking about it.

Clearly there is reason to believe people cannot express themselves freely enough.

When all modes of modern communication are privately owned and there are no government run equivalents it does kind limit expression.

Nowadays you are limited to where exactly that you can express yourself within your first amendment rights?

Let's see, a police station, a courthouse, a town hall meeting, and a protest.

Did I miss any?

Nothing on your smart phone that is for sure.

None of these places have reach or exposure equivalent to facebook, twitter, youtube, etc.

Change cannot come if we refuse to acknowledge the existence of a problem. We cannot bring about meaningful change by refusing to talk about an issue.

There are many ways to solve this issue, but ignoring it or saying that all is as intended is not one of them.

We must demand meaningful change from our governments.

zadkey··on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)
Wherever you are dang, we appreciate you, and want to thank you for helping make this a wonderful community.
zadkey··on A Pedometer in the Real World (2015)
In English, as long as you pedometer instead of pedo-meter you shouldn't have any misunderstandings.
zadkey··on San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses
Agreed, this is problematic if the executive is compensated primarily in stock options.
zadkey··on U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid
Capitalism isn't nor shouldn't be a system of government.

Capitalism is an economic policy.

zadkey··on Chameleons Not Seen by Scientists for Century Found in a Madagascar Hotel Garden
Maybe they were hiding.
zadkey··on Everything you need to know about windsocks
I also immediately thought of winsock.
zadkey··on Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
I can't count how many stories lately I have read where some algorithm determined that someone's google account was in violation of one of google's rules and it will not tell them what is wrong specifically, and there is essentially no hope of appeal either because that is automated as well.

And someone looses other things that seem unrelated. Do something weird or uncommon with google adsense, loose your google drive too.

Personally, I haven't experienced this kind of bs yet. But at this point, I don't want to take chances with using another google service that could suddenly shutoff with no explanation and no hope to resolve the issue and taking out who knows what else at the same time.

zadkey··on 5 Arrested, charged as illegal agents for China (Re: PRC's 'Operation Fox Hunt')
As with anything else, use your intuition, read between the lines, follow the incentives/money.

Based on the rating they give it does seem like a questionable source.

But if you want to go down that rabbit hole of who is or who isn't a questionable source based on some fact-checker you will eventually reach the question, how do we know that our fact-checker isn't biased? who funds the fact-checker, are there any political motivations over-ruling journalistic integrity, etc. And then eventually you arrive at a fact-checker that fact-checks other fact-checkers. And you can keep going down that rabbit hole forever or you can learn to use your intuition.

I will also say this: Even a broken clock is right twice per day.

And in the same vein, Even a questionable source can write an article based on facts every now and then.

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