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  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • I don’t understand why so many of my fellow citizens wouldn’t want this

    I guess we sort of have some, in that if you’re on Medicaid or on one of the exchanges, you get subsidized coverage based on your income

    But higher income people don’t pay more, plus I imagine that at some point you have enough income that you wouldn’t need health insurance….. and people wonder why our system is so expensive

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  • My college kids do everything through cloud services, so it shouldn’t really matter what their device is.

    • One of them has a Mac and is just finishing his first year with no problems, so I would expect a neo to be no different.
    • My older kid jumps among an iPad in class, his laptop when necessary, and his gaming rig in his dorm, and has had no issues

    On the other hand, my niece has very specific requirements for her major, so there will always be a few specialties

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • we pay national insurance, a fixed percentage of income

    With no limits? One of the many problems with the us system is we don’t do this.

  • Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog

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  • My company is working on one such product. So far AI has essentially no guardrails so can too easily go from potentially helpful to harmful. There’s nothing keeping it from sharing confidential data, like customer data, nothing looking at whatever dreck it’s pulling in from the internet, and nothing keeping it from doing harm internally. We can do that.

    But most of the more immediate harm is poor practices that we’ve known for decades. Maybe consultants can make bank by pushing best practices we should have followed all along. That article that keeps coming around Lemmy about losing their production database and backup in 9 seconds is a great example. Sure, that LLM needed guardrails to stop that, but any normal best practices would also have prevented that

    I’ve seen some baby steps

    • LLMs with “planning” mode that shouldn’t make changes until approved ….. except when they ignore that
    • IDEs with sandbox where you need to whitelist allowed LLM invocations, except there’s too much noise so too many people allow all
    • MCP servers with a read-only mode, or allowing configuring credentials to be read-only

  • Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog

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  • I know of some companies where they write up a full spec in markup, and have the ai code from that. They claim it works well, but that seems like extra work.

    Personally, most of my coding is maintenance and AI sucks at that. I can get the ai to give me good recommendation, but not usable code. I have had it do a good job writing utility scripts such as data extraction, and tests - it can even save me time

    So if you have a greenfield project, and are able to give it sufficient context, people claim it can work …… I’m highly doubtful it’s maintainable though, and maintenance cost is far higher than the cost of initial creation. I really think these companies are digging a hole for themselves

    Of course I’m taking advantage of this

    • scheduling extra refactoring on the claim that maybe AI can be useful with cleaner code
    • fun and games to give AI more context, in case that can make it useful

  • What are some software red flags?

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  • I bet they checked in the binary. Git is really poor with binaries since it can’t really diff them. And the worst part is gradle should never have the binary in the source tree

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • That’s ambitious: I like it. I was thinking just plain, like white rice

  • Deconstructed the $9 quinoa shaker from my local organic grocery and made it myself for $3.50. This is going to be my staple for a while.

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  • Does it work well In a rice maker or is it convenient to boil like pasta?

    I recently had sprouted buckwheat that turned out really well in the rice maker (although it took too long - I might have had too much water). However my grocery no longer carries it so ….. Farro seems like an interesting one to try

  • Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar”

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  • Really? Huh, i always assumed you had to point it correctly so could only do it from arms length. I guess that’s what I get for not taking the scientific approach of a few trials, LoL

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  • There is nothing you’re gaining an advantage of, when slapping a screen on any appliance and relying on some unsupported app

    Hah, my smart range has physical knobs for most controls!

    …. And has a stupid app that alerts my phone at work when the cleaners clean the stovetop

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    US government pays $900 million to exit wind projects

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  • They’re actively paying money to switch to a more costly energy source. We pay more in taxes just to pay more in our electricity bills

  • Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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  • Not copy-paste. Let the ai do it for you. …… else how would we get these entertaining stories of idiots letting ai delete their production database

  • To End ‘New Gilded Age,’ House Progressives Unveil Bill to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $25 Per Hour

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  • No reason it has to be only one. Both is the correct answer

  • 60 Countries to Meet on Phasing Out Fossil Fuels but Are Excluding the U.S.

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  • Perhaps this is a challenge goal to help reestablish international trust once we start recovering from our current national mental breakdown

    Is it too much to dream that even after jumping on board late, we reach the finish line while helping support our fellow nations across?

  • The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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  • Before ai, my company’s misguided kpi was the number of merge requests

    At least that one worked well for me since I’m generally making many small changes to an existing code base

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • Yeah, even before its ceo came out of the closet as Nazi- after growing to a successful car business they got distracted by new and shiny

    But I still think their cars are better technology than anything else in the us, and now cheaper than most. They still have their big upcoming push into semis. They still have most superchargers. They still have a rapidly growing storage business. The cybertruck flop really hurt them and I don’t see how they can afford another.

    But ai doesn’t really have a profitably business model yet and humanoid robots are a much bigger gamble with no market yet. This is where a more typical business owner would create new corporate entities so Tesla could become a successful car company while the ceo could try other gambles

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  • Damn! We’d fit perfectly (ok, on the edges), if only I was in good physical condition /s

    But seriously I totally agree, where I previously strongly preferred someone near to my age, that no longer seems as relevant.

    • a short term thing would be purely physical. I wouldn’t be too picky
    • a relationship would have to be about as active as me, similar interests, etc. one of the challenges is compatible sex drive and that gets harder with age

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    - probably consider 40-60 but would be suspicious of the ulterior motives of the younger ones

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • Ah yes, the single issue person coming to move the goalposts

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • Targeted temporary tariffs work best when you’re trying to develop an industry to catch up, such as Biden’s EV tax incentives to more quickly grow a larger market, infrastructure spending to speed buildout of chargers, manufacturing incentives to help legacy automakers transition, and a years long transition that manufacturers could plan around.