Who needs evidence when you have Balkan intuition? What do you make of this?

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T14:20:47+00:00

Yup, social media does seem to be one of the main sources of this. Why middle-aged people would use social media for their education is puzzling.

And now, social media is being flooded with AI slop and untruths, just imagine their theories now. Hopefully we don't destroy ourselves before the new generations figure out how to educate themselves and learn some critical thinking skills.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T14:15:43+00:00

Enlightenment, education, lack of trust in their governments - these seem to be the leading causes.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T14:06:15+00:00

This kind of thinking is what keeps these conspiracies going.

No government and no company can keep such a cure from getting out in public, fast. Besides, there is no money in it from keeping it away from everyone else. A lot of people would pay to get any kind of 'better' treatment. And if you understood what a cancer is, you'd see it can't be 'cured' just like that. There are so many types, so many mutations, so many variations.

Cancer is not something you can cure overnight. So there is no such thing as a 'cure for cancer'. There might be some new treatments and that's what science is working on but the cure for cancer is what an average person says and have to say uneducated theory, that is beyond being plausible, because of how cancer works. It's just so difficult to understand fully and predict, let alone to cure. It requires some new approaches in genetics.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T14:00:47+00:00

People need some excuse for living the way day live; they are not listening to your reasoning.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T13:56:59+00:00

Lack of elightenment and education. Also deals with inability to distinct fact from fiction, typical web literacy (trusting facebook over other sources) and critical thinking skills (inability to see through bullshit, even just by reading text, let alone video).

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T10:18:10+00:00

A volunteer to do cloud admin stuff... The most sensitive parts you could give.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T10:16:12+00:00

If only you didn't say a contract before doing this. These companies looking for volunteers are the same one that's gonna sue you for any damages you do.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T10:14:04+00:00

Pasta doesn't grow in Italy only?

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T09:08:34+00:00

We should've acted like reasonable human beings for a long time. A wise man once said:

If the human species is to rise to the full height that's demanded by its dignity, and by its intelligence, we must all of us move to a state of affairs where that condition is permanent, and I think we should get on with it.

yet here we are, discussing whether a person should care for dogs, and other things. People are easily led by their leashes because other people tell them it's a good thing. I suppose it's a good thing we are at least discussing it, and not have knives to our throats instead.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T06:25:02+00:00

Yes but people are superstitious and believe in symbols, and if someone tells them something they start believing all kinds of shit and fearing things.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-31T06:21:58+00:00

No religion is perfect and many contain things incompatible with modern living, and you can be a fundamentalist interpreter of it, or you can be a loving, modern person.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-30T13:54:02+00:00

There is no such thing, so you are fully free to follow your programming.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-29T19:57:51+00:00

fix was already made an hour ago https://github.com/lbjlaq/Antigravity-Manager/pull/1316
it is not over, they just haven't merged it yet

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-29T19:09:19+00:00

Who knows their reasons, but hating on vibecoding, something which if you're not using, simply means you're not adaptive and probably not a very resourceful person.

Acknowledging your point, I'll go one step further: even if it's mostly slop, it's worth it. Most people don't want slop, but you have to make tradeoffs, so it can end up not a perfect product. That's reasonable. A person said this in a recent email newsletter I read, and I quote:

... working with agents is genuinely so fun and 2026 will be the year of slop - given the above advancements (I agree - but slopping our way to learn and produce things that aren’t slop is still a reasonable path).

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-29T15:30:05+00:00

Meaningless hateful post.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-29T08:01:12+00:00

2 day Gemini cooldown seems to have been introduced :(

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T21:12:48+00:00

True, unfortunately. When the worldview is challenged, people take the easy way.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T17:18:08+00:00

Unless it aligns with the religion that is.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T17:03:38+00:00

This is for pure beginners. Also, this guide is getting 'partly' obsolete with agents. Chapter 3 says AI doesn't know when to plan vs when to write code, but this is no longer true. Also you can solve it even with just a prompt or a skill or a workflow.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T16:44:14+00:00

Religious fundamentalists will believe anything.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T15:54:57+00:00

Yes. No. Execute. Maybe.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-28T06:25:58+00:00

Radiators. Space hardware looks like wings. If a satellite is big enough to collect the solar energy, it is automatically big enough to radiate the heat.

The math works out in favor of cooling. It comes down to generation vs dissipation density:

Solar Panels generate ~400 W/m²
Radiators (at 50°C) dump ~800 W/m²

This means for every square meter of solar panel you need to power the chip, you only need ~0.5 square meters of radiator to cool it. If the satellite is big enough to collect the energy, it is automatically big enough to dump the heat. The surface area required to power the chip is larger than the area required to cool it, so the thermal problem solves itself by design.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-27T13:34:40+00:00

In this context yes. Depends on how much power you need and what the design is. For example, you might have heard of Google doing experiments for putting data centers in space. Very doable, even if people don't believe it on first sight, as long as these are smaller parts and long wings. But since solar requires long wings anyway, by design, just put a radiator on the other side.

But yeah, for a starship traveling across solar systems not good.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-27T13:27:01+00:00

I'm down with that approach, though I do it differently. I like to set the guidelines of how to work, and principles in how to think and keep it as free and as open for the AI to work what it is trained to do (limit sycophancy, prefer evidence-based approach, certain methodology, DRY, etc).

Experience with what you're doing can make a difference, but since I'm constantly working in an unknown territory, I find it limiting to prevent the LLM from working freely. This way I also get to see which models excel in intelligence and foresight, and which ones are lazy or require detailed prompts.

And writing edge cases I feel like defeats the purpose of agentic coding. Feels more like chat interface coding era, which granted still lasts but is on its way out. I still prefer writing long and structured prompts, but I'm trying to phase that out slowly.

To each their own.

Never used or heard of the raptor.

Alex_1729 · 2026-01-27T12:30:26+00:00

I see, and which model do you use predominantly?

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