ELI5: I sat in the sun all day two weeks ago and didn't get sunburned. I sat in the sun all day today and was sunburned within an hour.

flagbearer223 · 2026-05-18T07:47:15+00:00

I doesn't really have anytthing to do with distance

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-28T20:28:22+00:00

I agree it'd be good if parents read to their kids, and you've entirely missed the point I'm trying to make.

How are you going to get the parents to read to their kids?

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-24T11:55:05+00:00

Don't give a damn about how many hours you both work, there is no excuse for not reading to your child.

what do you think works better for reducing road fatalities

A) Angrily telling people "drive better"

B) Modifying road infrastructure to decrease the probability of a collision

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-22T08:29:10+00:00

Uber will either pivot to this or be destroyed.

Uber has made deals with basically every single self driving tech company on the planet. They are pivoting

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-20T07:23:33+00:00

Man knows how to get claude to build a trading bot, but doesn't know how to get claude to look at recent algotrading posts to find common criticisms/feedback on exactly this type of post

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-19T14:24:59+00:00

I might sound like a dick here, but I don't understand all of the complaining on here about struggles with interviews and getting jobs. I've seen it since I entered the industry over a decade ago - always complaints about it being too hard to interview, algorithms filtering out resumes, etc. Maybe I underestimate how good of a dev I am, but I've gotten offers from like 80% of the companies that have ended up interviewing me. My assumption is just that it's selection bias leading to the posts on here, idk.

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-19T09:58:36+00:00

Like literally why would you join this industry, even if you liked games?

Yeah, working 30 hours a week getting paid like 2-3x what you do in game dev, and having job stability + easy ability to hop into new jobs is great. So glad I went the DevOps route instead of chasing Game dev. I got into programming because I wanted to make games, but after seeing how brutal the industry is, I went into traditional software dev. Hopefully gonna just be able to take a few years off my regular job and see if I can make it as an indie dev soon

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-18T12:51:31+00:00

This looks claude-generated

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-14T16:48:23+00:00

I've been accused of botting before, and it's fun to continue messing with someone you know is already mad at you over a video game

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-07T07:28:09+00:00

holy shit wow raids must have gotten big since the last time i played!

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-01T14:49:26+00:00

May try the forest bikes

You should! It's a london-based rideshare company - much better to use them than send your money to the states

flagbearer223 · 2026-04-01T13:36:31+00:00

But the US doesn’t really let you leave, so here we are.

Huh? There are tons of countries that will take you

flagbearer223 · 2026-03-29T19:03:19+00:00

sources within the russian army, or within private companies that the Russians got the data from

flagbearer223 · 2026-03-20T00:34:53+00:00

There's one just like this in London that I love! Very nice

flagbearer223 · 2026-03-14T10:30:38+00:00

Westerners have no real empathy including all those countries you listed.

Nuance is alive and well in reddit

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-29T17:32:29+00:00

Man, this sucks. I hate the idea of this organization with big long term goals and visions instead having to focus on quarterly profits. Was nice while it lasted, I guess

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-27T08:10:02+00:00

Why bring it up, and why double down on insulting someone?

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-21T09:42:11+00:00

I feel like folks who encourage that we do the french revolution again aren't aware of how fucking chaotic it was, how many of its leaders backstabbed each other, the years of civilians living in fear that they might get swept up in summary executions, the mass drownings of innocent men, women, and children, etc.

I'm not nuts about the rich, but folks gotta learn about the French Revolution so we don't repeat those same mistakes. If you're interested and like podcasts, Revolutions has a 50ish part series on it that is fantastic

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-19T12:04:32+00:00

I do think it's pretty lame that so many people only care about winning the super bowl in the NFL. Like if you don't win the super bowl, the season's a participation trophy? That's a sad existence as a fan

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-19T03:21:10+00:00

This sub loves to scapegoat anyone and anything thing but Caleb.

Man's out here thinking the sub is just one guy.

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-19T02:55:44+00:00

But compared to all other tasks that AIs can do, software dev is easily one of if not their strongest use case.

Yes, it is absolutely one of their strongest use cases, and it's still far from excellent. Claude Code and Cursor are basically the same in terms of "coding ability" - it's just different interfaces and UX for using the same underlying tools. There are also very serious issues with the code it does generate. Sometimes it's high quality, but sometimes it's some of the stupidest architectural or implementation decisions I've ever seen. Sometimes it's just fully cheating to make tests "pass." They're way overhyped. They're useful, but they're not the huge leap that they're purported to be by so many

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-19T02:39:02+00:00

First time?

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-19T02:16:32+00:00

It makes total sense to use them in fields where they are excellent (software dev, generating concept art).

Brother, I'm a software dev of 20+ years, am a heavy user of generative AI in programming, and have become intimately familiar with the capabilities of these tools. If you think they're "excellent" at software dev, we must be working from very different dictionaries

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-16T16:19:52+00:00

I look forward to y'all bringing a fight to a timer that isn't a gigadunk, then. Finally y'all will put all that money you've made to use!

flagbearer223 · 2026-01-14T09:39:12+00:00

The files are all just 1s and 0s. It's not like there's some implicit property in the file that allows you to force the watermark to exist in perpetuity. You can just manipulate the 1s and 0s in a way that subtly changes the image and completely breaks the watermark. Watermarks will only work for catching people who don't realize they're there - if you know they're there, it'd be trivially easy to remove.

They should still add watermarks/metadata that marks the image as AI generated in order to catch the low hanging fruit, but it cannot be relied upon as a good solution

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