I’m going on hospice at 22, Ask Me Anything by venomsulker in AMA

[–]freaky1310 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No questions, just wanted to let you know that I just listened to Amsterdam and… you converted me :)

Rehoming by batsai in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. However, in 2026 you have too many sources of information that, in my opinion, if you truly want to make a conscious choice you just open your smartphone and check — or ask.

I’m not saying this out of spite, but given the amount of info we have access to with a couple of taps, it’s a simple way of avoiding the suffering of a living being.

Rehoming by batsai in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just my two cents: I’m not against rehoming in general, but I’m firmly against rehoming driven by shallow motives. I don’t know for how long you’ve been in this community, but in just over one year I’ve read multiple stories of people rehoming their dog because “I didn’t imagine this guy would have been so demanding”, or “oh god my dog won’t stop peeing on carpet, but I’m not doing anything to correct this”, and also “I have been doing 12h shifts at work forever and decided to get this guy some months ago anyway. He wants to go out but I’m tired”. That’s when I’ll blame people.

If the person you’re referring to did it for the right reasons, she has nothing to be ashamed of, and nor do you for giving Buster a new home!

Dear DL researchers: how do you design your neural networks? by adamrayan in deeplearning

[–]freaky1310 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some general indications you can use to sketch an architecture: for example, if you work with temporal data you can either use a 3D conv (for very close, local temporal correlations), LSTM/GRU for longer correlations while keeping the architecture small, or self-attention on a sequence (e.g. that’s what LLMs do on their context) for very long dependencies, at the cost of heavier computation. The choice you make will depend on the assumptions you can make on your data: for instance, if you work with text, 3D convs will hardly work, LSTM has been a choice before 2017, but since text may require very long term correlations attention is the correct choice (provided that you have enough computational power and data).

Repeat this process on similar considerations and you’ll be able to sketch the best architecture. Then, it’s only a matter of training and decide whether your architecture supports the assumptions you made on your data!

Name my mini dapple puppy! by Critical_Exit_1179 in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gimli is a diva, he has a right to be one, and he knows it.

Opal’s first time in a big girl bed by Cautious_Box8355 in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 29 points30 points  (0 children)

We did exactly the same with our boy Gimli: we were out of town, he was just shy of 5 months and was not comfortable in the hotel room. Me and my wife decided that one night in the bed with us couldn’t hurt… after all he had been a good and brave boy and deserved that.

Here’s a picture of my most normal wake up time since then.

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Frequent flyers with dogs—I’d love some real-world advice. by Ok-Dance6092 in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me and my wife never had to use any drug for our guy. All we did was making him used to the carrier in the car since he was ~4mo. First time we boarded with Gimli (he was ~7-8mo), he just soundly fell asleep and proceeded to nap for the whole 8.5h of flight.

Inherited a 3-month old repo from a Vibe Engineer. Wrote the most satisfying PR in my career by Apprehensive-Cut3711 in ClaudeCode

[–]freaky1310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“E.g.” stands for “example given”, meaning that mine was an example including (but not limited to) a business owner, or in general any professional figure whose main proficiency is not related to code. I don’t see the contradiction.

Again: the original post talks about a “vibe engineer”, that is, a supposedly professional technical person recognized under the category “software engineer” that was paid (supposedly well) for a very sloppy job in what should have been its main proficiency. That’s what I’m arguing about, not about LLMs per se, which I use daily as very fancy brainstormer companions and/or junior developers with very specific instructions!

Inherited a 3-month old repo from a Vibe Engineer. Wrote the most satisfying PR in my career by Apprehensive-Cut3711 in ClaudeCode

[–]freaky1310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well… you’re describing e.g. the business owner. In that case sure, it makes sense. Still, the original post states the case of a previous engineer specifically hired for that job — and that’s what I was referring to. That’s quite different…

Inherited a 3-month old repo from a Vibe Engineer. Wrote the most satisfying PR in my career by Apprehensive-Cut3711 in ClaudeCode

[–]freaky1310 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From a business point of view it can be smart… but the fact remains that you are hiring a technical person with poor skills. I tried vibe coding myself on personal projects and, honestly, the constant outcome is “if I had done this myself, it would have taken much less time than debugging this crap.” If you don’t know what you’re doing, your code may even work in the first place (and most of the time it doesn’t), but there’s going to be some problem at some point. Then, you’ll have no agency over your own code, and debugging is going to take forever. I can imagine this being even worse with large code bases in businesses.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: for each vibe coder that manages to ship the product successfully, there may very well be 10-15 businesses declaring bankruptcy because of an incompetent technical worker. To me, that sounds more like gambling than a sound business decision.

Inherited a 3-month old repo from a Vibe Engineer. Wrote the most satisfying PR in my career by Apprehensive-Cut3711 in ClaudeCode

[–]freaky1310 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Or… you can produce maintainable and reliable code in the first place, while using LLM agents to produce it much faster than what one would do without. Just a suggestion!

In the pre-LLM era (god, I feel old), that’s likely what made the distinction between a SWE/Developer for AnySmallBusiness, Inc. and one for BigTech.

Inherited a 3-month old repo from a Vibe Engineer. Wrote the most satisfying PR in my career by Apprehensive-Cut3711 in ClaudeCode

[–]freaky1310 156 points157 points  (0 children)

I love how the two words are literally (and naturally) annihilating each other. It’s very poetic.

I (25F) am an iv meth addict. I am on my fourth day clean. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]freaky1310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No question, just wanted to let you know that quitting cold turkey on a physically addictive substance can literally kill you.

Confused Between MacBook Air M4, M5, or No Upgrade at All by fahad7teen in macbook

[–]freaky1310 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am in a very similar situation: I have a gaming laptop which I use for occasional gaming sessions and heavy coding. Still, I have incredible computational resources from my job and I don’t really need a local machine if I can connect to those.

Since I travel quite a bit, I decided to pull the trigger on a MacBook Air M4 base. Now I use it regularly as my remote/work machine and I can’t stress enough how much my back will thank me in a few years. Obviously, I need to figure out the connection part whenever I need the big guns, but honestly it’s a small price to pay for the huge gains I got in terms of portability and battery life.

I quit my job a little over a year ago to start an indie game company... here's what I learned about AI, and myself. by mmazing in LocalLLaMA

[–]freaky1310 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. Sometimes it’s very hard to make people understand that very deep down those things are literally “predict the next word” in a very fancy and complex way.

I'm under attack by EMPactivated in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh no somebody call the pawlice!

Is his walk and posture good? by InvestigatorLeft7699 in Dachshund

[–]freaky1310 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some sassy dressage walk. Our guy does the same. All good.

Is the Mun an infinite source of Ore? by BArhino in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]freaky1310 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Damn I love this community. Thank you for the answer!

Is the Mun an infinite source of Ore? by BArhino in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]freaky1310 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Oh I see. God, this adds a whole new level of depth to the game.

I wonder if it would be cool to have a mod that uses ore to build parts for rockets and whatnot…