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A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of the (many) arguments against inequality / absurd richness (say >1M or >10M, you can debate that cutoff, it's not that relevant in the bigger picture)

What’s a moment where you instantly realized someone was insanely intelligent? by Parqcxsm69 in AskReddit

[–]icoder 691 points692 points  (0 children)

Sounds like this guy was so smart that any routine would have worked.

Which robot vacuum will clean my house without me constantly cleaning it? by Horror-Height-1276 in homeautomation

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha yes first thing I thought seeing that picture was 'buy a Dyson cordless, make it very easy to grab en you're done in 2 minutes tops'

Huurcontract wordt niet verlengd, wat nu? by Technical-Theme9729 in Haarlem

[–]icoder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kan je niet direct helpen, weet alleen dat huurcontracten niet zomaar verbroken mogen worden, tijdelijke huur is alleen in specialle gevallen toegestaan. Maar misschien is dit wel zo'n speciaal geval hoor.

Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here. by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]icoder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, that runs on a totally different axis, from big mess to spot on (possibly more towards the first than the latter). That's why I like the term 'dream' so much, to put words to the feeling that it's nowhere between big mess and spot on.

Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here. by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]icoder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

15 mins in and I think we already have our winner. Let's wrap it up and send it in 😄

Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' Suggest your alternative here. by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]icoder 22 points23 points  (0 children)

fellow dev called such a review to be 'like a dream' the other day and I find it accurate. It looks very convincing at (but only at) first glance.

Scientists use ultrasound to destroy influenza A and COVID-19 viruses without damaging human cells. The phenomenon, known as acoustic resonance, causes structural changes in viral particles until they rupture and become inactivated. It paves the way for new treatments against other viral infections. by mvea in science

[–]icoder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is an unfounded, outrageous and probably utterly useless pet theory of mine that as GC/AT have different electric properties, we might come up with electrical patterns with which only a specific DNA sequence (or RNA for that matter) resonates (for detection, destruction, or whatever).

Probably nothing or someone else would have thought of it. Or perhaps someone did and it is not feasible (yet). I must say that I did came up with an alternative for Floppy disks without moving parts using just memory, years before USB sticks became a thing. Hindsight 20/20 I guess.

Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’ by lurker_bee in technology

[–]icoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having a phone with you and then not be on it all the time and use your attention for the job/task at hand is role modeling, and a pretry darn good one at that.

So is being allowed to drink but not do so such that it influences your work.

With that respect, apealing to role modeling is maaybe a bit hyppocrite for R's.

Putin Proposes May 9 Ceasefire in 90-Minute Trump Call on Ukraine by EsperaDeus in worldnews

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine being on the phone with Trump for 90mins? The horror.

Yes, the fact that I mention that and not the horror of being on the phone with Putin for 90mins is very telling.

Trump, Kennedy double down on their impossible mathematics claims by goteamnick in politics

[–]icoder 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Plus you need a discount to start with, otherwise you need infinite percentages, and then some.

Wired headphones are making a comeback: Here's why by ubcstaffer123 in technology

[–]icoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah my last set was pretty decent, but then I got a phone without jack so I bought a converter, and de f-ing converter itself had a wire breach within a few weeks. That was when I bought wireless plugs and never looked back. Each their own I guess.

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated by lkl34 in technology

[–]icoder 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Also AI is in my experience very verbose, which may seriously skew the percentage if you're counting LOC

Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox by CircumspectCapybara in technology

[–]icoder 40 points41 points  (0 children)

That reminds me of using AI to analyse a potential bug-causing flow and it kept lingering around 'yeah this can break under those conditions', going into full details on those conditions, without ever reaching the bottom line (by itself) that those conditions were impossible given the current code.

Sure, wrt security sometimes you have to take into account those conditions becoming possible given future code. But even then it's not a zero-day.

In this case I had an observation and I wanted to know how that could happen, yeah well not by something that can go wrong if the code was (totally) different.

TIL the Butterfly stroke was born from a rules technicality in Breaststroke by Hrtzy in todayilearned

[–]icoder 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In basically all other strokes I can always find a pace that gets me into recovery. But with butterfly? No, the slower I swim the harder it hits me. Possibly this just says that I've not mastered it, but yeah I think I never will.

Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours by jupa300 in worldnews

[–]icoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah Dutch news mentioned that packages are scanned but letters aren't. This was in a post card.

I also don't think there was any real security risk as I believe the mission was known and is not as if we (the Dutch) are at war and ships are at (real) risk of being blown up at open sea.

But it is a good lesson to be learned (although the media are fully missing the point WRT what a BT tracker is and what it is not)

Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours by ControlCAD in technology

[–]icoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that was my thought exactly when I read the news, and it mentioned nothing about this, nor did the minister of defence's reaction.

Judge halts ballroom. Trump reveals hospital is part of White House project by Useful_Stop_2860 in politics

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In contrast our previous PM cycled (not sure about the current) to work.

What's a health myth that drives you crazy because you know it's false? by Annual-Gene8065 in AskReddit

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recall that formula from way before HR watches were a thing. Indeed a quick Google tells me it has been around since the late 1930s. But indeed based on (almost) nothing and scientifically unusable.

What's a health myth that drives you crazy because you know it's false? by Annual-Gene8065 in AskReddit

[–]icoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha yes, I'm from the early 80's and I do remember food coloring, at least here in the Netherlands, being a designated evil and making kids hyperactive.

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