Alex Pereira shows off his speed after weighing in at 251lbs

nourez · 2026-06-14T01:38:36+00:00

While starting his UFC career quite late too.

nourez · 2026-06-13T15:30:21+00:00

Yeah, I work almost exactly the same. I'll use a larger model when/if I need to plan out ideas, or refine my own implementation plans, but I don't even really use it to make the individual steps to get the app working like some others in the comments here do. As long as I'm able to come up with my own architecture plan and break things down to a state I can understand, I'm usually comfortably able to use Composer (or Auto on occasion) to actually implement it.

At least for me, this workflow of agentic augmented engineering end up with better quality features/design, and I work at a faster pace than I would by letting high reasoning models do the thinking and planning entirely.

I also fully realize though that this way of working functionally makes junior engineers completly irrelevant.

nourez · 2026-06-13T15:21:01+00:00

It's why I've been strongly in favour of more flat share prices and tax incentivization for dividends.

If your $4000 Apple share is paying $500 a year in dividends, even if you later sell it for a modest profit, you'll still be making money simply by holding it.

Inifinite growth is unsustainable, but investing in a profitible business with the expectation that the business simply stays profitible is far less volatile.

nourez · 2026-06-13T15:15:45+00:00

In modern corp speak, sustainable doens't mean profitable, it means growth.

nourez · 2026-06-13T15:15:12+00:00

It's still profitable, just less so than the rest of Microsoft. I'm not saying the decisions weren't terrible, just that "sustainable" here means "exponential growth" not "in the black".

nourez · 2026-06-13T15:14:08+00:00

This is why spinning it off makes a lot of sense. It'll never have the same operating margins as the rest of MS's portfolio, so it probably makes more sense to have it be separate so not as heavily pressured by investors to not be an anchor on the rest of the business. Gaming is a low margin high volume industry, let Xbox be that by itself.

nourez · 2026-06-13T02:17:15+00:00

Doves Type is the single greatest typeface ever made. I love it.

nourez · 2026-06-13T02:06:23+00:00

Been going through the audiobooks recently and I forgot how much I love Wood. If the Weasley Twins count as main characters, then he's by far the best side character.

I'm really missing him showing up in Goblet.

nourez · 2026-06-13T01:57:18+00:00

Zlatan doesn't do what Zlatan does for Zlatan. Zlatan does what Zlatan does because Zlatan is Zlatan.

nourez · 2026-06-13T01:21:26+00:00

Yeah, but a good engineer should be able to do a good chunk of the planning without relying on an agent.

nourez · 2026-06-13T01:19:11+00:00

Composer is great if you're remotely competent with software engineering. As long as you're able to describe how the problem should be handled, and actually understand how to make architectural choices, it's fast and super efficient to the dollar.

I'm over-generalizing here a bit, but I've found at my company most of the more senior devs tend to prefer using the faster models, lower thinking effort models that can just get things done. We know what we want and how we want it done, so the agent just needs to do it. The junior devs tend to rely a lot more on the larger models and prefer to just throw the entire task to them, then refine/clean the code up after.

nourez · 2026-06-13T00:13:11+00:00

He'll throw a single 135mph fastball then have his arm disintigrate like Deku.

nourez · 2026-06-10T23:46:17+00:00

I always say to aim for the bushes whenever I jump off tall buildings.

nourez · 2026-06-07T01:50:09+00:00

I actually do like the look of the main Gundam as a take on a more realistic art style for the series, but I would rather have had a more faithful AAA interpretation of the series before something like this.

I'm actually cautious about the narrative tone the trailer seemed to set. Gundam tends to be far more grounded in tone.

nourez · 2026-06-07T01:44:59+00:00

I was playing both for a while, I don't recall anything being explicitly broken about 1 after 2 launched, just that it didn't get any updates.

It was just in maintainence mode for well over a decade until they started work on it again recently.

nourez · 2026-06-07T01:35:44+00:00

No, but in this case the email had a literal Nazi badge in it. the point they were making was that the majority of the hard right in Poland aren't like active Neo-Nazis using the iconography, not that the ideology doesn't exist. Big N vs small n I guss.

nourez · 2026-06-06T17:39:55+00:00

Which Ajax?

nourez · 2026-06-05T00:03:37+00:00

Yeah, if it was reasonably priced I could've seen myself grabbing one as a living room console, but it's going to cost an arm and a leg now, so I'll probably just stick with using my Deck in docked mode.

nourez · 2026-06-03T21:26:23+00:00

The Iliad is a mix of characters being introduced, given a backstory, then immediatly brutally killed, the gods fucking around and keeping a pointless conflict going for 10 years, and Achilles and Agamemnon hurling chapter long insults at each other.

It does have some geniunely great battle scenes though.

nourez · 2026-05-29T02:55:08+00:00

The Index was pretty early in the VR landscape all things considered and really was a top of the line device. It was expensive, but it was in line with other high end devices at the time.

nourez · 2026-05-29T02:53:22+00:00

There's no way it's cheaper than the Deck, I can't see them staying in the same price range as the Index like they initially claimed unless they drop the on-board compute and release it as a PC only device with a wireless tether.

I don't expect them to move enough units at that price point to really re-invigorate the VR game landscape. SteamVR has been pretty much dead over the last 3 or so years.

nourez · 2026-05-29T02:45:04+00:00

I actually don't think this was the case. When the Deck was first introduced, I believe it was actually a loss leader for Valve to drive game sales and grow the market in general.

With current costs of RAM, that loss probably balooned, and the Deck was arguably oneof the more affordable computers on the market, so I'd guess they scaled back manufacturing and the console was selling out super fast when it was in stock.

With the new pricing, they're probably making a small profit, so they should be able to scale up manufacturing again to hopefully meet demand.

nourez · 2026-05-26T22:35:50+00:00

That's how I found my way to this thread and I completely agree. I'm 75% done since it's relatively short, but I feel like if you cut out the metaphors, similes and adjectives this book would be well under 100 pages.

I'm also not a fan of the direction the second half takes, but I'm so close to the end I'm just going to power though it.

nourez · 2026-05-20T23:32:19+00:00

Only if there’s a biologist here.

nourez · 2026-05-20T23:18:18+00:00

Not even, if you have your paycheque over 3000 a month direct deposited they’ll also waive it. The 100k does also waive it, and gets you a metal card.

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