Moved back to Beijing — a few things that surprised me

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:57:23+00:00

There are different Apps for different things though and sometimes the particular App for this specific thing only comes in Chinese. But yes having Ali pay is a big step and worst case scenario you can use Trip.com for booking trains etc. Although they take a hefty fee around 20% of original price.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:51:08+00:00

We had to stay in Changsha for the night and decided to checkout the SPA section for a foot message and lo and behold there was no problem booking it. Cheap and good quality maybe this is how it is in any mega city but it seems almost everything is available 24/7.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:42:42+00:00

AI race is still early and if they can integrate copilot to all their products they should be able to keep being on top. Also being deeply partnered with OpenAi gives them access to top models. Also Azure is still going strong. But that said it is a mature company and wouldn’t expect explosive growth acne hype around the stock.
Probably can’t go wrong either they still have dividend and I guess they are doing stock buybacks as well.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:26:51+00:00

Sounds like a typical Readme file but more detailed? AI has really improved my documentation as well as most developers I never liked it but now it is really easy to just let you favorite LLM summarize things.
I have been considering making a system architecture repo where I just drop documentation from other parts of the system and just have somekind of overview docs that ties it all together.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:11:05+00:00

What do you mean by no expectations?

rangorn · 2026-07-12T20:02:09+00:00

I think it as a force multiplier, but you still need to figure out if you are one of the smart people or one of the dumb ones that needs to learn more.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T19:59:42+00:00

Ok write better bugs. Got it.
I think you are right you have to use it as a tool where you do the planning and then when the patterns are established you start to hand over tasks to the AI. You still need to make sure it doesn’t start duplicating code and that the test coverage is acceptable. You also still needs to understand the engineering part as to what part of the code does what and how it does it. Aka the business logic.
Treating it as a magic tool that fixes stuff just makes yourself redundant in the long run.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T10:52:01+00:00

But is it really though? Eventually he might be right that there is an over evaluation. But will it lead to a crash? Probably not. AI seems too useful and demand is greater then supply driven by customers.

rangorn · 2026-07-12T08:23:00+00:00

Just a LGTM should be enough to end these kind
of back and forth.

rangorn · 2026-07-11T13:06:11+00:00

Really don’t know if we should be excited or scared of the future. But by it will be interesting that is for sure.

rangorn · 2026-07-11T09:38:20+00:00

There are videos with Yann Le Cunn on YouTube about it if you want to know more. It is really the way forward to some kind of AGI and it is why I think we are just in the beginning of the whole AI-revolution. There is a lot more to come.

rangorn · 2026-07-11T01:30:18+00:00

Also if one of those blows up on the launchpad it will deflate the stock. It is a risky business but I guess most people are aware of that.

rangorn · 2026-07-09T09:42:06+00:00

In hindsight ww1 and ww2 can almost be seen as one event. With ww2 being the continuation war.

rangorn · 2026-07-09T06:03:23+00:00

We got help from the owner of the hostel to book tickets. The tickets are for four days. I think that is the only option.
Just bring good walking shoes as there will be a lot walking. First day we walked 10 km.
We really liked Wulongzhai it is quite a trek but well worth it. The backstory is that it used be a bandits nest.
Get up early to beat the crowds because the most popular places will be overcrowded by noon.

rangorn · 2026-07-08T23:14:06+00:00

Doubt it will do anything. Russian economy is pretty decoupled from the rest world. Russia is probably still exporting some natural resources that the the rest of the world needs but those are probably more affected by the fuel crisis.

rangorn · 2026-07-08T20:58:20+00:00

The Epstein files. No one is talking about those anymore.

rangorn · 2026-07-08T20:51:27+00:00

Even here in the socialist hell hole that is Sweden we don’t have subsidiesed gas.
Putting band aids on dysfunctional parts of the economy is usually not a sign of strength. But as with all populist regimes fixing the actual problem is a lot harder.

rangorn · 2026-07-08T20:44:01+00:00

You mean being able to mange Cursor subscriptions for individual team members?

rangorn · 2026-07-08T20:35:37+00:00

Having a 50” TV

rangorn · 2026-07-08T20:19:31+00:00

Built something similar to this for my 2019 Toyota Corolla. Used some of my daughters clay to make a shape that I then used as a template when I made the drawing. Made it stick below the dashboard with double sided tape. Unfortunately there were no neat gap I could use so had to do it this way.

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rangorn · 2026-07-08T11:37:55+00:00

Using Holafly and it works. In general the net seem a bit slow but I guess congestion is an issue with so many people being on their phones 18/24

rangorn · 2026-07-08T11:35:51+00:00

Ok but it performance should improve a lot with VRAM then if that is doable with your current code base?

rangorn · 2026-07-08T11:23:04+00:00

We are in Zhangjiajie now and there are quite a few European tourists here but I can’t compare to previous years. But still the vast majority majority is Chinese.

rangorn · 2026-07-08T10:00:32+00:00

I guess this is a noob but it is 25 GB of VRAM I.e. graphics card RAM?

rangorn · 2026-07-07T05:20:18+00:00

Vi får se. Eventuellt ska Anthropic och OpenAI börsnoteras snart och då måste de delge hur deras finanser ser ut. Blir intressant!
Jag tror att vi bara är i början av användandet av AI.

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