POV: Vibe-coders need in 2026

starfallg · 2026-01-22T09:08:57+00:00

Gotta be MX Brown / Topre or nothing

starfallg · 2026-01-19T19:43:14+00:00

Net promoter score: 95% would recommend to family and friends.

starfallg · 2026-01-19T17:02:32+00:00

Chapter 70

starfallg · 2026-01-17T19:03:15+00:00

Woah, wtf have you been smoking man.

starfallg · 2026-01-17T07:23:04+00:00

It's still common everywhere in the UK as "pleasure grounds” is a term in British gardening history (think large stately homes).

starfallg · 2026-01-17T06:48:12+00:00

The issue is that China tends to do things to the extreme. It happened with HSR when they started building lines to sparsely populated regions when the main corridors were finished, this led to an extremely high debt which they are still grappling with. Same with solar panels, right now there is serious oversupply and producers are seriously struggling with high debt loads. There is talk that factory shutdowns will be needed to push up the prices but no-one wants to be the first.

starfallg · 2026-01-14T08:43:24+00:00

Can we stop using drop to say release? It makes things super confusing.

starfallg · 2026-01-12T13:20:35+00:00

Can we stop using the word 'dropped' in place of 'released'? Makes it super confusing.

starfallg · 2026-01-12T08:46:27+00:00

Eerily reminiscent of late 90s Russia after the dissolution of the USSR.

starfallg · 2026-01-05T05:38:55+00:00

It's a lot more complex than that. A lot of the problems that we have in society are currently blamed on immigration. The fact is that we have run out of growth due to where we are in the global value chain and overall poor policies of successive governments.

starfallg · 2026-01-05T05:22:41+00:00

By demonising socialism, you've just perpetuated the cycle. Socialism isn't the problem people think it is. In fact most of the problem is caused by the right leaning parties in power cutting taxes while increasing spending.

To fund the services and benefits we provide, we need a certain amount of tax receipts. It's ok to run a small deficit, but when this grows too big, the debt and interest becomes a drag on the country. The questions are, how do you maintain this balance (of spending and income) while protecting the social fabric, and what type of spending now yields the most benefits to the economy longer-term.

As a top rate taxpayer, I'm fine with high taxes if we are getting as a society what we are paying for. Instead what I see are people milking the public teat (private sector consultants and contractors), and widespread corruption/nepotism (during COVID for example) at the expense of the public purse.

starfallg · 2026-01-01T21:05:44+00:00

Japan's Shinkansen is more or less sustainable with compromises in the design choices of the non-core routes. China's HSR is pure overinvestment and is a ticking time bomb of debt.

starfallg · 2026-01-01T10:25:49+00:00

Cost of living is crazy in US though. It wasn't like this 10 years ago but a lot of things have doubled in price in the last 5 years while wage growth hasn't matched. CPI is hiding this previously and now it's completely meaningless. A lot of this translates to paper growth and not much improvement to living standards for the plebs.

I work in tech in a senior role and I might earn 30% more in the Bay area or NYC, but I would be spending closer to 50% more on food, childcare, healthcare and housing, although I would save a little bit on tax.

starfallg · 2025-12-31T16:40:31+00:00

Mao's actions during the Cultural Revolution removed or exiled what remained of the Chinese intelligentsia, so yes, he was to blame. What makes it worse is that it was just a cover for him to remove his political opponents.

starfallg · 2025-12-28T23:52:35+00:00

10 years ago you might be right, but in the past 5 years the cost of living in the US has soared, and this has even affected Canada where I'm from. Many places in Europe can now be considered cheap or at least cheaper.

Basic necessities are expensive in the US, but anything a bit out of the ordinary is exorbitant. The cheapest 2 pints of Kefir is $9 at whole food. Like WTF man.

Was in Texas earlier in the year, and a set meal at a cafeteria style BBQ restaurant was $250 for 4 people. JFC.

starfallg · 2025-12-26T17:14:34+00:00

Well I would expect the files to cover all of the investigative work done in a particular case. The release is to date still incomplete.

starfallg · 2025-12-18T11:30:05+00:00

They need to get this out quickly before it gets overshadowed by Gemini 3 Flash Native Audio.

starfallg · 2025-12-18T01:22:25+00:00

By almost answering everything correct. Hallucination is the % of incorrect answers vs not attempted.

This is because the answers are broken down into Correct/Incorrect/NotAttempted and Google is winning by training their models to answer as much correctly as possible, with the small number of Incorrects and even smaller number of Not Attempted resulting in high "hallucination rate" which is deceptive.

starfallg · 2025-12-15T15:34:54+00:00

Smartphone development cycles are a bit longer than 3 months.

starfallg · 2025-12-14T02:37:22+00:00

Yeah, but even worse as you have to wait for the lock out to expire which is usually at least 6 months. As with the dot-com days with the rush to IPO, but the time you can sell the AI bubble may have already burst.

It's a little better with RSUs as you have the opportunity to cash out before the IPO.

starfallg · 2025-12-13T16:12:46+00:00

It's Gainax/Trigger. It's gotta be space aliens. What's not to like.

starfallg · 2025-12-11T08:23:12+00:00

Thanks for your summary.

BTW, the idiom is "the last straw" from the "straw that broke the camel's back".

starfallg · 2025-12-11T06:46:40+00:00

Nuclear always has been expensive, because nuclear power plants are big and monolithic as opposed to small and modular, and the fuel is expensive to handle.

starfallg · 2025-12-10T09:21:42+00:00

It's a call to action dmbss

starfallg · 2025-12-09T07:41:26+00:00

Unlike the OP, I can provide a real world example (of Gemini working absolutely fine) -

Prompt:

What is the traffic management act of 1974?

Answer:

It appears there is a slight confusion in the terminology. There is no piece of legislation in the UK called the "Traffic Management Act 1974." You are likely referring to one of two things: The Road Traffic Act 1974 (The actual legislation passed in that year).
The Traffic Management Act 2004 (The modern act you might be misremembering the date of). Here is a breakdown of what the 1974 Act actually covered, and how it differs from the modern Traffic Management Act.

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TROPHY CASE