cflewis

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by cflewis 15d ago
Geminis is "it really is". The Notebook podcasters use it _constantly_.
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by cflewis 29d ago
I don't care about my career so much, but the weekend and school dropoff thing resonates hard. Work is the only part of my life where I feel any sort of competency. Anything else I'm just a ship on a stormy sea being battered arou
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by cflewis 1mo ago
Time to put in a call to Ellison.
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by cflewis 1mo ago
Drives better, isn't distracted, doesn't get lost, care are always clean, will always take you where you want to go day or night, and yeah, no human.
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by cflewis 2mo ago
It's a race to retool. If he can retool to an agentic coding environment quickly he will be OK. Might have to build up the skills outside of work if the current job doesn't allow for it, but I'm less worried about younger peo
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by cflewis 3mo ago
Yes! I was able to drink an Italian soda this week and not feel like "oh God I'm drinking my calories I'm going to be punished for this on the scales later".
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by cflewis 3mo ago
Nothing in this world is free, GLP-1s have their downsides (excluding cost). Mostly it's nausea and gastrointestinal distress side effects. These tend to cool down over time, but it'll put a ceiling on how big a dose you can toler
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by cflewis 3mo ago
Yeah, you see, this is the same thinking that leads you to say "People who are depressed should just think happier thoughts."
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by cflewis 3mo ago
This is it. I am on GLP-1 (Zepbound). I have done Weight Watchers multiple times. I'd lose the weight for a little bit, then it would come back. The reason was _I was hungry all the time_. It's not sustainable. As someone else in
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by cflewis 3mo ago
Yes, it can do. At Big Tech Company I Work At the LLM is quite happy to make raw API calls. If it thinks the data is big, then it'll write a Python tool to do it. The reason crafted backing CLIs are useful is you can guide the LLM towa
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by cflewis 3mo ago
I think having highways turned off has really hurt pickup times and availability in South Bay right now. It pays to always book as far ahead in advance as you can. There are places with construction where Waymo just seems to turn off the ro
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by cflewis 3mo ago
This is a male perspective. My wife will not ride alone in Uber's because she's had one too many uncomfortable -> possibly dangerous situations. This appears to be true for all of her friends as well.
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by cflewis 3mo ago
I switched from iPhone to Pixel after I couldn't stand Liquid Glass and found myself using Gemini more than I expected. If you're in the Google ecosystem like Gmail and Calendar, it is exceptionally refreshing to be able to use an
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by cflewis 4mo ago
I would love for this to be more public knowledge. I think the general public (and myself for a long time) believes the AI people know how this stuff works end to end, and so it must be trustworthy. But if we told the public "Look, we
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by cflewis 5mo ago
The majority of people in the world cannot complete a half marathon, let alone under two hours. I was pleased to train enough that I managed under three. You're doing great!
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by cflewis 8mo ago
I'm going to be charitable and say that the papers from prestigious universities were honest mistakes rather than paper mill university fabrications. One thing that has bothered me for a very long time is that computer science (and I a
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by cflewis 10mo ago
"only if you are Yahoo!" is one of the best line reads of all time.
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by cflewis 10mo ago
I honestly have no idea; I left academia 12 years ago now. I do know that game research continued (e.g. the conference I published that paper in continues: http://fdg2025.org/ and the workshop I started at ICSE continues on
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by cflewis 10mo ago
I'm a co-author of the first paper cited in the citations page, "Dark Patterns in the Design of Games" http://www.fdg2013.org/program/papers/paper06_zagal_etal.pdf I see at least some of the pattern
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by cflewis 10mo ago
This happens to me >70% in the Bay peninsula now.
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by cflewis 10mo ago
RDNA 3 is going to hold this machine back. DLSS is far and away better, but Nvidia's apathy towards Linux has made playing on something like Bazzite a worse experience. Nvidia has little reason to keep investing in Windows gaming drive
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by cflewis 10mo ago
I've been really happy with the TP-Link smart plugs. I keep upgrading them as The Latest Standard That's Definitely The Real One This Time Trust Us Bro comes out, and the Matter ones are excellent. Getting an instant response from
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by cflewis 1y ago
I think it's a "yes but" here. AI is the first transition point since the smartphone. Apple knows how to make hardware, and knows how to make software. I am extremely unconvinced Apple has a clue about what to do with AI. You
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by cflewis 1y ago
How does the finger thing work? What's he doing? I saw him tippy-tappy but it didn't seem like he's moving through some invisible keyboard.
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by cflewis 1y ago
Yeah, not going to lie, working at Google and having unlimited access to Gemini sure is nice (even if it has performance issues vs Claude Code… I can’t say as I can’t use it at work)
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by cflewis 1y ago
Agreed. The most unique thing I find with vibecoding is not that it presses all the keyboard buttons. That’s a big timesaver, but it’s not going to make your code “better” as it has no taste. But what it can do is think of far more possibil
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by cflewis 1y ago
I managed to get a Waymo after a big event at Intuit Dome. It found a reasonable place to pick me up a couple blocks away. I didn’t have to try calling the driver to get them to figure out where I should go to try and get around roadblocks
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by cflewis 1y ago
I’ve ridden in Ubers across Hwy 17 in Northern California and I’m pretty sure some of those drivers had never taken a non-90 degree corner in their life. More than once I semi-jokingly texted people at work that if I didn’t make the next me
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by cflewis 1y ago
I think conflating a security paper which shows something is possible to using the "exploit" to create a database 100s of GBs large and analyze it is disingenuous at best.
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by cflewis 1y ago
As usual, 404 nails it: ---- It should be noted, however, that almost no one reads end-user license agreements and many of Discord’s users are children and teenagers. Discord is, first and foremost, a platform for gamers to organize communi

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