balls187's comments

On: Vibe coding is mad depressing

[balls187]

> but not technical enough to understand the nuances and the implications of their suggestions.

That isn't unique to "clients." It's human nature. Human's don't know what they don't know.

See: various exploits since computers were a thing.

On: Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

[balls187]

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E16/277226

LOL

On: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

[balls187]

I picked a really great time to give up PC Gaming for writing.

On: Google Antigravity

[balls187]

Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but the demo video included pasting and API key into the chat window.

That seems bad.

On: iPhone Pocket

[balls187]

Not for me.

But my partner is a fashion designer and was just this morning working through studying 3D knitting technique.

So I wonder if this will lead to more 3D knitted products.

On: Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump

[balls187]

> must everything about it be judged entirely on the last twelve months of one guys mania?

Yes, unfortunately.

Build a thousand bridges...

On: Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

[balls187]

>That is the real issue.

No. Trusting AI is clearly the issue.

If there was a 9-1-1 call to the police that there was an active shooter at your kids school, how would you want the police to show up?

On: Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

[balls187]

> “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,”

Fuck you.

On: 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

[balls187]

I don’t recall the exact details but our peds encouraged us to feed our kid Bambas.

It was based on a study done in Israel that found Israeli kids were less likely to develop peanut allergies.

[davchana → balls187]

Exactly. In north India, in winters everybody eats peanuts brittle, sesame seed roasted jaggery balls. Kids, elders, youngs. Very rare to hear peanut or nuts allergies.

On: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

[balls187]

> It took me so long to realise this is what's important in enterprise. Uptime isn't important, being able to blame someone else is what's important.

Yes.

What is important is having a Contractual SLA that is defensible. Acts of God are defensible. And now major cloud infrastructure outtages are too.