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The most consistent issue I’m seeing with greenfield web apps is around authorization (who can see or do what)—LLM coding assistants will follow predefined authz patterns quite well, but, if not given examples, will build APIs with massive issues where anyone can do anything with other users' data.
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Broadly my answer would be *no*, not without human review, but we’re getting pretty close.
An LLM instructed to build a web app with a modern framework deployed on a fully managed app platform has comparatively few footguns available to it, particularly it encouraged to "be secure" and explain why.
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I can't go outside for fear of e-bikes.
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I think the 6 week dry spell last fall was really hard on my strawberries. Even with regular watering it was just so dry for so long they did not thrive enough to produce tons of berries.
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Flex posts are terrible. Here in Brooklyn drivers constantly park directly on top of them or intentionally drive over them. After enough of that they lose their flex, lay flat on the ground (or break off leaving a nub), making a perfect little tripping hazard or bike wheel-stopper. Waste of plastic.
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One of those story lines that always seems to repeat in American politics: Democrats assume that Republicans must have at least some basic modicum of actual principles, while Republicans assume that Democrats are just as unprincipled as they are.
Time is a flat circle etc etc
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Impeccable Vermont energy in this clip, 10/10.
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I had one professor whose main assessments were in-class, handwritten, open-book essays... they were a little stressful at the time, but in hindsight I think they were extremely effective—they required you to deeply digest all of the material in advance in a way that even 50 page papers did not.
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In many European countries where a large proportion of kids still walk themselves to school, the idea that children can have autonomy still exists. In much of the US where kids walking to school is rare, the idea requires multiple leaps of imagination to envision a world where it’s possible.
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Good Mexican food is the only thing I’ve truly craved when in Europe.
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This is so well done, I love it all.
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A lot of streets in Bologna are sort of naturally traffic calming, given they're narrow and disjointed, and Bologna also has a long history of driving restrictions + camera enforcement—they were, I believe, one of the first cities to implement a ZTL, in the 80s.
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Grading on a curveball
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Looking forward to the joy of cleaning one of these out when greasy gelatinous Thanksgiving turkey juices escape their carving board containment some day!
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I had the view from there set as my computer's desktop wallpaper for years—always good for a chuckle that it was taken from a toilet!
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My fingers know where the symbols are but, I can’t actually point to which is where on my blank keyboard without actually trying to type them.
Extremely difficult trying to, say, type a password one handed while on the phone.
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Trump has hinted at his desire to be Most Beautiful and Superb Emperor of Greatest America Forever; here’s why that might ruffle some feathers in Washington.
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There is currently no mention whatsoever of this morning’s terrible economic report on the Fox News home page.
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Crossing (in the crosswalk) at an intersection of two six-lane stroads with right-on-red and without a pedestrian-only light cycle feels like running a medieval gauntlet.
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Lasy time I had a conversation like this with someone and did this exercise, the first place I zoomed in on totally at random was a shopping center right across a 4 lane road from a bunch of houses. Nearest crosswalk was 1/2mi away. On streetview a man with a walker was shuffling across in traffic.
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The real problem becomes extremely obvious when you zoom in on random American grocery stores or pharmacies on a map and look at what the walk from houses even just 500ft away would be like. Often going to an actual crosswalk can make the trip 10x longer.
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Eating a curious mixture of cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and pastry? You would have to be unhinged.
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I was just recently thinking it was interesting NOAA was still on here posting about climate change as of a week or two ago.
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All those people saying that the $20 congestion charge for a truck with tens of thousands in merchandise on board would raise prices, when in reality those trucks often get hundreds of dollars a day in tickets because there's nowhere to load, because we save the curb space for storing private cars 🤦
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Was thinking this the other day reading this article about how St George Utah is “out of land” and needs to expand onto federal land, when really it’s all just sprawl.
bsky.app/profile/bcap...
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Americans are getting ripped off.
In Austria, an *annual* pass that gives you access to all transit and intercity trains is just $1,340. Total mobility, for $110 a month. Similar passes exist in #Germany + #Switzerland.
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Plenty of room for the bubble to burst, but much like the dot com bubble popping didn’t mean the end of the internet, the basic technology isn’t going to vanish alongside those overhyped companies. Open weight models you can run on a powerful home computer are already useful today.
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Oh man this is great—I spent a lot of time integrating SAM on a project that already also used Gemini's bounding boxes. If this tests well on the subject material it's going to let me rip out a lot of complexity.
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I eventually actually used it on one of my test devices when the project was finished, an experience of pure, intense satisfaction.
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Building my first Android app, February 2013
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Maybe falls under this provision that programs with fewer than 5 graduates/year must be eliminated? Seems...totally arbitrary?
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/20/s...
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Pump, dump, repeat