So that’s 10 mins round trip. How many times a week, plus the time it takes to pick and checkout.

I mean, I'm walking past it anyway on my way to the office or to the bus stop.

Right we are all different. I don’t want to bother time with walking inside and picking things out. I would rather spend time with my family. All those minutes add up. Some enjoy it, others find value in that time spent, some of us like myself don’t.

At least for me. I buy fresh food via online ordering because I hate wasting time these days. Driving even to a nearby store takes 10mins round trip. Then having to walk through the store and fine what I need and checkout. I would much rather order online and get it delivered. Produce can still be a gamble, pickers have no incentive to pick the best produce but for the average meal, that’s fine.

We have mapped the planet, yet no grocery has a freaking map to find what you need.

That's intentional. Grocery stores are laid out to encourage you to spend more.

Like almost everything people complain about nowadays, this is not a tech problem, has never been a tech problem, and cannot be fixed with tech.

Third parties with tech could fix it.

Is this a US thing?

I think here in France the best example is Lidl. The stores are laid out the same, so not only your usual store doesn't change, but you can go to any store in the country and find what you want at the same spot.

Personally, with self-checkout, I spend less than 15mn in the store to do a week of groceries.

Not sure if it is just a US thing but it to add a little more depth. Most stores as already stated want you to wander a bit to possibly purchase more things but the other piece is most stores custom to local preferences both on what they carry and where it’s located.

Thought differently most major chains capture all of this data and can optimize stores for sales.

I think the bigger complaint is a typical US grocery store carries an insane amount of SKUs. If I was just going to Trader Joe’s it’s no problem. Low sku count layouts never change. Walmart has probably 10x the skus and it’s a struggle sometimes just finding what you want. Oh I need dry dill, well in the spice section there are 3 or 4 brands. Within those sometimes it’s not in alphabetical order. Things are misplaced or just out of stock.

When I was a kid, 30 years ago, some grocery stores did have an aisle guide printed on the cart. I haven't seen one recently, but they at least did exist.

That’s mostly my problem. Some of the apps have locations, often I find things not there. But for most stores they want you to wander and shop.

Though I don't like shopping at Walmart, I still have to (no store in my area, even "supercenters," has everything I need), and their phone app is absolutely stellar at telling me where a particular product is. Especially handy where there's no staff on the floor (as often happens).

People always warn about this but don’t understand it. It’s like saying be careful driving your car, you may get in a wreck. Or hey be careful don’t eat undercooked meat.

There are so few cases of this annually and as someone who lives in Asia and has eaten a lot of rice I think the warning is overblown.

Agreed; I'm not clear at all how real the threat is.

The pathogenic bacteria can survive boiling: bad for us.

Infections seem rare: better.

Counterpoint anecdata: I had Giardia once, and that's a month I never want to repeat. Ever. (survives boiling; isn't super common)

My father almost died from old rice and my brother got seriously sick and hospitalized from another old sitting starchy something.

So it seems very real for me.

classic chubbyemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnSYfv6bCA

please. don't take unnecessary risks with food...

in most cases it's not like "not getting involved in an accident". there are things you can do to avoid egregious cases.

I think this is a good way to put it and I agree with it. Linus is a jerk and I would never want to work with him. Doubly so with zig maintainers who call other groups of people losers or monkeys. Shows a clear lack of maturity and ability to think.

Eh. Linus has a long history of abusive behavior towards other Linux contributors but also apparently apologized for it and started amending his ways. The Zig person I do not know by reputation, let alone in person. One post that he later chose to amend based on feedback is not enough for me to pass that kind of judgement. If anything, the fact that he updated it shows the opposite of lack of maturity. Adults can get frustrated. What they do with it is what matters.

Adults don’t call people losers or monkeys in social media. I am not passing judgement, it is simply not acceptable.

Really? You can’t think of any circumstances when it would be appropriate?

More to the point, if someone does it once and then stops, should we exclude this person from society forever?

Remember that only the Siths deal in absolutes.

Zero clue what your point is so please help me understand.

I was agreeing with your stance and adding my own anecdote that it’s a turnoff with the way those posts were originally formatted. Not people I would want to work with. If you do that’s fine. This is not star wars and simply my own choice as it’s everyone else.

I also cannot think of a time in my adult life I wanted to call out a group of people as losers or monkeys i n public.

My point is that Linus and the Zig guy are in different categories in my mind. I think it is a bit naive to lump them into the same category.

I would definitely classify the tiki torch wielding white nationalists as losers publicly, for example. In fact I have a hard time thinking of a better term for them. It could also apply to the fairly famous liar and criminal, the disgraced Congressman George Santos. Or any person who decides to flash kids at a playground, or beats his wife and children.

I think the Zig guy was a little over-dramatic with his initial post. He did change his mind, so in my book that's better than not. Linus did too, just after many years of bad behavior. My point is that your replies were painting the world with only black and white and there is a lot of gray area in between. Sometimes public shame is a valid way to do discourse. Often times it isn't. But it's not a "always" or "never" thing.

I did not realize we were lumping Microsoft engineers alongside white nationalists and pedos. Sure folks like that I can see people using descriptions like that.

We were not, or at least I was not.

> I also cannot think of a time in my adult life I wanted to call out a group of people as losers or monkeys i n public.

I guess that makes this your first time:

> Sure folks like that I can see people using descriptions like that.

All in all I think we generally agree that being respectful is better than being rude. And that some people who do not have respect also do not deserve respect. Shall we just leave it at that?

Then stop replying if you want to leave it at that? I have only agreed with your original statement and then you keep questioning my opinion. You are trying to pick over my words for no reason. Note I said I can see people using that language. I did not say myself. And of course why would I even think about pedos in the context of rude comments made to an unknown group of Microsoft engineers.

My opinion, I have no desire to work with people that write comments calling other engineers monkeys or losers. I have seen that behavior before and it’s not people I like to work with.

Hmm I don’t think any of the revisions are about being PC but rather not making juvenile comments. Linus has definitely made a lot of harsh inflammatory comments to others, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do and shows his character but at the same time for me at least it comes across as a smart pompous jerk who says things in the wrong way but at least usually has some kernel of a point.

The Zig comments come off has highly immature, maybe because they are comments made to unknown people, calling folks losers or monkeys just crosses some line to me. Telling someone to stfu is not great but calling groups of people monkeys feels worse.

Constraints breed innovation. Humans will continue to innovate and demand for resources will grow. it is fairly well baked into most of civilization. Will that change in the future? Perhaps but it’s not changing now.

I am a senior engineer, I use cursor a lot in my day to day. I find I can code longer and typically faster than without. Is it on par with human? It’s getting pretty darn close to be honest, I am sure the “10x” engineers of the world would disagree but it definitely has surpassed a junior engineer. We all have our anecdotes but I am inclined to believe on average there is net value.

I think surpassed is not the right word because it doesn't create/ideate. However it is incredibly resourceful. Maybe like having a jr engineer to do your bidding without thinking or growing.

Surpassed is probably the wrong word but the intent is more that it can comprehend quite complicated algorithms and patterns and apply them to your problem space. So yea it’s not a human but I don’t think saying subpar to a human is the right comparison either. In many ways it’s much better, I can run N parallel revisions and have the best implementation picked for review. This all happens in seconds.

Yes, this. Creating multiple iterations in parallel allows much more meaningful exploration of the solution space. Create a branch for each framework and try them all, compare them directly in praxis not just in theory. My brother is doing this to great effect as a solopreneur, and having the time of his life.

I use AI tools extensively. I have seen it come up with truly novel solutions.

Largely agree. Anything that is just a multi-file edit, like an interface change, it can do. Maybe not immediately, but you can have it iterate, and it doesn't eat up your attention.

It is without a doubt worth more than the 200 bucks a month I spend on it.

I will go as far as to say it has decent ideas. Vanilla ideas, but it has them. I've actually gotten it to come up with algorithms that I thought were industry secrets. Minor secrets, sure. But things that you don't just come across. I'm in the trading business, so you don't really expect a lot of public information to be in the dataset.

A lot of time vanilla ideas and established, well proven patterns are just what the customer ordered. And AI code tools are great at this now.

i'm also a senior engineer and I use codex a lot. It has reduced many of the typical coding tasks to simply writing really good AC. I still have to write good AC, but I'm starting to see the velocity change from using good AI in a smart way.

Senior engineer here as well. I would say Opus 4.5 is easily a mid-level engineer. It's a substantial improvement over Sonnet 4.5, which required a lot more hand-holding and interventions.

i think less. not sure if that's a good thing. but small little bugs and improvements get cleared so quickly now.

it surpassed 30 junior engineers

>but you have to be sticking your head in the sand if you don’t think AI will not continue to shape this industry.

Maybe ot will. I'm still waiting for the utility. Right now it's just a big hype bubble, so wake me when it pops.

It’s almost a trope. You have one one end of the spectrum people like yourself who have nothing to say but it’s a hype bubble and there is no utility. On the other end you have folks making YouTube videos that they are building 100 apps in a day using LLMs. The truth is somewhere in the middle and I think to dismiss it like yourself is missing the boat that is sailing off.

I simply have a hard time following the refusal to work on anything AI related. There is AI slop but also a lot of interesting value add products and features for existing products. I think it makes sense to be thoughtful of what to work on but I struggle with the blanket no to AI.

I'm critical of AI because of climate change. Training and casual usage of AI takes a lot of resources. The electricity demand is way too high. We have made great progress in bringing a lot of regenerative energy to the grid, but AI eats up a huge part of it, so that other sectors can't decarbonize as much.

We are still nowhere near to get climate change under control. AI is adding fuel to the fire.

My domain is games. It's a battlefield out there (pun somewhat intended). I ain't touching anything Gen-AI until we figure out what the hell is going on with regards to copyright, morality of artists, and general "not look like shit"-ness.

Sad part is I probably will still be accused of using AI. But I'll still do my best.

Ship has sailed and that won’t be figured out. There is very little chance to put the cat back into the bag.

There is absolutely AI slop out there. Many companies rushed to add AI, a glorified chat bot to their existing product, and have marketed it as AI.

There is also absolutely very tasteful products that add value using LLM and other more recent advancements.

Both can exist at the same time.

>Both can exist at the same time.

They can. But I'm not digging in a swamp to find a gold nugget. Let me know when swamp is drained. Hopefully the nugget isn't drained with it.

You just reply to all my comments with your negativity. If you cannot see it, I am sorry for you.

Don't know who you're talking about. I took a scan and see this is my only reply to you anywhere in this chaiin. If everywre you go smells.....

Try to focus on the argument next time instead of the person. Especially if you're leaving so many replies you can't keep up with. "I'm sorry for you" isn't convincing anyone and only weakinig your point.

Oh get over it. I truly dislike replies that gaslight. You replied to 3-4 of my comments with the same doom and gloom, it’s a swamp, it’s all hype. I am saying unless you having something new just stop it.