Stefano Lanzavecchia

Married geek father

[Kamen Rider Jay @VersaceVegeta_]

I’ll never forgive them for fucking up our tech future for data centers.

We were THIS close to $100 4TB SSDs

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

It takes one bad study to create a scientific myth.
And decades of good science to try to kill it.

Let me tell you about two papers that changed the way millions of people think about science. 🧵1/

[Phil Eaton @eatonphil]

no. 1 on hacker news: stop using ai generated images (for your blog)

for companies: hire a freelance illustrator! if The Consensus can afford this, you can too!

for developers: well, please, just don't use ai images

[Stefano Lanzavecchia @wildy2k]

@thesephist Color blindness is real, affects a large percentage of the world population and AFAIK there's no safe colour scheme which is safe for all the kinds of colour blindness. Hence the only safe option is black and white

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

After GPUs and memory, demand for CPUs is now way up. Some reports predict a demand growth of over 30% on a yearly basis.

Good for Intel, ARM...

For those of us who love computers, this means higher costs in the short term. As a gamer, I worry about the next PlayStation. Will it be horribly expensive?

However, this should drive more innovation and production all around. It looks like we are headed to a new state where compute will be far more abundant.

[Stefano Lanzavecchia @wildy2k]

In tutte le spiagge italiane da anni è vietato fumare. Senza eccezioni. Da 12 giorni in Sardegna e non sono ancora stato in una spiaggia pubblica senza che qualcuno fumasse almeno una volta. Ignoranza della legge o menefreghismo?

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source ;) https://t.co/krDwy4YP22

[Video Game Nostalgia @GameStalgiaX]

Can you relate?

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

When I started programming in 1999, you just opened an editor and started writing code.

No dependencies to install, no environment conflicts, no readme with 47 steps before you could run hello world.

Somewhere between then and now, we added so much ceremony around coding that engineers now spend 70% of their productive time doing everything but coding. Setting up environments, waiting for builds, resolving conflicts, etc.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

I talked about this on the standup podcast yesterday, but I'll reiterate here: if you're losing sleep because you need to keep feeding the agents STOP, I promise it's not worth it. You got caught in a [prompt -> reward] dopamine cycle and you're addicted to the feeling of the token slot machine. It's not your fault, but you need to escape before it grinds you into a pulp and you can't look at a computer for a month (this was me). If you can break out of it and spend some more time offline, or find other healthy sources of dopamine in hobbies/etc, you'll start to realize just how warped your perception was and that the thing you were chasing wasn't actually productive.

[Stefano Lanzavecchia @wildy2k]

@chdb_io I can only imagine the glorious day when people like me whose customer's base is 100% Windows based (yes, even server side... Not that it matters given that chDB is supposed to run client side) will be able to leverage this ...

[Thomas Klemenc @thomasklemenc]

The time has come.

TaskSlinger launches into open beta today at 15:00 UTC.

A faster, cleaner task manager replacement for Windows, built from scratch for people who care about performance.

Get the free beta: https://t.co/pOVuGotRAK

[Stefano Lanzavecchia @wildy2k]

@glcst I see, I see

[Stefano Lanzavecchia @wildy2k]

Same. But 54.

[ハセン حسن @hasen_95dx]

@2sush I am 40 and I don't think I "feel" internally any different from when I was 20. I watched videos of very old people who still feel the same as when they were young, except they look in the mirror and see an old person.

[opdroid1234 @opdroid1234]

@steveruizok i cant tell you how much it bothers me that having superior hardware is a flex now. started off only being able to afford only very modest hardware so have always had a thing for writing code on under powered hardware which then runs well everywhere.

[Steve Ruiz @steveruizok]

It does bother me that it costs money to code now

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

If a developer says:
I’ll fix it in 1 hour.

Just believe them.

No need to send a follow-up in every 3 hours.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> make post questioning ai validity
> ai bros appear
> "You're just not creative enough"

I shouldn't have to invent problems to use AI.