Simon Buerger

802 posts

Simon Buerger

Simon Buerger

@simonbuerger

Dad of twin boys. Head of Engineering at Bluegrass Digital. Opinions my own

Cape Town, South Africa Beigetreten Kasım 2010
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Kristen Ruby
Kristen Ruby@sparklingruby·
@levelsio Literally everyone hates 5.0. 4.0 was so much better it’s not even funny. I pay almost $230 a month for Sam to rip 4.0 away from me without warning? I am done!
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@levelsio
@levelsio@levelsio·
Aahh let me get back to 4o, I don't like 5 🤬
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Adan
Adan@durreadan01·
After spending some time with iOS 26, iOS 18 feels so weird now. 😳 Just look at those notifications. They look too basic and outdated.
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@DazMSmith @Arfness I don't think I've ever interacted with this idiot on here but seems I'm also blocked 🤷‍♂️
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Daz
Daz@DazMSmith·
@Arfness Now why on earth would Survé block me? Couldn’t possibly be for calling him out on disinformation and fibs. Nah. Must be some mistake.
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Andrew Fraser
Andrew Fraser@Arfness·
Is this the same investigation team that is looking for the decuplets? I'm guessing that there was no update yesterday. Because disinformation doesn't need follow through.
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@nikillinit Yeah full millennial here and haven't carried a wallet in a long time... Keep a couple of emergency notes and my drivers licence tucked in the phone cover and that's it
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Nikhil Krishnan
Nikhil Krishnan@nikillinit·
Saw a Reddit thread recently which asked how gen-z people can identify if someone is a millennial or not and one of the top responses was “They have a wallet”
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@MandlaNotyawa @sthembete I imagine CC will have to decide that. I can't imagine them deciding to allow NA to be held to ransom by a minority party though...
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Mandla-Onke Notyawa
Mandla-Onke Notyawa@MandlaNotyawa·
@sthembete The question then becomes when is parliament is constituted? Is it when members are sworn in, or when the results are declared?
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@mouse_math @crymeariver6666 No, but it might give your constantly bombarded brain a break to try and see the everyday good in the people around you. It really isn't a bad idea. I think I might try it too at some point...
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little grey mouse 🐭
little grey mouse 🐭@mouse_math·
i'm depressed. it's not garden variety "is this all there is?" it's the horror at what we've become, and the certainty of worse to come.
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@GinaMeintjes @MarkSham @Our_DA Voting for a party doesn't mean they shouldn't try and be better. I hate this "overwhelming mandate" talk. People will vote for a party they disagree with in many ways because there are just no good alternatives... DA is a grudge vote for many.
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Mark Sham
Mark Sham@MarkSham·
Some advice to @Our_DA. If you do manage to form some kind of coalition with the ANC, now would be a really good time to tighten up your tone and language. You are not some national saviour and the future of this country doesn't hinge on you "rescuing" us. A bit more tact and humility would go a long way as you continue the journey of being "public servants". The ANC seem to have accepted their fate with dignity and humility, so now would be a good time for you to drop your smug tone and play ball for the greater good of all South Africans. Whether you like it or not, a lot of people in this country perceive you to be arrogant and disconnected from the average South African lived experience. You can either moan and complain about being "judged by a different standard" or you can just acknowledge that this is somewhat induced by your own actions. I'm sharing this with you as a passionate South African that wants to see this country fulfil its true potential. I am not a DA hater and I think you do many things well, but humbling yourself in patches and listening to people's criticism has not been your strong point. I know you will say that if you bow down to everyone's opinion then you will never be able to pick a direction to run in, and I get that, but there's some common denominator points that people are making about you on all ends that you refuse to listen to. Finally, I really hope you and the ANC can figure out a way to take this country forward. We need economic growth more than anything. We need government to create the necessary conditions for the private sector to grow. We also need government to keep capitalism in check. Ultimately, we need government to be a referee on the pitch without being a player on the field. South Africa needs the many politicians to put this country first. Best of luck, I think you're all going to need it.
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RichieRich
RichieRich@0xRichieRich·
@MKBHD Same this was the hardest captcha i got
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Marques Brownlee
Marques Brownlee@MKBHD·
Some of these CAPTCHAs got me thinking I might be a robot
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@feedthejim Is revalidation improved/changed at all? Even with the debug flag it's a bit of a black box as to what's happening
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Jimmy Lai
Jimmy Lai@feedthejim·
Next 15 headline: "caching is hard." 👀 The release is happening very soon and there are three changes that I'm really really excited about. ◆ no more fetch caching by default ✅ ◆ no more client caching by default ✅ ◆ no more static GET routes by default ✅
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@sportsandcraft @deedydas I mean both gdb and sama quote tweeted and heaped praise on the (Indian) guy who led GPT4o development in the last 24 hours right here on this exact platform and people are having a hard time guessing?
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Ezio
Ezio@sportsandcraft·
@deedydas he led 4o? is he brockman? cap
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Deedy
Deedy@deedydas·
It’s crazy that a small group of Indians that play cricket casually in SF has - the guy who led GPT-4o one of Elon’s former right hand men at X an MD at a multi-billion venture firm a founder of a ~billion dollar company All under 35 and we hardly talk about work.
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Riley Goodside
Riley Goodside@goodside·
Teaching ChatGPT to “think silently” by hiding planning, chain-of-thought, or other intermediate writing in interpreted Python code blocks as comments or strings. Text remains visible to the model (and the user, by clicking to view code) without cluttering the chat dialog.
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Steven Tey
Steven Tey@steventey·
Just caught wind of two incredibly exciting @vercel / @nextjs features that are landing in the coming weeks 👀 Drop your guesses in the comments 👇
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Lapras IRL
Lapras IRL@LaprasIRL·
@johnvmcdonnell @SharpeMartha There's not even a car ferry. Driving the Pan-American Highway on the same vehicle means shipping it from Panama to Colombia and traveling separately to pick it up. I think the real answer is Cape Town to Magadan, nearly the full length of Africa + Asia.
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Martha
Martha@SharpeMartha·
Longest drivable road in the world. Who’s gonna do it?
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@mattpocockuk Yeah this seems like not worth anyone's time to continually agonize over...
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Wes Bos
Wes Bos@wesbos·
@brettdusek it's actually going OK so far.. also data-pp
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Wes Bos
Wes Bos@wesbos·
Diving into writing a Paypal checkout. pray 4 me So far their docs disable copying _any_ text - including code snippets.. 17 times
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@NevenaSofranic To answer my own question I suppose advice and therapy are two very different things
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Simon Buerger
Simon Buerger@simonbuerger·
@NevenaSofranic I certainly don't think these things should be marketed as therapy tools - but in a lot of cases asking advice from an AI chatbot might be better than their normal "therapist" aka "Phil the bartender"? *As long as the AI caveats that its advice might be just as shite as Phil's
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