Common sense suggests that living creatures are likely not boiling when they have a mild fever.

i am not a paleontologist and there have been many extremely weird living creatures over the time earth has been around.

and as the sibling comment mentions, i am primed for science articles to be metric.

I’m metric all the way, but if it would use metric, it still should unambiguously state: C

indeed! my "common sense" is to always state the units you're working with, no matter how obvious you think it is.

at least, that was the concept was drilled into me throughout all my schooling. perhaps that has changed in the last few decades.

Common sense also suggests using the SI units that ~95% of the planet uses, but here we are.

This is what I told my chemistry teacher in high school when he marked me down for not including units, too.

I know nothing about dinosaurs, so if you had told me that their blood was 97°C then I would've believed you

Common sense would be using metric units in science-related article.

Americans don't use Celsius when talking about their body temperatures, and that's who the audience is.

Americans don't use Celsius for anything except scientists talking with other scientists.

A lot of monitoring software defaults to displaying hardware temperatures in Celsius regardless of the locale, and I've gotten so accustomed to knowing what a reasonable temperature is for different components that I personally never change the display units.

that hasn't been my experience. Its widely used in engineering and has been for decades.

Ya, I think engineering falls under the umbrella of “scientists talking to other scientists”

For use cases like this, how is the LLM different from a Google search?

It isn't, but the history of profitable software has been repackaging the same data in different UIs.

well, I'm assuming you mean for this part I had said:

> had help from LLMs enough to find different options that are either free or cheaper.

as one example, I would have to do multiple google searches to build a secure network around a replacement tool I built for 1password, but the LLM was able to walk me through everything (even though I'd never had dedicated training around security). google searches are great for 1-off questions, but have the LLM walk you through something or have it do it for you.

btw, I'm using claude code in all this

> I would have to do multiple google searches to build a secure network around a replacement tool I built for 1password

I hope that isn't implying you're hosting a vibecoded password manager. Because that would be a horrible idea. If you selfhost a password manager, it's much better to use something that is reputable and tested against like Vaultwarden.

Even if you have it say, in a Tailnet that only your machines can get into, that just means someone has to compromise one of your machines.

How does 1password get replaced with a Google search? I assume he built his own 1password system...

Bitwarden is free and in my experience does a better job than 1 password. Tho he could have vibecoded his own 1-password, I would be a bit careful doing that though

yeah I agree, bitwarden is really good, but since I'm the only one who uses it I didn't need all the features of it and just vibecoded my own, though I made sure it was secure (I'm a software engineer so knew what to secure). definitely wouldn't recommend anyone do that though if they don't know what they're doing

I assume this person heard about keepass [0] and accesses it from multiple devices with a dropbox or icloud style service. Or doesn't access it from multiple devices. I just synchronize my password database on a slow cadence or as needed.

[0] https://keepass.info/