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Yeah that checks out too. I'm basically regurgitating what I was told when working the electronics aisles at a hardware store. After reading the wiki page more thoroughly, there we…

It is indeed the conductor of choice at utility scale. It was even briefly used in place of copper wire in construction [1], though that usage was halted when safety issues emerged…

> Why would Anthropic get to dictate how someone uses a "tool" (that's literally what Claude Code is... a tool in a workflow) This is a direct conflict in framing. They clearly do …

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> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in t…

There are plenty of other more recent examples in this thread. I was simply replying to the original statement that China doesn't kill protesters in the street. The notion is so ri…

This is an especially hilarious comment given what happened in June 1989 [1]. It's the prototypical example of authoritarian crackdowns and mass slaughter of innocent protestors. D…

> This idea that there's some kind of difference between me watching you from a park bench in public and hundreds of thousands of clones of me watching you from every street corner…

Yeah, this feels like another reincarnation of the ancient "who watches the watchmen?" problem [1]. Time and time again we see that the incentives _really really_ matter when facin…

You don't have to, that's the point. EDIT: or to rephrase, this proposal is opt-in (device attests the user is a minor) not mandatory (device is required to attest the user is an a…

Or we have devices attest user age. On setup, the device has the option to store a root ("guardian"?) email address. Whenever "adult mode" is activated or the root email is changed…

I personally have taken several road trips (1000+ miles) with an EV across the United States and have not found charging to be a "huge issue". But I (clearly) must be wrong, sorry …

> Classic Motte and Bailey. For this to be a "classic motte and bailey" you will need to point us to instances where _the original poster_ suggested these (the "bailey", which you …

As somebody that "learned" C++ (Borland C++... the aggressively blue memories...) first at a very young age, I heartily agree. Rust just feels natural now. Possibly because I was e…

> the options are to build more software or to hire fewer engineers. To be cheeky, there are at least three possibilities you are writing off here: we build _less_ software, we hir…

The most critical skill in the coming era, assuming that AI follows its current trajectory and there are no research breakthroughs for e.g. continual learning is going to be delega…

> Sometimes after a night’s sleep, we wake up with an insight on a topic or a solution to a problem we encountered the day before. The current crop of models do not "sleep" in any …

Not really, no. The founders were not omniscient, but many of them publicly wrote about the problematic rise of political "factions" contrary to the general interest: https://en.wi…

> One thing that's been really off putting about the technology industry is how fake-it-till-you-make-it has become so pervasive. It feels accidental, but it's definitely amusing t…

The grid actually already has a fair number of (non-software) circular dependencies. This is why they have black start [1] procedures and run drills of those procedures. Or should,…

Sure. Create a diamond polygon and revolve it around a point. Blender has methods and tools to _approximate_ doing this. It has a revolve tool... where the key parameter is the num…

An analogy is the difference between vector and bitmap graphics. CAD programs aren't just a different set of operations on the same data, they use an entirely different representat…

This doesn't seem right to me. From the article I believe you are referencing ("What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?"): > If investors thought all this was likely, …

> Understanding twos complement representation is an essential programming skill The field of programming has become so broad that I would argue the opposite. The vast majority of …

What if the obstacle is not a person? What if something falls off a truck in front of the vehicle? What if wildlife spontaneously decides to cross the road (a common occurrence whe…