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La Fermiere makes these fancy little yogurts that are fine, I guess, but they come in these amazing little terra cotta cups that are amazing for all sorts of little organizing task…

A premium brand that got significantly worse but didn't drop the price? Seems obvious that this is going to be a story about private equity or a similar acquisition, and indeed it …

There are lots and lots of fun shared sci fi and fantasy universes out there, some of which were carefully designed to be a shared universe from the start. George R. R. Martin's "W…

I can't agree until I have some reason to believe that the non-human leadership will be moral in a way that I can accept. Giving up control forever to some unfathomable, alien inte…

I love when people do an amazing job carefully explaining something complicated in a way that makes it seem very intuitive. Excellent job. Way to show off those technical communica…

We'll know that we've reached AGI when a key conservative political belief in the US is that AIs are not people and do not deserve rights. We'll know that we've reached the singula…

Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.

This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.

For small projects, especially small 2D projects? No. For big projects being done by pro teams that are willing to do a lot of work to customize their render pipelines and whatnot …

Why would I want to be the hero at the START of the movie? That's when I'm just doing my daily shit and I'm showing off all of my character flaws. That's the worst possible moment …

There will have been tests, but there will have been missing end-to-end tests. Test 1 will verify that the new system/product emits billing entries in some expected way ("We did 10…

Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xA…

> The Paxos algorithm for implementing a fault-tolerant distributed system has been regarded as difficult to understand, perhaps because the original presentation was Greek to many…

I interpret "keeps rising" negatively. Changes keep getting made, certainly. The AIs will perhaps never fail to fulfill your feature request. But there's no overall plan. It's just…

Heck, even before they do anything, there is a sizable industry (with just a few players) focused entirely on the incredibly byzantine (but originally well meaning) process of bidd…

Amazing character. Started as a regular robot-loving engineering kid, was in the right place at the right time and earned something like $140 million from Google, mostly from truly…

Absolutely insane. Also, I love that it was open sourced. Although it sounds like from the GitHub page summary that there was some shenanigans involving a "certain very high profil…

> They select for comfort with the prevailing mess, because they have no other frame of reference. This doesn't go far enough. Employees on hiring committees select for conformance…

> GAO is a Congressional agency, it does not fall under the Executive Ah ah ah, you're describing how things were before Trump v. Slaughter, when the Supreme Court justices ruled t…

The 1970s, and it is an allusion to an immigrant from the game "Papers, Please" who is stuck in a dystopian bureaucracy.

Let's try the suggested advice and ask why five times. > Why do you even need an AI assistant here? To take notes on what we talked about. > Why do you want to do that? Because I w…

It has occurred to me over and over for the last several years that many of the senior engineers at my company would be substantially more productive with some sort of assistance f…

I wish this was more wrong.

Yeah, Amazon has disadvantages (counterfeits, fake reviews, more expensive) but its advantages (insane shipping speed/cost, strong return policy) are nearly impossible for competit…

Great, now my websites are gonna push entire LLMs onto my browser in order to use my CPU to make inferences about my shopping habits or whatever.