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"Fine your coworkers." Looks true: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/19/japan

Exactly. Use a fancy expressive structure if you want, but don't try to abstract away the mapping between that and the general-purpose code that it relies on. "Each domain has its …

TLDR: you can put tablets of mosquito-killing bacteria in buckets.

It's probably better for Wikipedia's quality if editors remain unsung, rather than it being status-conferring.

Yes, these comments are necessary pushback against the habit of these disciplines to push interventions that don't work because their evidentiary standards are bad.

You still use constraints even if you put all your business logic in stored procedures.

When did clickbait headlines become acceptable here?

Surprised to see no discussion of other data structures like dicts/maps, or arrays of arbitrary type. Hopefully they'd be a straightforward extension. IME, apps need collaborative …

Horseshoe theory addresses this.

2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in diameter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-V

Can you provide an example with details? Thanks!

I always assumed it was some kind of bacterial product from early spoilage. Nice to learn!

The flipside: it's equally hard for people who assume AI is safe to establish empirical criteria for safety and behavior. Neither side of the argument has a strong empirical basis,…

LLMS don't have to be smart enough to be AGI. They just have to be smart enough to create AGI. And if creating something smarter than yourself sounds crazy, remember that we were c…

Jan Leike, recently resigned head of alignment: "Safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498184671605209

> Don’t all ISPs have retention notices? Probably not (for the reasons above), but this is not public information, and ISPs and others subject to retention notices face statutory p…

The evidence we have for safety of low-level consumption doesn't look great. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691614/ "The paucity of adequate studies, particularly re…

Missing mention of pawpaw's annonacin content, which causes Parkinsonism. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/ "Pawpaw fruit contains a high concentration of annonacin, which …

Looks like you're right -- $551 out of $842 billion, 65%, is spent on compensation. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59475 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59511

In the case of GitHub Actions, it's made more painful by the lack of support for YAML anchors, which would provide a bare minimum of composability. https://github.com/actions/runne…

Among the countries interested in joining NATO during the 90s was Russia itself, even as it began waging brutal wars against its neighbors, who thereby have earned far more right t…