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Seeing unicorns and 500 errors right now

At its core what it really reflects is that the technology is a blackbox that wasn't "programmed" but rather "emerged". In this context, this is the best we can do to fine tune beh…

At this point you have to start entertaining the question of what is the difference between general intelligence and a "sufficiently complicated" next token prediction algorithm.

European here, I do not think that electing Trump makes the US a laughing stock; there were legitimate reasons to disagree with the Biden administration, and, given that Kamala was…

Key quote from the article: > Many have argued that the lack of large-scale applications for the past ten years proves that crypto is useless. I have always argued against this: pr…

I would think that Cloudflare is reputable enough that they would not state that claim without at least having some knowledge about it.

I'm worried that we are starting to see the effect of the Akamai takeover. Linode has always been very dependable for us in the past, but this is the third time in the past 6 month…

I realize that asking this probably makes me sound like an asshole, but bear with me for a second. When I joined Reddit, circa 2012, it had its shared of misinformed, poorly resear…

That's funny, I've been doing this (appending searches with "reddit") for a while, but I thought it was just a random thing I did, not the universal experience of so many people. I…

And therein lies the problem, algorithms can't tell if you click and spend time with something because you enjoy it, or because it enraged you.

More importantly, if you want China, India and Africa to pollute less, the only way to do so is leading by example and figuring out a way to achieve cost-effective, environmental-f…

"We want" here is a figure of speech. The world doesn't actually care if you don't want other people to live as comfortably as you, because it's gonna happen either way, no country…

Tangential, but it's strange to me the sort of culture that Quora has cultivated over the years. It seems to tolerate and even encourage low quality content and contributors to the…

According to Dr. Sapolsky (Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Behave), there's ample evidence of enlarged, hyperactive amygdalas in chronically stressed individuals, both on artificially…

This thread makes it sound like it's impossible to make a medium scale application work without FKs constrains. I work on a commercial application that depends on relational relati…

There are ways to prevent invalid states in a database without foreign keys, for example enforcing "all or nothing" operations via transactions.

And it will be their undoing, since now that people are not upgrading their iPhones continued growth will depend on how well they can transition to become a services company, which…

What laws did Facebook break that warranted seizing and publishing internal documents?