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Genuine question: can I ask why? I'm not saying you're wrong, but it seems early to say yes or no about a particular technology, and LLMs seem especially hard to dismiss given how …

That seems like a somewhat orthogonal point? Like, if I'm a carpenter and my batteries all run out / I can't actually power my power tools then the best course of action is to go h…

:) I had no idea this reference existed, or that it's a a fun, though dystopian, read. Thanks! :)

I'd like to ask a more specific question than my sibling's excellent "Wait, why?" question :) Why offer erasers on these things? The procedure described below has nothing to do wit…

It's like we've come full circle: First people practiced L33t3cod3 problems for interviews Then people built AIs to build software And now the AIs are studying L33t3cod3 problems

Genuine question: do prediction markets open up a new revenue stream for TheNumbers.com? Specifically: they suspect that the motivation for trying to hack their site (for at least …

This is genuine, noob question: how is this different from AWS? I get that they're in very different businesses, but for both don't they have the issue that once a client gets big …

"You are allowed to record stuff happening in private spaces depending on the situation and state you are in." The part about "depending on the situation and state you are in." is …

I'm not a lawyer and I think this varies state by state, but I think that in general anyone is allowed to record in public spaces. I think the general idea is that if you could (le…

> I am currently working on a blog trying to explain concurrency and parallelism using the song "Free Bird" Ok, now I'm hooked :) What's your blog? I don't suppose it has an RSS fe…

> costs less I assumed that too, back when i thought that getting an e-ink pad would be cool. Right now Amazon is quoting me $450 on a 10.3" reMarkable, but the price goes up for t…

Well, if there's one company on Earth that's both incentivized to find an algorithm to efficient pack stuff into their shipping bins and also well-financed enough to actually figur…

I've played beyond all reason for a little bit, although I'm not very good at it. I've managed to avoid toxic lobbies by searching for terms like co-op or noob.

I used to think this way too. When I was growing up, libraries were for books. And that one room where they had periodicals (magazines, newspapers, and such) but you had to read th…

Can you explain this further? For example, if the market cap is $6B and has been for years, how is that reducing?

I assumed that when the GP said the UK was "giving a foreign, potentially adversarial nation access" the GP meant that the US is that "foreign, potentially adversarial nation" I ca…

Can I ask why this is getting downvoted? Most of the other comments are basically saying this ("the pay is too low for too long for not enough reward"). Anecdotally: I'm teaching a…

Genuine question: how do you tune it? I thought "fine-tuning" meant training it on additional data to add additional facts / knowledge? I might be mistaking your use of the word "t…

Hey! Hey! Some of us _enjoy_ Axis And Allies! /s Humor aside, you're not wrong - spending an hour setting up and then 10 minutes per player to actually play was a lot more fun when…

genuine question: How could you tell they were em-dashes? Like, I could see some people noticing that the book they're reading has dashes that are a bit longer than normal, but wha…

I'm pretty sure that I know what the answer is (sadly), but I'll try anyways: Any chance folks in the US can use these, in the US? This is a genuine question, although I don't have…

That sounds really good! I'll have to give it a try :)

What my question is hinting at is that there's actually some really interesting engineering around resolving what happens when the systems disagree. Things like Paxos and Raft help…

What happens when they don't?

Thanks for posting this! I started using instant coffee in hot chocolate as a quick DIY mocha, mainly because the cost-caffeine ratio was sooooo much better than beans (ground or w…