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> > Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while living with their parents? Most people in my circle who bought a home in California before t…

older vision LLMs chopped up images into patches which were projected into the same embedding token space as words. Newer ones use an encoder to more efficiently project an image i…

> government pretending Polymarket bets are securities Crypto prediction markets have an interest in being regulated like traditional exchanges since it opens up access to Wall Str…

> Just use a microcontroller. And for the vast majority of hobby projects I suspect that is good advice. I recently bought a hobby FPGA kit because I think the Von Neumann model is…

It's kinda awesome that after decades of software and hardware advancements to prevent computers from arbitrarily executing data as instructions, we've decided to let agents arbitr…

My current strategy for how much total I'll pay for a coffee is FlOOR(price+.50) + 1, which keeps the bill nice and clean and kicks some goodwill towards someone who makes less tha…

I was looking for something like this. I used to use Replit to teach code (even integrated it into discussion sections when I was a TA) but they absolutely destroyed the product wi…

Interestingly, the three careers you listed are protected by strict professional credentialing systems that do not exists for programmers, and professionals in law and medicine enj…

There used to be a variety of exchanges on the West Coast but it seems like they couldn't compete with the automation and HFT innovation happening in NYC, all the west coast engine…

Chinese century incoming.

NYC's homicide rate is lower than that of the USA as a whole. Violence is very avoidable, especially during the daytime.

In other words, drug dealers are privacy-conscious and the Google Pixel is one of the strongest hardware platforms for privacy-aware configurations.

The first IBM PC in 1981 cost $1,565, which is comparable to $5,500 after inflation.

I unironically agree with this. 100 years ago, Skid Row and Bunker Hill in Los Angeles were full of SROs, boarding houses and long-term hotels. The people who lived there didn't di…

Not sure how removing geographic information was supposed to increase clarity.

I was working with network drivers and the core network stack. I've heard bad things about questionable device driver implementations, I could only imagine what you saw.

I did an internship where I had to write fake network devices to test some server platform firmware configuration. I spent a bunch of time digging around the core PCIe code and Lin…

I've always enjoyed the practical research and projects that happen at the CalPoly schools, my friends who attended always seemed to be doing some very neat hands-on work. Anecdota…

I'm pretty sure the majority of Linux contributions are made by corporations these days, which almost certainly have internal management structures.

My gut still tells me this relies on a human-defined optimization metric.

I don't think Musk's interests are aligned with those of legacy media corporations.

This is the absolute top of the top, domestic tech in Mexico pays pretty poorly. Google (as of last year) also let people transfer from high COL to lower COL, reduce their base, bu…

Entry-level total comp at Google Mexico is about 80k USD, which is comparable to 180k in local purchasing power. [Edit] on second glance, my original datapoint for Google was quest…

I read the article and while it definitely seems like visa abuse, I saw no reference to Uyghur people. I think you are conflating several issues here. Also the workers in that arti…

the PhD requirement is either for actual research positions or a gatekeeping function to help companies narrow down their massive candidate pools