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Yeah, I have a never ending need of things I could easily make myself I I could set aside 7-10 hours to plan it out, develop and troubleshoot but are also low priority enough that …

> In the story the engineers weren't designing a tool well-suited for the customers, but for whatever abstract scenarios they had in their head. A joke exists about how developers …

If a user holds an ice cream cone upside-down and their ice cream falls to the floor, do you blame the user for not holding their ice cream cone upright or the creator of the ice c…

So essentially only the rich and famous have any meaningful protection under the law. Have to love the legal system sometimes. Also sucks if you sound like Morgan Freeman. Put out …

Yes, but none of that is truly unique. The odds of a doppleganger sharing my name are astronomically slim but my looks, voice, interests, personality, etc. are not truly unique to …

The argument of likeness seems odd to me because there are at least a dozen people who might look almost exactly like you who are alive somewhere in the world. What if I give expli…

Very useful for flagging any O(n^2) that make assumptions about the size of N because N is not expected to exceed a certain size. Especially for when N inevitably exceeds that size…

Rust is like walking across a mine field with all the mines flagged for you. You can dig up the mine and remove the flags over time. Or at least know to avoid stepping carelessly a…

I'm a Memrise beta member w/ lifetime premium access for my contributions to the site in its early days. I cannot recommend anyone use Memrise for anything nowadays it has been so …

There are at least two projects like this for watching anime. I won't name them in this forum but they do exist if you look for them.

"Kids having access to AI is too dangerous. Kids learning how to make explosives and LSD is perfectly safe." Have a happy holidays.

I would greatly appreciate if you engaged with what I wrote and not what you think I wrote if you're going to make the bold claim that I'm not engaging in good faith. Absolutely no…

After wasting the better part of a decade on speed reading as a teen and using speed reading tools I can only find myself to agree with them. Remove multiple-choice questions and a…

So selling the Anarchists Cookbook is illegal? Being a YouTuber targeting teens for is illegal? This is honestly news to me given how many political YouTubers there are who are app…

People can give children terrible information too and steer/groom them in harmful directions. So why stop there at "AI" or poorly defined "algorithms"? The only content children sh…

It's such a common aspect of languages too that many people don't even realize when they're doing it in their native language! People get lazy - especially natives who don't get co…

Every now and again a site exists that has a massive community, tons of resources, ways to speak with other learners, ways to meet language exchange partners, and are greatly succe…

Anki for vocabulary building, Ryan Estrada's comic for learning to read Hangul ( https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/ ) as it sticks true to its promise. Over …

And this is how you end up with rewriting the world and spending more time rewriting dozens of existing libraries to avoid adding them as dependencies and less time working on the …

The site was taken down earlier today. Mail service remained up for some time. Sent myself a test email - seems I managed to migrate most of my emails over just in time as I'm no l…

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of studies about precisely how to navigate people in aggregate and take advantage of every little bit of human psychology to maximize …

There are very few forms of advertisement that I don't have a major problem with. Public space bulletin boards, word of mouth (non-sponsored), dedicated infomercial spaces (no vide…

Most forms of advertisement should be considered criminal, as most modern ads are borderline psychological warfare against a population that doesn't even understand they're at war …

The contexts of security by obscurity is usually in regards to data that would attract people who would specifically target you for being a mark that will make them a lot of money …

Can you cite an example where a company was sued over bad code? I want to agree with you and agree with your reasoning (which is why I upvoted you as I think it is a good argument)…