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You want me to enter my api key into a website? Yes, I see the message about it staying local. No, I don't trust the message or that you will never be hacked.

7 trivial prompts, and at 100% limit, using sonnet, not Opus this morning. Basically everyone at our company reporting the same use pattern. Support agent refuses to connect me to …

It's an AI generated article; don't trust anything in it unless you verify it.

it was light gathering. the D5 they brought is a very old camera tech wise, but it was ideal for the low light photos of the eclipse. they also brought a Z9 for much higher resolut…

I've purposely eaten insects while traveling. for me it is hard to get over the fact that they are not 'cleaned' - you eat everything in their digestive tracts. I intellectually un…

yes, the correct sub for this is r/truespotify, and there are a dozen discussions on the problem.

Claude does these things even though you have explicit instructions not to do them, this isn't a tool for you asking it to delete files. Just today Claude decided to do a git resto…

I was just about to say the same thing. This is bad code/documentation. Single letter variable names is almost always wrong if it isn't i for an index or such (and even then, would…

You assume they were talking about a single product. at my job there is essentially endless amounts of small tasks. We have many products and clients we have many internal needs, b…

I grew up in the 70s. The hand wringing then was calculators. No one was going to be able to do math anymore! And then wrist watches with calculators came out. Everyone is going to…

The article and the press release it was derived from says nothing about "more efficient", just smaller. https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens...

I'm not a physicist but every definition of dark matter that I read says it does not interact with electromagnetic radiation hence it is invisible, and rocks are not that dark matt…

Hire, then train them for a long period of time? That is an apprenticeship. It's what they do in the trades already. There aren't enough slots (union or not). e.g. http://www.calap…

The oil can coat the pasta, reducing the ability of the sauce to penetrate the pasta when you cook them together.

Hard water will boil at a higher temperature, but it's only a degree or two.

Or because their kid or dog is in the car. Or because they have difficulty walking. Or because they just want to decompress and scroll their phone or listen to the news for 10 minu…

Go check out VxWorks or the like. only 20K a seat, build tools at a similar price, and then oh joy, runtime licenses required to deploy the sw you wrote. Which are reasonable price…

My inbox is filled with never asked for sales pitches, most having no concept of what we do or what pain points we have. And I'm a principal IC, but still IC, so mostly wasted effo…

> really hard to convince yourself to work 60 hour weeks Good!

It's a life endeavor that you will never master. start at age 4 playing minuet in G, at age of 90 you'll still be learning new things. The music is beyond us, yet ourselves, to par…

You also need selection, not just mutation (I know you are being silly, so am I)

That's not the point, the point is the ordering is inverted, not that history shouldn't be learned.

The tiniest amount of vacuum stops sound as abruptly as non transparent matter stops light. furthermore, there was no amount of sound which can overcome the vacuum, whereas enough …