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Secret Agent has a slow, difficult beginning (~hour). Not much happens. And it's not clear why what's happening is happening, particularly for someone unfamiliar with Brazil's poli…

Have been looking for an orchestrator for AI workflows including agentic workflows and this seemed to be the most promising (open source, free, can self-host, and supports dynamic …

Had a handful of interactions with Matt. Probably the last was sometime in the mid- to late-2010s. I essentially started my software development career using software that he was l…

For anyone curious about whether recycled plastics in clothing have less environmental impacts than primary raw materials, they do [0]. [0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a…

Thanks, that is a great feature.

If anyone knows of a flexible static site generator that can process Rmarkdown files, I'd be interested to know about it. There is `rmarkdown::site` (see [0]), but I had to mess wi…

The author asks: > So why don’t firms merge to get larger? But they do. Most industries/sectors trend toward consolidation. Specific examples that come to mind are radio, agricultu…

The university's IRB approved the research for the first paper as exempt. There is organization-level culpability here. It is reasonable for Linux kernel maintainers to block an or…

It certainly is considered harm. Ethical research with human subjects makes every effort to do no harm. Taking someone's time without compensating them can be harmful. That's why r…

Sorry, but you're wrong. This experiment involved deceiving human research participants. Actual humans spent their time and effort reviewing and working on the patches that were su…

Oh my gosh, their IRB approved this as exempt knowing all the details? Initially, my guess was that the researchers misinformed the IRB about what the experiment involved. But the …

This was (1) research with human subjects (2) where the human subjects were deceived, and (3) there was no informed consent ! If the IRB approved this as exempt and they had an acc…