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I've been trying to keep all URLs backwards compatible forever on swizec.com and it's surprisingly hard. I _think_ anything from 2010 onward should be good. The domain started in 2…

> As thinking individuals we can and should use our awareness and courage to make biggest "good" choices we can bear to. That’s the cool thing about incentives, we follow them whet…

Now that you spell it out, I guess this just binary search. You need O(log n) weighings because each weighing splits the search space in half. So I was wrong it’s not an informatio…

> I also got this riddle, in 2015. I couldn't solve it. Tbh, I think it's a terrible question. There isn't really a step-by-step problem solving process, but you just need to have …

This matches my experience. Just Talk To It is the best method for working with LLMs if you're an expert . I've seen this at work (as eng manager/lead/principal/whoevenknowsanymore…

I find the most practical distinction of scifi vs fantasy is that scifi calls it credits and fantasy calls it coin. This classification has never steered me wrong. But honestly cat…

Zach is good people. I still can’t believe I met him at a random meetup in SF once and he walked up to me to say hi and I didn’t connect the dots until many hours later that he’s t…

> Tobias Lutke /../ has most recently advocated for a pay-to-play version of democracy where wealth determines your ability to participate He’s just looking at america post Citizen…

> Eventually I never really looked at the folders but it never bothered me as I don't really see them Most people don't read most newsletters. Some people read some. This Saturday …

> Owning your own home does not align with the density required for a city to function Much of Europe would like a word. I grew up in a block of flats where everybody owned. 16 apa…

> We can't prove a program will always halt, but we can check it halts in a specific execution. The computer scientist says “The halting problem cannot be solved, I have proven it”…

I didn't say it was intentional, it's the result of millions of little decisions that all make total sense in isolation.

> how some group would go about preserving a problem like homelessness, even unintentionally Simplistic version: San Francisco spends roughly $100,000/year on each homeless person.…

> Is "medium growth" for the next 4 years really the worst people can think of? At this point anything less than "medium growth" will crash the economy. We'll have bigger problems …

> where a preselected tip is selected. Default should be no. A lot of this push to higher and higher and preselected tip options comes from POS software providers (Square et al) an…

> You really shouldn’t make speeding up to make the light a habit I agree! In this particular case we were dealing with bumper-to-bumper traffic, a light that takes many minutes, a…

> Then there's the collision detection thing. It's basically guaranteed to beep at me whenever I enter my parents' narrow street with cars parked on both sides. Some of my worst dr…

> Just this week I had a package that was supposed to be delivered by Monday that lost tracking and didn't show up until Wednesday. This is the sort of problem you solve with more …

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> More and more studies have been indicating that even just a few minutes of intense exercise can outperform long/slow LISS type cardios. For best results run fast and far. During …

> This must have had an effect, beyond health. Surely? Watch old music videos and TV or movies, everyone looks so old! You’ll have 30 year olds running around looking 50. Then you …

> And if they want to keep their jobs they have to comply. Worse still, many mariners are effectively prisoners and can become trapped if corporate decides to cut them loose withou…

> the point from GP was that both cars brake/ decelerate at the same rate Point is that’s not always true. If they are the same type of car, and the car happens to be the kind with…