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All these companies are offering quite generous subscription plans if you compare to API pricing. There's gotta be a limit; nobody can afford to have tons of users who are losing t…

Google has a library/format for that too, with FlatBuffers. Different use cases and advantages really, not clearly better/worse.

This is an extremely interesting article about game design and it's a bit silly to fixate on the title.

People really really want LLMs to output a highly reliable finished product, and I suspect we're probably never gonna get there. Lots of progress over the past couple years, but no…

Frustratingly I can't recall specific examples, but in the past year there have been several major discussion-worthy tech stories I've seen on The Verge or wherever, and I come to …

A ton of the early discourse about ChatGPT was as an outright Google killer. It mostly hasn't really panned out that way; there's some overlap but the web ain't dead yet. If nothin…

Fentanyl is a fascinating market case study because nobody actually wants fentanyl, they want oxycodone or heroin. It's the "market data reveals that consumers actually want the ch…

> VisualC++ doesn’t have its source code available Got all the way here and had to look back up to see this post was from 2019. The MSVC standard library has been open source for s…

It's certainly a socially weirder thing to do, but honestly I think someone playing music on their phone is probably less annoying/distracting than people having a loud conversatio…

Space aliens are still kinda the best explanation. It's extremely inconclusive, and it's entirely possible that we'll discover some new natural phenomenon to explain it instead, bu…

Apple is big and rich enough that surely it could operate its own carbon offset program, rather than simply throwing money at unreliable third parties. Buy the land, why not?

I would've thought that explicit discussion of suicide is one of those topics that chatbots will absolutely refuse to engage with. Like as soon as people started talking about usin…

Germany's discounters (ie, nearly all grocery stores) have long been hyper-efficient about checkouts. There is exactly one lane open until the line gets too long, then they open an…

Good work with this, and the linked "special register groups" post. I find myself intermittently fascinated with the origin and spread of certain ideas, which can often be hard to …

I think despite having lived through it, it's easy to miss just how transformative smartphones and social media have been to human society. There's been an absolute explosion in co…

I've definitely heard "delulu" years ago, probably floating around Twitter. There's a Wikipedia article on the word for some reason, and it supports this.

Writing code is very very often a big part of understanding any new problem. It's just that you should be quite comfortable discarding that code. Refactor mercilessly and all that.…

Had a fun experience the other day asking "make a graph of [X] vs [Y]" (some chemistry calculations), and the response was blah blah blah explain explain "let me know if you want a…

Agreed, that's the real dream of open world RPGs: dynamic worlds. Perhaps modern AI techniques can help in that a bit, but what you really need is an incredibly intricate simulatio…

Ternus generally comes across well - technically knowledgeable and a good speaker - but also he is literally the only notable Apple executive who is significantly younger than Cook…

> your registered address There's no Anmeldung system in America. Actually voter registration is the closest thing you have to an official current address, and it's a lot easier to…

RedLetterMedia Phantom Menace review. A remarkably unique mix of comedy and genuine insight. I feel like the Star Wars prequels were largely ignored culturally for years, but after…

It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from go…

Basically the behavior is hardware-dependent, and nobody wants to mandate that C++ compilers generate a ton of extra instructions on hardware which does not behave a particular way…

Zillions of people are out there wearing cheap AirPod knockoffs too. I don't think any ear buds are "cool", but certainly nobody cares, it's perfectly normal.