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Documentation of interfaces between components that are owned by different organizations get my full attention and care. Everything else is best effort.

I think this is required reading on IQ and g: http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html On efficient markets, I'd recommend: https://economics.northwester…

"Why did such a bland observation resonate with so many people?" Asked and answered.

The study in the topic seems to contradict this, although the summary is a bit confusing: "Considering gender inequality, the authors report that “in countries of higher gender ine…

It seems to me that the main reason to learn C would be to be able to dive deeper into the low-level implementation details of some hardware platform. With that in mind, I would su…

"From my experience, what works incredibly well is a partnership between biologists and software engineers: the biologists first come up with the first concept of the tool, which i…

It's hard to imagine that a powerful self-modifying AI would continuously pass up on the obvious optimization of just giving itself the maximum perceivable reward without doing any…

Swedish public television has covered this story quite extensively: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/granskning/

Presuming that a large part of those 100 W go to the power amps for uplink transmissions, it seems that it should be possible to make at least that part scale with how much outgoin…

Is this just the second coming of cellular automata?

In terms of the OSI model, I've gone from working with software on top of layer 7 to working on software and hardware at the bottom of layer 1. It's been a fun and challenging tran…

Personally, I'll have the former style of business jargon over the latter. Sure, "leverage the innovative" doesn't mean anything, but at least it's not actively infantilizing.

In practice, the American revolution did not come about through open debate: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-the-rudeness-of-mobs-pogue 'On October 25, the freemen of Essex County…

Putting a CPU core in your hardware accelerator seems more useful when it's stuck on the wrong side of a memory bottleneck. That way, you could run longer programs in local acceler…

For an approachable but not shallow introduction to philosophy via Plato, try Holbo and Waring's Reason and Persuasion, available as a free book and Coursera lecture series: https:…

N+1 and The Baffler both seem to be constitutionally incapable of releasing a bad issue. Highly recommended. Jacobin is uneven, but if you read Reason et al you owe it to yourself …

ECDO sounds cooler.

I think a better approach is back-front-back, or front-front-back; or front-front-back and then side-to-side.

Good job! I recommend that you learn how to speak slowly. This not only makes you easier to understand, but also makes it easier for people to interrupt and ask questions. And as o…

I like this a lot. It feels like a much healthier starting point than diving head first into the discovery feeds of the platforms.

The main thing that C provides over other languages is direct hardware access. So study the hardware, find out what you want to do with it, then use C to implement it.

When it comes to documentation, be realistic about how much time - in terms of product features delayed or not delivered - you have to spend on creating documentation and on keepin…

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Attention conservation notice: Lengthy somewhat tendentious history of Soviet Leninism, followed by an assertion that the confusing twists of cancel culture is down to the woke mas…