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This is one of the great pleasures of cat ownership!

Yeah, that makes sense. I suppose the flip side of all of this is that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have made a lot of money relative to their spending. Google is probably just try…

you are right. I guess what I was thinking was that google's bigness was essentially a bad capital allocation strategy, since they were lazy and not motivated by absolute return, b…

Wouldn't this be a demonstration of the downsides of the anticompetitiveness of monopolies?

An obligatory mention, also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtQfqpKi1I

All the proposals I’ve seen would set the marginal tax rate on the 120 so high that his earnings would end up more like 40k from the 120k job and then he gets his 60. So, still som…

But, have you any code that has been vetted and verified to see if this approach works? This whole Agentic code quality claim is an assertion, but where is the literal proof?

It registered in the low 40s for me, while my watch was saying 72-75. I guess YMMV

If you add baking powder and butter, that dark breakfast recipe is very close to crepes. My crepe recipe - cook on medium heat pan: Blend on low: 4 eggs- 3/4 cup whole milk, 1/2 st…

And bought a house from Epstein for $10

Great to see your name here, Zack. I think the problem with low-code is that its a catch all that spans between primarily data-storage-and-use work (Airtable, quick base, Filemaker…

People don't respect the salary premium software developers have received and expect relative to other creative, human endeavors. You lay it out perfectly in your answer, and I'll …

That perfectly ties with my experience. Just direct prompts, with limited setup and limited context seem to work better or just as well as complex custom GPTs. There are not just d…

Graphically, I really like the way autodesk makes sketches in fusion 360 blue until they are fully constrained, and then they are black. My intuition here is that you could color c…

and, its so cheap. there are alternatives for individual components, but nothing that comes close to being this low cost. And, the ultimate value is that if you buy a niche tool (l…

0% NET accretive profit - the OP was saying that the invest/return wash doesn't affect prior profitability, just revenue. Obviously, the new profitability inclusive of the new reve…

I think he was getting at the fact that the Truth is not good news to everyone.

Welll, if you were good at drywall already, drywall patches would be faster and better. But if you are good at printing and scanning, and you enjoy that process, then it’s fine. Th…

My only addition to this discussion is that the Dirty Labs dish soap has been legitimately better for our baby stuff and other plastic stuff that sometimes gets oily. I recommend i…

And, for a refrigerator and a lot of loads, being down for 2 days straight is way worse than a few hours a year. losing 48 hours of supply a year if broken into 2 hour chunks is no…

I mean, even back in the OnStar days, you could "opt out" and cancel the service and it would track you anyway. With BYD or any other car maker, I'd be worried the SIM was a placeb…

and then the code to give it context. AFAIU, there is a lot of post training "setup" in the context and variables to get the trained model to "behave as we instruct it to" Am I wro…

my intuition is that over smoothish, but hilly terrain, mountain bikes fare very well, too, since you get to go downhill for free. once you end up in a talus field, I think it beco…

I'll say, I recommend my Honeywell sync earmuffs for the workshop. They block more noise, have a physical volume knob and accessible buttons, and best of all, the microphone is als…

I’ll just say that most of the core issues with heat pumps seems to resolved with monoblock designs. Specifically, by moving the refrigerant cycle outdoors, install can be cheaper,…