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I think they’re hoping that the people in the community they like will follow. I agree that it that the odds seem daunting - the best example which comes to mind is MariaDB and tha…

Shouldn’t that be enough? Lots of people worked together to build Rails before DHH revealed his extreme political views. It’s only natural that many of them want to go back to the …

> If you have a hood and or good indoor airflow to a window then this is all propaganda. In other words, it’s not propaganda. Since the researchers specifically called for prioriti…

Those are either artifacts of a bad stove or using extremely thin pans. We have a fairly low-mid range model and the low mode doesn’t burn anything and the coils match the sizes of…

People are attacked for low quality. There are counter examples but it is definitely striking how infrequently you see a PR which doesn’t stand out for being turgid or flawed, and …

> They are surrounded by lawyers and thinktanks to work through this, which is far from lawless This is so naive I struggle to believe you can possibly believe it. For example, the…

I’m basing it on things like https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2026.121752 finding that it’s going to be hard both to scale up and get past 90% unless we have massive amounts of c…

> The right to bear arms is critical. That is a form of power and self defense which can save your life, your neighbors life, or millions of lives from some kind of tyranny. The go…

I believe the labs unit was setup specifically to change that reputation but it doesn’t appear to have shipped anything substantial.

That’s the cost of doing it too cheaply: I’ve never had an Apple device fail but multiple cheap PCs were obviously designed by some MBA who overrode the mechanical engineers to sav…

Carbon capture gets downvotes because it’s not working anywhere at scale. The fossil fuel industry loves it because it’s saying they get paid now and maybe someone else gets paid l…

Yes, but those are a priority below massive solar and wind deployment because nuclear is another way to say emissions will rise for decades before the plants come online and start …

Even long-haul trucking can shrink rapidly between electric trucks (Australia is using those successfully - they’re cheaper and faster on hilly routes) on the shorter routes and el…

This is great to see but also reveals some failures around patents: Intellectual Ventures patented the idea a couple decades ago, did a TED Talk, decided it wasn’t as cost-effectiv…

I think you’d have some statistical complications around stress: beyond the inherent pressure of the job itself, it’s highly likely that they were understaffed even before losing a…

Drive around Southern California and you’ll see everything from oil derricks to refineries in places which would otherwise be full of housing if they weren’t so polluting.

I’ve yet to see it claimed here not in error. AI writing has other tells which are far more reliable, use them.

> This smells like a bandaid over an underfunded system, and a way to sneak in further cost-cutting in the future where the real calls will be actually answered by AI. I think ther…

Sadly we’re at the point where it’s a controversial position to argue that they shouldn’t receive tax cuts. It’s impressive how successfully faux-libertarian propaganda has been at…

China isn’t trying to crash the global economy but they’re letting prices rise to the point that their EV, solar, and battery companies are seeing huge demand. They don’t want a de…

They used to bring lots of jobs which didn’t require specialization. That’s not saying they didn’t have real negative impacts but that people were more willing to accept that as a …

You’re misunderstanding the problem: LLMs using emdashes more than the average human still doesn’t tell you that the poster you’re interacting with now is an LLM and not one of the…

The error rate is what’s wrong. A heuristic which has a high false positive rate is worse than nothing because it trains people to ignore all reports.

> ADHD wins over autism in the immediate future. It was balanced in the past for development to need both but now it’s a total hyperactive victory of general knowledge, master of n…

I think that also hits what you see universally with every AI product trying to pass worse results off as a benefit: if you’re a business, the prospect of cutting your cost per coo…