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That's my memory as well. Early '00s, I was also in college and seemingly one year campus went from a broadly friendly, social place to one with a lot of people, headphones in, foc…

Is waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay somehow less severe than elsewhere?

Not just due to code generation, but to AI code scraping and inspection.

A pidgin is just a simplified form of language that hasn't evolved into its own new language yet. There are many English pidgins.

I bought the official ear pad replacements for my PXC450 back when those were available, for 1/4 of what the headset cost. They are so terrible that I stopped using the headphones …

I talk politely to LLMs because I don't want any impoliteness to leak out to my interactions with humans.

My romantic views of wood smoke hit reality when I first camped in Canada's Banff-Jasper national parks, where you could buy unlimited firewood for the night for $5. Everyone bough…

It looks great, but it's missing the one thing I want most in the site - the ability to select the version of the language documentation in some way other than editing the URL dire…

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that demo…

I only realized last week that Tres Comas tequila is just a bottle of 1800 Reposado with a different label

In less poetic terms, the progression I talk about is "copy, choose, create". First, we learn to copy a solution. Later, we know enough solutions that we can choose the best for th…

I love your optimism about steps 4 and 5.

Privatizing is a key step on the path to full oligarchy. So I would guess that yes.

Rails is set up for that, but it doesn't force you to build like that. You're free to build in other patterns that you design yourself. It's nice to have simple defaults with the f…

There was even a computer program in that book that was constantly rotating the sofa, trying to find a way for it to come out. If Adams didn't know about this, he certainly had a s…

I only learned this in adulthood, too. I had to discover and memorize those shortcuts. Now I know that some of the "brilliant" math students I went to high school with had simply l…

Have you been able to try trailer.app?

Hm, the CSS and JS don't appear to load for me. Not even a set of tags in the HTML response.

It makes me think of long COVID and CFS, where patients complain of a lack of "unrefreshing sleep" and "brain fog". A lack of perfusion resulting in waste not being sufficiently fl…

I'd like to learn more about the washing. Do you have a link or word/phrase to Google?

My experience with JSON API is that it doesn't come with the out-of-box tooling that GraphQL comes with. GraphQL is declarative enough that just writing the queries, mutations, and…

That was my thought. They might even need to periodically re-verify in person. And ideally they should verify in person with a witness, like getting a driver's license or passport.…

Not just AI music, but "ghost artists", which are real people paid bottom dollar to create generic playlist music in a theme, under a different name. https://www.tomsguide.com/ente…

Powerful almost always means rich. Rich people who divorce lose out on a richer life, maybe because they pay alimony, maybe because they lose social status, maybe because they just…

My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched …