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I'm now pretty convinced that this is the best argument for persuading non-technical and non-internet-privacy minded people why this is a problem. It's hard to explain all the tech…

I only got hallucinations of random combinations of my (fairly unique) last name & first names that do not exist, combined with very accomplished and completely fictional biographi…

Maybe you should not omit those "dozens of words" that clearly explain what you're trying to portray as a contradiction. > These molecules have a particular property: When they com…

When I lived in Japan it was in a relatively recent (last 10 years) but not brand new apartment block - Maybe if you are talking about a rural area or an old postwar Showa era hous…

All the major metro areas on the Acela corridor are also on a straight line, on significantly flatter land than Japan. Notice how the Acela never spends 10+ minute periods in long,…

I think a big part of it is also that (partly because of the necessity of building for earthquake resistance), Japanese construction is a lot more robust than American housing, and…

Yikes. I also just noticed that all the plugins (part of the pro feature set) rely on separate apk downloads from the Play Store, which all appear to be dead/delisted. This is real…

Yes, it is enabled by default (in fact this caused problems earlier on). Licensed hams (in the US) can increase transmit power (and theoretically use additional spectrum outside of…

We frequently get juniors or interns who are perfectly capable of pumping out many LoC with the use of AI in various forms - the issue is that they _don't_ actually ever learn how …

A few years later but similarly - I am still running a machine built spur-of-the-moment in a single trip to Micro Center for about $500 in late 2019 (little did we know what was co…

How can I take your comment seriously if you didn't read the article? It looks like someone didn't actually make an effort to understand the context of the images.

> Moore's law is supposed to drive down the cost of electronics The core of the article is this complete misunderstanding of Moore's law. From there, all the rest of the confusion …

A human working on an existing codebase does not have any special signal about what is _not_ in a codebase. Instead, a (good) human engineer can look at how a problem is handled an…

I had a coworker making very similar claims recently - one of the more AI-positive engineers on my team (a big part of my department's job is assessing new/novel tech for real-worl…

Oops..... we are currently trying to sell an elixir-based greenfield project internally. This doesn't affect elixir by default as other commenters pointed out, but still might make…

Nothing they do makes sense until you accept that hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug, for them and their base. They know that what they're asking for is impossible to meaningfully c…

There is no secret lost knowledge that enabled a steam-powered train to go from New York to Chicago in 16 hours in the 1930s. We simply do not care to run fast passenger trains any…

Yep, I had a cheaper MIP garmin watch that I was very happy with until it spontaneously bricked itself one day. It was just barely in warranty, and they replaced it, but refused to…

Another fun observation in that page - You can only have up to 20k max participants in a Teams live event. The footnote says you can do larger events with Microsoft Stream, but fol…

I am fascinated (mostly genuinely, not in a snarky way) by the fact that you express concern about storing your information on other people's untrusted/unreliable computers, then l…

Heat management, the EU import tax, all of those are certainly small factors. But the main reason is absolutely market segmentation: if you want to record "professional" video cont…

That's precisely my issue with React though - JSX is a DSL that looks almost like normal HTML, but differs in small uncanny-valley ways. Sure, it's fine once you're used to it. But…

However those are well-documented to be data-harvesting devices placed by a for-profit company, despite receiving government money as well. PhilTel is a non-profit volunteer organi…

There's an easy solution if the law is truly intended just to prevent unlicensed pop-up repair shops - just ban unauthorized _commercial_ repair. In fact, that's almost certainly a…

Well I'm sorry to be a broken record, but I think the best answer is to switch to a browser (and/or browser engine) that isn't trying to kill content blocking & user choice for pro…