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Surely there will be a tipping point when human drivers are considered riskier than AI drivers. It seems far in the future, but it's probably not when you consider all of the human…

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of All You Need Is Considered Harmful for Fun and Profit"

> Is there a way to read the full article? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal... There's a version for Chrome also. On Android, I use that extension with …

It is. Blizzard has been using it for years: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader This company is new and is using it as a CDN: https://www.peer5.com/ Bittorrent is…

What do you mean, could be? https://instant.io/ is just one of many webtorrent sites that do this. It's a wonderful use of bittorrent.

If there's a Holy Inquisition coming, it's not bad advice to become notionally Catholic for however long it lasts.

As a practical matter, you'd have to be insane to be espousing very unpopular views under the same name you use for employment. If I do something outside of work in a public way, a…

> I don't see how that is hard to understand. For a growing percentage of the workplace, knowing that a coworker has a socially unacceptable opinion is creating a hostile work envi…

In practice, most FE jobs consist of a designer that produces mocks in Figma or InDesign or similar, then you as the engineer take those mocks and make JS+CSS out of it. As for wha…

At the time, "second screen" was the term I heard used for those types of experience. The only prominent example I can think of these days is kahoot, which is only sort of the same…

I steam clean it (hot water + hot pan + stiff brush), then back on the stove to dry off and apply a light layer of avocado oil. Leave it shiny on your stove and ready for next use.…

That would be nice, but the real answer is to make it easier to work without a degree. Most people aren't really there for a liberal arts education; they're there to try and secure…

Trevor's thesis is here: "Set aside motives and intentions, just look at technology, technology alone ... If you are in a fight where the other person cannot beat you, how hard sho…

Yes, I've conflated the idea of "needing" something with the idea of "deserving" something. For example, some people need food, but they don't deserve it just because they're alive…

You might be confused because Maslow thought sex was on the same level as food and sleep. Of course, today, the idea that men need sex simply because they are alive is repulsive.

I know you're being sarcastic, but that sort of is the whole game, isn't it?

That's actually a good habit to build. Here's a windows utility you might find useful: https://github.com/susam/uncap And here's an editor that's accommodating to your newly traine…

Protip: remap capslock to escape. It's supported in the OS settings.

That's how lo-fi gets produced. This is one of the more popular tools for that job: https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/addictive_fx/effect/rc-20_...

That's funny because I just assumed Elon found another old and inefficient monopoly to disrupt.

It's on linux too. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio.html

> Really, i wonder why social media hasn't figured out a way to have meaningful microtransactions yet. That is what's happening. It's a strip club model where the biggest tippers g…

^^ That is all very much correct. > I don't understand why anyone but a retiree would move there. Taxes and cost of living.

The problem with FL real estate is that flood zones and old construction are everywhere. You probably don't want to buy a house in a flood zone. Also, because hurricane codes were …

Howdy neighbor! I also work for an SF company everyone knows about and I moved to Sarasota a couple of years ago. It's the best financial decision I've ever made. Your analysis is …