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I actually like the google podcasts app. It's simple, it works, no ads, does everything I need it to do. Sigh. RIP.

ChatGPT is a wrapper to the GPT Completion API with some sane defaults. With a new beta feature you can edit the system prompt via ChatGPT, but you still can't adjust the other par…

I run a big web property with great SEO ranking, and captcha definitely does not deter the spam. A lot of this spam is posted by actual humans.

Calling them a liar publicly when you didn't have all the context definitely counts as asking them to do emotional labor for you.

This type of interaction is exactly why I stopped running communities online. People thrust their expectations upon you and then expect you to do either mental labor to meet those …

Tidal Labs | Remote (USA) | Full Time | Small Team Hiring: JS/React and PHP (7.4+) engineers. Both full-stack and client services engineering. We've been around for 12 years and qu…

In this day and age we generally try to eschew gender roles. People who want status will seek status regardless of their gender or relationship status.

Another option is Laravel Lumen

> I get that PHP has a bad rep Have you ever tried reading perl code?

Was it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847283 If so, it existed for a while but shut down years ago.

IMO most people are pretty clueless and self-absorbed (myself included). This guy is just pretty open and honest about it. And it's not like he didn't learn his lessons. That bit a…

This is the exact technique I used to save up and pay for a wedding and a house. Consider your savings/investments as one of your monthly bills. Set a maximum balance for your chec…

Lots of criticism and 'suggestions' here... I think this game is great!

It makes me sad that the top comment on a really cool new motor design is a gripe about units.

It looks like the same company, and that looks like the same person too

> What makes me really scratch my head is why otherwise reasonable people don't vote with their wallet and still buy this things This shouldn't make you scratch your head though...…

:D I don't actually care about hibernate. But after it came out on Windows and worked well enough, and Linux started introducing it, it became a meme to laugh at how bad linux susp…

My stock Ubuntu LTS desktop crashes all the time, about 3x a week. Still can't figure out why. I love linux, have used 4 different distros as my daily driver for the last 15-20 yea…

Docker or kubernetes or any other orchestration software of your choice on EC2

I read the TBP trilogy a few years back, and I can't stop thinking about The Dark Forest. That's one of the marks of a great book, IMO. I can't get it out of my head.

lol. No bet. Not because I doubt my position (I see an aerogel-inspired material working out). Rather because the 50 year timeline that I would feel safe betting on is basically my…

:) Not a problem! Your experience hangs a lantern on one of the problems in academia. The authors of that paper did not intend to mislead -- this paper was published in 2011, likel…

Funny -- I presented a paper at that very same conference! Mine was 2011-01-0755. The money shot is here. Note that '5.5 kg/ton' refers to the rolling resistance of the tire. > At …

... you don't actually have any reason to assume it won't happen other than blind pessimism. So let's just agree to disagree.

> I wonder why this sort of vibration can't be addressed with shock absorbers in the seats? Not at all naive, because it is addressed with shock absorbers in the seats; that is one…