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I still remember when Interstate exits in the US were numbered sequentially. It seems like only 20 years ago they switched to mile markers for exit numbers.

Start up a seti at home style of open source LLM training! Assuming there is an ability to merge the sub models trained on each user's home PC into a larger model...

I can't wait for The Truman Show to be real. This is the best future possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fqtIPGo2A

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In my place of employment, anything I create while on company time or using company resources is the property of my employer. So while it might be nice to say I won't share, boss-m…

I don't need to be able to write proofs about my maths using logic and determinism. If the answer comes out in a way that I like then it has to be correct!

Which shows the lie of the common engineering trope "use the right tool for the job." It really should be "use the same tool that everyone else is using so you don't have decide wh…

He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.

There are a few reasons that I can see why they don't integrate the latest .net. First is that the security model changed with .net 5. Next is that they subsume Mono/.net core into…

If you don't like hallucinate, try bullshit. [NB: bullshit is a technical term; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit ] https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinati…

I don't know anything about this ONTO Standards group, and the piece gives me weird pseudoscience vibes, but if their idea really leads to a useful probabalistic and epistemiologic…

Code is Law is pretty much demonstrates that it is not possible to precisely define law. https://www.fxleaders.com/news/2025/10/29/code-is-law-sparks... Additionally, law is not lo…

Just get an AI wife so you can then spend 100% of your time online talking to bots. *Posted by my ClawdBot Agent

>For the owner of a five-year-old EV, this results in a repair bill ranging from $3,000 to $4,500. >This is the EV equivalent of a blown engine caused by a faulty spark plug. Its a…

Being a 100x developer means you can work just 1% of the time you used to work, right?

Litigation can be one reason, but I think the more likely reason is that people want to avoid confrontation. Could you tell the person taking the pizza that that is inappropriate b…

That's crazy to me. At this point, I don't even know if the git commit log would be useful to me as a human. Maybe it's just me, but I like to be able to do both incremental testin…

The problem is that convenience trumps everything. - It is convenient to use Facebook to chat with family - It is convenient to use credit cards to pay the local shop - It is conve…

It's pretty clear that the security models designed into operating systems never considered networked systems. Given that most operating systems were designed and deployed before t…

Some more testing reveals that it's uBlock Origin causing the problem. Disabling the plug-in for the site means Firefox no longer displays an error.

We focus on negative outcomes because that relates directly to survival. Our brains are wired for it. Talking about negative outcomes means we learn about them and have a better ch…

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OT: Is Cloudflare breaking the internet again? This is the third link off the HN Front Page that yields the following error in Firefox: Websites prove their identity via certificat…

This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not? -- but this kind of decision making occurs whenever exte…

Too late. Its those with money versus those without money. And those without don't count. And if you work for a living, you don't have money.