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Nuclear family is indeed a recent development and started with industrialization and modern capitalism. While we use the same term, 'family', to refer to (pre-)historic forms of fa…

People interested in this: if you are ever in Amsterdam, I recommend to visit the Micropia museum: https://www.artis.nl/en/artis-micropia Among many stunning things, they have a sh…

Stating the obvious, but you can of course see it as: there are more than enough workers that need the extra money so urgently that they are happy to screw up their health and soci…

Apologies for being nit-picky, but there is no etymological sense. The output of your LLM has the same etymological root, but a different meaning. In terms of translation, it is th…

Don't _ads in search_ account for 100% of their search revenue? Does Google Search offer any other paid services?

I don't know, and I think there is no easy answer. The point is: the investors don't know how to measure traction either, so they just measure GitHub activity instead, even at the …

> It's especially sensitive for a VC-backed startup that is measured thoroughly by GitHub activity, but we have to pull the trigger: This sentence also illustrates the absurdity of…

In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving? Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the …

You could abstract speech or other audio as a series of sounds, where time is indeed a factor. Speech, however, has patterns that are more similar to written language than to seaso…

> On top of that, I exported my location timeline from Google Maps, my Uber trips, my bank transactions, and Shazam history. I would ask Claude Code to start with the photos and th…

There are various technical corrections, with arguable pros and cons. However, they do not match the underlying problem stated above: > the rise of business types in tech company l…

The page seems to be a copy from the original Mozilla press release from February 2nd: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/ It was discussed here: https://news.ycombina…

Here is the paper on which the article is based: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-025-04484-0

On the one hand, this exercise probably reflects a realistic task. Daily engineering work comprises a lot of reverse engineering and debugging of messy code. On the other hand, thi…

Essentially, the LNM turns out to be unsuitable for various diagnostics it has been applied for: > Our findings reveal a foundational limitation: at its core, LNM involves a repeti…

The last addition was made in 2020.

I suppose you are right about the history of firearms. However, the novel was written in 1844, more than 200 years after the time in which it is set. Which makes me wonder if the a…

Good point, also to illustrate that open-source is not a panacea. It merely holds a higher potential for certain issues to be fixed/improved than.