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Good lord, the damage LLM use has done to deep thinking is amazing for such a short time. Maybe if it stayed hard to find your phone, you would have put some time into considering …

The expressed (not implied) alternative in the post is for those people to stop pretending they care, and start actually caring. Stop trying to save the world. The world doesn't ne…

Yeah, there's actually been a lot of research on that. 100ms is generally considered to be the threshold between perceiving a delay or not. But even that needs some additional cont…

The underlying issue here is that addresses created by the tool at fault can have their private key derived from public data. If you send it back, it'll just get stolen again. Furt…

That's not what it says. It says that as long as the logic is rich enough (first-order isn't enough) and consistent there are statements where neither the statement nor its negatio…

It might damage Google's reputation with advertisers in the long term. I'm not convinced Google would even care about it, given their other behavior.

Double dash -> emdash is a default autoreplacement in OSX. That's why a lot of people think it's the default everywhere.

This is a description of one portion of math... one that's very easy to get tunnel vision towards when undertaking a very formal undergraduate mathematical education. And that's es…

You have a weird definition of "smuggling". I say it outright. Because I follow it up with a description of the actual practice of math: it's the study of abstraction. That's not a…

It's elegant if all you're concerned with is whether a conjecture is true or false. Answered, move along! But mathematics is not a collection of facts. Mathematics is the study of …

The slowest multiplications are always when the two numbers are about the same size... That is to say, the case you're talking about doesn't happen.

Bluesky has a data store, handles account authorization, and runs a web app that provides a UI to access the backend services. That's an instance, whether they call it one or not. …

As Led Zeppelin once said, "you know sometimes words have two meanings". That definition of wealth is all well and good for books about how markets are magical fix-everything pixie…

It is literally impossible for everyone to obtain wealth. Wealth isn't a number or physical circumstances. Wealth is having economic power over the people around you. Success is a …

Yeah... I've got a whole lot of experience with "you can't do this thing the obvious easy way because iOS is too important." This isn't about fantasies of Apple being your savior. …

The article is about how Apple is underdelivering in browser features and compatibility while pretending they aren't. It's about Apple. Apple. The ones responsible for a great many…

You can not-quite-trivially download all versions of a game that have been uploaded to steam, as long as you own the game. And that's a download like as an installers you can run, …

Is that actually true? Just because English treats scents as only describable by analogy doesnt mean all languages do. There are a number of languages with scent descriptions for a…

Improve at what? Pretentiousness? Book people really hate to hear it, but literary fiction follows Sturgeon's law just as much as Sturgeon's own genre. 90% of it isn't worth readin…

If you think of it that way, you have a real problem. It only takes about 10 meters for the weight of a column of water to create enough downward force that it starts vaporizing, a…

No, that's actually more destructive in the short term. That was the OP's point. If they actually become something effective, they will utterly destroy the economy. If they fail, t…

No, it's correct. The best (short-term) case is that they become eternal parasites. If they fail to do that, they'll bring a lot down with them when they fall.

Oh, it's worse than that. I've seen a rise in mutation testing, intended to ensure any change in implementation is caught by tests. Think about that for a moment. It's giving a fan…

It's a difference of degree. People expect something that "parallelizes well" to show near 1-to-1 speedup. Double the hardware, double the speed. This is "you can always speed it u…

You're describing an interaction with a good server at a good business. (Off of peak hours, if you can take hours and they don'thave anything to say about it.) What do QR codes add…