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Craft isn’t craft if it doesn’t produce something. So enjoying the utility of it is not a secondary aspect. That’s a key difference between craft and art.

Famously, the Apollo Mission control team learned to handle multiple conversations stream simultaneously. The side effect was that going to cocktail parties was a nightmare, becaus…

Presumably the years including 1999 and earlier

Clever!

This is so obviously true. Most people that had sudden wfh transitions after or during COVID that I know even with well established networks and families, have really grieved the l…

Working alone at home is far more novel and unusual than any arrangement of work and socialization that has existed in the last 500 years

I’d hardly consider this a side effect. Decreasing traffic in one path within a network of exchange has the direct effect of increasing traffic/demand on alternate paths. Increased…

I think what gets conflated are two aspects. 1. LLM/transformer technology is legitimately amazing and revolutionary. 2. In the end, they function as an enormous, effective databas…

They experimental details in the paper itself. Tl;dr you lower the pH. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413

I don’t think the fact that the robot was instructed to lie to a human and was able to do so successfully makes the story much less scary for most people.

Framing & launching LLMs as a "chat" interface is the source of many ills. I don't have a simple solution, but leaning away from conversational interfaces would lead to less anthro…

Looks very cool, so congrats, but I'm not that interested without a description of the genomes, etc.

I used to work for the Air Resources Board of California, and while there is a warm-up period, modern ice cars are so profoundly cleaner than cars even from the early 2000s. It’s p…

Hopefully this shakes out better than eestor… iykyk

If so, presumably because it kills the weeds that feed the bugs.

Herbicides kill plants, pesticides kill bugs, right?

I’m not actually familiar with current state of scientific research. Are there any quality studies that contradict the ghost-written report? I understand the valid reasons for pull…

Try changing tabs when reviewing a PR. 5-10 seconds on basic PRs often

Two things kicked in around mid 90’s: 1. Dropping levels of elemental lead in folks born 20 years earlier, so lower impulsivity. 2. “The internet”, leading to higher levels of homo…

In app purchases from (crappy) games is top revenue source in App Store. Anecdotally, I’d be shocked if the majority of that wasn’t from kids using their parents’ phones.

I wouldn’t expect that either given the little that I know about the rigorous software requirements for aviation. But I assume that neither of us has anywhere near enough expertise…

This was poignant. Thanks.

This reads like one of the clearest intros to C that I have seen in a long time. Feels approachable the whole way through.

the liquid glass video controls on iOS absolutely does obscure more of the content than the pre-26 players did and it's not even close. it's just UI chrome for its own sake

it's not a change in webkit. the webpage just displays the current OS video player. i read the page in Sequoia and it shows the old version