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I would be interested to hear your take on Copilot vs Claude. I have used Copilot (trial) in VS Code and I found it to mostly meet my needs. It could generate some plans and code, …

I feel they're largely here, on this platform. Hacker News, currently, could be renamed to AI News, without any loss of generality.

Fair point on survivorship bias. But, I think SD card being flash memory is technically expected to fail over time, with that failure compounded by the number of write cycles. Thes…

This really puts so many modern conflicts into perspective. Everyone sees themselves as victims. Unfortunately, a consensus on who is and isn't a victim will always be highly elusi…

This sounds great. You mean something like the African Union and its 2 letter acronym, AU?

You may want to look at the Japanese train 'bodycount'. They've arguably the most elaborate rail system and I believe it's still safer than air.

You may have to reduce the amount of Fs you give.

Since January of this year, I have been waiting for a certain MCU (STM32F042K6T6) to be available but still no luck. I get the bigger picture now: there's a shortage at the source.…

Is the phrase,"get short end of the stick" originate from this?

Did you just list Saudi Arabia and Qatar as poor countries? They might be anything, but not poor.

The obsession is not just with stations;everything is bigger over there. My first visit to the US, I was traveling from Japan. The difference in size of things in the two countries…

Some things cannot be bought. Many things have a monetary equivalent, though.

Arsene Wenger, former Arsenal manager

That was quite pronounced. Of the 7, only one wasn't featured: Africa. Difficult to make any conclusion on that, but it's hard to ignore

Dang, this is irrelevant to the topic but I needed to ask it. Are you an individual or several 'users/employees/maintainers' using the same username? Your omnipresent has always be…

I'm not quite a dev, but I have always felt there's something awful with the TF ecosystem. I thought I was the only one 'struggling' with it and that probably there was some fundam…

https://reiwaembedded.com/ Some hardware, SBCs, FPGAs topics. Latest project is building a simple mobile satellite ground station.

This is an American forum in all but name. For the rest, we feel like we're eavesdropping, occasionally mumbling here and there.

The automatic doors might be the quiet heroes here. Given that hands have proved to be among the predominant avenues for the virus spread, I have been keen to monitor where my hand…

As someone outside of the US, news about people of the City of Corona queuing to buy guns was quite shocking. Things are difficult everywhere but a rush to buy guns, not least in t…

Half of a Yellow Sun[1] by Chimamanda Ngozi. If you want to sample probably a different style and culture, I would highly recommend this book. This is a 2006 novel by a prolific Af…

Being from a developing nation, we had been fed a certain narrative about the US. It was the epitome of all the virtues humanity could conceive. Circa 2010 the advent and prevalenc…

How did you arrive at the conclusion that the West is great? Compared to what?