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Once something becomes political, it becomes intertwined with all the other political issues they're concerned/upset about. Everyone suffers from this to some degree; to many, the …

That sounds reasonable, and I don't doubt that it's part of the reason. Still, iiuc the solution to hallucination is that they can essentially train the model to recognize when it …

I don't use it that much, but I have noticed these AI overviews still seem hallucinate a lot, compared to others. Meanwhile I hear that Gemini is catching up or surpassing other mo…

Maybe the answer to your question was subjective?

This problem is has already gotten so much better. In my experience it's no longer 10% of the time (I'd estimate more like 1%). In the end, you still need to use judgement; maybe i…

How do you feel about public transportation?

An OTP that's reused?

> This calculator[1] factors everything you listed, and the math doesn't work out for the hottest housing markets That's a great calculator; I remember using it like a decade ago. …

> I did a comp science degree, so I can't speak for the liberal arts. By 'liberal arts' I meant the common 4 year, non-vocational education. My major was CS too, but well over half…

> there is 0 way of telling if the work is real or not, at which point why bother? I might argue you couldn't really tell if it was "real" before LLMs, either. But also, reviewing …

> However, while 90% will miss the opportunity right there in front of them, 10% will grab it and suck the marrow. Learning is not just a function of aptitude and/or effort. Intere…

This kind of "perf review" hacking works ~everywhere; how well it works correlates with how entrenched the organization is (i.e., how hard it is for new players to disrupt). You do…

I agree that on intrinsic characteristics, it makes more sense than gold. But most people do not even think about what 'money' is, and as with anything there's a lot of inertia in …

> Why would any government want this a feature? As an issuer, they wouldn't. But nobody can issue Bitcoin anyway, so that's clearly irrelevant. As a reserve, it would be the same o…

> But I am personally just so so grateful the timeline lined up for me. I know the feeling. We still have access to the engineering thought processes responsible for some of the mo…

I've noticed this tendency in myself and thought about the 'why' a lot, and I think it comes down to subconsciously factoring in the cost of lock-in, or worse, lack of access to fi…

Setting the desired temp is 'auto mode'

Depending on the model year, it may have a stalk for turn signals. The same stalk has a button on the end to trigger the wipers (rarely needed because they're auto-sensing), and th…

I'm not sure how common this is, but I would guess most people experience it to some degree. I've worked remotely since 2013, and love the convenience, but still need to get out fr…

There's also a non-zero chance you'll die before year 20. I agree with the premise that seeking financial independence should be a significant factor in career/life decisions, but …

> ... (IIRC) This is easy to test. Just disable your wifi and try it out

I've encountered 1 in ~20 years. I don't even remember what it was, but I remember being shocked when I tracked it down and it actually was a compiler bug

One of the nice things about bitwarden in particular is that they make it easy to self host (and there's vaultwarden which is even easier). There are tradeoffs, but lockin risk is …

> I’m sorry that you feel that shallow and uninformed opinions need to be coddled I'm not saying any opinions need to be coddled. I'm saying that while you may interpret your inter…