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i have to be honest, each time a friend or co worker has demod or explained their “smart home” setup, i have always been pretty underwhelmed. a lot of complex doodads, money, and s…

i feel a lot of people in tech have this incuriously deterministic attitude about llms right now… previous revolutionized the world, therefore llms will! despite there really nothi…

both my kindle and wife's work great and we have been using them regularly. they are actually very well made and durable devices.

as a clickhouse architect, i can’t help but feel they would have been better served by understanding their db’s native capabilities better before jumping into implementing this. ro…

or just at any point in the last 20 years to the present works too

the problem is as a means of cash it’s inferior to existing systems in pretty much every dimension. more expensive, slower, more risk, higher volatility. the cash story for crypto …

premise is wrong. have seen a number of claude/codex disasters that never make it to production with clients, yet consumed an enormous amount of human time and bandwidth. expertise…

i bought a builder license from newegg in 2017. unfortunately i was not diligent about saving the product key. this was actually the third time i had been in this scenario after ch…

i recently upgraded a computer. windows 10 deactivated itself due to the hardware change. i tried everything i could to reactivate. microsoft support told me my only solution was t…

i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people…

lol no it won’t

every generation thinks they live in unique times. that there existed some idyllic lost time innocence. it’s a fantasy.

Electrifying the economy is not a path to 0 pollution.

No sympathy for Larry here! Just the point that development is going to coincide with some level of increased pollution. Even an electrified economy with 0 carbon emissions is goin…

Would you accept 0 pollution if it meant you had no electricity, electronic devices, or access to transportation? All of those things create pollution.

It undermines the value of decentralization itself given intermediaries tend to pop up in all of these various platforms and become the dominant way to use them.

Why is water used for golf a waste vs other uses?

Major city police are typically some of the highest paid public employees of any area. Often with a more generous pension tier than what is given to other public employees. Ie star…

Am I missing something? Predicts AGI through continuous learning in 2032? Feels right around the corner to me. > But in all the other worlds, even if we stay sober about the curren…

Except for Finland nobody has actually created a long term geologic disposal site. Like so many problems, the issue is dominated by political coordination, not physical limits.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD Because the deficit was positive between 1997 and 2001, during Bill Clinton’s second term as POTUS.

Fedora desktop is actually a really nice experience in 2025. I switched in maybe 2022, after getting annoyed by the surge in nagging. The last time I tried desktop Linux was maybe …

No advice, I just hope you find your way, whatever that may be, to make life work for you. I am sorry you are struggling.

None of the institutional market intelligence products I’ve ever worked on in nearly a decade of doing this do. Why? Cause they wouldn’t otherwise work. Many APIs require specific …

> - Scraping without a contact method, or at least some unique identifier (like your project's codename), in the user agent string. This is a very effective way to make sure you wo…