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I agree with you and understand completely. It just seems more an "as-needed" item that'd be "prescribed" by a medical professional rather than a consumer-facing gadget.

> The average SWE costs $200/hr This is a pointless quibble but the hourly rate claim is not true--it's like ~$60 in the USA [0]. Maybe you meant at a specific Org but this is impo…

It took me a few seconds of deliberating if The Homer was a reference to baseball or "The Odyssey" and then realized there was a footnote > software production has become a mass-pr…

I'm genuinely curious how "fractional hires" differ from contractors, temp or part-time employees. Is it more geared toward executive/leadership roles? In my current role, working …

I'm from the west coast and oregon has always seemed to have large populations of retirees in the more rural areas. My grandparents considered moving there when I was young. Also s…

That's A LOT of continuous time-series data and really makes me wonder how much is necessary. I check my blood pressure maybe once a week.

> it feels like we are witnessing one of the most significant events in world history Yes. > Are You Preparing for the Singularity No.

Respectfully, that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

In a recent Ezra Klein podcast about data center backlash he mentions being vegetarian and says something along the lines of "being anti data center because of water consumption is…

It reminds me of phishing "test" emails for education and to keep people on their toes.

Huh I've always been sort of curious what the terminal is exactly. Cool and surprised it has a chat feature

And probably the quant stack exchange but I've never been on it

Both can be delayed for myriad reasons. Air travel is inherently faster, however.

Doesn't reader mode disable JS by definition?

Per HN Guidelines post "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." I learned quite a lot in just the first 10 seconds of looking at the wiki. https://news.ycombinator.c…

In college the punchline for all the engineer, physicist and mathematician jokes were something like "The mathematician says: Yes, there is a solution." In all serious "I don't und…

Interesting example in this context because "ennui" looks French, which may help someone with the pronunciation or spelling depending on needs. It's not a word I've come across muc…

The mislabeling is egregious but also the whole map is way out of sorts! UK, Greenland and Australia locations for starters my goodness...

> The thing is, we are wrong, but this stuff is useful to make predictions I understand where you're coming from but this is a very cynical take. String theory is a strawman compar…

There's a crass Zeno's Paradox joke involving an engineer, the devil, a pretty lady and a football field: the punch line being something like "I know the paradox but can get close …

Was genuinely expecting an article about manufacturing methodologies! Very interesting teachable moment for me, I've always wanted to learn more about Set Theory.

I agree it is under utilized but genuinely question if it provides sufficient value to warrant increased utilization.

You say, in much fewer words, what I was writing so will just +1 you. Maybe the Chat GPT Study Mode mentioned above does this functionality already; would be surprised if this isn'…