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I am a dinosaur but still feel strongly enough to post this PSA: please go back and read "No Silver Bullet" (and his follow up) again. You should probably schedule a re-read every …

yes, railways don't buy towns, they build them from scratch!

My money says this will get regulatory approval to compete with the CPKC which goes both east-west and north-south from Canada to Mexico. In this climate a rail network from coast …

I still believe this is a windmill at which we should tilt. I used to report to the CTO and he accused me of being "overly pedantic". I agreed with the pedantic part but no the "ov…

interesting thought from this: second order attack via prompt not on the AI doing the task but AI being used for evaluation like reviews or other multi-agent scenarios. "The follow…

the courts have been pretty clear in this area so far, siding with some variation on "progress" over the ownership argument. It definitely feels like a "too big to fail" scenario a…

Wild that OpenAI is changing so much that you can post about how things have radically changed in a year, and consider yourself a long-timer after number of people where "some" is …

my manager has been experimenting have AI first right the specs as architecture decision records (ADR), then explain how the would implement them, then slowly actually implementing…

Any current question to an LLM is just a textual interpretation of the search results though; the use the same source of truth (or lies in many cases)

>> You can always make stuff up to trigger AI hallucinations Not being able to find an answer to a made up question would be OK, it's ALWAYS finding an answer with complete confide…

It gave me two answers (one was Borland sidekick) which I then asked "are you sure about that?" waffled and said actually neither of those it's IBM Handshaker to which I said "I do…

dial-up penetration in the mid-90's was still very thin, and high-speed access limited to universities and the biggest companies. Here's the numbers ChatGPT found for me: * 1990s: …

>> an amazing tool to support learning, when used properly. how can kids, think K-12, who don't even know how to "use" the internet properly - or even their phones - learn how to l…

This is a really negative and insulting comment towards people who are struggling with a very real, very emotional response to AI, and super-concerned about both the real and poten…

Would you prefer that he graze natural plants 20 hrs/day? He's the premium calorie consumer of all humans: a pubescent male. Are Dutch people statistically taller than Germans? Do …

and yet I can do nothing and live a much better, longer life than my grandma.

different scenario; more appropriate would be the same car with zero or 1,2, or more passengers.

why do the companies with the shortest planning horizons have the highest P/E ratios then?

stock markets are indices of successful companies; you need to look at the composition. The metric I would look at is the age of the companies in the S&P 500 or similar, and that I…

are you discounting the supply of new companies that continually replace the decliners? What's happening to those the previously existed for 50+years? Will we ever see a new compan…

How would they confirm that you received an email or even letter mail? They're not serving you. This is about potentially proving that the owner is trying to protect their IP, whic…

I was really hoping that this toilet-privacy device required an always-on internet connection. I want to broadcast my shits to the entire interwebs

Will this make brief snatches of random music the new farting sound?

or instead of searching for "best dog breeds for apartments" change it to "best f'in dog breeds for tiny s-hole apartments" - feels much more cathartic