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There is a cable show "The Food that Built America" where they do discuss the candy bar battles of the early 20th century, and specifically the Mars family drama. It's not to the p…

The 280 freeway on the Peninsula in the Bay Area has banned billboards, and it is quite a pleasant drive.

Sure, but the author takes it much further than that. She wants to have the AI write into her brain as well as read from it.

People are using the UX systems though, just that it's the agent that is gluing them together now. Under the hood, it's still React plus component libraries like shadcn, lucide, ta…

We used to do this as an interview question at my current job. We didn't expect people to solve it necessarily, and we just specified to solve for a single elevator car. We just wa…

I was confused by that too, but then I thought maybe the new replacement was commenting that using javascript in the app would provide more work for contractors, which he perceives…

For me, the central entity of "social media" is a person or personality. The central entity of forums, such as HN or Reddit, is topics. Sometimes there is crossover between the two…

Remember when Fox was sued by the voting machine company for libel (or slander, can't remember which), after Fox supported and broadcast claims that the machines were rigged agains…

I noticed this on Safari, but when I switched to Chrome it seemed fine.

It's wild to me that at 83 years of age, he still wants to do gigs like this. Pretty sure he doesn't need the money.

My 11 year old son plays Fortnite almost daily. He plays other games too but Fortnite is what he plays with his friends online.

In our current system, the only defenses against corruption: - Standards and norms, which obviously the current administration doesn't give a rat's ass about - Failing that, Congre…

Remember when everyone said Facebook would be dead if they started running ads

I quite literally couldn't stay awake for Andor. Five minutes into each episode I was out cold. Saying it's a "slow burn" is quite the understatement.

For the Fox News crowd, which is most of his supporters, they are likely not even aware of these transgressions, as they are not reported there. Or, if they are aware, they are hap…

It's the job of the Congress to hold the executive branch accountable, with the ultimate endpoint being impeachment and removal if necessary. Unfortunately, the Senate republicans …

I haven't checked on this in a long time, but IIRC, the insurance company will always blame the person in back in a rear-end collision, for just this reason. A rear-end collision s…

AI doesn't "want to" control air traffic. It doesn't have any desire or ambition. That's what the humans are for. It is merely a tool like a hammer. The hammer doesn't build the ho…

We've noticed this in our neighborhood. Once a year we host a few families before going out trick or treating with our kids. We buy a bunch of pizza so everyone can eat and don't a…

I guess then, that he is relying on his customers not discovering that there are options out there that will do this for them, without a "middle man" as it were. Seems like shaky g…

Waymo is doing very well around San Francisco, which is certainly very challenging city driving. Yes, it doesn't snow there. Maybe areas with winter storms will never have autonomo…

Seeing images like that are always a good reminder that LLM's don't actually "know" anything.

Bit of an aside but that site is truly awesome. Good to see some real design chops out there. I could browse those fonts for hours.

I had a colleague who I sensed was giving me the cold shoulder. Just kind of cutting off attempts at friendly conversation, whereas before our relationship had been fine. As the au…

As another data point, my son was 5 when the lockdowns hit and missed the end of his kindergarten year and the entirety of first grade. He's doing fine. My daughter was 18 months a…