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Veganism is so polarizing because on some level I think most if not all people understand that they are philosophically correct and that veganism is thus the morally right thing to…

“Hospitals in America are increasingly outsourcing the checking of insurance eligibility and filing of medical records to Filipinos packing AI tools. Mr Gallimore says” How is this…

Yeah this seems to me similar to how the mortgage backed security risk concentration occurred leading up to the global financial crisis. Whereby the risk from exposure to low grade…

Didn’t this happen to Jimmy Carter once?

How about we meet in the middle and use pelicans on ZooTycoon

“The elevator did hear you, it just has a lot to think about” Didn’t anticipate that my day would be bookended by relating to and empathizing with the plight of the elevators while…

simonw has been correctly asserting that there is no deterministic way to prevent hallucinations. I’d argue that this obstinance could be the seed of a strong argument in favor of …

Yeah but space data center Econs are going to revolutionize the tulip marketplace

Investing early in this hn post before it’s a banger. Instant classic

Why doesn’t Apple just make a built in iOS native vpn that can be toggled (effectively) from the swipe down menu control and is paid monthly or part of iCloud

My dad is an English professor and wrote his first manuscript turned book on a typewriter much to his editor’s dismay in the late 1990s. He used to compel me to type my Christmas w…

This and not being able to divide by 0 in math always drove me up the wall in school. Encountering a god level difficulty unsolved problem in the first 5 minutes of discussion arou…

Prescient From the live updates of the war on the NYT 11 minutes ago and around 15 mins after you wrote this: “””Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Horm…

I fear that at this rate the oligarchs will use medical breakthroughs to keep us alive and laboring against our and nature’s will like what industrial farming has done to chickens …

An instantaneous measure of a sentiment undergoing an exponential decay I sense

Idk I feel like Ansible and RHEL aim to give you that control in a way that’s not typically corporate icky in the way you describe but ymmv. Granted both are products based on FOSS…

Interested to read more about this particular crossroads of copyright case law. Also does the last sentence reflect (at least in part) what you describe (in partial jest?) in the l…

Would it be possible to upload them all to YouTube as unlisted and then point Gemini to them? Not sure the limitations wrt unlisted videos. Maybe also could’ve been done with the @…

Reminds me of the poem / song “All I wanna do” "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die" Says the man next to me out of nowhere It's apropos of nothing, he says his name i…

Can we get the link to that TikTok? lol Also what do you think about goose

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md f…

It’s kind of interesting that this happens so shortly after they proudly announced how easily they would’ve able to migrate all systems from Microsoft and US firms. Maybe next year…

I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't b…

Lmao I love this flavor of the ‘tism that always surfaces in hn comment threads exactly like this. Like moths to a flame

Good news: this cat and mouse game is keeping some of our brothers / sisters in software employed at FAANG. I feel like the girl from the kombucha reaction gif weighing both sides …