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I do think it's still true in my experience that someone with the the capabilities to build useful things on their own tend to not stay very long at these giant companies, unless f…

Looks like youtube premium just gives you no ads and allows for video downloads. Which you already can get using ublock and youtube-dl if you're watching from a computer. People wh…

What are they supposed to do then?

wait what. I just read neuromancer and don't see how that applies? Were rio/wintermute ever involved in detecting an alien signal?

twist: these posts are written by chatGPT

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precede?

Personally I've used it more in the past week than ever before. And if Elon's tweets are to be believed, DAU is also at an all-time high. So i guess the answer is: if people are in…

Why was copilot a fiasco? This [0] hn thread from two months ago is filled with predominantly positive reviews [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825742

English is missing some seemingly basic answer words too, which are present in other languages. Like no single word for unambiguously answering a negative question. E.g. Q: Aren't …

Yes, because inflation is already the first derivative of cost. So the 'rate of increase' of inflation is the second derivative. And to say that the second derivative is decreasing…

20% APY for staking UST

I think it is a problem though when a game's revenue mostly comes from cosmetics, as it shifts the developer incentives away from "developing a game that lots of people want to buy…

I also think it's mostly semantics. Someone who was truly unable to visualize things mentally wouldn't discover it late in life by browsing reddit or whatever, it should be very ob…

Nope. There are some distributed blockchain file storage systems, but by and large NFTs don't use them.

Think you misunderstood the parent comment. Full screen doesn't somehow add pixels into a bezel

I think the interesting addition is his point that adding some amount of literal randomness to stages of the process would be a good thing, if the culture around interviewing could…

Isn't that marketing?

If someone pays you in cash, do you really look up the serial numbers of all the bills you receive?

(hint: it's a joke)

Does anyone know what conclusions (if any) could be drawn from the psychedelic studies of the 60's? The wikipedia page on the harvard study [0] is pretty light on details. Though i…

This was (is?) used as a case study in MIT's system's engineering course (6.033)

The USB C connection on my laptop loosened over time. To the point that the cable now just falls out unless I keep the laptop completely still. Having a magnet in there to keep the…

With so many studies being done on covid (by basically every lab in the world capable of doing so), the self selection biases are especially strong. That is, every study that confi…