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Both can be true— We need to be the change we want to see. There are significant structural issues in society that present headwinds for average people trying to build a fulfilling…

Transportation is like farming and yielding ownership of critical industries gives foreign adversaries too much leverage. I’m with you though. If humans could just get along we cou…

Oligarchs would use the robots to kill people instead of a pandemic. A virus carries too much risk of affecting the original creators. Fortunately, robotic capability like that bas…

Do you actually need to simulate at that minuscule level of detail? Or is it possible for a system to be built that can approximate biology similar to how LLMs approximate cognitio…

This is not preprogrammed replay. Replay would not be able handle even tiny variations in the starting positions of the shirt.

That's an extreme position to take that rests on the claim that sponsorship/advertising is objectively bad. Media & journalism have been underpinned by advertising for over a centu…

Can you elaborate on “properly tweaked”? When I use one of the Stable Diffusion and AUTOMATIC1111 templates on runpod.io, the results are absolutely worthless. This is using some o…

It is the only book I wish I could forget completely. Serious advice: think twice before reading The Road if you’re susceptible to doom and gloom about the human race.

Please back up the claim "climate models has a terrible track record" and qualify the word 'terrible'. Casting blame is a common denier tactic [1] used despite the models being use…

These are all generally highly reviewed can lead to interesting discussions: Gattaca - interesting take on genetics/DNA discrimination Europa - hard science fiction, maybe a bit sl…

Based on the GIF, I thought it created an animated video. Even when the .PNG downloaded I thought for sure it’d be an animated PNG. If I’m doing some content creation, I probably a…

Magic means “hidden complexity”, AKA “abstraction”. The negative connotation is that sometimes you can’t figure out why your software is behaving a certain way and what you need to…

Can you elaborate on “is in no way a typical hosted ASP.NET app”? I get that the machinery under the hood is different (ie. Kestrel web server may not get used). However, we typica…

It’s a minor signal, but it’s still a signal. If someone only lists “Angular”, it could be Angular 4 from 2016 or something more relevant. Same thing with .NET— the version can imp…

The annual cadence simplifies our planning— we can preview features a year ahead and prepare for the LTS release. It also shortens the feedback cycle for Microsoft which has to be …

Serverless. Running an ASP.NET app in AWS Lambda is just a few lines of code. However, all of a sudden startup time becomes important for both performance and cost. These investmen…

Can you name other development platforms of similar scale/depth that don’t have this issue? Compared to the whirring treadmill of frontend web development, I find .NET to be pretty…

Serverless hosting (ie. AWS Lambda) makes ASP.NET a primary use case for AOT because cold startup times cripple performance and increase cost. I suspect they’re just not ready yet …

“sexy”, definition: 1. Arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest. 2. Highly appealing or interesting; attractive. 3. Having sexual appeal; suggestive of sex. While #2…

Mars advantages continued: 3. Available water, required for any human/plant/animal life 4. 2.3 times the gravity of the moon 5. CO2 in atmosphere could be converted to O2 for breat…

I’m not picking on you specifically, it sounds like you do a lot of desktop .NET development and there are legitimate complaints there. However, “too invested to switch now” remind…

Aside from labor replacement and the implied capital efficiency, are there other benefits automation can bring to solar installations?

I thought 100k HP was either too incredible or a typo. Then I looked it up: “You def don’t want electric pumps on a rocket engine! Raptor turbopumps alone need 100,000 horsepower p…

How does a single metric from a highly specialized runtime environment indicate a tech stack is dead? There are things you can do right now [1] to mitigate these cold start issues.…