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The process as it relates to a K1 Visa is a multi-step series of approval gates designed to state that someone is “admissible” based on certain conditions, which change as you move…

> "Our approach is not 'AI replaces people.' But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn't change … the number of roles required in certain areas. It does," CEO Mike Cannon-Br…

> I do wonder the prospects of any etsy-like outcome for largely hand crafted software though. While you can personally find stylistic expression in the craft i'm not sure how appa…

The two key differences to me are infrastructure and specificity of purpose. Autoland in plane requires a set of expensive, complex, and highly fine-tuned equipment to be installed…

This isn’t an accurate interpretation. The UK is a _constitutional_ monarchy, not an absolute monarchy, meaning that the monarchy exists and acts in accordance with the constitutio…

Shift+Del and rm -rm are pretty hard to use by accident. Onedrive comes with the computer preconfigured to do some pretty unintuitive things. For example, if a user does not active…

I’m not an expert by any means, but one of the major impediments I would imagine to flying taxis carrying people is safety; there’s a _lot_ that has to be done before people board …

I remember getting an Xbox One and being excited about the concept of it being the center for entertainment in my house. The marketing promise was that it would integrate with TVs …

I’m certainly not an expert, but just based on my personal experiences, I think “character” is the distillation of a lot of different aspects of self, some of which are binary have…

This is a fairly defeatist approach to the issue (read that as a statement of fact, not an accusation or argument). The problem with taking this stance, for many people, is that yo…

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

The update thing struck me as slightly out of touch; if I were to make a list of my top 10 most used consumer products that can be updated, probably 8-9 of them have abused updates…

The neat thing about all this is that you don’t get a choice! Your favorite services are adding “AI” features (and raising prices to boot), your data is being collected and analyze…

Maybe it is. Humans are weird creatures; we draw all manner of lines in the sand on different issues, some rational and others not. I hope we get some interesting psychological stu…

One of the major stories from the rise of AI tooling was when people cooked a recipe that included glue. I don’t think it’s unfair to assume some non-trivial percentage of people u…

They wouldn’t do this stuff unless it worked at large scale. The irony is, at least in my case, I made the impulse decision to just cancel outright instead of accepting the lower p…

> Just project yourself 50 years from now: our current web pages will look archaic. Everything will be conversational, using language, vision, the whole spectrum. To what end? We’v…

> All AI has to do to justify these valuations is capture 1/3rd of Google. Is that all? It really is that easy huh.

> I find it easy to imagine some disabled, or disfigured, otherwise blocked-from-stardom person using tech like this to transform themselves and be able to express their truth with…

Also in Texas - I got this same alert and, (seemingly) like every else in the state I now have emergency alerts turned off. Which is bad. The other example that comes to mind is, I…

Don’t give people ideas, or we’ll start getting 8am morning news sirens.

We need to bring back (human curated) webrings!

Generally speaking most people ask “is this ethical” _before_ doing something. The answer, by the way, is no.

A slightly different perspective for your consideration: I watch videos of people playing through games and talking about or alongside it. There are two main reasons, both of which…

Stack Overflow was a question and answer site that discouraged people from asking or answering questions. LLMs probably sped things up, but it seems like it was inevitable that it …