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"Opening up"? You must be kidding. Nothing is open there. It's just open-washing. A few nice diagrams, but how the services _actually_ work is still hidden.

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> It is repeated often, but is this really true? If I look around at (a) politicians and (b) people I respect for traits needed in politicians, then those sets are not fully but la…

> Make the math use bigger numbers. Also, add redundancy so that if something is read out wrong then there is guaranteed to be no match. Error-correcting codes have been around for…

> If we were talking about 1 restaurant, or even 100, that would mean that 1 in 4,096 orders (or 1 every 40 days) are getting swapped due to this efficiency. Not really. For swappi…

If you really think that those guys are extremists, then you haven't seen nothing yet. Take a peek over to Italian politics and you get a glimpse of what could be coming. Or Israel…

It is a large machinery and what you are seeing there is the long tail on one end. There are lots of good things coming out of the European Commission and some really great things.…

Politics already suffers heavily from not getting the best-of-the-best. Making it even less attractive to become a politician is unlikely to improve upon that. In the totality of a…

Why is everybody calling this new toy "AI"? There is no intelligence there. It's just text inference. People complaining that this thing should not say "I" because that would lead …

That can easily be solved by outlawing them. Just like it has been solved with handguns everywhere except the U.S. which keeps refusing to realize that their 2nd amendmend is just …

It is. I can see that it was written in 2003 and discard it. GPT won't tell me if its answer is based on an ancient lib version. Essentially, GPT is that rando's webpage but with t…

> You have no idea if the alternative code you would have written would have been idiomatic or had some critical flaw. But I have a feeling for both, which is one of the key compon…

I tend to do important things in the second half of the month. That way, you don't get an ambiguous 10/09/22 but a less ambiguous 10/17/22. Everybody still needs to be aware which …

> Our date system is like the Fahrenheit system; it works well when thinking like a human. Maybe if you are an American. But non-Americans are puzzled when they see 10/03/08 and ar…

Maybe they are ok with Google seeing search terms but not with Google seeing their companies code.

And you will have no idea whether the solution it presents to you is idiomatic or recommended or contains some common critical flaw or is hopelessly outdated. How can you find out?…