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FT's "Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once" was published, and discussed, recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168928 https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-…

The hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?

So, "Gnu is Not Unix, Dawg"?

That's the real joke...

Let's hope you're right, but you might be underestimating the "$200 per month (robo)engineer can only do it like this, therefore this is the way to do it" factor.

If you often find yourself saying "but you didn't specify humanity must survive this!" maybe you're part of the problem ;)

I believe originally it was a name for PTSD, that's an even more curious association. In case it wasn't obvious, tortoise-related puns can be taken too far :)

Patrick Boyle explains: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QkuAXOMYwA4

Pick your poison, as usual, but Patrick Boyle's "How The Japanese Economic Miracle Led to Lost Decades" suggests the fall was entirely of their (Japan's) own making: https://yewtu.…

I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitc…

When cloud was a young buzzword there was a popular test: replace "in the cloud" with "on the internet" and see if you want to continue. - We store pictures of our kids [in the clo…

Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's freudian, but email existed before Google, so did calendar. Youtube was an acquisition. Maps, well, there are great alternatives now that do not r…

https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/146...

I guess that's the proof things are going backwards in the UK, they've recently gotten rid of no. 1 - "Freedom of Movement": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-…

It's only impossible until someone finds a way...

From what I've been told, you need to "change something" in order to get promoted at Google. Doesn't much matter what, as long as it's a visible change, presumably at least margina…

Sounds like we need a G.E.C.K.!

Ian Levy, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s departing Technical Director, discusses life, the universe, and everything.

From TFA: "researchers stress that this cross-sectional study does not allow for cause-and-effect analyses, and that it could be that children who are good at these types of cognit…

France takes up 643801 km2, so are you sure Paris is in the 11mln km2 ballpark?

yewtu.be / Invidious for the win!