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I recently switched to a new phone, and realized that all my messaging apps either: - saves all messages unencrypted on the provider's servers: it makes it easy to restore on a new…

If a company built a tool like Copilot to help students write essays, is that considered plagiarism? Probably yes, and the reason is that regurgitating blobs of text without actual…

There is something fascinating about this article, and it's not the tips about how to properly work hard, which aren't new or particularly insightful (otherwise reasonable and well…

Google changing the country in their terms of services without user explicit approval/opt-in is much worse than it seems. As a user, I might have Germany as my country in Google wh…

Free market includes when competition can reasonably enter a market that's not structured through legislation to be overly favorable towards incumbents. Note that there are natural…

Meanwhile Google Meet is still horrendous compared to Zoom, despite me and my coworker both having gigabit internet... Don't get me wrong, this is cool, but a research project beco…

It's not very stealth tech if it's vue

Am I the only one who thinks the concept of relative error is not meaningful in this context? It gives a disproportionate meaning to 0 without real physical consideration, eg: - 0.…

Totally agree. One redeeming truth is that software is similar to finance in that it gives an outsized advantage to a business vs one that doesn't get it. Unlike finance though, "s…

I'm pretty sure they pivoted after starting YC, so in this instance the specific criticism about YC doesn't hold

The key difference here is that it's a venture backed effort, which signals something very different from large state-financed research efforts like Iter. Namely, that there is a p…

Learning isn't possible without unlearning whatever temporary construct we used as a crutch, but it doesn't mean using that temporary construct is wrong even if it's not technicall…

Not quite. Having a blanket "Google doesn't track you" statement doesn't capture the complexity of reality: what if the website you're browsing is using Firebase for their authenti…

This is amazing. I was not happy when my doctor told me I had to do 3 shots, twice a week, for my allergies, with 30min wait time at the doctors, while I could have just had sublin…

Having great returns and improving humanity are very different things. I'm pretty sure a lot of scams are benefiting their creators very well, and yet...

There was a "go/yeshello" to provide the opposing argument, and later a "go/onlyhello" which is obviously the correct answer

The reality is that most users don't care about computer personalization anymore, a computer is just a conduit to the actual desired activity (browsing the web, playing games, watc…

I find it fascinating that we're using an overall linear model (Quantum Physics) of our non-linear reality, particularly the bits that are less linear (Bose Einstein condensates) t…

Those are the "empty(/bad) calories for the mind". It's akin to eating processed snacks when you're hungry, instead of nutrient whole foods

You can always "bisect" through space (execution flow) OR time (commits) to find a bug. I usually prefer through space, because 1. it actively helps narrow the buggy line in the co…

Using the bread as a makeshift N95 to survive is genius

(See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravarianc... for more context) Yes, as the terms "co/contra-variance" loosely relate to how certain derived attributes "vari…

There is beauty in first constructing V* as the one-forms over V, which seems like a "one-way" derivation from it, and then finding through V = V that they're actually two very-equ…

That's too simplistic and not realistic. I'd rather go for an heuristic that's the dependency management equivalent of "Ask for forgiveness, not permission": 1.Find the best librar…

The article makes very nuanced points that don't transpire in the title, and thus get straw manned in the comments. Here are the salient points: - The article says nothing against …