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I've never understood why anti-scalpers just don't work backwards from shipping address. Are these scalpers all really keeping hundreds of actual physical addresses they can receiv…

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Synthropic | Detection Engineer + GenAI | Full-time / Part-time | Remote (SF) We're an early-stage startup looking for someone passionate about detection engineering and generative…

Yeah MCP isn't really doing a whole lot. You can give an LLM a generic HTTP extension. Then list a series of GET/POST/PUT and ask it to form the calls and parse the response. The p…

Interesting read. Curious how the author feels re: the attack on airbases using shipping containers/drones that was so successful? Seems to be a unique case that worked especially …

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So as someone who took many of those remedial math classes this article rubbed me a bit the wrong way. Not necessarily that any of his descriptions are wrong about the students or …

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So my $0.02 from being on both the hiring and trying to get hired side of the fence. Also I can't do a whiteboard interview to save my life, never could. I mostly think the process…

Honestly, I feel like this is another bi-product of 0% interest rates for so long. Bankers have essentially stopped caring at all about deposit amounts. Many banks still offer 0.x%…

Agree this is a UX problem. They need an option, "Pay minimum + X amount each month" so a user could set it to be $25 for their min + $50 to pay down a bit of the balance. This is …

Scientist lurkers in the thread take note. We have a couple for the first cohort for testing to see if their mouth biome differs from base population. Inquiring minds want to know!…

So within the existing population today there exist individuals who essentially never get cavities. The hypothesis for this has been 1. they don't eat sugar, or only fibrous foods,…

There is a decent episode on this on The Daily by the NYT. Gives some historical context of the give and take of the unions and big 3. One takeaway, this particular new union leade…

1. So this is a gambit in the contract negotiations, its unlikely to be taken seriously but can be given up at a later date. The first stage of these negotiations always has a ton …

I once saw a young lady in the lab in Soda hall getting obviously frustrated. A few moments later she exclaimed, "Why is it so f**ing hard!" and then as if in a cartoon slammed her…

Took CS61AL (Lab version) about a decade ago. Even knowing how to program and working in industry for several years it was not easy. I think my class was one of the last to use Sch…

Also board from back to front. Yes first class has to wait, but it would save so much time. Even if they boarded first class then did the rest of the plane back to front it would s…

So I guess "Whistle-blower" is appropriate here, but marketing a "batch" processing system as "real-time" seems to be a bit of a nothing-burger in my mind. I think the more telling…

So I haven't ridden the Loop in Vegas, but have seen the videos of people riding it. My first thought was what happens when one of those lithium-ion batteries malfunctions in such …

What I think is interesting, at least in the case of Veritas default in SF, is that they are then allowed to bid to buy the debt at a discounted price. They are using a different f…

Good lord, $26.4K. Yeah not quite car-level worth it to me, although I'm sure they are very nice. Was thinking like $250-300, for a sort of anti-tech punk thing at tech parties.

The irony of this is Google is very much a culture of spending vast amounts of resources on internal/external tools. They have a significant product category in GSuite. So when I s…