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He kind of did. He used leverage to place bets on the market. Leverage scales in a way, because larger pools of money (corporations, groups of investors) mean larger bets. But leve…

AI Fatigue. I'm a fan of AI but I've stopped clicking on stories about it because it's mostly hype, slop, fomo, and flat-out lies.

I wonder how many layers of fabric a cutter could get through in one pass (without setting it on fire).

YouTube's recommendation system is great... for children.

In the problem is the solution. Open source maintainers start writing AGENTS.md and other files to guide those using LLMs, and future nerd sniping and elitism can be practiced in r…

If you can handle Linux, you should try Reaper as a DAW. It's really great.

Maybe, but they also have bets placed that hydrogen fuel cells are the future, which doesn't seem very realistic either. Unrealistic in a different direction.

I've definitely seen this in the chat interface. It loses entire methods and segments of source, and it absolutely crawls during generation. To the point where I just tell it to gi…

It's too bad the AI can't just do the sewing.

This is exactly the app I would've wanted when I was still trying to lose weight by tracking calories, really great idea. I paid for a calorie-tracking app that couldn't do this, I…

I kept at mathacademy for about 6-8 months and completed Foundations 1, which was mostly a review of things I'd forgotten. Once I got to Foundations 2 and started regularly failing…

Now that I think about it, I never once got a job from a cold application. It was always on either an employee recommendation or having met a family member.

Second this. Getting rich is orthogonal to general intelligence, and much more aligned to how you estimate and handle risk.

In a comment on another Rust-related post, the author noted that, "rust definitely skews younger than average. i don't have statistics on hand, but almost all people i know working…

I've known some corporate recruiters personally and I thought I'd heard most of the hiring horror stories. I have _never_ heard of this, and now I'm wondering how prevalent it is.

Converting all matter in the universe to compute.

Public transit is hot garbage in 99% of cities in the US. Bus routes represent a shuttle for moving the poor, elderly, and infirm between various public assistance offices. It won'…

Yeah, it is. The only glaring issue I see is that Yaccarino will definitely have to compromise by kicking some of the more radical people off the platform to get the high-dollar ac…

This hole was plugged more than a year ago as they no longer use the ESP32 as a base.

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

* > I believe the key to success here will be "Cold Sales" * 100% correct. 1. Get a demo ready that you can show on a laptop. Focus on features. 2. Smile and dial. Set a meeting wi…