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The CDC website was gutted in Jan 2025 following the Trump administration’s opening salvo of executive orders. This deprived American (and global) healthcare professionals of valua…

Michael Lewis wrote a book called Flashboys all about it. If your network speed and processing power are faster than the competitors, then you can move faster than them on any trad…

The hard part with 2FA over SMS is that it's no longer considered secure [1]. I want a dumb phone too, but with all the security tools we need (password manager, 2FA apps/tokens, e…

I think something like yoga or dance would qualify. If you’re exclusively looking for things where you can put your hands on stuff then maybe a petting zoo?

How do y’all avoid lawsuits and stuff? I always wonder that about Palantir and Anduril and all those other companies. Did you have to ask permission? Or is this just a run it til t…

This doesn't actually map methane leaks. It finds oilfield equipment and infrastructure and guesses how much it might leak and how that leak might diffuse. There's not like a speci…

Isn’t that the plot of Skyrim?

I have never had my car door fall off mid road trip though

If you’re interested in a deeper dive, this is basically a summary of Peter Attia’s Outlive https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/ It’s a good book, I’m currently reading it now. The pr…

Anyone else hear this in Withers’ voice? I just finished BG3

The INSANE thing to me about naming your company Palantir after the artifact from Middle Earth is the story behind the seeing stones. By the Third Age - when the events of the Lord…

Just called the number holy cow it’s real. I love obscure infrastructure stuff like that

I think it’s the Moneyball strategy - teams prefer home runs to base hits even if it means more strikeouts Now baseball is shifting away from moneyball back to base hitters because…

1000% they don't want to make art, they want to make content

is anyone else weirded out that it simulates breath? like this is a robot, not a real woman, but it pauses to take a breath to mimic human sound. on the one hand i like it. she sou…

I guess that’s why they call it window pain

Is there another way to be European than by geography?

Industrial software perpetual licenses are really perpetual. Those things will outlast the company that wrote them and they don’t have claw-back mechanisms

Makes sense. I think it's funny that by you providing a major employer where you don't work nerd sniped a couple of us into guessing the other players in the space.

Gotta be Keyence? My favorite machine vision use case is the tomato sorter. This is one I found from YouTube, not affiliated https://youtu.be/j4RWJTs0QCk

My dishwasher has a beeper for when it’s done like a microwave. It drives me up a wall!! I don’t care when dishes are done, I don’t need to attend to them urgently. They can sit th…

I would love to be able to listen to news podcasts in this.

It was 100.3 KJKK Jack FM which I’m realizing was only in the DFW area. I figured it was syndicated Here’s a link to what I’m guessing is their site: https://jack.fm/listen-to-jack…

Just downloaded. I loved JackFM back when I listened to terrestrial radio in the car - it was a station with a snarky robot dj and it was great. Thanks for making this!

i think it’s because choose and chose are pronounced different from loose and lose- but autocorrect has no idea the difference or context of use and so people throw whatever out th…