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People who publish papers labeled as science studies need to take more care and responsibility as this can lead to life-changing decisions by public...

Some time ago I was offered to start using hearing aid, and I must say when I tried it I felt like something opened in my brain. So now I read this article where it says wearing he…

This comment touches real problems, I was thinking about purchasing EV but was worried about things touched in that comment. It makes me thinking I should wait a bit longer.

My friend switched to UX from not-a-programmer job (and after longish CV gap) and it took her 9 months to land job. She had her ups and downs but she was persistent, also she met a…

Other people said it already that CTO may mean different things depending on context. From my exp CTO in small startup is marketing tool and it does not mean real "the CTO". In sma…

If you are not studying in Oxford or similar your degree probably won't matter that much (I lived in foreign countries for many years and was not asked about my degree even once), …

Maybe whoever will break current state of encryption landscape will also gain privilege to build new and benefit from it? In my opinion if breaking AES is to serve military (and hu…

Yep, this sentence from the article is good summary of the problem they had: > The rest of the team observed them in admiration. They should have been included in building base, th…

In my uni (and I guess in every other uni) they have a system which detects plagiarised parts of mastery thesis (and other too). My first thought is, would text produced by AI pass…

I feel there is more general mechanism that drives behaviors like this, In my opinion people tend to promote those things cultivated by their tribe, so they feel their sense of bei…

tbh I always wondered why do they call themselves 'openai' since models are not open. But does that mean people should do things like what OP says..

Is this not acting in bad faith? What is driving you to do this, is it not better to simply let it be and focus on something else?

I sometimes use it when I'm lacking inspiration to craft polite LinkedIn or email response.

I'm having some fun writing bot for codingame fall community challenge https://www.codingame.com/contests/fall-challenge-2023

> like using postgres instead of MySQL or Ruby or Python instead of PHP I guess it's great advice for newcommers who have enough time at hand, but would it not be better to pick on…

> this is too ambiguous of a question anyway, since it depends on the workload yep, how much data is queried and how are queries written, I'd guess it's good to strech your muscles…

I think the commenter you replied to meant there is high probability there are not that many plumbers visiting HN (I don't count some SW devs who call themselves plumbers :) )

Also rkhunter Many years ago I was thinking about logs monitoring to detect anomalies and wrote personal utility to achieve this.

Doors, kind of furniture I'm missing lately... With kids at home doors need to be equipped with a lock. And it helps to have ensuite too...

chess.com puts some effort in detecting cheaters. When I was active user I was receiving messages stating that such and such game was lost to cheater and my rating is updated to re…

When I was a kid I heard proffessional player opinion that people who play more games get better results, he stated chess is game of numbers. I'm probably not on that level as no m…

I stopped watching movies and series altogether a few years ago feeling I'm wasting time. Now I still waste time, but on other things :)

Ah it was such wonderful time, I remember this feeling of fresh air when switching to Firefox from IE :)

I use FF for daily browsing and Chrome when have to jump on google meet (can't get it working on FF, otherwise I would not use Chrome at all)