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Same but I’m sure my sense of smell is weaker (or average?). On the other hand, my sense of color differentiation is extremely fine. Unsurprisingly my interests are very color-domi…

The cost of housing is probably the #1 reason and, in my opinion, California’s biggest problem. California as a whole is still doing pretty well but high housing cost is slowly pul…

I’d say it’s not so much senses but defining what success means. If you want to learn darts or perfect parallel parking for example, most of the increase in accuracy comes from sim…

If I were to be real, my coworkers that post AI responses straight rarely had insightful comments before AI.

Supposedly only ~10-15% of adults use DoorDash and Instacart in the US. In 2026, most people don’t use technology to buy groceries or order food. Those people are a minority.

It’s not just emotions, it’s a sign that, when presented with something annoying that you should do but not strictly required, it shows that you pushed through and did it anyway. I…

Red Bull doesn’t just market, they bankroll and support. Most companies just sponsor a team or something, but Red Bull has paid for the baseline infrastructure of many sports.

I 100% agree but Starlink is the only profitable space division of SpaceX. The truth is diverting money to space exploration is not that popular. We only got the moon because we we…

But since you built the bot, you can have it do anything? Answer all HATCHAS and then do anything according to my instructions?

But the architecture doesn’t matter as much as the implementation. You can write standards however strict but Bob might not care. Now you could try to enforce more onerous requirem…

It’s easy to understand but most people don’t naturally think of ways people try to break in. Without thinking about that, the importance of security is low. It isn’t a knowledge t…

It’s not a technical problem. And the problem is that it’s not centralized. Everyone and their mom has their own system, managed by different people with different standards. It’s …

CSS is a general rendering solution, not something built for rendering 3D games. And no one has spent any time optimizing 3D transforms to make a game workable because no one would…

In cognitive science, it appears your brain has two modes of thinking: - A very parallel type of computation that is fast and generally accurate and integrates hundreds of variable…

That’s only if you look at the final price without understanding the makeup of that price. The components of computation have been getting cheaper every year… it hasn’t lately beca…

But I think that is overly presumptuous though. Some people have a different moral framework. Some people think Saddam’s brutal dictatorship was for the better because it finally b…

Decaying rural areas happen in every country, throughout history, throughout time. It’s just how the world works. The only reason it recently reversed in the US was due to COVID. S…

I’m in constant code switch mode. Among a larger % of my tech friends, AI is cool. Among my non-tech friends, AI has been uncool. Among by artist friends, AI has been really uncool…

JWT is secure. I just noticed that after JWT was created, people would just slap on JWT like an end-all because JWT sounded secure and they thought it was all that they needed to d…

A big portion of GPU driver updates are actually just that, same with Windows updates. Windows 95 patched a bug in SimCity just to get it to work.

I don’t know about everyone else but “nerds” have never had a positive image to the general population. Nerds as honest or incorruptible? In popular media, from Revenge of the Nerd…

But VPS providers share the same hardware and overprovision. They don’t need to add new hardware every time a new customer signs up. If you buy a dedicated server at Hetzner, you a…

It’s not a “nerds” thing. Most CEOs are completely private. Most people don’t post their thoughts on Facebook on random topics either. Because when most people post all their priva…

This isn’t an AI problem. You can’t ask anyone to “be truthful” on any subject because everyone sees through their own world perspective. Two people might say “they love camping!!”…