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The usual right-wing slander. Look nutjobs, public health officials (or at least the honest, non-Trump-appointed kind) take great pains to only advocate what they can support. But …

I don't get the point: Claude gets better with session context? Doesn't everyone know that already?

You have a distorted definition of UBI. The B stands for "basic", as in "not dying in the street of starvation" and a "a roof over your head". It is NOT about enabling "a modest li…

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7407a3.htm "Although adult cigarette smoking prevalence remains at its lowest level in 60 years, tobacco use is the leading cause of preven…

Kind of interesting article, but it misses the most obvious answer: pot. Cigarettes (and tobacco) have never been less popular in America, and the article (barely) acknowledged tha…

Both Amazon and Google's "hockey pucks" (speakers) are like $50, and both come with a lifetime of free AI ... although the Google one sucks and almost requires a Gemini subscriptio…

It seems like if latency is having such a big effect that it's changing the winners, maybe your tests are awful and shouldn't be so latency dependent? I mean, I get it: how fast a …

The cursing thing blows my mind. "User is upset? Let's make decisions even faster (ie. more wrong) because clearly that's what they want!" It's a simple switch to make: cursing = t…

What amazes me is how, for a vibe coded product where all they have to do is use their AI to fix things ... NOTHING EVER GETS FIXED! I've probably gone to file 20 bugs. In all 20 c…

There are plenty of things the Trump admin has done where that applies. This is (likely) not one of them. This idiocy hasn't had its day in court yet, but (especially given how the…

Dude is not wrong ... but good luck convincing the Internet to switch to a sane system, when everyone already thinks web hooks are a "solved problem".

My feedback: I should have some idea what your site is about when I look at it.

Here's what a lot of people don't understand: inflation is only bad if you have assets . The richer you are, the more assets you have, and the worse inflation is for you, because i…

Le Guin is a master of fiction, period. While she's very different from modern sci-fi/fantasy, her work is almost as foundational as Tolkien, Lewis, or Asimov. Take her Earthsea se…

Right, I'm not saying "there are no differences between GitLab and GitHub". They have all the same core functionality, but obviously GitHub has a unique community with more OSS fol…

To be a little less flippant, small companies don't have an IT department to setup and maintain a git server ... and more. GitHib is also an issue tracker. It's also a (minimal) st…

Convenience.

This guy is defining himself into a corner: >GitLab is capable, but it feels incredibly corporate, even more so than GitHub.3 Nor have I found it as good as GitHub at helping peopl…

Oh, I stand corrected (thanks for the catch)!

To be clear, the guy who wrote this article is Martin Fowler. Fowler was the author of a book literally titled "Refactoring", which he wrote over 20 years ago (it didn't invent the…

>As such, I use LLMs mainly to produce a rough draft of the code which I then iterate on heavily, at least until I like the general structure Tell me you just started with agentic …

Both GitHub and GitLab have recently released new stacked MR tech: I guess everyone is submitting giant AI-authored PRs these days, and there's a real need to break them up into hu…

There are no "attention heads" or fixed number of things a model can pay attention to ... or at least not exactly. After every prompt the model decides "I have a weight of 1 to dis…

The real question here isn't "why are we sacrificing the education of the next generation to buy tools that make us feel safe but (logically, statistically) will only prevent one i…

And (judging by the number of Medium articles I've been turned away from) 95% of all authors leave it on.