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Also from the article: > "Claude clearly made things worse" &emdash; the main claim This article was clearly generated by AI, yet I found no mention/attribution of that by author. …

I think its a commonly accepted opinion that a person's ability to admit when they don't know something is a strength. It would be interesting to a see how much a constraint for kn…

In addition, I wonder what effect this sort of “manual desertification” has on the soil when done en masse.

SIV = Semantic Import Versioning [0] 0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44550

One difference I've noticed is that R libraries are usually authored and maintained by academics in the associated field; the same can't always be said about equivalent Python libr…

Do you know of any open source mobile apps that are full vendor native for iOS and Android? I'd really like to peruse some examples of that.

I also log my debugging process, but usually I'm less verbose with the explanations and more verbose about the specific actions I'm taking. For example, instead of a note saying "s…

LA Fitness allows you to either mail in the cancellation form or submit it in person. I was also cancelling due to a move, so I printed out the form and trekked out to the nearest …

Out of curiosity, why do you think "libre" is a terrible moniker?

After reading that, I have a new appreciation for the page’s opening sentence: “Jaffa Cakes are biscuit-sized cakes …”

I did a quick search for a Python-based shell and found Xonsh [0]; thought you might find it interesting. 0. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh

“The binary meaning of the kilobyte for 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB, with an uppercase letter K.” [0] 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

With no intent to be pedantic: wouldn't benchmarked or profiled, instead of performance tested, be a more accurate description of the performance evaluation performed by the author…

I think he is joking. I hope he is joking.

For anyone who would like to hear him speak on the topic, a talk he gave at Google was recorded: https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY

For anyone interested in the sport, UDisc is the “go-to” app for finding courses, viewing course maps, and tracking scores. I’m not affiliated with UDisc, but their dev team has do…

Why is that the most frightening part? (Genuinely curious) I tried to look up the original intent of the .info domain and found the following on Wikipedia: "Info is the only top-le…

If 90's marketing taught me anything it's that you triple the x's. Exxxtreme

The "Features Reel and Showcase" video on that page was a cool overview of the type of work being done in Blender (link to video: https://youtu.be/fxNlpQYRz7s )

Yeah, basically a chain of trust certificates like outlined by X.509. I think managing the chain of trust would be a pretty involved process.

There is a spectrum of replica quality in the watch world. Some watches are very obvious to spot while others would be impossible to spot from a photo. There is also the concept of…

You are correct, as indicated by the following quote on the page I linked: “The finished Ian Knot is identical to either the Standard Shoelace Knot [...].” Changing my Granny Knot …

I actually switched to the Ian Knot specifically to handle the stiffer leather laces of boat shoes and boots. Previously, getting a knot in leather to hold was a miracle and I woul…

A few years ago I switched from the "Granny Knot" to the "Ian Knot" [0] in order to (1) eliminate the need for "double knotting" and (2) straighten the bow. Despite the few embarra…