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In short, the latest versions of LLMs now include many tricks which have long been known to cause confirmation bias in humans. The reason 4o had a sexy female voice, and giggled, i…

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"Against traffic" is different as a bike or led though. Sometimes when lanes are very narrow and visibility isn't good, you need to go against traffic (on the shoulder) so that the…

Lane splitting motorcycles and bicyclists are literally always illegal btw. Lane splitting is for air cooled engines stuck in traffic, where they literally need to move or shut dow…

Literally in the article.

Key missing component: CAFE needs a rewrite. US emissions laws have a cutout so that larger vehicles have less stringent emissions requirements. The problem is that this is no long…

Posted article quality is not always very good here lately. Clickholes get too many votes.

"I have run production websites where I didn't patch security for months or years on end." Linux users wondering why nobody takes them seriously.

Most modern distros have this out of box. Lot of Linux forums need to update their assumptions by about 20 years.

To be fair. All good distros can run from a USB stick or whatever now. The use case for a "liveCD" is limited. Puppy Linux would just be a toy today. It used to matter to me in the…

Geeky Linux forums tend to be people who haven't given new distros a chance in decades, and still think Gentoo and RedHat are the major players. (Desktop Linux it's Ubuntu, followe…

Anyone who is overly zealous about anything is always wrong in the end. Including testing. "Why would people mock everything? Why not stand up a real test db and test on it?" Becau…

This is true of literally everything in the new economy. Internet? Wait until the moment your "promo" cost ends and your bill goes from $80 to $150, threaten to quit, oh wow magica…

Presumably they mean gig economy aka artists are vastly undervalued. For instance. It's not that AI is replacing artists. It's that people think you don't need to pay a license for…

Baba Is You would be perfect for teaching people security, penetration testing, and so on. Lateral thinking puzzles are underrated, and orgs mostly punish lateral thinkers. Even th…

Opportunity cost. What about Go, or Checkers, or Call of Duty, or...? That's the issue. Yes sitting down and concentrating on difficult tasks for long periods of time is good exerc…

DuoLingo is deceptive at best. It's made addictive at the outset so you feel good. You feel like you're learning. But long term the platform has what is now dubbed enshittification…

Demake in modern times is often used for example with porting DOOM to (insert electronic device like a temperature sensor that shouldn't normally play games). Since the target plat…

People naming distros like it's 4chan from 20 years ago. Redhat and Gentoo. Oh my. Linux Mint, Pop, and more, all now provide "Windows without MS" which is what most users really w…

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It's both. Especially the out of context tinfoil rage response. They always existed. But now it's so common to see some totally benign article about pizza, and the top comment is "…

Agree. Content was the OG slop. Buzzfeed with monkeys on typewriters. The problem is that dopamine addicts generate outsized engagement. I know a literal crack mom who spends a sol…

The phrase "Eliminate corporations from academic research" does a lot of heavy lifting here. If a company wants to bring a pesticide to market. We would like them to bear the brunt…

The whole world will be headless content. There won't be any web pages, or bank sites, or TV networks. Nobody will be a developer. We'll all just be content authors, like Google Ma…

Nobody is realizing this coming singularity. Your phone won't do anything else. For 99% of people, they pick up their phone, AI will just decide what they want to see. And most wil…