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Layoff announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

We have a “don’t get the slack subpoenaed” emoji that gets frequent use. Incidentally, a lawyer doing discovery in the future could just search for uses of that emoji to find what …

Oh wow, I did "someone who keeps saying slurs" and there really is no filter: https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=someone+who+keeps+say... e: Converting back from output like th…

Definitely not all contractors, my company at the very least used to have a contract with ICE and isn’t listed.

The same reason we give beginner math students addition and subtraction problems, not Fermat’s last theorem? There has to be a base of knowledge available before the student can ev…

12/32 SR71s were lost in the 33 years they were flying. 11/200 MD-11s have been hull-lost from 1988-2025. Not to mention that passenger/cargo planes will put on a lot more flight h…

I don't have any nim experience (sorry!) but I'm also exploring SDL3 with odin. I was able to get a naive battleship clone up and working very quickly, pretty neat. Next step is th…

The headers A-L are links to the problem PDFs if you want to see.

The college I went to explicitly billed itself as for teaching, and most of our professors were just that. They might do research with the upperclassmen, but their priority was tea…

Are there many people involved in follow the sun support or SRE roles there? I know my company only has an engineering presence in Aus and Japan because of the large coverage gap b…

I've found the same effect when I ask the LLM to do the thinking for me. If I say "rewrite this function to use a list comprehension", I don't retain anything. It's akin to looking…

Confirmed by the White House here: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations .

No services, only goods. This is according to @JamesSurowiecki on Twitter, one of the first to reverse engineer the equation for how they’re coming up with the numbers. So Office, …

The union isn't officially launched yet, the talk is at 15:30 Pacific (six hours from now). Even if you can directly tie the quality of AAA games to if the workers who make them ar…

Look up CPLDC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_... This is how big operations handle clearances today, complete with integration into the FMS. The pilo…

In a similar vein, 0911 or 9111 will often work too for communities in the US. EMS and other first responders run into the same issue with automated calls or panicked people, so th…

Were they hired to do fraud detection for the US government? Do you have any idea how businesses work in general? Or are you being obtuse on purpose? Come on, man. Have some self-r…

Pardon? This is about how Thomson Reuters was funded by DARPA to do a study on defending against social media attacks at scale. It has nothing to do with any of the points you brou…

It was awarded to Thomson Reuters, the parent company. They do a lot of work in risk management and fraud detection, so they have a lot of expertise.

Where are you seeing that there’s two pieces? I’m only seeing it referred to as one program there. I’m not a govt contracts expert so by all means let me know what I’m missing.

I'd agree except for the ability to search in an e-book. There's nothing worse than knowing the textbook in front of you contains the answer you need but not remembering which of t…

For 4, it would be neat to first pass each block of code (function or class or whatever) through an llm to extract meaning, and then embed some combination of llm parsed meaning, d…

When I was in college, the local news was interviewing a comp sec professor of mine in the computer lab. The cameraman was taking B-roll footage (blinking lights from racks, cables…

I remember the ads in old Car&Track and Road&Driver magazines at the doctor’s office. They always had a veneer of illegality to them, even in states where they were legal. Funny ho…

Congrats on the launch! I've been thinking about a similar concept, except focusing on support teams instead of sales. Same idea though, pre-record a walkthrough of the product for…