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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Anything that hands more copyright-related powers to the music industry is a bad thing, IMO.

> Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs? "Well-organized markdown docs" are exactly what skill…

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Yeah I feel like you could run a similar analysis on random non-AI Github projects and get the same result. Most of them never go anywhere.

If you primarily choose to watch educational videos sure, but YouTube can give you just as much brainrot as TikTok, depending on what the recommendation engine decides you might li…

The answer, IMO, is simply banning all algorithm-driven social media, for everyone and not just kids. This conveniently sidesteps the identity/privacy arguments, makes it much easi…

The angle of this that people may not realize is that San Francisco already owns the power generation (ie, the Hetch Hetchy dam). [1] PG&E simply owns the wires, and overcharges fo…

The major difference is that this is currently the only New Glenn launchpad, which is likely to cause major launch delays.

> The arrogance of American tourists is truly boundless. How dare Japanese people not speak English! Who do they think they are? This attitude is so unbelievably prevalent among na…

100% this -- westerners love to criticize Japan's justice system, while ignoring the fact that much of it actually works . Drugs? Petty crime? Homelessness? No other country comes …

> Andrej Karpathy can train a GPT-2 class model for less than $80 now, so at least the environmental cost of training may drop to a point that it's acceptable to LLM vegetarians: h…

Of course, which tells you the position from which the author of the linked post is arguing.

> built on massive exploitation of human labor and make profligate use of scarce resources This kind of hyperbole repeated ad infinitum by haters online is not-constructive, IMO. I…

I suppose opinionated people on the internet and ideological consistency have never exactly gone hand-in-hand. > Like the boring fence-sitter I am, I think it will have a mix of po…

Always has been

Online shopping is a pox upon society

Don't worry, GIMP's UI never made any sense to anyone (Graphic Designer or otherwise), save for hardcore GIMP fans.

> Did Meta spend around 60Mn lobbying for age verification to be forcibly added to every OS install ? Of course they would want this -- as long as the OS reports that the user is o…

> The proposals, which return to Parliament on Tuesday, would replace juries in England and Wales with a single judge in cases where a convicted defendant would be jailed for up to…

This article misses a major point: even without nuclear weapons, NK has always had the option to shell Seoul with conventional artillery and completely destroy it. That, above all …

I'd say if one has any interest in writing objectively about space technology, one will likely end up being perceived as having a "pro-Musk bias". Elon himself is indeed questionab…

I do wish they'd release some open model weights though. Their attitude against open weight models in general is what's keeping me from subscribing.

Why should gambling be the exception? One could argue other app-based vices are just as bad, if not worse.