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Are you speaking in the abstract, or would you, personally, like that when reading a blog? Speaking for myself, I have absolutely no interest in reading anything written by an LLM …

the idea of the owners of a small, regional US news website being arrested while traveling in Europe because that site does not have a GDPR compliant cookie policy seems utterly de…

replying with LLM generated text without clearly labelling it as LLM generated text is inherently dishonest I'm a pretty civil person, but I won't go out of my way to be extra poli…

What is an "encephalitis stab"?

I'm also not trying to get into an argument, but totally disagree, and honestly believe that your attitude leads to an untenable breakdown of the social contract. I don't agree wit…

> All surfaces should be comfortably above the dew point to prevent mold. I agree that this should be the case, but actually achieving this in the UK (where heating is very expensi…

> Maybe some of my difficultly understanding is being American In the UK, in winter, ambient exterior air is both fairly cold (let's say 40F) and extremely humid, often around 80% …

After finishing the article, I am left with a much deeper suspicion of the felony murder rule, and of plea deals in general, than I am of giving minors the same sentences as adults…

In the US this always seems to be called "overdraft protection", as in "do you want overdraft protection on your account?" I can never remember if overdraft protection means "we wo…

Source for the claim that nicotine use "ruins" gut health? My understanding is that the relationship between nicotine and gut health (indeed, overall health) is much more complex a…

This is sometimes because a rule somewhere is written in the form “employees must do x minutes of training per year” or similar

> like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work It's not inconvenient to bring a phone, but it is very inconvenient to have to conduct personal business on …

> It isn't reasonable to expect a non lawyer to understand it A closing argument - the specific example the parent comment used - is made to the jury. It is intended to persuade th…

diagnostic does not mean "not covered", it just means it moves out of the "zero cost even if you haven't met your deductible yet" categroy defined by the ACA, and into the regular …

> I believe that in the US, there is a certain age, after which, they're covered. There is a lot of confusion over this point, even among support agents for health insurance compan…

> does anyone else have their entire day sidelined by a 10-minute call? is that common? It's extremely common for me. It really comes down to the point made in the article. If you …

>It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text. I really couldn't disagree more strongly. I think it's much easier to correct misunderstandings over tex…

> You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day You could do this, but for the life of me I can't imagine why you do this over using a …

> This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” It is also a surprisingly common pattern to adopt very complicated s…

> US HUD says it's ~16% of homeless people, other sources give different numbers, but it's certainly not a majority "Homeless people" is a broad category that includes people tempo…

Increasingly, my reaction to AI-generated content of basically all types is simply a deep, resonant sadness. The growth of AI feels a little like losing a limb - there is an initia…

I can't help but wonder about the relationship between fathers (and, in fact, all parents) spending more time with their children, and people choosing to have fewer children, and l…

> living paycheck to paycheck. This phrase is used so often, but I don't know how meaningful it is supposed to be A family might make $300,000 a year and be living "paycheck-to-pay…

I deploy prod by running a shell script I wrote that rsyncs the latest version of the codebase to my server, then sshs into the server and restarts the relevant services how could …

I'm trying to estimate how much better than git a new system would have to be to convince me to abandon git and learn the new system I don't know the answer, but I think it could e…