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Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.

Which will, at best, cover a portion of his medical bills.

Back during those high interest rate days, housing costs vs income were much better

Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old sch…

> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones. It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Empha…

I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.

Some choice quotes: > 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI) > The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur…

The brr.fyi article is SO much more detailed, better written, and a lot newer (2023 vs 2012)

To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.

This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, …

I love this story - code trading is such a cool idea, and one I haven't heard of much before. Anyone else have any code trading stories?

100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED b…

> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are …

> I now regret getting the COVID vaccine for them and feel very guilty about it. What do you regret exactly? Or feel guilty about? What negative outcome befell you or your kids?

> The EFF is politically ineffective and always has been for reasons I don't understand, and no one else seems to care. Going by the EFF's latest published financials (2022), they …

paulsutter said: > Note that this is the single most human attribute of LLMs It might be if LLM hallucinations looked like or occurred at the same frequency as human hallucinations…

Treating remote as the exception rather than the rule, or at least as a fully supported, equal labor force is the most common way I’ve seen companies get remote work wrong.

This is SpaceX, unintentionally or otherwise, making things worse for everyone else within range who uses those frequencies. The band in question (2 meters, around 144 MHz) is prob…

Not saying I agree with this labeling, but it means approximately the same thing as “crypto bro”, but for AI

Steve knew the value of communication and respect, and when to give it and when not to, and how that strategically applied to Apple as a company. Elon knows none of these things - …

> But now I wonder, how much is Musk and how much is it that Musk just raised a ton of money and the companies were run by people way smarter and more competent than him? It is qui…

Beautiful open-source photo editing app, and that's really saying something. A tremendous achievement. However, the lack of a macOS build shows a fundamental lack of market knowled…

> How many iPhone owners know their phones cannot be turned off, i.e. a faraday bag is required to stop radio transmission? This can be fully disabled in Settings.

Most of it is artificial. The term people seem to use to describe this is toxic positivity.