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> If you asked me six months ago what I thought of generative AI, I would have said It’s always this tired argument. “But it’s so much better than six months ago, if you aren’t usi…

When tractors were invented, there was a notable reduction in human employment in agriculture in the USA. From a research paper ( https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/alolmstea…

At the same time, I actually wouldn’t mind a world in which AI agents cost $5000 a month if that’s what companies want to charge. I feel like at some level that would remove the po…

I started reading the article and immediately got hit by the incorrect statement in the opening: > If AI agents help each support employee handle 30% more tickets, that's like addi…

TL;DR: on-call manages acute issues, documents steps taken, possibly farms out immediate work to subject matter experts. Rate on-call based on traces they leave behind. Separate on…

Thanks for being here over the years. The faces changed some, stayed the same some, but it’s good people and good conversation! May you all have a happy new year, and many more!

https://archive.is/2023.11.17-204745/https://www.nytimes.com...

Tossing mine in the pot too: make + pandoc: https://ordecon.com/2020/07/pandoc-as-a-site-generator/index...

I've been playing around with a limited PCB autorouter for mechanical keyboards. You feed it a KLE layout file, and it spits out a KiCad PCB, layout map for QMK firmware, and vario…

The country lines on the globe are ridiculously out of date, and show countries that haven’t existed for 30 years.

How would this work against scrapers that are based on driven anpproved browser instances, eg. something like Selenium?

The length of a law doesn’t reduce its murkiness - in fact it makes it more pronounced. That is why (in the common law systems) there is so much discussing and re-discussing of top…

What happens with eSIM devices?

I had to research who that is. I stumbled onto this: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-pr... Loaded associations.

My TTRPG group has been playing together for several years - on and off. We'd been mostly playing D&D 5e, even though we had members clamoring for other systems. After the WotC fia…

This is true, but only by omission: we don't know everything he believes. We do know he publicly supports the genocide in order to protect himself. MLK day is around the corner. It…

Seeing stories like this makes me very averse to the idea of running a business myself. I don’t mind the idea of trying and failing because the market isn’t there or my execution s…

How does this differ from XUL?

Isn't the real performance gained by eliminating the triple nested for loops and memoizing over a sliding window, rather than the use of XOR? You would get the same order-of-magnit…

This is to me peak social media in 21st century. Somebody has been curating or authoring content for 13 years, but if they don't have clearly identifiable personalities that you ca…

Kura Sushi ( https://kurasushi.com/ ) that's mentioned in the comments is one place, but there are also a few others whose names I can't remember in the Sawtelle Japantown. It's wo…

There’s a number of restaurants in LA that use robots for delivering drinks to your table. I found them strange the first time I saw them but eventually they become invisible. I’ve…

Working on mechanical keyboard design. I learned so much about CNC and other manufacturing methods, relearned a lot about electronics and most entertainingly learned more than I ev…

We should recognize that there are universal needs for geezers and kids: we want some form of personal security. For a lot, that means home ownership. Let’s look at data: If the ge…

We easily claim the opposite for other companies (Apple, Facebook, Google) and other countries (mostly Asian fabrication centers). Why do we have such a strong belief that Uber USA…