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This article incredibly well written (by a writing teacher). Some choice quotes Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained …

Reinforcement Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning

The first non-tech company to reach this milestone. Joins Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon.com and Facebook parent Meta Platforms.

I don’t think I have ever read something as wholesome as this in the opinion section of the NY Times. I’m guessing that is it heavily aspirational rather than based on data but it …

Does this work for commercial data brokers? E.g will it stop the steady stream of phone calls from recruiters?

Ah yes it does. Which I guess is another benefit of this setup. I don’t need to know which countries are included with the base plan as they only charge extra for the countries tha…

The one service I have that works this way is AT&T mobile International Calling and Data. I pay $10 USD for any day that I use the service outside the US and Canada. It is always “…

Wirecutter is definitely hit and miss but I will say that their upgrade pick for towels (Riley Home) are phenomenal and have held up to everyday use for 3 years and counting: https…

Our company also closes this week. The best thing about it is that you get back and Slack hasn’t piled up in your absence so it’s as close to a true break as you can get.

Curious what you mean that Mazda is failing

Bogleheads Forum has been going strong for 15+ years. Straight-laced investing talk: buy and hold, index funds, etc. https://www.bogleheads.org/

Nice idea! Does it play through the user’s logged-in account? Or in other words, will it use my YouTube Premium account to play the videos without ads?

Sorry about that! I updated the title

Unclear. I first learned about this law in an article about employees potentially losing benefits by moving out of state: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-31/remote-w…

I was reading an article on California worker protections and came across a reference to this. For some reason I had never heard about this law in spite of living and working remot…

Would love to see statistics on how many and which software jobs are moving from US to other countries now that these roles are 100% remote. Anyone know where to find this data?

Like many I have moved on from Sublime Text to VSCode but as someone who cannot live without a Git Client UI, Sublime Merge continues to be my favorite. It has the same Sublime Tex…

I remember when I first heard about this concept and found it explained a big difference between my brother and I that I had struggled to articulate (he is an asker and I am a gues…

Indeed. Not sure why more US-based engineers that are staunchly pro remote work don’t seem concerned about this.

If I recall correctly, Walter Lewin could also freehand draw perfect circles on the chalkboard