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Dallas is a different animal. But after a Waymo pilot program in New York City, it was found to be more hazardous than human drivers https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e713807…

The internet is no longer open. It's behind a series of apps. It's honestly more like AOL than the World Wide Web

This reminds me of when Microsoft announced Bing Chat (which became Copilot) as a thin wrapper around ChatGPT. It turned out their value added wasn't integration, but tanking the q…

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any ty…

The trouble with hiring juniors now is it's much more difficult to get them up to speed so they can be productive. Before covid, you'd sit next to them, get asked questions every s…

GIMP should take a lesson from Blender. Blender used to be the most clunky, unintuitive pieces of open source software. But after a decade and a half of UI development, it's one of…

It's a bit odd that they're not comparing it against Sonnet

CS Academia tends to lag behind industry practices. The research frontier can be very cutting edge, but course curriculum, assignments, and institutional norms are slower and more …

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My brain stores all my passwords in memory in clear text too

Could've just called it MacPad++ or something

Broccoli has been around since the 6th century BC

This is just geopolitics. You should've seen what the US and Europe did during the Cold War.

Sure, you could argue it's like writing code that gets optimized by the compiler for whatever CPU architecture you're using. But the main difference between layers of abstraction a…

Excel is so embedded into our world that we renamed part of the human genome to prevent excel from incorrectly reading them as dates https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/huma…

The endgame is clear. Mass surveillance combined with AI agents. Would almost be like having a personal government spy watching each individual person.

Just give it 2 years and this will exist for real.

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Zip codes do not have a one to one relationship to cities in the US. It's a common misconception. It's true about 90% of the time, but there are a lot of outliers. I used to work w…

Rookie move. Why is Claude Code able to run terraform?

I'll do you one better, imagine a CPU that runs entirely in an LLM. You’re absolutely right! I made an arithmetic mistake there — 3 * 3 is 9, not 8. Let’s correct that: Before: EAX…

Even if apple is losing money on these devices, they shouldn't care. Low cost laptops are the main reason why people buy Windows laptops instead of Macs. They need to get people in…

To be honest, if both Android and iOS were walled gardens, I'd choose iOS every time. I choose Android specifically because of its openness. But if that weren't the case, I'd prefe…

A very, very good point

What made the most difference for me was strength training a few times per week. I do circuit training classes where you spend 6 minutes per station. I didn't change my diet that m…