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> Are people just that easily overcome by confident voices? Back in high school, my AP calculus class did some experiments with our teacher's blessing. We'd send a kid out to walk …

I live in Tampa Bay, so I'm quite familiar. It's pretty rare to have a V rating, precisely for many of the reasons you mentioned. But, at the same time, handwaving it away as unimp…

> The storm surge goes up (and a whole bunch of water falls on top of it). The storm surge goes down. This isn't some river bursting it's banks. FEMA has a flood rating specificall…

Your very same link also has a huge yellow banner at the top of the page stating: "The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026."

Continuing the pattern of existing examples (in this case, as present in the article) is a perfectly normal thing to do. I think everyone can make the mental leap that a proper acc…

It requires the assumption that these models are misaligned, aka actively working against us. In order to be misaligned, they must also be able to form their own goals, and be able…

> ... not being a core product Technically true, because Google's core product is ads. Also fundamentally wrong, because Gmail serves as a massive source of ad targeting informatio…

> To me, militant atheists often resemble religious fanatics more than they realize. I consider myself agnostic. And I'll provide my definition of what that means to me, since ther…

I always assumed the "interesting!" markers were actual markers. A kind of tag for the system to annotate its context.

Apologies. I think there was a confusion of terms. There's only one church in my county I know of that even offers traditional mass, and it is in Latin. I admit to only having atte…

Even with vernacular liturgy, the goal is internal contemplation and ideally application. What's even the point of going if you're intending to just be talked to? No one is keeping…

It's about fitting your utilization to the model that best serves you. If you can keep 4 "Java boxes" fed with work 80%+ of the time, then sure EC2 is a good fit. We do a lot of ba…

Something seems broken with the Tampa, FL map. I get an unauthorized page: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/map/YK41FR And this shows no volumes available: https://oldinsurancemaps.net…

They don't need a reason to fire you. They need a reason to fire you and not pay unemployment benefits.

C uses `|` for bitwise OR and `||` for logical OR. I'm assuming this inherited the same operator paradigm since it compiles to C.

> the voting record proves it. Putting on my tin-foil, devils-advocate hat... AKA I don't necessarily believe this but I also have no counter-argument: Mostly performative. When it…

It's like bike shedding. It's a side effect of mixed expertise (and confidence) working together on things that are only partially understood by all. When something is clearly outs…

I use Square Home. Because I still miss my Lumia 920, and this makes me feel a little better about it.

I was part of an ACM programming team in college. We would review classes of problems based on the type of solution necessary, and learn those techniques for solving them. We were …

> That egg has long since hatched. I imagine there's entire companies in existence now, whose entire value proposition is clean human-generated data. At this point, the Internet as…

My guess would be lack of actuators. For instance, this robot looks like it has an ankle that can only go up and down, but not roll like a human's. Also, I wonder if there's a cent…

LTT did a video with the SG10 a couple months ago. Really neat concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLHC2_gByQ8

I'm not familiar with any of these communities. Is there also a general bias towards one side between "the most important thing gets the * most* resources" and "the most important …

Hello fellow ex-employee of that bank. I was in a segment governed by PCI, and they wouldn't even let us touch Gaia in fear of the whole thing being declared in scope

That only works if the external API is handing off the entire subscription to Apple, up to and including payments. But the entire premise is to move away from being forced to use A…