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Honestly I don’t even bother with interfaces anymore as I really like using voice dictation with Whispr + Claude, feels much more natural. But actually building these teams of agen…

It's still the wrong question to ask. We should ask what are the outcomes that these systems produce, not how new the drugs are. A cutting-edge healthcare system plagued by inequal…

I mean, its 2021 and you still cannot fractionally scale the resolution without slashing your battery life and losing 30% of your processing power (and some random stuttering on al…

> Spare me the "Life is cheaper in the 3-world non-sense" You obviously don't know what you're talking about. I'm from Brazil. If you paid me $40.000 yearly to work remotely i woul…

WSL is not even close to 5-6GB of RAM. My current instance of Ubuntu 20.04 is hogging around 1200MB while running rust-analyzer and some other devtools.

If ALL jobs around you are underpaid, maybe it's your work that is not as valuable as you think. I'm not saying this is fair.

Someone from Latin America here. Your impressions are correct. While some violence is greatly exagerated to paint a picture (For instance, Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, Washington …

If multiple cores/threads shouldn't be considered vertical scaling, what should? Overclocking a single-core processor from 2.8Ghz to 4.2Ghz can only take you so far after all...

If the 500 million figure is correct, you would need only a 0,02% (1/5000) increase in spending for a change to be worth $80.000. Diminishing the notoriously bad load times of GTA:…

Too bad that from 2010 to 2020 Toronto experienced its lowest population growth ever. But go on and keep believing that it's somehow the immigrants fault... https://www.macrotrends…

I started learning Rust some time ago, and i can't stop thinking that Rust could be a really good substitute to Java, C# and Go in most applications. This language has it all, but …

That's Big Sur. It's actually versioned as Mac OS 11 and brings macOS much closer to iOS in terms of feel and looks.

Dropbox has 2500~ employees, and obviously this is just an anouncement. In some years we will have a clearer understanding of the tradeoffs. My suspicion is that companies that wil…

It's not a zero sum game. WFH can simultaneously save money for the company and for the employees.