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I'm still more comfortable keeping my code in America.

The real metric should be how good looking they are. That transcends household income, race, and gender. /sarc

Yes! In programming speak, you're talking about levels of abstraction.

Are people still talking about OKRs? Dang that's so '00s

Plenty of nitpicking here, for me this piece was a fun and clever thought-ride.

If a tree is distressed in the forest and there are no insects there to hear it, does it make a sound?

I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone f…

For me the real nugget is the first comment: "Programmers have a pavlovian engineering response. Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it."

What exactly does this mean?

Doesnt work for the map around my home. While the buildings in my neighborhood generate shadows on the map, none of the trees do.

I really would love another sentence or two on this. I can't immediately think why that would be, e.g. don't Maxwell's equations apply at very large scales? Any ideas?

Musk says "Blindsight is the next @Neuralink product after Telepathy." Let's see, I think after that, the next product should be Magic Missle. Or maybe Sanctuary?

Comical and Strangelovian perhaps, but also the only hope for humankind. How many years until the expanding sun's corona envelops the earth? Assuming we make it that long without f…

Does Onedoc retain any visibility into, or in any way use or reserve the right to use any content created using its API in any way? Obviously, calling an API means sending document…

I imagine this would be of great benefit to plagiarists.

Using Gemini, a former Rolling Stone editor discovers his involvement in past scandals.

This seems like a pretty important finding, entymology's version of cracking Fermat's Last Theorem. I wonder if there's a Nobel category for entymology.

I understand this is a Python-centric source, but without having done my homework I'd have thought Python wouldn't be a particularly great language for dealing with these low level…

This description of SBF does evoke a Netflix "I was in a cult" documentary. A larger-than-life leader, with huge vision. I wonder how much of his success was due to his charisma an…

So perhaps a competent biostatistician could get away with it?

> ...it would help if journals routinely asked authors to share their IPD Why couldn't a bad actor just fake the raw data? Isn't that what Climategate was all about?