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> it's much, much easier to get devices to work when you control at least one side of the server with skilled professionals rather then your average home user. No, practicality is …

There was some learning, but also a lot of waste. As a self-learner, I've never been able to learn so fast as I can now with an LLM to instantly answer my specific questions, and i…

Depends on a number of factors, but the majority of people with a 2k word vocabulary would not understand much of a Spanish television show or news cast at native speed. If you wer…

> This is good news - you can be proficient in a foreign language by learning only 2,000 words! Depends what you mean by "proficient". I currently know ~6k Spanish words and would …

> Americans tend to overload the same word with a different meaning depending on the context. They also often resort to idioms and cultural references. This is not specific to "Ame…

I agree the phrase "culture fit" is weasel-wordy, but... > You can say if something fits only if you either can describe both sides in sufficient detail and where it wouldn't fit M…

We are probably coming at this from different angles. I don't deny those things but they're also not a counter-argument to the point I'm intending to make. As an overly dramatic ex…

> The social networks are big because they have genuine utility. I think this is mostly wrong, and that the social networks are big primarily because they spent money at the right …

If the server is using gzip, it feels like the difference in sending back json vs the larger (but compressible) html wouldn't be that much?

Norman Wildberger is a required mention on this topic. Here's a great discussion on Curt Jaimungal's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LvgvunVCM And a good debate on the t…

Looking at chrome dev tools, it looks like it might be the custom font causing the delay. I'm not sure exactly why though.

I love plain text services. One of their benefits is near instant load time. A nitpick, but this takes a few seconds to load on a fast broadband connection for me. I get the delay …

I'm not sure how this would "ruled on", but my take is that the website itself has enough functionality, enough ways to view and slice and dice the info, so to speak, that it can b…

> Imagine approaching fundamental scientific research like that. "Welp, it can't make money, so it won't happen." > There is more to society than capitalism. I don't read GP like t…

It unequivocally is AI. It's just not LLM-powered. The rising LLM = AI equivalency is unfortunate.

I'll say that first code snippet is a fantastic TLDR.

Any one off event is an example. But I assume you know that, so can you clarify what you mean by "a probability that can not be analyzed in terms of frequencies or other proportion…

That's clever rhetoric, but for most use cases it's just not true, and that's the point of the original article. There are legitimate use cases for native apps, but many of them co…

Historically true, but the original intent quickly dissolved once they app store took off and they realized the cash cow they had on their hands.

> We take tech literacy for granted, because it's like a dozen levels down fundamental to our entire field. But the tech illiterati exist, and they love apps. They "love apps" beca…

This affinity for verbal tics, too, seems learned from humans... See, for example, "synergy", "proactive", "in the loop," and hundreds more that proliferate in corporate jargon wit…

If phone companies' geofence info requires a warrant, it makes zero sense that flock info does not.

Is there any realistic road to having them outlawed nationwide? Eg, ignoring probabilities here, could a wildly successful grassroots program where it became an issue as politicall…

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> Until people believe, nothing will change. I'm with you here. > When they believe, everything will change. Taken literally, this is absurd. Belief might be necessary for change, …