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If a drug is compatible with a healthy social or productive lifestyle it would seem unreasonable to ban it. Danger of withdrawals might be a consideration. Caffeine is pretty safe.…

That's my understanding. Decompilation is legally protected in the US, and you can do a reimplementation based on a decompilation. Sony v connectix is aiui the precedent. Theoretic…

JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau: all big Star Wars fans. Tony Gilroy is not!

It was remade in 2006

Dennis Rodman grew up overshadowed by his sisters' basketball skills, and then had some unheard of growth spurt of 8" after finishing high school. He hadn't even played much high s…

There's a story about, I think, the kickboxer/fighter Alistair Overeem that he was playing Connect 4, and lost, and kept demanding rematches until he had the winning record. Just a…

We also have a treaty with Canada about the usage of water from the Great Lakes.

Higher rise pants help. I have a long torso and started buying higher rise pants for the aesthetic difference, but they also make me less concerned about a t shirt becoming a belly…

I occasionally forget to add a new file but don't mind it much. I consider it a significantly smaller problem than committing a file that shouldn't be. CI is gonna run and my tests…

I almost exclusively use add -p. It's another moment to review my changes and it saves me from having to type out the names of the files I've changed. I don't know if I've ever com…

I went to Bentonville, Arkansas a few years ago. You'll see every major consumer packaged good company represented in the skyscrapers there, because Walmart is hq'd there. They wan…

You mean the casual sense of "innocence", but they are literally innocent in they they've not been convicted of the crime they were killed for allegedly committing.

Counterfeit Monkey is very high up on my favorite games of the 2010s: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl The puzzles are all excellent, the writing is remarkable, both f…

Apple announced M5s recently, so these are the old chips.

Fun fact - there's no Boolean class in Ruby. True is an instance of TrueClass and false is an instance of FalseClass

Aiui the New Yorker has always been the most rigorous in its fact checking.

Reddit has an easy way to choose moderation, just stop going to the reddits that are poorly moderated.

Yes - I call them "the other cake" demos

I quit caffeine with no withdrawal symptoms by reducing my intake by 10% every day for 10 days. I weighed how much iced tea I drank on day 0, then had 90% of that on day 1. The las…

Well that's one hole plugged

I saw this the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagofood/comments/1na3fer/commen... So some places are optimizing their fries for delivery. I've also noticed some restaurants…

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In no particular order: LLMs seem, for some reason, to be worse at some languages than others. LLMs only have so much context available, so larger projects are harder to get good r…

De minimis also impacts all goods, including those made by well-paid laborers and from countries that meet our exceed American labor standards.

(Gen-Z/Millennial/Gen-X) This covers like sixty years?