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If this proposal was to add toxic positivity and optimism bias as a psychiatric disorder, I'd be on board with that.

The duct tape people are generally drowning under all the work they're doing, and they'd be fine to keep doing other productive stuff. There's always going to be duct tape stuff ar…

More than half the SCOTUS is corrupt and bought off, and the Republican Party in congress is just rubber-stamping what Trump wants. I don't have a lot of faith in the word "unconst…

This thread is literally doing nothing. Nobody is going to stop using grammarly extensions to post to HN, nobody is going to be able to detect its usage. This thread just lets a ce…

Really kind of weird with all these people who think it is just fine for services to take over accounts of people. Of course, they can literally do whatever they like, it is their …

I spent years doing it.

Well good luck detecting it.

I don't personally use AI/LLMs for any informal writing here or on reddit, etc. But I think it is pretty weird to be overly concerned around people, particularly ESL, who use tools…

Books and newspapers have had editors for centuries. It is just code review for the written word. [It looks like MS Word 97 had the ability to detect passive voice as well, so we'r…

So exactly like reviewing a code change from an outsourced development team in another country?

You can hire expertise off your competitors. Being able to Greenfield something new is a tempting pitch to use to poach employees. And first to market often doesn't win, or else We…

Yeah, if you turn it all into buttons and settings in the actual settings menus, someone else is going to post a long rant about how the settings menus have a million confusing opt…

LLM usage is not very likely to "dry up". What is more likely to happen though is that it doesn't take multiple $10B of datacenter and capital to build out models--and the performa…

This is Meta claiming in their internal communications that they plan on doing it while people are distracted with other concerns. It isn't really "rhetoric", they're talking like …

Yeah, I still remember when I flipped from Linux to Mac at home. In my case it was a long time ago when I got a 4k monitor and couldn't scale the display text/icons and so couldn't…

Yeah, apparently I should have been explicit that I was talking about air strikes and not occupation. We aren't going to occupy Iran. Comparing this to defeated nations in WWII is …

So adjust the work schedule. If people want more time in the evening, get up earlier and go to work and go home earlier. You can even shift school/work schedules throughout the yea…

Has there been a regime which has collapsed due to an external strike like this where it hasn't resulted in some decades long civil war nightmare? I can't think of any time when bo…

Interestingly, I've got a truck with a dead engine that I'm considering if I should yank it out and replace/rebuild it... Never done that before and don't know how to do it...

Kids these days just don't appreciate security through obscurity...

I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.

> Most people, when they turn the tap on, they don't know where the water comes from. Yeah, but at some point you need a plumber who at least has a passing understanding of where i…

That's kinda the whole point. SpaceX can use an optimization algorithm to hoverslam a rocket booster, but the optimization algorithm didn't really figure it out on its own. The opt…

Not really. Pretty sure I read recently that Newton appreciated that his theory was non-local and didn't like what Einstein later called "spooky action at a distance". The Lorentz …

Sometime around 1992, I wrote a college essay on how the Internet was going to wipe out ignorance and enable true democracy...