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And an LLM named Motherbrain perhaps?

> Issue is what happens to retirees on a fixed income when value of their property increases? That’s not specific to a land value tax, the same thing can happen with traditional pr…

Apple does the same thing as Google, the button is only labeled "Get" for free apps, for paid apps it's labeled with the price. Paid apps largely failed as a business model though …

I do this myself (albeit pretty rarely) since the rear camera is significantly better than the front camera, especially in low light.

The Trader Joe's model is an interesting comparison with the Costco model. Similarities: * Like you said, both have fewer choices than a conventional grocery store: if you want ket…

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~10e2/3 is a very unclear what of writing whatever number you're trying to write

The meaning is the same, it just sounds weird to my ears in the same way that “since years” does (Also I just noticed the extra “it” in my previous comment, oops).

To my ears it “since years” sounds like it’s missing an “ago” after it (or like the GP said “for years” sounds even more natural). It makes me think of another similar one: I've no…

This one drives me nuts. I get it if it’s a single page app, but in many cases right-clicking the same link and choosing “open in new tab” works fine so that’s not the issue.

Early Quakers rejected using different 2nd person pronouns for different people since it violated their principle of egalitarianism so they called everyone thee/thou (and got into …

> there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future Makes me think of how plists in macOS are xml because back then xml was the future

I thought this was going to be about phonemes that used to be part of English but aren't anymore (e.g. all of the vestigal "gh"es in our spellings that used to represent the https:…

Reminds me of when they finally apologized for the train wreck that was IE6 [1] and resumed Internet Explorer development in the 2000s after Firefox came along and started eating I…

I've heard that Waymo relies on having very accurate map data for the areas where they operate, so perhaps they could perform worse than human drivers in areas where they don't hav…

It was a great piece and I learned a lot, thanks for writing it. I hope you didn’t think that it was you I was disappointed with rather than the language designers :) It’s ironic h…

It’s great that they identified this (incredibly common) pain point and introduced a way to solve it, but I can’t help being disappointed. Reading the examples I found myself think…

You’ve got the first two backwards. The real accountability mechanism in the constitution for a rogue president/administration is impeachment by congress (which is a proxy for the …

"Retina" is Apple's marketing name for high PPI displays.

They also have a lifetime warranty which is great. With enough use their socks still eventually wear out, but you can get a new pair for free.

Python's standard library seems comparable IME

That incident was the first time I ever heard of Jeff Dean and remains the main thing I associate him with.

I would’ve expected the research to be coming out of Japan if it’s an anime based technology ;)

I think we're defining "less" differently. You're interpreting "less open" to mean "not open at all," which is not what I said. There's a long history of Google slowly making the e…