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USA Today also owns a huge number of local papers -- possibly most. The main local papers in the three last places I've lived (Austin TX, South Bend IN, Asheville NC area) were all…

Ads are influencing us to buy things we don't need! This is terrible! [Billboards stop targeting you at all.] Ads no longer influence us to buy things we don't need! This is terrib…

Bigger fines would, too. If you gain $1B by doing an action, but you have a >10% chance of a >10B fine, it's expected value is negative. The 10% and 10B might need to be extra high…

I can understand a no answer from people who think climate change is no big deal, but it's kind of weird that people who think climate change will kill hundreds of millions -- poss…

It's occasionally mentioned, but the answer appears to be "roughly 1000x current global electricity production", so we don't worry about it too much. Energy is much higher than ele…

> Good sanitation is a financial and political problem. The engineering has been solved for decades now. This was true of computers, phones, books, washing machines, refrigerators,…

I know it's not popular in some circles to say it, but people (not just evil, rich racists) dislike riding the bus because of homeless people and other people who have little reaso…

Quoting a dictionary won't get you very far with real people. Those are obviously wrong in that they're overly prescriptive and tied to what was common when they were written. The …

What changed in June?

Pangram gave 95% human for the chunk (1,547 words) that I gave it. Part of a single paragraph was listed as AI.

I switched my small personal projects to preact in a (temporarily successful effort) to get one under 14kb after re-reading [0] a year or two back. So far haven't run into any limi…

Starlink wasn't working yet, but had been announced as a thing they intended to do.

Huh. How do things end up with scores like 30.2% (and results between 0% and 1%) if it's that low resolution?

(1982)

I think software has always been terribly buggy. Back in the day, things would crash (including your entire OS in many cases) all the time. These days, it's more often smaller, stu…

Seems unlikely they'd be this dumb. The way to get us to use more tokens is to make those tokens more useful, not less. Anthropic is full of people (including higher-ups) who know …

> The real question is "On my block, what is the probability of any given house having at least one delivery on any given day" In the city, I used to see multiple Amazon delivery t…

> If I write stuff on wikipedia, it is opinion of wikipedia That's obviously false, if for no other reason than: > and there is rigorous editorial process, to get my stuff publishe…

It seems like implementing HEPA filters in every classrooms has the biggest effect. The kids are spreading disease, infecting their parents, who then infect their coworkers. Nice t…

This is kinda debunked / obviously false. It's almost entirely a land use issue: a building will create a heat island. Data centers aren't using enough energy to make a significant…

This is how I played Quordle and Octordle, but with just three words (doubt, glyph, raise). Might not scale for all combinations.

> The entire premise behind AI is that it can amplify (and in some cases) replace human workers. This seems completely backwards to what they're advertising to the enterprise in sa…

Are you referring how it does a `brew upgrade` when doing a `brew install`? It should tell you how to disable that whenever it happens: > Adjust how often this is run with `$HOMEBR…

Following up with recent news, S&P won't waive the requirements: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

I don't get it. It's asking the student to write a couple essays/journal entries. There's nothing to "solve". You just write.