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Rolling your own Linux is nearly free and could be done on any computer you had lying around. Dropping >$5k on a computer to run a local model (badly) doesn't really scratch my "ha…

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-editi... > For minimum requirements, the new target is 1080p at 30 FPS using the Fast preset. This means a 64-bit system, 8 G…

I agree this type of web design sucks. It's been common for more than a decade - I remember Apple getting criticized for using this on the product page for the old "trash can" Mac …

> Anthropic's own scaffold is described in their technical post: launch a container, prompt the model to scan files, let it hypothesize and test, use ASan as a crash oracle, rank f…

This happens to everyone's fingers to some extent because the fingertips dry out as you age. It's a huge source of frustration for elderly folks since it adds to the confusion arou…

I've seen engineers I respect abandon this way of working as a team for the productivity promise of conjuring PRs with a coding agent. It blows away years of trust so quickly when …

Unless you're suggesting the toy company secretly rigs the magic 8 ball to never recommend nuclear war, I'll take my chances with the organizational changes.

It's easy to fall into a negative mindset when there are legions of pointy haired bosses and bandwagoning CEOs who (wrongly) point at breakthroughs like this as justification for A…

I sing tenor in a university choir as an older male community member and we encourage anyone to sing tenor whose voice is low enough. Over 1/3 of our tenors are women and our voice…

The Fremen followed a messianic figure into a galaxy-wide holy war because the Bene Gesserit seeded their culture with manufactured prophecy as a failsafe.

Reminds me of a recent finding that attention lapses in a sleep-deprived brain correlate with flushing of cerebrospinal fluid (almost a garbage collection pause). https://news.ycom…

They don't claim to support Polish, but they do support Russian. > The model is natively multilingual, achieving strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including English…

I may not be using the same definition of "motivation" as the author, but understanding what motivates your people, putting the right mix of people together to work on the right pr…

I still mourn the loss of Weatherspark's old Flash interface, which brilliantly displayed all of this data in a single pane to give context to the recent, current, and forecasted w…

That's not the point of his piece, and spending time virtue signaling to the reader would undermine the message that this kindness is a form of grace, given freely without expectat…

I think this was rhetorical hedging - the author was expressing false doubt to underscore how extraordinary the actions of his hosts were, but he didn't literally mean he wouldn't …

Since it has no calories, it's not "food" by even a very loose definition. As someone who lives in a neighborhood where most tapwater is still delivered by lead service lines, I'm …

I read this comment as implying a similar kind of exceptionalism for technology, but expressing a different set of values. It reminds me of the frustration I’ve heard for years fro…

There is a finite and relatively narrow range of ratios of CPU, memory, and network throughput in both modern cloud offerings and bare hardware configurations. Obviously it's possi…

In fact, a properly-configured Kafka cluster on minimal hardware will saturate its network link before it hits CPU or disk bottlenecks.

There's a lot of population centers in the US that could be better connected without crossing the Rockies. Beijing to Shanghai is roughly the same distance as Chicago to New York C…

Every software company I've worked at that is more than 5 years old had major features that nobody understood anymore, even features that were core to the product.

You're right that the orange man has been a big factor, but not because of his effect on the stock market. The stock market isn't the economy, and most Econ PhDs are not working on…

Buses are the resilient backup for trains, especially if road infrastructure has been designed to prioritize transit (e.g. Chicago highways with shoulders designed to let Pace buse…

Sure, but if you're 10+ years into your career and have been financially conservative (i.e. have a positive net worth), a lump sum of $1m could be enough to retire to a lower-cost …