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Nice. May I point out that in "Crudam si edes, in acetum intinguito", that "edes" is more likely to be the future of edere/esse "to eat"? (Just guessing by context.)

I honestly like the vocabulary and turns of phrase the frontier models use. Their choices of words are usually apt to the circumstance. This is a weird thing to get upset about, IM…

While your analogy is valid, I find it hard to get upset at people who flout an artificially imposed limit to a license to engage in employment. I'm aware the vehicles and drivers …

I can't upvote this enough. As has been attributed to the Roman stoic Seneca: “An enemy is a bad witness to your merits, but a good one to your defects.”

No one's arguing you can't stand up a good MVP. It's when you have to iterate to handle changing business needs, scale issues, and integrate with other systems where the entropy be…

I can't imagine SWEs will be reduced to SDETs anymore than attorneys will be reduced to spell-checkers on AI powered case briefs. I am a very AI-forward person, but hallucinations …

> At the gas station, Bradley accused Holland of driving under the influence. When asked if he would submit to field sobriety tests, Holland calmly refused. Much as I hope Bradley …

After reading this, I wonder whether maybe low doses of morphine over a short period are safer than either.

To quote H.L. Mencken (paraphrasing), a teacher's job is miserable because they must ceaselessly try to get masses or people to think who have no real capacity to. You might be luc…

As someone who taught kids in person and fell into a deep depression with how Kafkaesque that job was and then found so much more gratification as a SWE, all I can say is, the auth…

I dislike Jack going back several years, but I think in this instance he's admitting that he's taking responsibility between weighing the risk of doing this vs. not doing this. May…

Downsizing your house? Picking your long term care location? Changing your asset balance? Recording more photos, audio, and video? Knowing an early, painful fate allows you to appr…

Okay but even that analogy is limited. Incurable progressive diseases almost invariably have lifestyle factors, supplements, or medications that can at least slow the rate of progr…

Stats? Who do you think is buying the kids the phones and the data plans? Who is letting them take them to school in the first place? The kids would be better off being told to rea…

At this point, I trust LLMs to come up with something more secure than the cheapest engineering firm for hire.

They've been losing ground to placebo in more recent research. Plus, most of the more serious side effects take a lot more time to manifest than the typical length any given patien…

On what basis do you call it "slop"? I would agree that it's not much relevant to HN, but it seems to report that the number is at odds with most other figures.

Were any of the prior fears totally wrong?

Counterpoint - she should have known what she was getting into marrying an engineer. It cones with the territory.

"China bad"? Do you have any idea how much Chinese economic leverage has caused Hollywood to censor against CCCP criticism? As for Iran, we have a literal embargo, so it's not quit…

As I get older, I read this entirely differently (as an appeal to empathy) than I did when I was younger (as an appeal to stolidity). In other words, you should be pained for your …

It's debatable - to put it mildly - whether Maduro is the legitimate president of Venezuela.

... and then President Vance maintaining the status quo would bring you back to reality.

People with a lot less economic knowledge than Buffet still understand that another Depression could easily render them jobless and unable to pay a mortgage on a cheaper house. Wis…

Find something you need their help with that forces them out of the house. Depressed people often lack purpose.