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According to Wikipedia its accurate. Learn something new everyday

And we all know that gamblers and betting odds always are correct.

You mean "I didn't write this blog post, I arrived at it" For those that didn't read the article, one of the first things it says, in bold nonetheless, is "I didn’t design this sys…

Do not mistake confidence and verbosity with breadth, depth and nuance

If you don't know why kaladin is emo, did you truly read the books lol. Every character has to deal with the stresses of war and most don't come equipped with good mental health to…

This is hardly a tangential annoyance to be annoyed by low effort slop.

> If they didn't provide a valid service in places like that, they'd be outta business downright quick-like, because them small-ish towns, word gets around pretty quick if you done…

And if you leave it unpowered for a few years? I have a journal from two decades ago. Still readable.

Not op but I do cross repo work, but it's rightfully separate PRs as its separate services, separate contracts and separate deployments. Pretending a monorepo cross service PRs are…

Any device that powers off fully functional should be able to power on fully functional barring hardware failure. That these steps were nessecary is a stunning indictment of remark…

It's not? Shopify does it, woot does it, amazon does it, yes style does it, royal Caribbean does it. Seems like a lot of places can do it for it not to be a solved problem.

That and they helpfully share your email with a company if you add something to your cart. You don't even have to checkout or submit a form or anything. I can't tell you the number…

None of your statements about the gas turbines are true in the context of the Memphis grok data center

There are already better systems of healthcare. The US one is only good if you're wealthy

I've not spec tested them, but astronomy gear is notoriously picky about USB cables and since I switched all of my cables to cable matters a lot of weird behaviors just stopped hap…

> BYO power Like 26 gas turbines that make a ton of noise and pollution? > BYO water What? How does one BYO water? > BYO pipes & sewage Pipes and sewage to where? There's an implie…

> Solar power in space is potentially very cheap Only if you ignore the cost of getting in there

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So far, neither is backed by data.

I've heard that every week of every month for the past three years. And yet, ask an LLM about a seahorse emoji and see what happens.

Can you quantify this rate of progress? Because someone always comes around and says there's been exponential progress in the past every time someone complains that models just are…

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I think it's a round about commentary. Many times these past fee years I've found myself telling junior engineers that AI cannot understand for you. That there is no shortcut to un…

Don't worry, I've vibe coded a new database system and it'll save us (and net me a nice promo)

Its also not helpful to the person who doesn't. How much to save, when to save, how to diversify, what rate of exposure to equities is too much, how much to with draw in retirement…