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This is an interesting data point amidst the anxiety about AI taking all of the jobs. Even OpenAI cannot leverage AI to do product management.

> It's painfully boring and not relaxing at all. It is a common misconception that the purpose of meditation is to relax. My experience is that meditation is very difficult but has…

It does not have to be either one. Zuckerberg is simply not a great leader, apparently. This is not surprising. Few people can run big companies. There is a huge spectrum between "…

> OSS will die because of this OSS will not die.

Yes, if your programming language/environment is weak.

As a Floridian, I apologize for the 2000 election. But we have a much better system now. We have paper ballots that are scanned. We have an auditable fallback for untrustworthy mac…

No, it never occurred to me. This has prompted a fun discussion with my wife. I suggested I could grow some stem cells into a skin that would match the color of my ears. She sugges…

The modern world is funny. I have a hearing impairment, tinnitus, and use both AirPods and less visible hearing aids to hear people better. I only wear the AirPods around people wh…

But what if I want to access my cameras remotely but not have their manufacturer access them?

I encourage my competitors to refactor a working codebase into a different language.

> capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge No. Lots of knowledge is still behind paywalls or not yet digitized. Some models have been trained on books that we cannot s…

There were plenty of reruns. Not as much content back then as we have now.

But is it a local disk? The post above says that one uses Chrome Remote Desktop.

The web needs a HIG. All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.

The existence of well maintained and clean public restrooms and hooligans is a shibboleth for culture. Some cultures are simply superior.

> You now "own" the movie (or TV show), not a "license". You do not "own" the movie. You still only have the right to view your personal copies. You cannot broadcast it. You cannot…

Yes. I do mean designing software to make it testable. The code that uses that value can be run in an environment where that value can be controlled. I have written code that does …

> It will not be caught in development testing — who runs a test for 50 days? You don't have to run the system for 50 days. You can simulate the environment and tick the clock fast…

If the U.S. implements a draft, would we first implement exit visas?

I never said that AI should replace all teachers. AI can help provide more teaching labor (more teaching capacity). Every child can have a personalized tutor in addition to human t…

An idea I have been thinking about: Increasingly powerful chatbots provide more teaching capacity. I think this will lead to counterintuitive outcomes like teaching environments wh…

What paid subscriptions respect the readers? I would love to pay for news from organizations that only get money from readers. For example, I have been paying for The Economist for…

I am surprised by the assumption that each box could only handle one modem. I seem to remember that some DOS BBS packages could handle multiple modems/users concurrently and only n…

You think an implementation of SQLite in another language, with more memory safety, has no value? I agree that this current implementation is not very useful. I would not trust it …

My interpretation of the GP comment is that you are saying the same thing. Linux will return a pointer that is valid for your address space mappings, but might not be safe to actua…