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> Most people dramatically under-size their air purifiers, or run them on a very low fan setting, and then they throw up their hands and just say that air purifiers don't work. I b…

If I am hiring, I need these characteristics: 1. Person who cares 2. Person who is knowledgeable 3. These two must be the same person!

The database is resilient. Your data is not

I'm trying to motivate one or hopefully both of these ideas - if it is worth backup up or exporting, it is worth doing it early and often - but more importantly if we backing up an…

> To each their own, And that is the gist of the problem, isn't it? As we approach our forties and beyond, chances are we have lived more than half our lives. So do I really want t…

Ok so it worked correctly today, for you. How do we know it will continue to do so five years down the road when they are suffocating for cash? The more stuff we have there, the ha…

Pretty sure it is all performative and the actual audience is the voters in the US.

> At Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, students dressed in black shouted “Long Live the Shah,” a reference to Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last monarch, who h…

You guys are talking about copyright but I think a bigger takeaway is there is a process breakdown at Microsoft. Nobody is reading or reviewing these documentation so what hope is …

I would like to see the day when the context size is in gigabytes or tens of billions of tokens, not RAG or whatever, actual context.

That's not an achievement. Even a non intelligent low to mid end compact SUV such as a 2024 Mazda CX30 has cruise control that can detect cars stopped ahead to slow down, stop if n…

My guess is there is some communication going out to every "manager", even the M1, that says this is your priority. For example, I know of an unrelated mandate Microsoft has for it…

I feel like we are talking past each other. 1. I write hobby code all the time. I've basically stopped writing these by hand and now use an LLM for most of these tasks. I don't thi…

I like to imagine the reference in the movie margin call is that of a merry go round or a game of Musical chair. Like we are all on a ride, none of us are the operator, and all we …

LLMs lie all the time. Here is what Google search AI told me: > The first president for whom we have a confirmed blood type is Ronald Reagan (Type O-positive) When I pushed back, w…

The big brands should be penalized for doing the burning or destroying themselves, enforcing such destruction through contract laws or any formal communication, or even through pun…

You don't have to have a cookie popup if you don't do stupid stuff. Don't use anything other than strictly necessary cookies and you are good to go. Disclaimer: I anal and this is …

I very much wanted Google Plus to succeed. Circles was a great idea in my opinion. Google Plus profiles could be the personal home page for the rest of us but of course, Google bei…

I was hoping it would be under USD 20k including all taxes but now rumors say likely NOT under USD 25k?

The point is we have to fight for better working conditions, not just for ourselves but for our coworkers and future generations.

> It’s called the market. If you can compete while providing better life balance, go ahead and compete with those bad companies With friends like you, who needs enemies? Imagine if…

> For the most part, personal income is taxed on gross and business income is taxed on net This bothers me a lot. So basically a wealthy billionaire can take one company that makes…

> A lot of how I form my thoughts is driven by writing code, and seeing it on screen, running into its limitations. I completely agree but my thought went to how we are supposed to…

But none of those are usable, right? It will take decades of work at least to get a commercial grade mining operation going and even then the iron, titanium, aluminum would need to…

Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking: