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The interesting answer by the author, will_asouka, has been marked 'dead' for some inscrutable reason.

AI slop. Flagged.

The Buffett indicator has been over 120% since December 2016. It dipped to 130% in March 2020.

I’m experimenting with the following in my settings: “Look at the first letter of the prompt, and use the style of the matching literary stylist enumerated here: For English: A — W…

Companies will keep doing what they're doing now - they'll just use another verb than "buy" or "purchase". Which would be a small improvement, I guess...

Honesty, in any game quests feel artificial, whether they've been generated by humans or AI.

“When everybody knows that everybody knows” by Steven Pinker is about this.

Very sad to see this (and cancelled my subscription). My home-grown web-based orchestrator will now have to rely on just codex and Gemini. One of the reasons that I was wary of tur…

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Python 3 barely managed to dethrone Python.

Sure, but it's pretty trivial to generate a CLI application that talks to that API. That's how I let agents access my database too. Letting them access psql is a recipe for disaste…

Often in movies you have the scrappy character that rises to the occasion by making a great speech, winning everybody over. I used to love those scenes. Now, I've realized, in real…

The Netherlands has had a similar scheme for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_subsidy_(Netherlands) . 1956-1987.

No, this is incorrect. Investors like buybacks, so when the buyback is announced, share prices may rise, but certainly not by the amount of the buyback. They don't go up when the b…

This is not quite correct. If a dividend happens, the market capitalisation drops by the amount of the dividend, the number of shares remains constant, so the share price dips by t…

Yeah, me too, that form factor was perfection. So pretty, so nice to hold!

That's why they should be phased, and not too steeply. If they're phased, e.g. at 30% (for every additional €1 you earn, benefits decrease by €0.30), you have the problem that when…

Organism, not species.

For those that want to stick with thermodynamics, imagine an organism that stores 1% of consumed calories as fat, and uses the other 99%, and that cannot - for whichever reason - t…

Software development is a bit like chess. 1. e4 is an abstraction available to all projects, 3. Nc3 is available to 20% of projects, while 15. Nxg5 is unique to your own project. O…

8kb to specify the order of the clips, but not a single bit is used to describe a single pixel of a single frame.

So bizarre! It really shook my belief in Philips' competence at the time. I mean, take a 100 minute movie, sliced into 1-second clips. 8kB is not even enough to store all possible …

Gentle reminder that the Netherlands has lots of very smart software engineers that prefer to stay there, especially if there were more interesting software companies active there.…