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> Once the codebase has become fully agentic, i.e., only agents fundamentally understand it What exactly do we mean this? Because it is obviously common for human coders to tackle …

This is classic Quanta Magazine sensationalism. Here's what the study actually said: As cells in epithelial tissue get crowded, their membranes start to allow more sodium ions to e…

> I don’t believe genetics ever claimed to provide a theory of why eyes grow where eyes grow. That’s the whole point of developmental biology, to show how features of the human bod…

> That "why" is almost missing from the public conversation. People jump straight to hardware and hand-wave the business case, as if the economics are self-evident. They aren't. Bu…

> Someone with a subscription logs into the site, then archives it. That’s not the case. I don’t have a NYT subscription, I just Googled for an old obscure article from 1989 on por…

> So can someone who owns a modern car please help me understand why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off? That’s not what is going on here. The…

Yeah, I just searched for “driver_register”, a call that would show upin a large number of Linux drivers in the open source Linux kernel, not to mention other public-facing repos, …

It sounds like most commenters here have never had a rosin tater. When I was kid, a very popular, upscale restaurant called Planters Back Porch in seafood mecca Murrells Inlet, SC …

it sounds like the authors are suggesting that additional energy usage caused by stress can, in isolation from other causes, be a mechanism for disease. But that doesn’t make much …

A lot of people don’t remember that Intel was a huge early ARM licensee. If you were building a smart mobile device 25 years ago, you were probably seriously considering the Intel …

The oroduct description in the FAQ is entirely based on what it doesn’t or can’t do, but doesn’t say anything about what it will be able to do, except run an off-the-shelf window m…

I don't see how that's an apt analogy. Geocentrism put the Earth at the center of the universe, around which the rest of the universe rotated. But saying life on Earth originated o…

I think there’s a better example, but whether it applies it depends on one of two major divisions of C code: that designed to run on systems with a MMU (as typically used for Linux…

Isn’t #17 the same as #1 and #7 combined?

The claim is that metformin greatly reduces viral load. If your long COVID is caused by the virus continuing to linger on 8n some tissues, as there is evidence might be the case fo…

Some degree of “human authorship” is a requirement for copyright. I don’t see how weights generated by training an AI would be protected.

So does that mean if the driver accidentally leaves their phone in your Tesla — which is something that’s easy to do accidentally — it stays unlocked and anyone can drive off with …

In addition to bad use of statistics, this article really buries the lead, making the identification of solutions difficult. US pedestrian deaths steadily declined over 20 years fr…

I don’t know if this will help, but I can tell you what helped me. Quite a few years ago, I stopped working as an employee and started working as a freelancer/consultant. I get tha…

I don’t think the Russians are going to care about a felony conviction. The major security holes in embedded devices that are part of our critical infrastructure are national secur…

I taught myself to code on TRS-80 Mod 1 at my high school. I had seen a friend write a three line basic program that moved a dot onscreen, and about six months later told my math t…

Not really, because it lacks core features that made MacPaint amazing and Atkinson a genius, being able to: draw rectangles, ovals, and rounded rechts with patterned fills in real …