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The first link you cited[0] shows up on the Wayback Machine[1] for the first time on 2022-05-16 - more than 11 years after it was purportedly written. [0] https://www.greyblake.com…

I guess I should have asked about the technical mechanism of what causes and what actually 'breaks', and then what the technical remedy is.

What breaks the hunger response, and how does one fix it? Maybe it's well-known, but I read the starvation response Wikipedia page[0] and didn't grok it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o…

https://archive.ph/giLPA

C# used to be my favorite language, but having spent a lot of time in Rust using its algebraic data types + match statements + Option & Result types, then returning to C# to build …

According to this article[0]: > HSBC Global Investment Research projects that OpenAI still won’t be profitable by 2030, even though its consumer base will grow by that point to com…

> Amazon was unprofitable for over a decade, and they were public. Amazon was unprofitable because they poured their revenue into growth. On paper, they were in the red, but everyo…

I think my browsing habits may have changed, as I rarely see captchas. However, just the other day, my son was frustrated by one that he said had taken him fifteen or more tries, a…

> The average number of pull requests per dev per week increased with all this spend. From 4.2 to 5.1. That's it? I've seen people that are consistently putting out four PRs per da…

He started writing his answers in French so that his peers wouldn't understand:D

My son is taking an AP chem class - he's doing really well, super interested in the subject. It's a difficult class, to be sure. Many of his peers are just goofing off and don't un…

My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. She lucid dreams very regularly, and she says she spends a lot of that time flying. I, on the other hand, never lucid drea…

My first and really only experience with Kubernetes was a project I did about six years ago. I was tasked with building a thing that did some lightly distributed compute using Pyth…

Years ago, there was a TED Talk[0] from the guy that started Open Source Ecology[1]. The TED Talk was really cool, but I haven't really followed what they did. It sounded promising…

> Car and Driver estimates that the vehicle will run at least $60,000. Ram’s gas-powered truck, meanwhile, starts at $42,000. I don't know how much of this is attributable to truck…

Yeah, it's all well and good to say somebody doesn't know how to regulate their pace, and it's another thing for your manager to tell your team that you need to be using a squad of…

I would say: not explosive. I've seen a decent number of setups, and I can think of three areas where you could be concerned with safety (not necessarily where you should be): 1. M…

I think this is the right answer. I am frustrated by Copilot and by many aspects of AI, but to me it seems like straightforward branding: you use a Microsoft product, you want to u…

> The failure is in gov't making sure there's sufficient regulation to prevent monopolistic practises. This may not be a problem inherent to capitalism, but it certainly is a probl…

In case others don't know, Tool used this quote in their song Third Eye.

I would think it's because of the staggering money they're making. According to Fortune[0]: > Altman said on an episode of Uncapped that Meta had been making “giant offers to a lot…

Firefox mobile. I just checked, and for some reason, uBlock Origin was deactivated. No longer!

I'm really sorry to hear that. I once read something about the prevalence of depression in people with tinnitus. I was surprised by it, but I didn't really consider how disruptive …

I'll save you about 30 ad views: > The Oxford researchers proposed that the large spontaneous waves of brain activity that occur during deep sleep, or non-rapid eye movement sleep …