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What are all these presently dominant cultures that are so fragile that the mere presence of others represents an existential threat? Sounds like an excuse for xenophobia more than…

> …one of them at the other, The origin of life is as romantic as I’d hoped.

I don’t need to edit my original comment, it doesn’t contain any mistakes. All six of the links across three comments are each distinct, separate posts going to either the same art…

Cheaper? For whom? As a solo practitioner, I can no longer afford the workloads I was getting for $20/mo in January. Now the same plan being utilized at the same level for the same…

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136070

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162791

I’ve been instantly suspicious of all the reports of counties “allowing their Flock contracts to expire”, which doesn’t imply either “removing ALPR cameras” or ceasing potential 4t…

At least for the more prominent terminal emulators i expect they probably devote a great deal of attention to security. They are developing the most commonly used interfaces for li…

I knew Apple was lost when they dropped the “Home” button, just after spending a $1B to build a Palo Alto headquarters in the shape of the “Home” button.

I always wince when I think about the amount of energy and assets required just to get to “Step 1: Baby talks”. Now we’re sitting at “Step 2: ??”, desperately hoping to reach “Step…

I make a very small (relatively) salary as a self-employed IT consultant and support provider, but I still take ~$25 each month to split between the organizations and charities I f…

Some of the largest unions in the world are for teachers, police, and government employees. I’m not sure why you would think a for-profit company is uniquely subject to its staff u…

I’m in something of the same boat, although I don’t particularly care about my own stars and what not, for me it’s just a rather effective place to find open source projects to use…

I had a rather extreme form of this existence in my late-20’s, it was the first time I had ever really experienced such a thing (circa-2011). I’d never had any pathologies in the p…

I’d personally prefer if nobody verified me ever, and people stopped asking for it altogether. It’s not a compromise, because nothing about this is pragmatic, necessary, or for any…

Now I’m imagining the horrible 19th-century style psychological torture where they take some Victorian orphan—an infant tucked away with a tattered stuffed animal, confined to a ch…

Is it? I thought it was making chunks that consist of 2-3 words, assigning coordinates and weights to them, and performing fancy maths and statistics with them. I wouldn’t have tho…

All-natural, boutique, organic intelligence.

They’ll just ask the OpenAI model current infiltrating its systems to lend a hand.

Prompt: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Place your answer in ‘a-metric-chuck-ton.md’”

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Cheers from Concord, NC. Nice to see a fellow techie in the South ‘round these parts.