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> I don't want to live in a concrete honeycomb in the middle of a loud city. Yes, this is the crux. Loud, smelly, concrete cities suck. And you’re right that density alone would le…

The government would only buy your house if you underestimated the value of your property. You wouldn’t be able to buy a comparable house with the proceeds because it got sold for …

If the stop hook is implemented as a tool result, there would be a rational explanation for this. Agent tools can often return data that’s untrustworthy. For example, reading websi…

The best cities have laws that allow for light motorized vehicles in the bike lanes. Not just ebikes, but also mobility scooters, microcars, electric wheelchairs, and adaptive bicy…

I thought the industry solved this by bundling breaking changes in major version updates. V 1.0 - foo introduced V 1.1 - foo deprecated, recommend bar V 2.0 - foo removed, only bar…

Love it! One nit: the % number jiggles around. This can be fixed either by left aligning the number, or by using a monospaced font.

The problem with mountains is twofold: Many mountains can be climbed without being elite while exposing yourself to major risk, and for some mountains there is objective hazard tha…

My first job out of college was working at Epic on MyChart. Great people, terrible code. Epic’s main problem is a lack of clear internal code ownership. Everyone owns all the code.…

I’ll bite. Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts, feelings, and intentions than you do. So let’s run through a basic scenario …

All public Tor relays are openly listed on Tor’s directory. You can query for relays yourself here - https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html

This doesn’t answer all of your questions, but Apple has an accessibility feature which lets you generate a voice based on your own. It’ll prompt you to say various phrases, at the…

Here’s a video which takes a visit to a nuclear waste storage facility: https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=CFBqha3wOO8BiQY4

That was when the channel initially got banned a month ago, this article is about how it's back now. GP mentioned that the content of the stream today is very different than it use…

I read the "the Texas Legislature is here to protect you" as a sarcastic joke rather than a statemement. If that was the author's intention then it would make the article consisten…

Historically, there are several instances of governments accumulating more and more power until they turn into a totalitarian state and remove freedoms from their citizens. I don't…

I walk past an amazon go store on my way to work. It's super convenient if I need something, I can be in and out within less than 30 seconds. The problem is I rarely have anything …

At the top of the article it says: > The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Looks like someone with a subscription submitted t…

My understanding is that lack of trust in Tether actually makes Tether money. First a few things to note: - Tether sells 1 USDT for 1 USD - Tether will buy back 1 USDT for 1 USD - …

Nitpick, Technoblade isn't known for creating mods, he's known for creating online video content, mainly on youtube and twitch.

> Would an acceptable compromise be to allow insults but to punish people responsible for suicides? I worry that could increase the rate of suicides. Consider the following train o…

> you're yanking the content those other people actually created I didn't get the impression they were directly scraping other sites. Also, it is very unlikely the recipe originate…

I assume you are asking about this line: > The US and Western Europe are violating the rights of their own citizens by allowing mass immigration. I don't think GP was talking about…

Could you post your resume for us to review? Make sure to remove any personal information, company names, and position names so you remain anonymous. It doesn't need to be in PDF f…

> If anything is perfectly private/secure it won't be allowed to exist due to regulations. Why? I was under the impression that these days the NSA and other government agencies pre…

I think parent was referring to certain jurisdictions decriminalizing retail theft.