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I'm old enough to remember calculators being banned from the classroom because "you won't always have one in your pocket"

Anecdotal as it may be, an investor in a company I used to work for was from Wuhan. He paid $80k USD to get out of the country in December 2019. They knew it was bad then and anyon…

I've written safety-critical firmware. You'd be surprised :D

If everyone is a little bit responsible then no one is fully responsible. It’s like dieselgate. Or the Pornhub chaos. The VP’s tell the directors to get it done. The directors get …

The sky is in fact black at the moment. Bit of a green hue towards downtown, regional bank creating the Aurora Desjardins

A lot of sites are moving to OTP instead of passwords now. Make Auth Gmail’s problem. It’s not a horrible idea in theory.

The best interview question I've learned to ask.

I used to manage the team that built textual scan tools for PornHub. 12 times a second (out of about 5000 uncached requests per second) we caught this shit.

How slow is this? I need to get around to making a new pihole. My last one did it over tor and wasn’t noticeably slow

I don't know where you're at but where I live the cops don't investigate petty theft unless there's violence involved.

Godaddy really should be doing this by default.

Alright I'll admit when I'm hilariously out of my league. The point of the post was mostly "people are state machines too" and arguing we don't even know what we are, how will we e…

Fair enough. I know guys have that gone there. This was a much smaller amateur track in rural Canada.

It’s nice when it’s busy. When it’s not the cops spend more time hassling cyclists than people openly using meth because « we asked for more enforcement »

RIP Russian comms

Depends on the track I guess.

Burnout almost single-handedly ruined my life. Do not recommend.

that's $200 that could have paid the internet bill that was cut off for being three months behind.

very much so. I dealt with tech inspections and people would try to go on the track with worn out brakes and suspension all the time. Which is dumb but. So are people. Even getting…

As much as I hate carbs, let alone 4 of them, I always felt like I truly owned my '82 Seca

I used to volunteer at a race track. The amount of bureaucratic shit to even get your car on the track makes it not worth it to most people, myself included. Used to find back corn…

With the exception of assholes, people drive for conditions. Period. The flow of traffic is always the safest speed. NHTSA and German authorites have papers on this. It is possible…

Is it even a distinct field? What unique challenges are there spinning up an LLM vs a DB?

Just make it illegal to go faster.