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> Students were required to cite AI as a collaborator, just as they would credit input from a fellow student. That's... weird.

"AIs want the future to be like the past, and AIs make the future like the past. If the training data is full of human bias, then the predictions will also be full of human bias, a…

> delve Nice try, ChatGPT!

That TODO was committed on 2022-02-16 and wasn't fixed until 2024-09-2. That is... a long time for something that critical.

> However, blindly adhering to a zero-bug policy can lead to wasted effort on issues that don’t matter to your customers or your product’s success. This is kind of like insisting o…

Using text fragments is particularly useful when you don't control the page you're linking to and it doesn't have a good anchor to link to.

Not the NSA, but I know of at least one time the FBI did: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/chinese-malware-rem...

I was ready for complaints about large collections of Java monoliths, now being called "megaliths". But this is cool, too.

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Spider Strategies | Senior Java/Web Developer | REMOTE (USA) | Full-time, 4-day work week (8-hour days) | https://www.spiderstrategies.com/overview Spider Strategies is seeking pas…

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Joel Spolsky’s classic on why you shouldn’t rewrite software pops up in my memory on a regular basis: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... I make frequen…

As someone who is both a “bad writer” and a “petty critic”, I think this is pretty solid advice.

> I personally think, in practice technology like this will only delay getting to net zero, because the existence of this will disincentivize investments in electrification. I reca…

It’s benefiting the residents who use the improved public transit.

I love scifi art from this era. La Vie Électrique (1890) had some killer illustrations. I highlighted some of my favorites here: https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2023/10/28/la-vie-elect…

> If you find yourself having trouble focusing on a task or you’re procrastinating about something, stop working on it immediately. This is your subconscious telling you something …

> “The legislature is doing a bill, they are trying to protect our meat,” DeSantis said, alluding to the effort. “And we’re gonna have meat in Florida; we’re not gonna do that fake…

I'm probably stating the obvious, but eBay is a good bet for a lot of this stuff. Maybe just list a bunch of it, and if it doesn't sell in the limited timeframe you have, then you …