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"Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft are on track to provide urban air transit within the next few years, targeting the high-margin commuters who traditionally buy premium vehicl…

> If you would consider killing nonviolent civilians, merely to send a message to others or to prove yourself to your "god," you're a terrorist. The US is a "christian" nation whic…

That's a good point, and I think this will be my last post on this site. I never added much value anyway.

the bold section headers and bullet points. but who cares. i don't.

This is AI slop but mildly amusing. Brainfuck did it first.

Yeah, the scam is to inflate the value of your properties, then claim a write-off when it fails. For "some reason" you can even use other people's money for the investments and cla…

The word "challenge" in the article title is clickbait. I guess the assumption challenged is that this measurable effect is for humans only because we are so special? Good as a hea…

I think the problem is just not enough training on that specific language because it's proprietary. Most useful Mathematica code is on someone's personal computer, not GitHub. They…

Yes they did, and that's the problem. Some people support this. It's easier to rile up hatred than to fix any real problems. When you spend years framing ALL immigration as illegal…

It's a "meet 5 random people for dinner/drinks" app. Actually sounds like it could be fun.

Downvote for this web site is a horror movie billboard and zig already has a build system which is zig and that's one of it's neat features.

Shadow of Mordor (and the sequel) had something called the "Nemesis" system where some of the Orc Captains you kill (and the ones who kill you) might survive off screen and get str…

Same thing with learning Japanese. Just memorize the symbols. It's phonetic. Of course there are complex meanings and subtleties but that's just how we all play with language. As a…

Gorey was a unique artist. Have had his Amphigorey books on the shelf since I was a youthful edgy goth but I will crack them open again tonight. "The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic W…

The original post is written by AI so I will read it briefly, but your comment is fascinating. I got through undergrad math by brute force memorization and taking the C. Or sometim…

dtruss requires disabling SIP. This seems like a better option for basic "what just happened?" debugging.

If you follow the press release rabbit a few clicks, there's an article in Science describing the NorthPole chip architecture in more detail: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Oh! RDB was the first database I worked with. I forgot all about it. I do remember refactoring the data layer so that it also worked with Berkeley DB, which is also owned by Oracle…

Wow, I spent many hours on those Battletech Muds. It did have a cool realtime battle system but the faction vs faction wars never happened as far as I remember. There were several …

Yeah, this was a google interview question for me too. I didn't know the algorithm and floundered around trying to solve the problem. I came up with the 1/n and k/n selection strat…

I haven't heard of that one. What is RSA time?

The new Lexus TSS which is lane keeping and cruise control and auto park and safety oriented stuff has 11 cameras I think? Plus some lasers and sonar and whatnot. 4 of them are for…

I just looked up a nearby property in the bay area listed for almost a million. Estimated payment $6000/month for a cozy 2 bedroom 1000 square foot fixer-upper. Also that area is a…

Yeah, that's pretty amazing corporate speak. And the development time lines are long. I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Even if it is just a Toyota vehicle with Waymo brains, t…