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How would the rise of dash usage in LLMs have arised if a significant portion of non-LLM writers weren't inclined to take them up and make them more common? The only explanation I …

If the world won't stand up even to a diminishing US then it definitely will need to learn Chinese to speak to its next master.

An isolated USA benefits 211 nations.

Deepseek is open in the sense that you can run V3 or V4 it is not open in the sense that you have all the tools a Chinese company has to make the V5 that will be needed to keep up …

Again I'm a bit baffled as to what the unstated thought process is. Ibogain and Saliva divinorum share a short term dysphoric experience from kappa opioid receptor interference tha…

Sure sounds like rhetorical questions or attacking the messenger. Someone can think the bounty industry is going to reward them for actually being exceptional and not look soon eno…

Maybe I have a liberal view of ballpark sizes but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine "The action of ibogaine at the κ-opioid receptor may indeed contribute significantly to th…

It seems strange to me to choose ibogaine when Salvia divinorum seems like it has a similar psychological experience without the physical heart risk.

What was notable about Malta is not the topic of the article and particularly irrelevant now that corruption in Malta that helps Russia would not be notable.

Bizarre PoV from my perspective. The failure of modern computing is Apple UI drivel and Ubuntu is particularly bad since it has that silly settings UI. May LLMs free us of Jobs and…

That sounds reasonable for some states but 5 states have no sales tax and many states have exclusions to sales tax. Many of those are also likely to have rural areas where small bu…

Personally I find it a little condescending to imply the highly educated shouldn't be more politically violent than average. Studying the history of political violence is probably …

In the past I think people were equally wrong when assuming their real life was accurately similar to average for the entire society they lived in and not a regional and perhaps cl…

I've seen a small company do a SOC2 where the "CEO" seems to be the only actual employee.. Its a lot of paperwork but it is supposed to scale for company size so you could dismiss …

They've been doing it for a hundred years what they can't do is change back the weather.

I don't think many developers like software bloat or what it has meant for our professional reputation but we would be dishonest if we predicted a future without outcomes where ugl…

True, yet they have a Moore's Law like growth going for properties like their context windows.. I think the larger problem with letting them be verbose is Occam's razor. The more v…

The airplanes were awful, usually with silly little signs stuck in some seats to designate the switchover which the smoke didn't seem to respect. I was in a train brought back to s…

Crazy is imagining an employer is of high integrity for your self esteem. How can a company that is high integrity compete with one that gets the same rewards while being of low in…

I think these changes were mostly from earlier factors but will pressure the prices of soybeans in the opposite direction from the wheat shortage which isn't very good (for soy bea…

I don't think international trade is so stable that any shift would imply equal and opposite shifts in trade. For example it looks like Brazil's production is up 5% while China's o…

Funny that you expect an employee to view a great time as meaning more than successfully exploiting advantage to the employers disadvantage in a relationship with Cisco.

I think prod db at DHS is an implication in the article while it is more likely that their employer hosted a minor SaaS which required DBs for various government department custome…

The usual attack is in a usability feature to prevent lock out. Looking at the instructions for setup I see Bitlocker recovery code if you forget your pin.. (How does that alternat…