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"We need most of our population working full time to keep ourselves fed because running a farm is really hard" is a technical problem, not a societal one. You can solve it with fer…

Remember that time grok told people not to use it for second opinions on their medical records? ...on second thought that might be an exception that proves the rule.

I don't know why this sentiment isn't more common. LLMs are basically two things: 1. chatbots 2. automation for the process of googling something and copy-pasting the first result.…

Putting this into my rotation of excuses. "It wasn't my fault! They were hacking, also my fingers were slippery and the deterministic behavior of psuedorandom number generators gua…

The text is just as you predict, but in fairness to the author using a .ai domain is a good way to set expectations up front.

I mean, yeah. There's enough nukes locked and loaded around the globe to end human civilization as we know it in minutes. Nobody's made a bomb that can fix socioeconomics.

if it helps, that kind of thoughtfulness is how to learn the things that matter most. you're already on the right track.

this is absolutely true, but there's an additional nuance: yes, python is fantastic, yes, it's easy and forgiving, but there are other languages like that too. ...except there real…

I think the key thing not obvious to most data scientists is they're not using python because it meets their needs, it's because we've failed them. twice. 1. data scientists aren't…

I'm not sure immortality is a good standard to hold forks to. the original project won't last forever either.

I got good results from running cables around the entire perimeter of a room to avoid crossing doorways. Doesn't work so well on bathrooms though.

Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a creative writing exercise which didn't actually happen and isn't verifiably true to any degree. There were never any Finches, Ewells, …

I decided my life could not possibly go on until I knew what "elvisgogo" does, so I downloaded the tarball and poked around. it's a pretty ordinary numpy + pandas + matplotlib proj…

they sell water, too!

This came up in some of the comments: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-315... if you click the links instead of copy/pasting into your reader you get a page…

I think they mean the manufacturer would just keep most of the stock for themselves. Reminds me of that famous Scarface quote: "You should get high on your own supply, it's a great…

I'd probably go with something like Open Regular Generalized ASseMembly.

the volunteer open source effort behind youtube-dl and its forks/descendants are so impressive in large part because of how many features they provide and thus have to maintain: ht…

There's something beautiful about the kid using performance as language. They've hit upon the greater truth that reading and speech are important because text and the spoken word a…

I was going to reply about how New Zealand is as far from almost everywhere else as the US, but I found out something way more interesting: Other than servers in Australia and New …

and then populating document to cover all the aspects of selected law I'm fairly certain lawyers exist specifically because this is infeasible.

Only because the state asserts their existence with violence. I'm comfortable saying if a foreign nation rolls military vehicles across a border and starts shelling apartment build…

if someone, for example, exchanges funds with a foreign nation to evade sanctions while they illegally occupy another, it really is their state's business.

the author is pretty up front about this: I would like to live in a world where professors consider Prolog worth knowing and put in the effort. That probably isn’t realistic. He cl…