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(in the comments here) there are some very interesting topics touched that would definitely warrant a discussion of their own. One of these topics is how (in many countries) the go…

Wouldn't it be enough to have a "walkman" styled mp3 app? Or even a smatwach-app or even just walkman-buds? The physical casette /CD is obsolete, most people don't even have music …

[Invert, always invert] If you're not a homeowner then "you'll own nothing and be happy", Homes are not #1 best investment asset and they shouldn't be but the world works better if…

-- OK. Added location context for the vehicle grok works, chatgpt still fails [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/69932b20-3eb8-8003-9d9c-b4bba53033... [2] https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN…

I see things were fixed already [2][4] but luckily a friend showed me this issue yesterday [1][2] [1] 2026-02-15 https://chatgpt.com/share/6992e17b-9b28-8003-9da9-38533f257d... [2]…

Haha. True, CI success was not part of PR accept criteria at any point. If you view the PRs, they bundle multiple fixes together, at least according to the commit messages. The nex…

The blog[0] is worded rather conservatively but on Twitter [2] the claim is pretty obvious and the hype effect is achieved [2] CEO stated "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor…

Why are we always blaming the lowest developer for things? How about we target the Jira overlords who know exactly what they are doing? I was once in a team developing a billing sy…

No need to ban it. Just automaticly award full salary for 2x the noncompete period they put in your contract, payable in full a week after contract termination.

How does this look outside coding? Do we know of any other professions where there are whiteboard / leetcode style interviews?

The single biggest opportunity equalizer for the young generations come from 2 unlikely sources: COVID (mandatory WFH) and Musk (ubiquitous internet access). This opens doors for a…

That's not the 1st time I see this thinking fallacy. please talk to your grandparents about the topic and report back to us.

How is housing expensive?? Assuming a 1.2m house (for easy math). You pay 200k down and take a 1m loan which is 6k/mo. After 10y you sell the house for 2.4m. Having paid 720k, ~500…

Please let's not glorify working from 6am (effectively allocating time since 5am for work) unless you also left office at 2pm. Only seeing your children on weekends to make your bo…

this is another overreach of collectivism virus creeping upon us to make parenting even harder. As of 2022, the average cost of raising a child to age 17 is $310605 [1] [2]. That d…

The progressives should really pick up on the benefits of WFH and become active proponents. WFH is the biggest equalizer of geographic opportunity, decreases physical disability im…

WFH is an invention equal to washingmachine + dishwasher where 2h each day is not being lost anymore by unproductive activity. With plenty of externalities on top of the lost time.…

Microsoft has access to ALL corporate data of ALL companies (sharepoint, teams, outlook, office365). Remaining step is to link chatgpt to it and train automated agents.

Unfortunately this was published a few revisions too early IMHO. And a couple of peer reviews but the exploration itself is a nice try. Due to nonlinearity of the rocket equation s…

The value is this magic building: you put metal sheets & plastic granulate in one door and cars come the other door. Most other vendord are only a marketing shell whereas everythin…

We should ask ourselves why other launch providers have not done this? Why have we been told by BMW, Mercedes, Lexus "this is all there is", "people will only buy so many $100k car…

Elon did his usual "escape forward" trick but in the end this iteration does not deliver what was promised. I reserved a $40k truck in 2019 that was supposed to be much easier to m…

Could this be the real reason women are paid less than men?

WFH has so many benefits, whoever mandated it during COVID deserves Noble Peace Prize for the work towards wellbeeing of humanity. RTO is pretty much incompatible with having a fam…

average Human uses 2000 kcal of food per day (~10MJ) which is 2,32 kWh, that's what an EV uses to drive 10km (6mi). Using a Diesel car that much energy will drive you 1km (0.8mi). …