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It's not like this is an unknown gimp problem - conventional search turns up plenty of results describing this class of bugs and advising to disable the previews.

Politicians are selling to their audiences, there's no more truth in their words than any other sales/marketing scheme. Of course we're fucked.

> In the end, it's basically a Toyota Hilux. that's quite the optimistic end! There's absolutely zero chance this ends with a pickup powered by the venerable Toyota 22R-E I4 or an …

think window shopping which upon writing I realized may not even be something folks born after 2010 have even heard of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shopping

fiction

FreeBSD has never played a significant role in the Free Software Movement. Frankly I'm surprised there was any GPL code at all in the FreeBSD base repo in 2026.

will we ever be free from the curse of believing correlation == causation

My impression of new car design aesthetics is they're mostly ugly to me because they're optimizing for selling to a different market than mine (USA). New automobiles starting looki…

It's arguably a good strategy to make mountains out of mole hills from their perspective. It drains the regulators' finite resources on relatively trivial matters, and I think it g…

it's externalizing the real work all the way down

In the context of US roads, it's an extremely rare specimen which by itself makes it interesting. But even beyond that, lightweight, mid front engine, rwd, turbo variants, this is …

AIUI This relationship between PG&E and SF/CPUC has a corrupt history dating back to the 90s with Willie Brown and later even Kamala Harris. It's a part of why Republicans actually…

"extreme pro level" how old are you?

There's no need for missing answers as to why copper is appreciated as a water transport/storage medium. It's the same reason it's traditionally used as cladding on boat hulls, and…

Rogan is obviously pro psychedelics, and was even featured in the oval office during the recent Ibogaine approval signing. I think it's worth noting if this N=1 "study" has any ass…

If everyone in the team behaves this way there's no substrate creating opportunities for people like this to capitalize on. I often fall into this role, and historically have made …

The GenAI mess has delivered a new form of Eternal September[0] but for the software development communities. I wonder what it will be referred to as, after the dust settles? [0] h…

You also got older and probably less fit. As a bald man my experience has been the main determining factor is how hard am I working on maintaining an athletic physique that year.

If you look up either "half measures" or "unintended consequences" they should both say "See also: California"

wow, that's a charitable take IME the manager just approves the PR themself to "bias for action", someone else will pick up the pieces

I've noticed there's a pattern of behavior with folks living in the forested parts of California where they expect everyone else to subsidize their impractical choice on where to p…

"intelligence"

seems like an obvious application would be game development? procedural curve functions are used quite a lot, look up "tweening" for instance.

wiring up an RNG to your CLI has fairly obvious risks, the root of the problem is ~everyone's treating GenAI as if it's AGI - the rest is popcorn fodder.

A lot of comments in here are obviously describing Americans, as if that's representative of some global human reality, without acknowledging the elephant in the room is a cultural…