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Yeah, that's (one of the reasons) why eating out frequently is unhealthy.

Reminds me of recipes like brining a turkey in Dr Pepper... sure it may taste fine, but I'd rather not eat food prepared in plastic bags with processed oil.

OpenRouter expired my credits because they were "too old" (more than 12 months old). Didn't realize credits would rot like that.

Retyping LLM code sounds absolutely miserable and soul crushing. Like hand copying the HTML produced by page generators... why would you do that to yourself.

> wound up in an insane asylum for suggesting surgeons should wash their hands. Was rejected and mocked by the medical community for his idea, developed a drinking problem and even…

> because human emotions. If I tour a house with pet urine stains all over the carpet, it's only logical to conclude that the owner is likely not maintaining the rest of the house …

I mean, supposedly software engineering is solved so it's somewhat justified snark.

> I know lots of people do say they learn better when handwriting, just like some people say they learn better while going for a walk. This does not translate into a universal theo…

This advice is basically like a teenager wanting to play electric guitar to jam out a few rock tunes, but their parents insist on learning classical guitar instead because starting…

"More importantly, when this loop matters enough for me to care about a 5x speedup, I want the vectorization to be explicit and predictable. I don't want an unrelated code change o…

This is standard practice in the games industry.

"Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-m…

"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authorita…

This is going to create some kind of maladaptive social issues with heavy users, just like sexual dysfunction from pornography addiction. These people won't be able to bond with re…

> A novel is a bunch of words > What's valuable in a novel (or a poem) is in the words. Even if the words are a lie? Misleading? False? I'm not even talking about LLMs. What if it'…