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Do you have any sources for this? (Even anecdotal such as conversations with people in the know) I recently built myself a good tool that blocks all sponsored, promoted and recomme…

I'm curious why Microsoft has that setting on by default. What are the benefits of letting any peripheral make system level changes to that extent without popping up a user install…

One of the primary purposes of batching is to release features at a regular cadence, and all releases go through the same minimum set of checks to catch any unexpected regressions.…

But you most likely signed a binding arbitration clause in the TOS

Slightly misleading title: It's an Artificial Eggshell/Membrane. They took regular eggs, broke the shell/membrane and emptied the contents into a silicone based eggshell/membrane f…

The article repeatedly uses the API charge to the 'customer' as an estimate of the cost value to Anthropic/OpenAI. Is there any good data on the true cost of inference for these co…

The mouse sensitivity on mobile though is wildly high!

Not sure I fully understood what you meant by 'the open category is done'? Also, from the categories that you mentioned, do you compete in West Coast Swing?

Reverse the benefits != increase the net risk It took a while going through the data in the results section to see this.

They actually do compare against a control group. This is the study that is being referenced. https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e002150 The data on the results section shows …

This is the study that the article references. (The linked one on the post is an older study) https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e002150

I came across this site earlier, but at a quick search could not find any other sources corroborating the fact that this vote indeed happened.

https://archive.ph/P0rli

In the day of so much AI content, that straight-up-rant felt oddly... human. It felt like sitting on the old college dorm a lifetime ago unwinding at the end of the day over a beer…

I'm seeing a lot of this same bottle neck show up around code review. Very interested to hear more experiences of attempts to solve this pragmatically.

Couldn't that also be viewed as the beauty of it? Python is a rather accessible language to learn, and that the performance gap has closed enabling this simple language to operate …

> Vertical slice architecture — organizing code by feature with each slice self-contained — is emerging as the AI-friendly pattern because it maximizes context isolation. > Three a…

> The data on AI's differential impact is now overwhelming. Faros AI's Productivity Paradox Report (10,000+ developers, 1,255 teams) found that high-AI-adoption teams completed 21%…

This is the kind of positivity that I love finding find once going down the rabbit hole of board games today. So make amazing suggestions in this list, including two of my favorite…

+1 to shoo for the bgg links! BoardGameGeek is the place to read up on games before buying them. On the 'without spending money' front, depending on the city where you live, there …

Love Splendor! It created a category of its own!

'Terraforming Mars' is a game that I've come back to more times than I can count. The beauty is that it visually looks really complex and advanced, but the gameplay isn't really th…

I'm curious about the amount of data stored unencrypted in your local hister vault. Would that in itself become a security vulnerability? And if so, would you consider specific sit…

It's probably not hard to deepfake him eating a fruit. The win of what he's doing is probably a lot more social than technical. It's funny and calls attention to the problem, which…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laser_types Wavelengths of commercially available lasers. Laser types with distinct laser lines are shown above the wavelength bar, while belo…