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Mainly /goal mode of complex project/prompts. Example: https://doxygen.rpnx.net/cortado/ was nearly a one-shot for GPT 5.6 sol and took well over 1 hour for the first prompt before…

Obviously using work equipment is a no-no. I'm also in agreement on point #2 aside that I think it's okay to discuss such topics e.g. during lunch in the same way you may discuss a…

So here's the question I wanted to pose around AI usage. With modern advanced AI, much of the time, using AI consists of sending a message a waiting a long time (often an hour or m…

No, we should make standard time permanent. Daylight savings time is bad for our bodies particularly in the winter. It also makes noon even more out of sync with solar noon.

It is worth noting that if the Air Conditioner is powered by electricity that came from solar panels, the net heat produced compared to letting the sun heat solar panel colored gro…

Good. Reduce population growth until housing buildout can catch up with population. Trying to create more babies and allowing immigration when there aren't enough homes is dumb.

Ran across this while writing the Quxlang compiler frontend. Was wondering how GCC/Clang solved this problem... turns out at least with regard to GCC... they don't!

200-ish line C++ file with no user-defined templates generates around 90k assembly lines with -Os enabled.

GC was removed from the C++ standard in C++23 because all the compilers were like "hell no" and it was an optional feature so they could get away with not adding it. So this option…

Pinephone pro... The phone was not specced well enough and had issue. Hoping the FLX1 isn't vaporware.

That isn't how chemistry works.

A document proposing terminology to describe 0-based indexes in unambiguous language. For example, considering a sequence like [5, 4, 7, 8, 2] What is the 4th element? 8, but if I …

I think this honestly has more to do with moslty Chinese sellers engaging in review fraud, which is a rampant problem. I'm not saying non-Chinese sellers don't engage in review fra…

I actually disagree. I think that people will pay more for higher quality software, but only if they know the software is higher quality. It's great to say your software is higher …

Stainless steel can be welded... just not easily and cheaply.

This is a simple problem I have met and dealt with before. The issue is the lack of synchronization between cancellation and not handling cancel failure. All cancellations can fail…

To be clear, everyone alive today is still on average multiple iq points dumber than they would have been had we not burned tetraethyl lead 50 years ago, even though it has been ba…

Lead is toxic at any dose. This means is damages your neurons in any amount. Contrast to say, copper, which doesn't start causing damage until levels exceed a certain tolerable thr…

I'll take microplastics over lead any day.

lead is extremely toxic even in small doses, microplastics are comparatively a non-issue.

It is a typical example of "I'm right so I should be allowed to bypass the democratic process and do whatever I want" thinking. It's quite dangerous.

This is the root of the problem. Take the whole "saturated fat is unhealthy" thing. Here's what happened: Study finds that unsaturated fat is healthier than saturated fat, but all …

Back in university, my compsci security project didn't work on the university wifi for some reason, if we used google chrome. Firefox worked fine. Some kind of weird proxy broke th…