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Well, that "different universe" includes the tech company that employs me. I like my universe better.

Closing the barn door well after the horses are long gone.

Follow up in 2015 with essentially the same conclusions: "Acetylsalicylic Acid Daily vs Acetylsalicylic Acid Every 3 Days in Healthy Volunteers: Effect on Platelet Aggregation, Gas…

Nor do most folks using it. Which isn't totally novel: I have almost no idea how an internal combustion engine works. But I do know enough to realize that it's not appropriate to d…

Same use case (math-heavy, no-javascript blog), but I ended up with a _slightly_ different approach: instead of converting to SVG, convert to MathML. Browser support is pretty robu…

Survey from a company that's in the business of AI coding and thus has a monetary interest in promoting the technology. No details on who conducted the survey (the company itself?)…

I dunno, it kind of accurately reflects the view that in capitalist firms employees are resources, e.g. to be exploited. I'd vote for the old terminology: Personnel Department.

I think Cory Doctorow described said eng manager as a "human crumple zone" that serves to absorb the blame for failures.

Apple Keynote.

If the ads that Apple shows me in the App Store, Apple News, etc. are supposed to be personalized, then Apple is really, _really,_ *really* bad at personalization. They're clearly …

It doesn’t. After a response, you can ask it for its sources, but it will just make stuff up. Out of curiosity I asked it a microbiology question. It gave a reasonable but rather a…

Well, it’s been more than 24 hours without a peep from Twitter. Seems like a legitimate bug/failure would have at least been acknowledged by now.

> I've been on HN for a loooong time. And you’re asking random users for investment advice?

Definitely! In my home state of Georgia, the slate of electors pledged to Donald Trump and Mike Pence on the 2020 presidential election was: Joseph Brennan, Ken Carroll, Vikki Cons…

As an EE undergrad 40 years ago, the title made me think of the programming languages taught in my courses at the time. - FORTRAN (no surprise here, I was an EE major not CS) - Pas…

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As someone who's more likely to cycle somewhere than to drive, I wish there was as much attention paid every time a human-piloted car did something like this. It happens much more …

Marginal Revolution

To be fair, it's just one legislator in North Carolina, not the whole state.

Don't give it WiFi credentials. (I've got a 5-year-old Samsung that's never connected to any network and it works fine.)

I merely cited this as one example of a confusing UI, but this response makes my point even stronger. For most applications, the normal user flow is from general (what the app call…

Same reaction. My Tower subscription is up for renewal next month, so I'm primed to give this a try. A cursory look, however, and I find the user interface to be baffling. As one e…

Although I would also recommend Apple's first-party apps, if you use iCloud sync, then your data is stored on Apple's servers.

> But that’s easier said than done for a lot of people. It's also very easy for some people, myself as an example. I took the standard career path, eventually serving as VP of Engi…