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How can it be a fireable offense when it's actively encouraged and rewarded?

I was anticipating that having AI write code to pass tests (human and/or AI written tests) would be worthwhile, but in practice, I've found that even models such as Opus 4.6 Thinki…

Anaphylactic shock, and possibly death, is a potential outcome from the worm breaking internally. Far too risky.

Steam Deck spotted, two minutes, seven seconds in. Seems to be getting a fair amount of use for puppeteering robots at Disney.

Isn't a rather good deal of color from feathers a result of "structural color", rather than pigmentation? I'd be curious if fossilized feathers could ever, in theory, preserve enou…

Maybe it's just me, but this "We have to fudge the truth because nuance would support the alt-right" business just seems to drive a bigger wedge into the political divide than woul…

Following similar thinking, there's no world in which AI becomes exactly capable of replacing all software developers and then stops there, miraculously saving the jobs of everyone…

For the record, having suffered the effects of extreme dehydration before, if someone insists on aiding me in the process of dying (against my wishes) please get it over with quick…

If that's in line with the patient's wishes, cool. Otherwise, not so cool, both for the act of killing someone and for undermining the arguments in favor of legal euthanasia.

Everywhere, license agreements that can be changed by the company at any time, pretty much for every game developer that can afford a lawyer to write up said license agreement. The…

We can barely afford 5 dimensions with our current operating budget, and it's just not going to scale, I'm afraid. Saddle up boys, I'm proposing we draw them on a _hyperbolic plane…

Acknowledging that my own reading of the situation may be flawed, I'd though the situation was that pigs on average are better at sniffing out truffles, but dogs are the better tru…

> The latter indicates people who simply don't read. Or more charitably, their vocabulary is fine and they merely suffer from noun recall deficiency and or other issues with public…

I'd go so far as to liken it to a series of memory wipes between age 3 to 4. Memory otherwise appears to function quite fine, from day to day and year to year, but then large block…

Personally, I'm convinced Bluey is covertly a wholesome show for parents, dressed up as a kids' show, but ultimately still for the sake of children by way of 1) encouraging watchin…

Heard the of bimodal salary distribution? I'd bet it matches up quite well with a bimodal influence distribution.

> flame retardant insulation Which are almost definitely known to the state of California to cause cancer.

Which reminds me that verbal and emotional abuse from parents and close family can have a severe impact reaching far into adult-hood. You can't help having internalized behaviors b…

> This is what I’m thinking. All of the kids I know from 16-22 are the most level headed group of young adults I’ve known. Taking this on a bit of a tangent, but as an elder millen…

> Didn't they explicitly acquire the people behind CRDT's. They may well have hired some of the cohort behind early CRDT research. But I don't believe that work was ever directly a…

> It's what used when multiple people edit a Google doc at the same time. I expect Google Docs is still using Operational Transform, rather than CRDT, which solves a similar set of…

Gotta add some Angostura bitters nowadays to give your Moxie some moxie.

Yeah, I'd heard they were still iterating on their routine.

I'm still awaiting the punchline.

> 1. Short-Sightedness > As an IC, my focus was on immediate tasks and technical details. I thought in terms of sprints and short-term goals, which are more predictable and easier …