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Assembly, assign, assert, assume, associate... I think most of what you're picking up is not actually naughty.

> Because they are vibrating, a lot of that energy is being wasted in brownian motion. So the denser it is, the more your average vector is going to be toward more dense brownian m…

Loving math is not necessarily a problem. But if you want others to love it too, you have to explain it in a way that makes them see the light. A lot of STEM education is more alon…

I don't get why EE education emphasizes problems of this sort. The infinite grid is an extreme example, but solving weirdly complicated problems involving Kirchoff's laws and Theve…

> Gary Marcus isn't about "getting real", it's making a name for himself as a contrarian to the popular AI narrative. That's an odd standard. Not wanting to be wrong is a universal…

The complaints about licensing seem a bit weird given that the company actually accommodates hobbyists. They have a $100-something perpetual home license that doesn't require inter…

> Formal Methods in general are underrated in the industry. Pretty much no large companies except AWS (thank you Byron Cook!) use them at a large scale. At least Microsoft and Goog…

The original post asserted the article is nonsense; you're trying to justify that by saying you don't like the author's writing style. Two separate things... The article is mostly …

The main reason system() exists is that people want to execute shell commands; some confused novice developers might mix it up with execl(), but this is not a major source of vulne…

There's a ton of hobbies like that. There are people who collect out-of-print comic books, sports memorabilia, old militaria, etc. What's the point of any of it? It's the joy of ha…

"Extremist" is just a pejorative variant of "radical". I assume they're using it tongue-in-cheek. When it comes to speech, it's really not hard to imagine positions that would have…

Back in the olden days, pressure-treated wood contained compounds of arsenic and chromium. This made it pretty terrible to cut, sand, burn, etc. The warnings persist in part becaus…

The point of the SI system is not that one meter is "better" than one foot. It's that we picked one subjective point of reference and then made almost all the other units related t…

> I wonder if 2025 will be the year of Linux. I know it's a running joke, but we had a decade (+) of Linux in many other consumer use cases, such as smartphones. The problem is tha…

The old internet is still there, it just hasn't scaled as quickly as everything else. And frankly, we have a role to play if we want to preserve and nourish it. You say you liked t…

I think the article describes a real problem in that AI discourages thought. So do other things, but what's new about AI is that it removes an incentive to try. It used to be that …

More generally, prior to LLMs, you were competing with 8 billion people alive (plus all of our notable dead). Any novel you could write probably had some precedent. Any personal st…

There's a lot of folks doing financial calculations in this thread, but keep in mind that this produced an unstable isotope of gold with a half-life measured in seconds. This has b…

If Signal becomes financially dependent on government contracts, the govt gains a lot of leverage over the app. I'm not sure that's a great position for this particular platform to…

I don't want to be judgmental because I know these are extremely difficult situations with no easy answers, but what strikes me about this article is that the author blames the pro…

> It can’t replace a human for support But it is replacing it. There's a rapidly-growing number of large, publicly-traded companies that replaced first-line support with LLMs. When…

> It's kind of flat, unappealing scenery and it's boiling hot in the summer. Several decades ago, you could have levied the same criticisms against South San Jose, Morgan Hill, and…