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I am in the process of using Claude Opus 5 to build an N64 game, and it really works. I've written no code and it is able to build a fully functional game. I got it to write a skil…

Read the book. It's good. I have almost finished it and the biggest criticisms you could make of it, IMO, are "this is all just common sense!" or that the techniques, which are all…

> We are ending the war on protein. Every meal must prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein from both animal and plant sources, paired with healthy fats from whole foods su…

I wonder what would happen if the app stores posted info on the app page like "the top 1% players of this game spent an average on $5,000 on it last year". Would that do anything t…

It isn't just "the rich" who need blood plasma. It's everyone. And paid plasma is the only mechanism in the world to date that yields enough plasma to meet demand.

What diseases has Torvalds eradicated?

We should just GPS track the cars and arrest the thieves.

My takeaway from this is that laws and rules don't matter if the officials on the ground are incompetent, ignorant, and have contempt for you. There is a lot of unnecessary cruelty…

One represents a time in a specific place, and one represents merely a shift from UTC. A specific time zone can have different offsets depending on the time of year, for example wi…

Only the super rich can afford to pay $9? I.e., roughly the price of a sandwich in 2025?

There is going to be an interesting breaking point when DVDs and Blu-rays stop being sold mass-market. I think a lot of people will realize the downside of going all-in on streamin…

Lenny was the OG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrkDOt_IfM

I presume this is for applying rate-limiting, so their API doesn't get utterly abused

I've gotten 2 good jobs directly or indirectly from LinkedIn. I would argue LinkedIn is probably the one site that you absolutely need to be on.

Willing to bet that the retailers will opt to change the button label rather than change business practices.

To be fair, hard drives are not necessarily more future-proof than audio cassettes. A hard drive typically lasts, what, 10 years, whereas a cassette tape is probably good for 50 ye…

One answer: Google's interests are at cross-purposes. They are simultaneously making money from showing you advertisements, but also giving you a browser, and sometimes these confl…

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Because member states like China and Russia are illiberal and left to their own devices pose a risk to global security and human rights. When these illiberal countries band togethe…

Ok, TikTok has the illusion of being content-neutral and just a fair algorithm, but we have no reason to believe it is unbiased.

ByteDance is headquartered in China, a repressive country where they throw you in prison or worse if you don't obey the government. If the Communist Party told them to meddle with …

Note that the 15-20% of people who are "disabled" are not defined as needing around-the-clock caregivers. Disability is a spectrum. I would indeed dismiss that particular statistic…

Another approach would be to apply tariffs to chips coming from adversary countries, until it becomes more economical to produce them in North America.

Counterpoint: sometimes teams actually do use a tool poorly, and it ruins the experience for people and makes them think something is wrong with the tool itself. You're allowed to …

If you actually prefer SVN over Git, then your workplace is definitely using Git very, very wrong.