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We're getting close to post-scarcity on calories at this point. You can feed someone three meals of rice and beans for under an hour of minimum wage labour in most of the developed…

I've lived in an apartment complex with weirdos before, including one lady who used to scream at random times, but we basically couldn't hear them. The screaming lady was only audi…

I literally meant the team should decide, collectively. Maybe take a vote.

Plastics tend to be more chemically active than a lot of rocks, for example. Although that's not going to protect you from crystalline dust from silica and asbestos.

This particular test might be reasonable, but at some point you're just filtering out anyone who's not in your bubble, which is a problem when your beliefs are extreme because your…

I'm baffled by the claim that tech oligarchs are bad readers, as opposed to getting the point but disagreeing. Some authors seem to think that readers may only read Heinlein if the…

AI has been trained on real data, and some real human speech uses the same catchy hooks as an AI. In this case, the style seems consistent with his earlier work.

There's a bit of nuance here. A material which doesn't biodegrade but is inert, a material which biodegrades but only when exposed to light or moisture or heat, a material which bi…

I'm not an extrovert, I'm more or less on the line between the two extremes, and I prefer WFO or hybrid. Teams should really be choosing their model of work themselves, and anyone …

I think there's a coherent argument lurking in there, but the author hasn't refined it enough. Here's my attempt. The industrial revolution seemed like the end of the artisan as an…

This is setting up a contrast between long term memory and an LLM. You might equally contrast someone who is physically in the Grand Canyon with an LLM given access to a drone with…

I think you're seeing a compound word because it's part of your native dialect, whereas I'm seeing each word independently. If you think about "grilled", "cheese", and the silent "…

I haven't tried using an AI to write prose, but I use Claude to write code daily and it spits out the worst comments I've ever seen, along with some surprisingly good ones. Would w…

We call the entire genre of toasted sandwich a toastie. A grilled cheese would thus be a cheese toastie, the addition of tomato would make it a cheese and tomato toastie, and so on…

This is something of a circular argument. Bob doesn't waste energy on on-call duties, so he implements more features, so he's a prolific engineer, so he doesn't have to waste energ…

What is there to discuss? Outlier weather events are growing more common and the hot summer obviously played a role here. Even climate change denial has moved from denying the fact…

Huh. I should probably add a .curlrc file with a generic Chrome UA and see if it can get past the most annoying filters. This has always struck me as dishonest, but recently I've b…

I'm surprised a formatter does that. Prettier in the JS world likes to jam destructured arguments onto one line, but it will leave them alone if there's a comment.

This sounds interesting but I couldn't find any sources in a few seconds of searching. Got any resources for further reading?

Yeah, I've seen that too, even in pre-LLM times. I don't have a good explanation for how candidates with zero ability to write code can make it through a hiring funnel to sit in fr…

I said "interesting" but I really meant "bad". You might as well test someone on whether they remember bitwise operators. I feel that you did not address the specifics of what I wr…

Fizzbuzz is interesting because it relies on either the candidate remembering the modulo operator, or the interviewer allowing them to write a modulo function. I can understand why…

I'm not religious nor a recovering alcoholic, but I've always liked the serenity prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer . Obviously it is unreasonable to continue wa…

In 2019 I bet they were more than 2x what they were in 2012.

Do you mean "just because it's a bell curve, doesn't make it a normal distribution"?