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"breaks sucrose into fructose and glucose almost instantaneously" - I presume what you meant to write? And that's absolutely true. I think it's easy to hate (more) on HFCS because …

That cuts both ways though, and I have quite direct knowledge of how this has been misused in really gross ways. But that said, I would still bias towards more freedom than less, a…

I was almost taken out by two rogue kayaks being towed behind an oblivious truck driver. If I get taken out, I want it to be while I'm saving kids from an angry bear, not something…

It's 9:30pm pacific time - my build is still completely borked ... and we're self hosting runners. I think we need to ask for some money back, this is BONKERS. Any more of this, an…

"I don't see how they could manage that without a full-scale invasion and control of Iran" - that's precisely what they're saying, and that the domestic populace wouldn't put up wi…

Why though - seriously, what need are you bringing by doing that? What good could come of that besides a little catharsis? These middle managers are robots in an organization. You …

Sorry, I wasn't suggesting you had little scruples. That's just a silly part of common parlance that can be confusing sometimes.

In this last week, I've performed experiments in an almost fully automated way - parallel to my main work, and easy to orchestrate. This has led to 3 parallel pieces of adjacent wo…

Absolutely - in some cases you'll see the major sins addressed, and there's a small mountain of lesser issues waiting to be uncovered.

Maybe it's just me, but someone deciding to physically sand things without my consent would get a stern eye from me. Unless it's well into the "no brainer" kind of decision. (eg: t…

I’ve just had the displeasure of interviewing a batch of candidates over zoom. ALL of them were cheating with AI in realtime. If you have so little scruples, I can imagine you woul…

"The issue would be that LLMs seem to not improve senior devs productivity" - that's the opposite of what they said. And the opposite of my experience.

"Rules for thee but not for me" - isn't that beyond obvious now? The folks running things simply do not play by the rules you or I do (assuming you do).

That is true. Then again if you can’t even provide a reference you’re unable to jump a very low bar. We’re inundated with fake applicants. References are more than mandatory now. B…

Enough to make it a non-started at the organizations that pay their bills. Everyone else isn't big enough to matter.

They're not saying "one point" about the conclusion, they're saying that their statement isn't nearly confident enough, and that they would prefer that they say with strong confide…

I have normal hair, and probably less hair loss than is average for someone my age. I don't use products on it. Aside from this issue, it's been clear sailing the whole time.

What I'm getting from all this is that we have an armchair expert explaining details about something they're not an expert in, and we have you reviewing the way they present this i…

It was certainly the case that gym bros thought you had to cycle it. But you're right that this was never necessary.

"poses no danger to your hair" I keep hearing folks say this, and even in this thread there's someone who's experienced that and had it stop when they eliminated creatine. I too ha…

Human ingenuity thrives on constraints.

If I worked at a place like that, I'd sure as hell work my butt of to get a job somewhere else. Or in my case, actively ignore any and all recruiting from that sesspool.

"that can grammar correct" ... Did you do that on purpose?

For the near future it seems that the new models will consume whatever improved hardware capacity we have. Competing with that is challenging, but I also think there will be strong…

Supposedly it’s an urban (rural) legend going around for a long time. Good story, even if it’s not true.