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The author's definition of a "Disability Dongle" perfectly describes the early versions of motorized wheelchairs. Why is it such an obvious conclusion that we need remake the world…

I think about that every time I walk into a bank with an elaborate building or a ton of staff hanging around.

The quality of your local nerd has also likely decreased substantially. Being a nerd used to be a lot more work. Now, if you're having a face-to-face interaction with a local afici…

It's totally worth doing. Especially since it only takes one or two manual improvements before you can just say "ok, replicate this new pattern throughout the codebase. Go."

The idea that we might already have an optimal system but that it requires the sacrifice of feeling mild discomfort for a day or two is unfathomable for some people.

Which one to make permanent gets you a different answer based on what edge of a time zone you're on. The obvious move is to further subdivide the timezones at the :30 mark and make…

It's a shame that LLMs took off at the exact same time humanity entered it post-literate phase.

I really want to see this tested on HDPE. A simple, reliable adhesive for polyethylene could be a game changer.

Yeah. Just think about how much smaller of an apartment they could be living in.

3090s are still selling at damn near their release MSRP.

Your code appears to have a bug where if the arrow keys trigger a change of direction twice in a single frame interval, it can mistakenly send the snake back on itself.

It is hard to evaluate the model performance of Composer 2.5 when Cursor's harness is so awful compared to the others on the market.

I don't disagree with any of the major gripes people have with orms and I find SQL to be much cleaner in a lot of circumstances. That being said, if orms didn't force you to explic…

If I had $300k going through my bank account every year I really think I would have noticed by now.

>it costs $1200000 to raise baby What exactly are you planning to do with all that money anyway? Consume things?

I've never bought a sticker like that.

Does automated fraud detection not replace the work of human auditors? Do these large machines automate tasks? If you believe automating human labor is an evil, then I hate to brea…

That assumes that a value-judgement can be optimally made with intelligence alone.

> Why da f*#$ do they have to continue developing a technology which they think will replace droves of people by machines?? Say, you wouldn't happen to write software for a living,…

I suspect this is sarcasm but seriously. Craigslist has floundered and now Meta/Facebook Marketplace is dominating the private buying/selling space. Is that not at least $500M of h…

Everyone on this site has been cashing checks building the job eating machine for years. The concern is only pouring out now that it may not need us anymore.

You have to admit-- it is interesting that all of this media, that was made during a time when there were standards and morals, has painted such a clear picture of what you now exp…

In the 10 years prior to like 2023, any new large scale data center build-out was explicitly for serving more ads. Meanwhile, now that we have a new tech that's literally solving u…

This is going to have so many api keys stored in it.