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> If "free speech" was a valid defense for you, then Meta would be doing the same. Meta lobbied heavily for this. The fact that they have not decided to use free speech to fight th…

> In the end, the proof is in the pudding: How good is the music made with the tool? hating on OP for being AI slop is fully legit imo (sorry OP) but don't judge the concept on thi…

next they're going to set up thought-triggered Amazon purchases and say that moving the object from the warehouse to your home constitutes telekinesis. ever since Elon did his "pro…

I've been tracking my Wordle stats too but only for maybe six months. I got annoyed by the Wordle Bot stats for "Skill" and "Luck" as I don't think they actually represent what the…

yes. and that identification would have contained the current outbreak, to some degree, or at least mitigated it.

Claude's affected my language in two ways. one is that, for a long time, Claude in particular responded more to feedback if I swore at it, which caused me to swear at it more. this…

no, 95% of dogs are not okay with it. 95% of the dogs in your home are okay with it. this study from Psychology Today finds that 83% of dogs freak out when they hear loud noises: h…

AI's not a technology, though. LLMs are a technology. AI is a marketing term.

this is false

but we need to have some sort of law that creates a Chinese firewall between these mass surveillance data and the government technically we have one, the Fourth Amendment, but SCOT…

seeing a theme here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121617

no, they're (illegally) using a private intake system to bypass the courts.

no, they're serious, but they're not sincere. once this system is up and running, they can use it to harass and "deport" (rendition) anybody they want based on what tax-deductible …

even a swarm of satellites has risk factors. we treat space as if it were empty (it's in the name) but there's debris left over from previous missions. this stuff orbits at a very …

Since I had to google it, Metcalfe was one of the inventors of Ethernet. Fun fact, he predicted in 1995 that the internet would collapse entirely within the following year, and sai…

yeah, it's a good post overall, but the humblebrag factor undermines it

sorry but you’re underestimating the number of people who come here, and the range of backgrounds (and interests) they have

yeah, that’s what works for me also. LLMs are a nightmare for debugging but a breeze for this. another good use case: have it read a ton of code and summarize it. if you’re dealing…

The problem with Lisp (or at least Clojure) is that abstracting away the boilerplate requires you to correctly identify the boilerplate. It’s nontrivial to structure your entire AS…

Since I had to Google it, 3Com was the company behind Ethernet, a wired networking standard that revolutionized offices in the days before remote work. Like with GUIs, the work sta…

The EPA is currently reviewing its ban on asbestos.

this is correct, because "enemy" starts with a vowel, but it's a fairly gratuitous translation either way, since "know your enemy" comes from Sun Tzu

I found the Wii U joystick too springy to win OOT or even play much of Twilight Princess. I was able to compensate for the springiness until the penultimate fight with Ganondorf at…

> One of the interesting pieces of science that I think a lot of people don't think about is strategic investment. the Internet itself began with DARPA. the web at CERN. both came …

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