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You could make a list of all the metadata and pass it through a LLM to determine the quantity. You’ll need some sanity checking but if you prompt it with some examples it will do w…

You’re likely thinking of the Veritasium episode https://youtu.be/gMlf1ELvRzc?si=Qwevl2GwHCzSFcsQ

I share all your concerns. I considered mentioning them but figured I should keep my reply focused on idea of freeing people up isn’t inherently bad. In particular zero sum resourc…

My thoughts are a few: There is a lot of undone labor in the world. In developing countries the middle class has drivers, cooks, housekeepers. That’s only possible due to inequalit…

There is an argument that if you need in process multithreading you should use a different language. But a lot of people need to use python because everything else they’re doing is…

For me the point of thinking like this is to remain centered and not freak out. I see some people who feel like ‘everything is going downhill and this is the worse time ever’ and t…

I’ve used ImGui with success. I specially was also using webgpu so I used the glfw+webgpu backends. I had to fix a few issues in both halfs of the backend and there remain some lit…

https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/about-wiz and https://www.signify.com/en-us Wiz joined Signify in 2019. Signify is the new name for Philips Lighting (post spin out from Philips)…

In my first job, management purposely prohibited developers from using really powerful machines because we needed to make the software faster. The problem was it was hard to make t…

As an engineer who loves the moonshots it breaks my heart. The core problem however is that from a dispassionate investor viewpoint, the uber for Y companies are more understandabl…

As the article alludes, lack of a build your own, flexible yet affordable desktop option seems to be a pretty deadly aspect. Pretty much Mac owners are on laptops. Even in the PC w…

It has to survive the trip there, be mostly autonomous, and most importantly operate in the low atmosphere and harsh environment of Mars. All things no off the shelf design will ge…

Not an expert, but some digging in on this indicates there is one species folks advice against (topical milkweed); otherwise the advice is a species native to your region. Some sit…

In January I built a personal project on the web with Rust and had the positive experience I was hoping for. The efficiency of execution plus the cleanliness and memory safety of a…

I've built plugins with VSTO (for Outlook) when I was at MS, but my memory is that it’s dependent on a plugin being distributed and not available for native use embedded into the e…

I'd be over the moon to see one change to Excel. Native support for a language other than VBA. Perhaps the CLR. Perhaps Java/Typescript. Just something (optional) for programmers w…

Have you tried Alpaca ( https://alpaca.markets/ )? As I understand their pitch they're an API based brokerage with free trades similar to Robinhood. Not my space / haven't tried th…

> More than one square mile, in Silicon Valley. I was momentarily outraged, until I found it on a map. The San Andreas fault runs _right_ through the center of the property. Makes …

Paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.07291.pdf Page 14 and beyond show a number of examples vs previous methods. IIUC, their contribution is a masking normalization layer (the 'S…

For me depends on what the knowledge is. About Code: The only way I've found that works is comments in the code itself (or docs generated from code annotations). Processes: Playboo…

Wunderlist is where I landed 5 years ago after many failed alternatives. I like that it’s primary interface is a simple entry box with an add button. I can review my ideas periodic…

afaict, this study looked at only two instances of fortune 500 companies who moved some people to open office plans and compared them to those who were not moved. Additionally, the…

My guess is that the more detailed, dense map allows the car to precisely localize itself by using its view of the world to match against the map, yielding a location more precise …

As you speculate, some lines of research address aging by keeping you young. Your DNA is kept young, and as a side effect your muscles are kept young and the ability to quickly rec…