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Psych (the TV show) was set in Santa Barbara but filmed in Vancouver. They then did an episode where the plot was that characters all took a trip to British Columbia, which I recal…

Rome, multiple times before the western empire actually fell. I’m not an expert, but roughly there was a major civil war about once a century (or more), a transition from a republi…

I feel there is a strong argument that if we described the capabilities of agentic systems today to someone from 2002, they’d say we’ve achieved AGI. It’s just not as impressive as…

Which will take up fab capacity all the same. All the chips come out of the same TSMC (or possibly Intel) fabs

I think the term is persistence hunting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting ). There was an intriguing blog post years ago (which sadly I can’t find) about how terr…

Largely agree with this, though I'll throw in that the OS should provide a signal as well. I know for sure that iOS and Windows both have family modes that work pretty well, I susp…

Investigating a cryptographic key found near a major military installation during war time doesn’t strike me as a waste of money. We have the full information about the outcome, bu…

Age verification is absolutely about kids. It’s also being used (or hijacked into) a vehicle for people who want increased surveillance. There is a ton of evidence that there are h…

I looked at the rules for dissolving an HOA in lived in. There were a couple of procedural barriers, but the biggest one was that it required 75% of homeowners to sign a petition w…

I’m 20 years in. I don’t publish that much code because I’ve traditionally been in roles that discourage open source, but after 20 years in I’ve accrued a portfolio on GitHub of pe…

Just checked my ad history ( https://www.clrn.org/how-to-see-recently-viewed-ads-on-youtu... ); Google YouTube TV for NFL Sunday ticket Robinhood Some dog tracker thing Detergent P…

Can we reflect on that this article starts with an Italian researcher named Luigi wearing a vacuum to try to suck in ghosts/will-o-the-wisps.

For mandatory T&Cs I'll put in the signature box "Decline", including updating the HTML page to say "decline" instead of "OK" and screenshotting it or modifying the HTTP response s…

That might be technically true, but the F35 and F16 are both single engine aircraft and IIRC constitute the bulk of at least the US air force’s combat aircraft.

I flew over Greenland coming back from Europe recently. From the air, the fjords and glacial snowscapes there and in northern Canada are profoundly beautiful and completely devoid …

Since the government (federal or state/local) authorizes those organizations to certify physicians and restricts medical care to only those who have been certified, it is.

I don’t like gambling, but I love sports. I will very occasionally engage in “emotional hedging”, where I bet AGAINST the team I want to win. If my beloved team wins, I’m ecstatic …

The current rule only applies to children under 14 years of age. They don't have to ask for teenagers.

You can still do this for infants on some long haul flights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8fphE1v66M&msockid=42557114...

If they are using the program as intended they would. They are supposed to be looking for skills that are impossible to find in the US. If they are offering a good deal to the empl…

You are thinking of Milo and Otis, which incidentally was filmed in Japan. AFAIK nothing was proven, but it got a reputation.

The answer, well documented in the article, is yes. While the article presents cases that appear the be problematic in the particulars, I think coming to the conclusion that bosses…

I will give a little laugh if Houston ends up with a space shuttle Columbia memorial.

I have a simpler answer- the bad ones make money. All of the Jurassic World movies have topped $1B. Rebirth has been out 5 days and is already at $300M, twice its budget. While mov…

I suspect they are a bit high, but not insanely so. The author is using city limits rather than metro area it appears, so there is going to be some draw in from the suburbs. 100k/3…