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Seventy-one percent of Americans say they don’t want an A.I. data center built close to where they live. Why?

As someone in industry who also teaches early career engineers once every two years, there seems to be a tailing off of enthusiasm in the latest cohort. Does anyone know of an actu…

If you are bad enough at building coalitions you can lose almost any election regardless of how evil or corrupt the opposition, is too : ) "FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Popula…

Interesting. In the Rust world extensions like Verus, I think, are trying to enable exactly what the author is discussing. Perhaps worth a look: https://github.com/verus-lang/verus…

Indeed - I look forward to the spa version of this that runs around yelling "Exfoliate!, Exfoliate!" : )

And if you're wearing long sleeves and long pants, you can apply permethrin in a semi permanent way to your clothing to discourage ticks and mosquitoes: https://www.consumerreports…

"Everything means less than zero" (E. Costello) Social media seems to basically be a way of running A/B testing on the population until you find enough folks vulnerable to some sor…

That seems like a small thing that I as a users of lenses would see as a benefit (more folks who could fix my lenses) even if I don't have the inclination to do it myself. Wonder w…

I got my TS3 after it had been out awhile and it's been great for me, also. Wonder how the current (TB5) versions are. They generally seem to take a few (?) years to really get the…

They weren't exactly hopping, but having a local store where you could get hardware support was a big deal, for me at least. I stopped buying Surface devices and switched entirely …

yes, I dropped it because simply favoriting a song seemed to require streamifying my entire personal library, which I didn't want to do.

Look for companies with big fierce customers. This gives you an ally when you go to your boss to try to get the company to do the right thing. I moved from big tech to big manufact…

Yes! Formal specs could be where the understanding of what exactly the system is supposed to do gets laid out - and ideally coupled into the verification process that the code prod…

I don't think things have improved much on that front since Colin Hughes gave a run down on Voice Control's problems several years ago https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2023/08/1…

Princeton was that way in my lifetime (and I'm not that old : ) - corruption is not inevitable nor should honor be considered some sort of utopian dream.

As someone who went there (albeit many decades ago) I can tell you FWIW when I was there folks took it seriously. I literally knew of no one who ever cheated on an exam. And I'm pr…

The point of today's megascale corporations is to make it impossible for challengers to arise at all. They aren't always successful, but the direction of travel is pretty clear.

The surface pro argues otherwise. Using Lightroom classic on the Pro is largely best done from the keyboard, but there are certain workflows where using the touchscreen or a stylus…

Is there a write up of this somewhere? Curious to read more...

And birds didn't invent jet engines, so obviously we don't need those either, right?

Interesting! Is there a pointer to an issue where this feature is described by chance?

A bit old, but still relevant (from Dan Wang's book Breakneck which I am very much enjoying): In China, The Communist Party's Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists https://www.np…