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I would not be at all comfortable, with a human server, making them wait while changing my selection multiple times (no I want it with the ginger sauce... no, without... no actuall…

I always found this particular Recurse Center rule strange. I understand how not feigning surprise can be a good rule, as in you should not pretend to be surprised when you genuine…

At least in North America (and the author seems to be from Canada), having a company give you any sabbatical at all is pretty rare, and 6+ months is pure fantasy:) And not everyone…

I understand there may be an emotional desire to get rid of something unpleasant, but some descendants e.g. 5 generations down the line may feel very differently about this. Given …

If it's for 95% if students who aren't interested in being scientists, then it shouldn't be an extracurricular science fair, but a part (maybe a big part) of the regular curriculum…

Dependence on a secure client is generally a bad idea. Security should be server-side.

This gives a pretty good explanation, although there is a slight difference from the translation in the original post: https://chatgpt.com/share/69136c44-94b0-8000-a564-ce55f92a14.…

In Canada there's MyDoh, which is specifically a debit card you can give to kids including in that age range. One of the major Canadian banks runs this. Can only imagine that it's …

I was trying to submit some feedback using your "Feedback" button on the top right, but got an error when trying to submit it :( Anyway, the model used doesn't seem to be very good…

There is a surprising amount of detailed childhood memories you may be able to retrieve by making a prolonged, conscious effort. I would guess that many people who say they don't h…

https://cerebras.ai/press-release/meet-jais-the-worlds-most-...

But in scenario (B) you're spending money in Japan, basically you're directly injecting US money (your US salary) into the Japanese economy. Don't see why it's "amazing" for the US…

This makes no sense... consider these scenarios: A) You work for a US company, earn money from the US company, pay income taxes in the US, live and spend money (and thus sales taxe…

Oh, I built something like this as a hobby project a few years ago! Still online (with a now-expired cert...), but very likely to go down with even a bit of usage : ) Still, here i…

I remember actually looking forward to new OS versions as a teenager. DOS 6.00 was genuinely exciting! What a contrast to the forced updates of today.

Hindenburg jokes aside, how do you ensure safety? Even if you only inspect infrastructure away from human habitation, there's still the risk of forest fires and such if there is an…

For me, the intuitive way of understanding it is, "how badly would a gambler lose in the long term, if they keep betting on a game believing the probability distribution is X but i…

It's great at log pocessing (generating commands for awk, sed, complex grep regexps, shell scripts to combine it all). Anything where I'm not an expert but need something very basi…

Over many years of various side projects / entrepreneurial experiments, I've accumulated a bunch of domain names. I am still paying for them, mostly out of inertia. Some of them ar…

The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extensi…

I disagree that "supporting the manager's career" is necessarily at odds with creativity. Once you reach a certain level of knowledge in a workplace (problem domain knowledge, code…