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The second line of commit #2's message is "You can find the actual git history at the v0.2 github tag." which in turn has almost 6000 commits. I think it's a weird way to handle gi…

Fuzzers are brilliant at this and produce all kinds of insane floating point inputs.

A phone case with your NFC credit card in a pocket on the back. Boom, problem solved.

It's good for capital holders. It does imply a further shift in the distribution of wealth though with all the attendant implications thereof. I question the premise that humanoid …

It's accelerating. Electrification of infrastructure and buildings is a huge growth area with big delays in projects due to lack of capacity.

There's also glasses for this that put a fluid filled tube in your peripheral vision. I want to try it next time I'm on a sailboat and have to do something inside the boat while it…

What about this is "AI"?

Don't forget to have the Official Social Media of the President of the United States(tm) installed, with an account following the correct list of truthtellers and rightthinkers.

Outer Wilds is a great work of sci-fi but it's not especially physically accurate. I really enjoyed playing it through with my son, and the ending made me weep. The end credits mus…

I wish the NPR news broadcasters on the radio yesterday had read the "it's good marketing so maybe don't believe it" angle instead of just parroting the OpenAI press release. Getti…

You are assuming this thing is real and not just a web page.

Boston has a whole bunch of live and college ratio stations still.

A motion sensor activated light unpredictably turning off and on on my street would be worse than the steady street lamps we have now. It would be even more distracting and annoyin…

The fact that I know what both Gleam and Tangled are in this context means I spend too much time on HN and not enough time doing useful things.

Why do you need an archive link for this?

The point about interaction with undo in a digital inking app is interesting. Seems like with ML handwriting recognition, we could create a handwriting "text editor" instead of a d…

I don't see how "trust" is anthropomorphizing. Do I trust this bridge to hold my weight? Do I trust that this tool in my hand will perform as expected?

"Trust" - what level of review does the output need to meet your standards of correctness? Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review t…

Set small achievable goals and hold yourself accountable.

Nice balanced perspective there at the end: "as such [LLM-coded interactive] supplements are not mission-critical to the core of the paper, I again feel that the downside risk of u…

Use it to write and edit code when that makes sense for you to do so. Just like you always have. It's an extremely useful skill to have even still. I've had much more success with …

That might work if the software platform vendors kept compatibility with old versions, but they're quite poor at this. Windows used to be quite good at it, but Android and iOS are …

It's not anywhere near hot enough to generate steam and make electricity. There are uses for low grade heat but they require colocation and careful design, which costs more than ju…

Until it falls apart immediately or gives your pet a rash because of the poor quality materials that were substituted.

"cycled out" what. The tech world is still completely insane.