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not the same as scam, but how is it not spam?

> its even more disheartening that most people's reactions to just about anything these days is dread about how it'll make their lives worse without fail. Maybe because most (tech)…

> will produce extraordinary improvements in prosperity Who says that? Who is doing _anything_ for AI to result in (even non-extraordinary) improvements in prosperity for the avera…

I wouldn't say "magically", it's what happens with me and every other engineer I know: we're all detecting bugs and yet we're all writing them too. Not saying that LLMs work the sa…

still isn't for most purposes, and most people are still more comfortable with yards than meters for day-to-day stuff (friends are often looking at me blankly when I give a distanc…

How did they appear upstream?

> "Is it clean and tidy right now" is a decent proxy for "Has this been properly taken care of in the past" I don't think so, esp at selling time, I definitely expect that the owne…

It's self-consistent: those who say that a chord must have at least 3 notes also say that power chords are not technically chords

> "unidiomatic" rust means, 'don't use these parts of the language even though they're first-class citizens?' that is indeed a roughly accurate definition of what "unidiomatic" mea…

mosquitoes too, though it pains me to give them credit for anything

Well so far we've been using humans to clean up the code that humans ruined in the first place, it's hardly a logical fallacy

Maybe they cared, but that's always been irrelevant. "Show me the incentive and i'll show you the outcome": the only incentive for a company in our economic system is to make as mu…

Intentions never win over incentives, especially as time and scale increase. And we live in an economic system where the only incentive is "make as much money as possible".

ten times 50euros? Sounds like a very reasonable deal to not have to think about these things or spend the time setting it up.

> no one wants to tell their boss they want to disable RDS HA and wear 1h of downtime a year so they can cut 50% of their spend. If you're a SaaS, 1h of downtime costs a lot of mon…

good advice! > learn about GIN (and GIST) indexes yes, but also learn about the trade-offs and in particular the "pending list". The flush of the pending list can be slow, causing …

> is Taylor Swift a musician If only for her being a singer, I don't see how she _wouldn't_ be a musician

I'm not even sure that I do prefer the AI train to the social media / ad train. I certainly would if the direction was "we're throwing ourselves blindly in AI so to gradually free …

I don't understand what you mean, can you explain?

> which it mostly does I don't think that's true. I find that it way, way over-intensifies: eg using "load-bearing" for something that's just "kind of necessary although we probabl…

According to gemini, "Total Fertility Rate" ("average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if she experienced the current age-specific fertility rates of her soc…

> Trump bombing Iran is going to keep them in power longer. The IRGC being in charge is going to keep Trump bombing them. I dont see a way out of that spiral on either side. Your s…

Your example are somewhat funny (in a not-so-funny way), the most obvious example for "foolish to be completely dependent on anyone else, no matter how stable the CURRENT situation…

> I’m doubtful of most people building their own crypto libs and distributed consensus implementations. But maybe cloudflare can pull it off. Who else than Cloudflare (or similar c…

I'm not reading anything in this article that seems to pretend like it's working in their favour? It's just an article from a company about their industry, companies do that all th…