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Good. Donate to the ACLU here: https://action.aclu.org/give/now I've been a card carrying members for years.

Unemployed engineer: business is my problem.

I'll bite. The Covid vaccines were extremely effective. This information brought to us by a data leak of the report blocked by the US government... "NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVI…

This is a known potential side-effect of these drugs. When I started them my doctor warned me about a possible lack of motivation. These drugs trigger your body's satiation mechani…

Both teams I run use Cursor as their daily drivers. It's fantastic. I am annoyed with this acquisition.

"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP." This is unhinged.

As all programmers know: naming things (abstracting ideas for human interpretation) is hard.

If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.

Essentially, yes, as I understand it. Elon's "investment" of millions in the current administration is paying dollars on the penny.

It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).

It's the formality of the language. It sounds robotic.

As a Missourian who is regular embarrassed by Senator Hawley, I must say that he brings the goods when he has the opportunity to grill an oligarch.

I think it's reasonable to request the person making the assertion to back it up. It's not on the audience to either only debunk or accept the assertion. It can just be rejected. E…

It's a $600,000 car. I don't think they're widening access.

> most of the tech leadership has to play along Many of them orchestrated the situation.

That's a pretty sinister system when the dam builders are suing the work of those downstream to build their damn. What happens when everyone downstream has been starved to death?

> If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu? I like this analogy, but I'll be replacing Honolulu w…

Eh, Topps did in the 1950s and The American Tobacco company did it in 1909.

This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same th…

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Being lucky can't be replicated.

> their engineers are excellent... they work 12 hours plus a day regularly What? In my experience people who are good at their job can get it done in a reasonable amount of time. W…

I think it's a given. OpenAI's product is their hype.

> ML assistance reduces our performance and persistence, and denies us both the muscle memory and deep theory-building that comes with working through a task by hand On one hand I …

Implying that JIRA is reliable is... something.