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> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems Questions asked on SO that got downvoted by the heavy handed moderation would have been an…

I've seen every new OS update leading to M1 Air performance degrade, at this point I'm pretty convinced Apple is doing this intentionally. Edit: Same experience with iPhone X Edit2…

Let me direct you to the reddit AMA where people were literally begging to bring back 4o.

A weekly 1 hour call, where pair programming/ exploration of an on-going issue, technical idea would be enough to replace face to face time with seniors. This has been working grea…

> how did the pilot realize it was the cut-off switches? The answer to this question is explained by a pilot in here https://youtu.be/00ooqCuRoU8?t=731 The pilots can hear engines …

Ever thought about how there's a magnetic quality to mirrors that keeps us looking? I see GPT in a similar light, it functions as a mirror, reflecting aspects of our reality.

The article links to a forum post which kind of explains how engagement is maximised https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-...

I too bought a 2020 MBA M1, it was great initially, but now seems like its getting throttled, same goes with my iPhoneX, I used to love Apple, but its just pathetic that they throt…

If Adguard is able to work on MV3 why isn't uBlock able to ?

Please open source it.

Correlation is not causation. It feels more like smarter automation to me.

Time accelerates as one gets older is due to relativeness of perceived experience of duration. 1 year for a person who lived 50 years is relatively short(2%) compared to someone wh…

Instagram uses Python.

> In the past, through various practices and substances If you don't mind, could you mention what practices and substances are you referring to?

> Too much weed makes me feel I'm dying. You should try a strain with less THC and more CBD. More THC will lead to anxiety. The feeling that you're dying is quite common at high TH…

> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving. Having worked at the largest tech based Logistics company in India, I can say, we did rely on optimi…

I'd argue, its not impossible. There might be people who are able to manage everything, we just don't know.

If they are able to do this by creating the dataset just by scraping public social media web images, and having a facial recognition algorithm in place, whats stopping anyone else …

- Automate boring stuff with Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ - Elements of Computing Systems (Building a computer from scratch on a hardware simulator): https://www.nan…

Why do they even do it in the first place?

> We’d like to thank Google for sending us a report in which they explore both the ability to detect when web content is treated differently by tracking prevention and the bad thin…