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This is so true and I see this pattern constantly all over the west: There is some horrible problem that was created by the government or needs government intervention to fundament…

One of my colleagues said that working in software is like being a pro athlete nowadays and that struck me as true. The expectations just keep going higher and higher and higher ac…

The data is probably small enough and infrequently updated such that almost anything will work. If you split the items then you would have a separate episodes table with one row pe…

Given all the spyware MS has built into Windows itself, this is not negligence it’s what they want.

The US is always in some fucking war killing people from other countries, now threatening to invade 3 other countries, has killed somewhere between 2000-3000 civilians already in t…

China has killed maybe 50 people outside its borders since 2000. The US has killed 100,000-250,000 in that time period. I know which one Id be more worried about as a third party.

life is way too short to deal with this nightmare of a language and its 50000 footguns for anything longer than a 2 line script, especially in the age of LLMs. Just write a python/…

"Security" is just a scourge on software at this point. It means 2FA on every trivial site, being logged out every few hours for no good reason, having to fuck with settings and ty…

All of this macro only ever obfuscates the real picture. The rich are getting much, much richer. The houses are more expensive because people obstruct construction. The salaries ha…

If the law was applied uniformly, I would support its continued uniform application. In the last 10 years, I don't see it being applied fairly at all, I see an oligarchy, a crimina…

All of the models stole the entirety of written knowledge on the internet to train. They are being sued for the few cases where we have some proof of what they did because of some …

You're not gonna believe what Paul Graham's blog or the discussion board related to it looks like.. straight out of the 90s. Forget LaTeX it doesn't even support images!

Don't forget AOE4! It's really a great evolution of AOE2 - more unique playstyles per civ, has about 1/2 the playerbase of AOE2 but still plenty to play online and support its own …

I wonder if this is a response to the dawning realization by all the mega rich AI Lab bagholders that these companies might not be as profitable as they want.

There is no way a company makes money doing a thing and doesn’t “optimize” it over time to enshittify to the greatest extent possible.

Believing that AI played a very small role while we know this problem was open for decades with at least a few people taking serious cracks at it is just not a coherent logical pos…

Amazing, i've been looking for something like this and ended up doing transcription + diarization on a local server for now. Are you looking for contributions? Have you tried this …

Just based on working at big companies and knowing how much goes on that isn’t visible outside, i would guess they definitely have tried this especially if it only takes a few days…

It’s good but will ultimately end up like the GPDR popups. Everything will say rent, won’t change the fact that you can’t actually own anything. The law should instead give us real…

Wow this is great, it explains what I've seen. My Codex sub seems to last way longer than Claude in real codebases, and Claude eats up a ton of context in the initial read. I thoug…

UPI is more like a routing/reconciliation layer like VISA that can work across any bank/wallet, and that core is run by a non-profit government org. It doesn't take custody of the …

I'm probably going to called a lunatic but I'm convinced this kind of telemetry is somehow linked to and behind the huge coordinated advertising push for VPNs in the last few years…

Try actually playing a modern Doom game and then a modern UE5 game or look at some benchmarks. UE games mostly run like shit, whereas Doom/idTech games are the smoothest in the ent…

So this is tailored towards kind of a "reader view" for models right? Can it handle images, tables, shadow DOMs too? Like there are 3 use cases I have now - one is a simple text vi…