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Maybe it's unique to Japan or to this brand but I'm surprised by how manual the process is. I wonder how much of this is done due to nostalgia/inertia vs economics or the desire fo…

Anecdotally, I've taken 3mg a couple of times to adjust my sleep schedule and have found that I do feel a bit drowsy/slow the next morning. Fine for me since it's just ad hoc usage…

Completely agree. Incentives are for the statistical masses. As thinking individuals we can and should use our awareness and courage to make biggest "good" choices we can bear to. …

I wouldn't be so quick to assume the capital structure of a company influences its product decisions. Lots of well-funded, publicly traded companies are also screwing their custome…

I do agree. An LLM is like a motorboat that's tends to drift off course. If you know where you want to go, and can steer it to keep it on course, you will get there very fast.

I've been doing this for years. Maybe adding some UI sugar around it is nice, but it really shouldn't be that much of a big deal...

Oh please. An IP address is an IP address. The whole idea that some IPs are more special than others flies in the face of net neutrality.

I wonder if it makes more sense to just get the latest batch of people doing the military -> civilian transition and starting them off on these

You can use RDS without HA. Many people probably should do this, but 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% …

Tangential, but when dealing with queues, the first thing you want to do is have a basic grounding of queuing theory, and know whether you're optimising for throughput or worker ut…

It shouldn't be too hard for a model to tell Domestic Shorthair vs Domestic Longhair. They're basically all you'll see on the street. Colourings / coat pattern names might be a bit…

Someone needs to vibecode a "virtual mouse" tool for the agents to steer instead (semi /s)

The question is still what number people need to live "comfortably" (i.e. upper middle class). The average salary there may not quite provide for the amenities the average American…

Reminds me of when I was younger and tried the F1 cars in Live for Speed racing simulator. Turns out it's actually really, really hard to keep an F1 car on the tracks.

This is silly. If you're language isn't getting enough coverage to get onto Wikipedia, stop complaining and get it some coverage. Ship features. Evangelise it. Get people using it.…

One of the hardest and best exams I had to do in university was my behavioural finance midterm exam: the format was that I had to sit down with the professor and have a five minute…

Interesting how little some things have changed. The prices, on the other hand, seem quite cheap--even after converting to 2026 dollars.

Piracy also acts as a decentralised archive/backup of most stuff people care about. It's important we have this since mainstream media sources can be memory-holed at any moment. Ma…

Yeah. The symbols "speak without words", but no one hears their meaning without learning it in advance. They're pretty and foreign, but not particularly communicative.

Even the HN comments here are a sea of confusion and contradiction. It's stunning and makes me wonder whether CORS is a bad solution, or if it's solving a hard problem.

This was actually a lot of fun. Not as much trolling as I anticipated. Surprising amount of normal chit chat.

I'm not a maintainer but as the quote goes: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." I'd suggest you keep a sense of how much effort they've put into pac…

You'd think with tool use being as available as it is, the first tool we'd want to give them is a calculator...

I will point our that most relationships end in separation. Maybe the reason for the breakup was in their story. Maybe they just stopped liking each other. We can't know without OP…