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I'm not convinced safety is solved: given how often LLM's hallucinate and automated cars get confused, what happens when something unusual happens and the robot thinks a person's a…

When I first moved to NYC I was enchanted and delighted by the various people singing or playing music on the subway but over time it became an annoyance - if I want to listen to m…

This is only true if you assume users always scroll down while reading and the only reason they scroll up is to find the header... but many of us scroll up and down while reading a…

I think I missed something: how do galaxies getting further away (divergence) imply that intelligent species will converge anywhere? It isn’t like one galaxy getting out of range o…

Correct, the person you are responding to is using it as a benchmark for the all-in cost of driving a vehicle on a per-mile basis.

What are you talking about? Inexpensive food is a boon to society. Cultivating food the 'old fashioned way' is incredibly labor intensive. We now have machines that allow us to cul…

Yeah, the following has happened to me multiple times when I ask copoilot to fix something. It updates my code to version A, which is still broken. Then I share the error messages …

I think this is a framing issue. Is it fair to charge people with different sized families different prices (per unit) for toilet paper? vs. Is it fair to charge people different p…

Parental leave is definitionally not working .

Capital-A Agile is for companies that want the benefits of agile (higher velocity) but don’t want to trust their employees or make any meaningful changes in how the management team…

I think that’s because glyphosate is used agriculturally not because people were mad about weed control for their lawns.

The expectation that engineers work overtime to hit arbitrary metrics can’t be fixed by a process like scrum or waterfall though. Process can’t replace competent management.

It isn't about the writing of G-d's name but rather about whether the written form will be treated respectfully or not. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/486809/jewish…

Small correction: Hebrew for father is "ah-bah" (אַבָּא) not "bah-bah"

Most flights I've taken in the last 5+ years use group boarding, which roughly approximates filling outside in (not front to back). It only roughly approximates though because the …

In web development there is often a single place you can put a feature flag though. For example maybe the feature flag just shows/hides a new button on the UI. The rest of the code…

Air travel is usually cheaper than Amtrak though. To travel from NYC to Chicago on Aug. 21st: Flight: $124 nonstop (2hr 40 min) or $85 with layover (7 hours) Greyhound (bus): $170 …

But this isn't necessarily proportional to the amount of wear-and-tear they cause on roads.

I know someone who's an actuary, and the reality is much simpler: people who consent to tracking tend to be safer drivers because they aren't afraid of the insurance company seeing…

This is missing context: Microsoft made their browser free at a time when Netscape cost $49. Apple giving away Safari for free at a time when all major web browsers are free is dif…

I’ve had non-technical users, who used the application daily, ask me to implement a large form where every input was a radio button. When I suggested using a more appropriate mix o…

It is a similar problem with retail space. When a dense, urban neighborhood like those in Manhattan has 30+% of their retail space unoccupied it has huge impacts on how it feels to…

Vision Pro wearers don't show up in FaceTime as wearing goggles though: they show a simulated face that responds to facial gestures (basically a high-res Memoji)

In my experience Humanities professors cared way more about the classes they taught. It was the Engineering / "Hard Science" professors cared way more about the research and treate…

FYI on your jobseeker's page the copy reads "Finding a new jpb" instead of "Finding a new job"