> We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism Eh maybe you did, I and a bunch of people that I know have worked in companies that build software that genuinely helps people and…
> Rarely works that way. How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else…
(1) not the point I was making, I’m not any of those categories. But I am worried about the treatment of those people, as well as giving the government tools to someday come after people with guns, people who vote…
Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they can easily use cameras to prosecute those who they disagree with.…
Her family can own their copies of Harry Potter forever. But copyright restricts others from building on top of previous works. Can her family forever sue anyone into poverty for naming a wizard “Harry”? Does that even…
Whole wheat is not ultra processed though? It is processed but not ultra-processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference. White…
Holy gaslighting! Why do more reputable sites which don’t rank highly in the shopping results not have this problem? It’s specific to using the shopping results from search engines, I didn’t recently get any “surprise…
I think it depends. If they are also required to allow 3rd party stores, and one of the third parties has a “buy” button while the others have “lease (lifetime)” buttons, it might sway a decent number of people. Same…
If I own a restaurant and buy bread from a supplier — BreadHub. And 99% of the bread that I get is good but 1% of the loaves, they forgot to add flour. Consistently, for years, they always have loaves missing a key…
My favorite is the “acoustic bike” instead of electric bike (the joke comes from guitars, I think)
Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
I agree that input latency matters a LOT but disagree about 120hz being some sort of sweet spot. On the input side, yeah even a few 10’s of ms is very noticeable when typing or doing something quick. But also I use…
> All of medical science still imagines a world where humans are in "God's shape", denying the fact that we are machines made of systems of smaller machines. No, it’s that these systems of systems are so incredibly…
I’m guessing because it’s valuable to have a trustworthy AI assistant that you can just explain what you want and it finds the best options
To be clear, I agree with you. I was making a point to the person that I replied to who wanted zero homeless people. My point was that there is a bottom some-percent of homeless people that can’t immediately be helped.…
The spending per capita, unless I’m mistaken, is just “per person in the country” not “per person insured by the government”. That means that even though government insurance in the US only covers a relatively small…
I’m guessing there’s a bit of breathing room at the lower end of the system - there will be people who become drug addicts or have major mental health breaks and lose everything. And ideally we have good safety nets…
On the flip side, you are Uber and you’re trying to decide if you should charge the “low price” or the “high price” to somebody who just opened your app. Luckily the person you’re about to make an offer to lives within…
I agree that it’s better at writing than a 50%-ile human, but it’s worse at communicating through writing than most humans. Even an average human writer can communicate details much more succinctly and directly than an…
Agreed yes that’s not great. But really if that’s the worst thing you’re noticing in your daily life at home, things must be pretty ok? You must see the difference between us being unhappy that gas is more expensive,…
Have they? Obviously there have been a ton of issues due to the US’s strategy in Iran. But almost nobody in the US has any affect from this war. Gas prices are up a bit. Mildly inconvenient for the majority of people,…
A static website is one that doesn’t have an associated backend API server, just serves as one or more self contained file assets. The files you serve to the browser are static, not the contents of the page itself…
It’s just a fancy version of previous tools. Imagine a coworker instead does a refactor by grepping the entire codebase and doing a find-and-replace. Do they ensure that it didn’t accidentally overwrite something it…
Every breath you take, there is a 99.99% chance that everything is normal, and a 0.01% chance that you breathe mild acid which horribly burns and causes a massive coughing fit. It probably don’t cause long term damage…
I don’t think it’s even “seniors” containing slop of others. I think it’s those who still care about quality (which seems to be decreasing in the industry overall) trying to keep the whole thing running, in a sea of…
> We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism Eh maybe you did, I and a bunch of people that I know have worked in companies that build software that genuinely helps people and…
> Rarely works that way. How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else…
(1) not the point I was making, I’m not any of those categories. But I am worried about the treatment of those people, as well as giving the government tools to someday come after people with guns, people who vote…
Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they can easily use cameras to prosecute those who they disagree with.…
Her family can own their copies of Harry Potter forever. But copyright restricts others from building on top of previous works. Can her family forever sue anyone into poverty for naming a wizard “Harry”? Does that even…
Whole wheat is not ultra processed though? It is processed but not ultra-processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference. White…
Holy gaslighting! Why do more reputable sites which don’t rank highly in the shopping results not have this problem? It’s specific to using the shopping results from search engines, I didn’t recently get any “surprise…
I think it depends. If they are also required to allow 3rd party stores, and one of the third parties has a “buy” button while the others have “lease (lifetime)” buttons, it might sway a decent number of people. Same…
If I own a restaurant and buy bread from a supplier — BreadHub. And 99% of the bread that I get is good but 1% of the loaves, they forgot to add flour. Consistently, for years, they always have loaves missing a key…
My favorite is the “acoustic bike” instead of electric bike (the joke comes from guitars, I think)
Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
I agree that input latency matters a LOT but disagree about 120hz being some sort of sweet spot. On the input side, yeah even a few 10’s of ms is very noticeable when typing or doing something quick. But also I use…
> All of medical science still imagines a world where humans are in "God's shape", denying the fact that we are machines made of systems of smaller machines. No, it’s that these systems of systems are so incredibly…
I’m guessing because it’s valuable to have a trustworthy AI assistant that you can just explain what you want and it finds the best options
To be clear, I agree with you. I was making a point to the person that I replied to who wanted zero homeless people. My point was that there is a bottom some-percent of homeless people that can’t immediately be helped.…
The spending per capita, unless I’m mistaken, is just “per person in the country” not “per person insured by the government”. That means that even though government insurance in the US only covers a relatively small…
I’m guessing there’s a bit of breathing room at the lower end of the system - there will be people who become drug addicts or have major mental health breaks and lose everything. And ideally we have good safety nets…
On the flip side, you are Uber and you’re trying to decide if you should charge the “low price” or the “high price” to somebody who just opened your app. Luckily the person you’re about to make an offer to lives within…
I agree that it’s better at writing than a 50%-ile human, but it’s worse at communicating through writing than most humans. Even an average human writer can communicate details much more succinctly and directly than an…
Agreed yes that’s not great. But really if that’s the worst thing you’re noticing in your daily life at home, things must be pretty ok? You must see the difference between us being unhappy that gas is more expensive,…
Have they? Obviously there have been a ton of issues due to the US’s strategy in Iran. But almost nobody in the US has any affect from this war. Gas prices are up a bit. Mildly inconvenient for the majority of people,…
A static website is one that doesn’t have an associated backend API server, just serves as one or more self contained file assets. The files you serve to the browser are static, not the contents of the page itself…
It’s just a fancy version of previous tools. Imagine a coworker instead does a refactor by grepping the entire codebase and doing a find-and-replace. Do they ensure that it didn’t accidentally overwrite something it…
Every breath you take, there is a 99.99% chance that everything is normal, and a 0.01% chance that you breathe mild acid which horribly burns and causes a massive coughing fit. It probably don’t cause long term damage…
I don’t think it’s even “seniors” containing slop of others. I think it’s those who still care about quality (which seems to be decreasing in the industry overall) trying to keep the whole thing running, in a sea of…