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I would love it if my laptop had a "study mode" for when I am trying to debug something or learn something new using my laptop. Some of us have less than stellar self-control, so a study mode which requires a multi-step rigamarole
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I can't speak specifically about Peter Thiel, but I get the impression that two things affect some extremely wealthy people later in life regardless of their intelligence or benignity: 1) they get encapsulated in a bubble, and 2) they
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I stopped going sometime mid-2000s, not because of the cost or the quality of movies, but because of the quality of my fellow movie watchers, who were pretty awful to be honest (at least in Silicon Valley at the time): - Lord of the Rings:
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>Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors,... I can't quite figure out what "it" refers to in "it would strengthen o
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Wishful thinking, possibly, but this seems like a little bit of good news amidst all the anxiety.
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More CEOs envision hiring than firing due to AI(axios.com)
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I didn't realize that an 805 meter wide asteroid has enough gravitation pull to drag along a 170 meter wide asteroid (and vice versa, as they orbit around each other).
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Maybe the "secondary name" is the part that comes after a colon, as in a book title: Department of Defence: The Department of War
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Honestly, I thought you were quoting an SNL skit, but now I see this quote in a transcript from his 2026 state of the union speech. That being said, over my lifetime I've heard many TV talking heads, people I assume are much more well
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In my 20s and 30s, I used to turn on the TV to cover up my tinnitus so I could fall asleep. The TV probably didn't help the quality of my sleep, so maybe that's why my tinnitus got progressively worse (especially in my right ear).
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>Software developers: 0.68m vs 3.2m. I had no idea I was in such an exclusive group back in 2000. Everyone I knew was a software engineer or in tech one way or another so I suppose I got a warped sense that I belonged to a larger group.
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I'm glad I am no longer in tech because I just don't want to do this. This is not a dig at AI. If I take this article at face value, AI makes people more productive, assuming they have the taste and knowledge to steer their agents
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>I think we all might be AI Engineers now, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Except the rest of the article strongly implies he feels pretty good about it, assuming you can properly supervise your agents.
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I can't read the article, but Jack Dorsey said on twitter (seen via nitter): "we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working
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I actually just got rid of my landline (most recently a VOIP line) after having one for maybe 40 years (in one form or another). I am so late to the party that the thing I thought was old is now new again.
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Back in the mid-2000s, I used to get calls in the middle of the night, multiple times per night, from fax machines to my fairly new but unlisted number. The ringing would wake me up. I answered a couple of times to try to understand who it
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100% agree! The other day I was thinking how pleasant it was to read a newspaper (26 years ago) compared to reading the news online today. With a newspaper, the paragraph you are currently reading doesn't suddenly jump out of view just
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>There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause. This document was last updated in October 2024, but I am a little surprised to see this still available on a .gov site.
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It's in my local library. I'll check it out. Thanks.
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Good question, I never had an allergy study done. I do complain regularly to my primary doctor, but he has not referred me to an allergist (yet). It's probably brought on by something found indoors in most places. It's not seasona
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>they own a house on a single income. You want aspirational, look to Family Guy. Somehow Peter Griffin can afford a helicopter, a jet pack, and whatever expenses are required to obtain the foot of the statue of liberty. >maintaining a
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I might be in a higher risk group then: I can drink at most 1 coffee per morning (I love coffee but coffee doesn't love me). In addition, the only anti-allergy pill that works for me is a first generation allergy medicine (chlorphenira
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>At this point, I don’t think we will hire another human for at least a year or two at our firm, but our efficiency will increase by at least 10% a month – the equivalent of two new full-timers. and >This isn’t dystopian. It’s nirvana
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Hey, based on the picture, I used one of those 3179 models for about 6-7 years until my company replaced it with a desktop PC running terminal emulation software. Years later, probably around 2003, when desktop apps started getting replaced
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That explains the incredibly attention-stealing animated knee joint ad I sometimes see on Apple News+. On the other hand, the ads are usually static, the content on the page will stay put (unlike news sites on the regular web, where the par
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Wasn't there also a Pentium division bug of some sort. I didn't pay much attention to microcomputers back then (being a mainframe programmer at the time), but I remember hearing about it from the mainstream news.
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Interestingly, when I was in Taiwan (not China, I understand, but in the general area) in 2012 to visit our Taipei office, the subject of the Apollo moon landings came up during lunch. All the Taiwanese workers at the table (about 3 or 4) s
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>Public approval of funding for the Apollo program peaked at 53 percent (around the first moon landing) but pretty much hovered between 35-45 percent for most of the 1960s I had no idea. The article is right in saying that if you were a
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Apparently it was Googie architecture from southern California. I am not sure if the 1980s version of the show also used that architecture.
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Although: "An exception will be made for LLM-assisted translations if you are having trouble accurately conveying your intent in English."

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