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by pitched 6mo ago
TLDR, people in the 1670s roughly understood how an internal combustion engine could work but never built one. They were able to extrapolate that to modern-ish cars, boats and manufacturing but not the social impact.
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by pitched 6mo ago
Starlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down. But these satellites are very close to ear
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by pitched 6mo ago
> folks packing it in because of AI probably were not difference makers before AI Anecdotal but I’ve been seeing a lot of the opposite. Some of those leaning in strongly are being propped up by the tools. Holding onto them like a lifeboa
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by pitched 6mo ago
I really like the sentiment and will quote this in the future! My own thoughts line up a bit closer to the article though, with this quote being a good summary of it: > The 1% utility AI has is overshadowed by the overwhelming mediocracy
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by pitched 6mo ago
We’re here right now looking at a CVE. That has to count as progress?
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by pitched 7mo ago
I really had thought (with no research) the correlation between mental health and glp1 effectiveness went the other way around. Thank you for this check-your-biases moment, you probably just saved me a ton of embarrassment down the line, if
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Effects of Deliberate, Contingency and Reactive Planning on Effectiveness (2008)(researchgate.net)
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by pitched 7mo ago
MacBook Air M1 was released six years ago. That’s pretty expensive for such an old machine!
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by pitched 7mo ago
I don’t think a human could tell the difference either. This will make phishing emails much more effective.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I know there is a lot of value in these indexes but I’ve never actually reviewed anything except sometimes the previous day. For me, this is more about taking a moment to check up on myself and the writing is a means to an end rather than a
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by pitched 8mo ago
I do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I put a coffee machine right next to my bed to reduce those pre-coffee clock cycles as much as possible. I’ve found it more helpful than expected to have something close that’s more tempting than the phone.
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by pitched 8mo ago
Doom had the benefit of an OS that included a lot of low-level bits like a net stack. This doesn’t! That 800kB includes everything it would need from an OS too.
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by pitched 8mo ago
It would be much cheaper to spin up a VM but I guess most people have laptops without a stable internet connection.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I have been in small towns in the Maritimes where people looked shocked to see an Indian immigrant with me, probably for the first time ever. I meant more in relation to the US, though, which is a much more diverse country.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I will say that perogies are amazing and were much cheaper in Alberta than Newfoundland so you get an upvote. But don’t discount that this is also true of the white population in the US.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I’m upvoting you because you’re 110% right but don’t discount how diverse the US is too, without an obvious divider like that. The New Orleans Cajun are also French immigrants, for example.
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by pitched 8mo ago
> Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchec
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by pitched 8mo ago
Canada is 70% white where the US is close to 50%. That 20% puts them far above the majority line though. Not at all homogeneous, just much more so than the US.
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by pitched 8mo ago
This is the most interesting part of the way the US government is structured. Where the federal government has very little power compared to the states, each state is competing for talent. Like how Texas is more conservative and California
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by pitched 8mo ago
Canada is largely still homogeneous but still welcoming to immigrants and very close to the US. Rather than China totally changing cultures, I think it’s more likely that US-based companies will have large satellite offices in middle powers
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by pitched 8mo ago
That score is on par with Gemini 3 Flash but these scores look much more affected by the agent used than the model, from scrolling through the results.
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by pitched 8mo ago
I also have to eat and put a roof over my head. Tying that to a system that can change permanently at any time to something less helpful is dangerous. Preferring open source is a risk mitigation strategy. The closed alternative may have bet
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by pitched 8mo ago
Not everyone here is American and the site is pretty vague about the specific grievances.
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by pitched 8mo ago
If I already know the problem space very well, we can tailor a skill that will help solve the problem exactly how I already know I want it to be solved.
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by pitched 8mo ago
The part that takes time in UI isn’t wiring up components, it’s the small changes like something is a pixel to the right or that gap is two pixels wide. Changing those in a C++ project means recompiling and that adds up to significant overh
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by pitched 8mo ago
After all expertise is mechanized, we’ll be in their loop instead of them being in ours. Think of this like going to a doctor with a simple question. It probably won’t be simple to them. At the end though, we usually do whatever they tell u
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by pitched 8mo ago
These AI agents have been such a burden to open source projects that maintainers are beginning to not take patches from anyone. That follows from what you’re saying here because it’s the editing/review part that’s human-centric. Same w
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by pitched 9mo ago
I think we very often confuse engineers with scientists in this field. Think of the old joke: “anyone can build a bridge, it takes an Engineer to build one that barely stands”. Business value and the goal of engineering is to make a bridge
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by pitched 9mo ago
It can take some people a few years to get over OOP, in the same way that some kids still believe in Santa a bit longer. Keep at it though and you’ll make it there eventually too.

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