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Is there coddling. I thought this article was about making students do something their predecessors didn't have to do?

The open AI engineer who was ready to testify in a copyright case against them, also died in weird circumstances. His mom is out on an anti-Altman campaign.

Man this stuff sucks to be so out in the public and out of darkness. I mean we knew these things were happening but they’ve accelerated so much now and what are we going to do about it?


Do you work on, like, 100 different projects and have slightly different roles in each one (i.e. PM at a startup)? Or do all the projects look roughly uniform from your perspective (eg. IC at MAAANGOS)? Do you take work home?

My largest issue is that when I'm looking for this I'm already dangerously close to autocompaction. And what I really want is a prompt which manages to preserve the most important parts of the chat log. And my opinion of important will not be the same as Claude, so we'll need to iterate on what that handoff really is.

What are you even talking about?

Homeopathy itself was invented by a German physician...

the STEM academic world in the Soviet Union was extremely meritocratic. largely shielded from outside influence and maybe the best talent pipeline anyone has ever invented to produce scientific expertise. Exception being biology as Lysenkoism at some point infected the field.

Corruption affected history or economics because it was ideologically relevant to authorities but math and physics proceeded on its own.


I should add, this was for CS. I don't know about the other programs.

FWIW I love 90s ads, especially the video game ads. Electronic Gaming Monthly would bombard you with "extreme in your face 'tude" for even the most prosaic games. I loved the Gaiares ad, with a mulleted, chain wearing professional gamer Jamie Bunker saying "this game really smokes."

95% of corporate users sadly due to Microsoft's lobbying

They still eat battery, but at least the midrange ones, not nearly as much as they used to.

I appreciate your answer, thanks! Unfortunately my curiosity about the videogame industry has been replaced by anxiety over the newspaper one.

That said yes, put in those terms it makes sense, one thing can be true under a financing model and false under another one.

Can you please get hired by Wired? It would really help me address some trust issues.

To be honest, I still don’t know if no one can or cannot afford to make a Myst games anymore but I think at this point I will just accept the answer is


Why does it matter when potus draws the expected path with a sharpie anyway?

Are kitchen knives and scissors bad tools? You can blow up a place with a gas stove/grill. Are they bad tools? You can drown someone with a pool.

Sometimes you can't separate the ability of doing good and doing bad from a tool.


Only the dumb ones are obvious. In my school (SFU/BC) most of the students in almost all of my classes cheated. VERY FEW got caught.

I heard instructors say all too often that it was obvious when somebody was cheating, but somehow they missed the guy paying his cousin to write the final.


If we all just get a little cancer instead of some people getting a LOT of cancer then Amazon will be able to power its robot factories!

And, Mozilla is more and more becoming an advertising company which is really worrying.

With their anonym acquisition and the "privacy preserving" attribution stuff they now have an active interest in advertising.


"403 forbidden". Thank you very much.

Which rock have you been hiding under for the past 30 years ?

Nope, you can put expressions in them:

f'{a} = {functionThatReturnsAButHasSideEffects()}'


That’s not true at all. Do you know who Joost de Valk is? Because it’s wild for you to say that, truly. That man has probably been building websites for longer than you have been alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_de_Valk


stop lying.

Especially if you come from other languages. a + " " + b will be clearer to devs that aren't senior python developers. the f string thing is just a marginal improvement at the cost of alienating other devs. But it's great for gatekeeping and job security.

If kids were aware of how high they can get in a company with talk vs work, they would think all adults were morons. So your approach has an important double duty.

> consumers basically never use fp64 any more

They do in audio processing. ;)


i mean even historically i've never heard of an amazing game that was undiscovered for ages and then blew up. maybe there's one currently festering somewhere, but i highly doubt it

I suppose you were the one who flagged this. I had a business in the former countries of the USSR, traveled there many times, some of the women were stunningly beautiful, I married one. These photos bring back lots of memories.

I have used Firefox every day for over a decade. There are no AI features. There is no advertising. There is no restriction on extensions. Have never seen a VPN or anything other than an address bar that loads websites. It is probably the only modern standards complaint browser that is fully FOSS and out of corporate control.

Stop getting your news from corporate propaganda and the outrage mob.


Humor is still there.

You're eating beaver back sac.


It seems that this is still a primary device that the replica devices connect to. So if your primary is offline, out of battery or broken your other device are still useless. Not proper multi-device support.

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