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Oversized things are fun in general. I’ve always loved Claes Oldenburg’s giant renditions of everyday objects.

I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has …

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonom…

A new CA law is addressing this somewhat: > Under Assembly Bill 723, real estate agents and brokers who display photos of a home that have been digitally altered with editing software or artificial…

>I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people… See also: Pareto Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle Most people don’t cause p…

Even AI doesn’t RTFM

I don’t mind the occasional joke in an hn thread. I’ve made several myself. But I’m disappointed that this thread is seemingly all jokes and no actual discussion of the article. I’m no mathematician, …

There are numerous typos in this piece. Somewhat ironic for an article about a company that made typewriters: "In the 1400s, Ivrea gained small Jewish community..." That one is the second se…

It’s literally the case. They gave him an fMRI: https://nautil.us/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-s... …

When someone comes to me and says: “I need this project by this date,” I’ll look at the project and my calendar, and then say one of three things: - “That seems doable, but I’ll let you know if any pr…

I laughed at “autocorrect will die on this hill.”

Sands of Time still has one of the best time reversal mechanics in any game I’ve played despite being 20 years old.

Cool idea and cool looking, but just want to point out that surface transmission of infections is several orders of magnitude less common than airborne transmission.

From a recent NYTimes article about his passing: > “Dilbert” was a war cry against the management class — the system of deluded jerks you work for who think they know better. Workers posted it on …