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ah, but you can always just ask the LLM questions about how it works. it's much easier to understand complex code these days than before. and also much easier to not take the time to do it and ju…

I have looked but I can't find out if it actually means something. Does 89 seconds before midnight mean we have a 50% chance to survive the next N years somehow?

this is cool. not sure it is the first claude code style coding agent that runs against Ollama models though. goose, opencode and others have been able to do that a while no?

> Who hasn’t turned in a paper on a broken floppy disk, with the excuse ready that the floppy must have broken when the teacher asks a few days later? I feel seen

One thing that seems missing from a lot of these comparisons is the base rate of success for dieting itself. Most people who “start a diet” never meaningfully lose weight in the first place, or lose a…

Google-as-the-new-Microsoft feels about right. Windows 1 was a curiosity, 2 was “ok”, and 3.x is where it started to really win. Same story with IE: early versions were a joke, then it became “good en…

eh, maybe. Sure Google bought Youtube, but the whole making it social came later. Apple spending a lot of time refining them is exactly the point. They did go up in the stack (given that they started …

This doesn’t sound very convincing, mostly because the examples don’t really line up with the claim. Apple supposedly struggles “up the stack,” yet many of the best and most-used iPhone apps are built…

I don't know. The World Happiness Report relies on one simple question, which is easy to criticise but at least it applies a clear and consistent method. The paper referred to does not. It uses a…

If there are no free alternatives, yes. 100 USD a month for ChatGPT seems great value

Also: Recency & survival bias. We remember what became the classics from the 90s and also what came out this year and was available on our last flight

At first sight I read Minimal Viable Army - would be a good read for an aspiring evil mastermind

900k is a large plane flying from Dallas to Sydney and back

This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, …

Ideally you have a document in place saying this is how we handle vibe coding, something like: if you have the AI write the first version, it is your responsibility to make it reviewable. The you can …

I mean, sure we're in a bubble, but the trick is to call it, with that old Keynes quote about the market staying irrational longer than you can stay liquid. But also: > "So, you're s…

"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication

I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask for a summary before committing to reading a book. There are just too many books. In fact this article mentions a bunch of books and summarizes them inline. G…

If you zoom out to say the last 10 years you can see that those graphs go up and down like crazy. The error bars on these numbers must be huge.

Am I missing something, the article randomly says: "For context, the US federal government spent $53 million on public education in 2022." and links to: https://educationdata.org&…

Really what it seems to say is that LLMs are pretty good at identifying underlying causes and recommending medical actions but if you let humans use LLMs to self diagnose the whole thing falls apart, …

This is true. Then again Google used to power Yahoo!'s search and then ended up replacing Yahoo! as the default web destination

> Like in Europe Like in the US you have a choice of which jurisdiction you want to start your company. Not all require a notary

material weaknesses would be more of a problem for ketchup watches. dijon mustard is strong enough so you don't require that much for it to become an issue

I remember biking to the library to read it every time it came out

Thanks for that. This study is much more nuanced and does not really concur with the conclusions from the article at all. The article says: Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a …

If you are a software engineer with no sense of design, do make it like Google. Material Design allows anybody to put something together that looks half decent, is somewhat consistent and familiar wit…