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bracketslash··on California could ban Clear, which lets travelers skip TSA lines
Clear gets you to the TSA agent faster but not to a precheck line. It just helps you skip the initial line.
bracketslash··on John Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX
nobody said that farmers don't want their tractors to work when the cell network doesn't.
bracketslash··on U.S. Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media per Day
Is wearing a burqa radical? Are books that have inappropriate language radical? Are transgender rights radical? It’s a slippery slope. Banning access to information is dangerous.
bracketslash··on U.S. Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media per Day
who gets to decide how "radical" is defined and what is classified as "radical"? I certainly agree with leaving it up to the parent.
bracketslash··on Awareness at Death
cause and effect still doesn’t necessitate a “why”, just a cause. once you start leaving a realm where empirical evidence is not possible, I think you’re more into philosophy which…is a world of its own. in any case, I appreciate the discussion. have a good one!
bracketslash··on Awareness at Death
The question of “why” could be a human construct. There doesn’t have to be a “why”.
bracketslash··on Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
So uhh…how does one go about using it?
bracketslash··on How are you using ChatGPT internally at your company?
What do you use it for 5% of the time then?
bracketslash··on Less is more agile
What would you recommend as a better alternative?
bracketslash··on Ask HN: I'm tired of intense code review cycles
what is “black” in this context?
bracketslash··on MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
That should be the question because we don’t know if the drivers being inattentive actually lead to anything bad happening, I think. If the drivers are inattentive but there is no downside to that, then it doesn’t really matter.
bracketslash··on FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
I have Frontier DSL. It was sold to me as 16MBps, but I corrected the salesperson that it is actually 16Mbps. In any case, I get about 12Mbps on a good day. A modem reboot seems to help it speed up for a bit.
bracketslash··on Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos
They have also always had unlimited uploads for free at lower quality.