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I'm surprised that no one here disagreeing with him seems able to muster a non-ad-hominem argument against what he's saying.

Only showing arguments on one side is bias, even if Wikipedia's editors don't like the side you're censoring.

You think it's not true? Just ask Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+has+the+global+temp.... It says "about 1.0o F" in the past 100 years, so not even as much as Epstein is saying.

This looks really promising.

Here's an alternative designed to work with an ORM, if you like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsO551E7ySY&t=1094s.

Final research project: start your own cult.

It seems like the enshittification life cycle directly results from the involvement of venture funding, since it requires the infusion of capital to allow operating at a loss in the beginning, baiting users onto the platform while killing off competitors.

By contrast, the Basecamp approach of bootstrapping cannot make the initial first step of operating at a loss by definition.

Interesting how this contradicts "The Bitter Lesson": http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html.

Oh I see. I wonder if he will be allowed to settle, as Hillary Clinton's team did for "intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments" with the Steele Dossier. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/hillary-clin...

Oh, this is interesting. By the same reasoning, would a grand jury indict companies who pay former employees they fired not to speak ill of them?

The "Ask Libraria" text field doesn't let me type anything. I tried it with Chrome and Safari on a Mac. Is this intentional?

I've long enjoyed quality results from LaTeX, and now I can get that with something more like the ease of markdown. Thank you!

I had no idea memcpy was lossy. Astonished.

You can also get match in any variant of Erlang or ML, and those don't force you to jump through hoops for borrow checking.

What would be involved in retraining a GPT to not have guardrails if you have the parameters? Seems like you could feed it input you care about and have it generate lots of training data to prevent botching what's already there.

Depending on your project, you may find that Dart+Flutter is a suitable alternative. The Dart syntax is simpler than Typescript, while meeting similar goals.

Kiss your productivity goodbye. Emacs has lots of half-baked features that you'll be tempted to fix with its LISP dialect. It's so much fun to tinker that you'll wonder where your day went.

The $20 I spend every month on my JetBrains subscription is easily worth it. I can depend on my IDE to be working well and not waste time on fixing buggy features. The JetBrains people are also highly responsive to bug reports.

Maybe so, but I still don't see the gaslighting.

I tried using Linux for my laptop at Google but it was a torment due mainly to the wonkiness of the trackpad driver. I've been happily using Macs ever since. Linux is for servers.

How did he gaslight them? I'm scrolling through his tweets and not finding any gaslighting, but maybe I didn't scroll far enough.

There's a whole universe out there. We're not even close to exhausting how much we could grow.

My dog loves eating the faeces of other animals, including those of my cats. I suspect the reason is to boost his gut flora and keep him healthy for longer than he otherwise would be.

Here's an alternative for Bayesians: http://georglsm.r-forge.r-project.org/site-projects/pdf/7113...

This year I had my taxes done by a CPA rather than by TurboTax as I had in previous years, and I'm so glad I did. There was no deceptive upselling. I never got confused and had to go hunting around on the internet for the meaning of some obscure question. I got to keep more of my money than I expected, and I plan to do the same thing again next year.

For some reason I tend not to trust people who advocate lying.

The Erlang VM (BEAM) can be viewed as a distributed operating system, or at least the beginnings of one.

Would you care to name a specific lie and explain how you know it's a lie?

The things I dislike about my car are all fancy "smart" features. A keyed ignition would have been fine, but they replaced it with a push button. I can stay in my lane just fine, but every time I turn on the car it turns on lane assist and I have to do a button sequence to turn it off.

Typically it means adding another file.

I have wanted this for such a long time. Thank you.

If your system can't be tested end-to-end because of how slow and flaky it is to test that way, doesn't that say something about the quality of your system rather than the tests?

Of course once you have such a system, it's probably the result of years of work by many people and most likely it would be hard to make it faster and more reliable. That is probably why people shy away from doing that, and choose to blame the tests instead.