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To be fair, N64 is not the PS2 or Gameboy--there are only 388 games that were released for it. Going through all of the games that were released and shepherding them through this process is feasible.

I have a Roomba, it works pretty well for doing 'maintenance level' vacuuming--keeping the level of cat hair to a manageable level, etc. For the most part, robot vacuums have succeeded in becoming boring, which is what I really want in an appliance.

I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure the shop on your corner sells things more than once a decade.

The Unitarian Universalists exist. It's not really non-religious, but it is inviting to non-theist people, or those who don't otherwise believe in the supernatural.

https://www.uua.org/beliefs

Full disclosure: I'm an atheist UU and a member of my church's board of trustees.

A decent amount of AI doomerism I've seen is classic criti-hype (as coined in [1], afaik)--it's promotion of the technology thinly disguised as critique. Fear mongering about AIs taking artists' or writers' job is yet another way of boasting about their capabilities.

[1] https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...

Direct link to the reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/16wmrhc/three_...

Not sure if there's been anything official from Amazon about this yet, but I bet there is having a bad night.

Governments do a lot of things that are effectively investing time and resources into their homegrown companies--things like education of the populace, building and maintaining physical infrastructure, and management of the legal system, to name just a few essentials.

There's basically no way to operate a company without benefiting from some government.

If the company uses phone numbers to lookup accounts, (Local-Area-Code)-8675-309 almost always works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

There are some people who see it as an ethical position: ad supported businesses need to serve ads to survive. If you don't want to see those ads, and the business doesn't offer a subscription plan, just don't go to those websites.

This doesn't seem to have anything really related to the AI-generation of the graphics--it's 100% about copyright. The statement from Valve even says that explicitly: if this user had owned the copyright to the training data, they would have been fine using the AI generated graphics and text.

Skimming your site, something I didn't see in FAQs--is this human review, or are you currently or planning in the future on using ML to do these rewrites?

Not currently in the market, but if I were paying/tipping for a service like this, it'd be important to me that human eyeballs+hands were involved.

If you've never done it, revisiting places you've been before in Google Earth VR is a kind of surreal experience. Whenever I've introduced friends to VR, letting them visit their old homes is always a hit.

The Linux kernel has not historically had great unit testing practices--it's mostly tested with large integration tests. This is in part because it inherits old development practices where unit testing was less popular, and partially because it's kind of hard to test a lot of Kernel code outside of specialized environments (e.g., would need to include a m68k emulator in the test environment to test this code).

The doubly-linked `list` type that's used ~everywhere in the kernel didn't have any in-repo unit tests until 2019 ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea2dd7c0875ed31955c... ), after kunit, a library for userspace testing of kernel code, was added.

I've seen this sentiment elsewhere, but it doesn't match my reading of Twitter's financial statements: https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/quarte...

In 2021, Twitter would have been profitable were it not for a ~$800 million legal settlement payout.

They posted a net profit in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022.

I kind of assumed this was leading up into an overly-engineered joke about Eliza passing the Turing test.

Her sleeves are literally a Yamaha DX7, which makes it obvious to synth nerds everywhere, but... not sure how much of the weeb population are also synth nerds.

Libraries have licensing requirements that your company needs to comply with. Being able to download and use them without any oversight is an recipe for violating them.

If you're worried about it, you can buy searches directly from Bing ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing ). DDG makes no secret that the Bing search API is where they get their link and image results -- https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ .

The housing market is somewhat different than the crypto market in that people need a place to live.

A tech lead role is different from a management role.

The TL is the person who the buck stops with on technical discussions. While part of the job is providing mentoring for junior engineers, they aren't directly responsible for performance management, headcount allocation, etc, in the same way that a people manager is, and people don't usually directly report to them in the org chart.

By definition, no large engineering effort is solitary. It makes sense for the more senior eng to be responsible for the decisions that will affect more people, and that requires talking to and understanding them. If people want the senior eng title, they need to be able to do that kind of work.

Neither Intel nor AMD supply SoC cores in the same way that ARM does--they don't really operate in the same market segment.

NVidia's competition in the hardware acceleration space often includes ARM cores for management (e.g., the Xilinx Zynq https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-700... ), or are extension of the ARM instruction set (e.g. AWS's Graviton https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ ).

RISC-V suppliers (e.g, SiFive) is the closest thing that ARM to has to a competitor here, and they're nowhere near the same scale.

If they're credit bills, yes. If they're just phone, power, rent, etc, not unless you've specifically set them up to go to the credit reporting companies.

The section at the end -- "Haugen contacted state officials and the SEC" talks about the parts of the whistleblower documents that show that Facebook was misleading investors. That is criminal under current US law.

I think people are more mad about the other things in the documents--most people are more sympathetic to harm done to kids' mental health than to investors' bottom line, but lying to investors is the one that's illegal.

“I didn't have time to write you a simple UI, so I wrote you a complicated one instead.” -- Mark Twain, paraphrased.

My impression of the history of the "Noah's flood" story is that mythologists tend to trace it back to the origin of civilization in the fertile crescent, a historic flood plain.

Specifically, there are very strong parallels between it and the Gilgamesh flood myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth

No---an effective anti-tank weapon is a ditch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_trench

You might need to make a bigger one for a modern tank than a WWII tank, but the tools to make big holes have been around for a while.

Some algebra was around very early--there are Cuneiform tablets inscribed with multiplication tables from ~2000 BC: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324587

Looking at the skill they're looking for on their hiring page: https://careers.change.org/

Seems like it's a Ruby/React stack on AWS. Looks like they're trying to grow internationally (hiring "campaigners" in Japan).

It's probably not scraped, FWIW--Bing has a paid API:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap...

(Can't find a source indicating that they're using this, but I'd be surprised if they weren't.)