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More of a vBulletin man myself, but I get what you mean. There were so many small, autonomous little niche communities and people took their time to learn how each one worked. Forums had their problems but I do think the time before upvotes/down votes was a very different dynamic, where not every judgment felt like it was being transmitted.

> it turns out if you stack two chairs on top of each other, you can balance your laptop on the top and you’ll also have a shelf on the bottom for your things.

But that sounds kinda unstable and doesn't really provide the full benefits we expect from a...

Oh.

Thank you!

What is the back of the envelope efficiency penalty we're talking about here?

Most of the work is probably boring and not consequential on its own. But I think that's sepaerate from whether it's reasonable to encourage people to draw an ethical line. We probably wouldn't feel comfortable with someone who knowingly did work for the KKK, even if that work was just making photocopies, picking up office supplies, and keeping track of membership dues.

I always wondered why we don't see more Sterling Engine based heat pumps. IIUC they can use almost any gas including air.

I would take that bet, anyone can examine my comment history and see that I've been participating on this site for a decade. Regardless, this comment violates the site guidelines.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

None of them are the good guys. For one they're all happy to participate in genocide in Gaza.

Note that OpenAI has jettisoned every other supposed value they had (releasing their work as open source, not working on military applications, being a nonprofit). I'm sure we can rely on them this time.

Folks interested in this should check out this YouTube channel

https://m.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight

The guy developed his own DIY radiative cooling paint mixture and tests it thoroughly. He also tests a commercially available paint in a recent video.

If a DIY plotter would do, this site has a long list of different projects

https://mattwidmann.net/notes/pen-plotters/

I don't have an opinion about whether it's reasonable, but in the U.S. I have never seen it. Maybe in a daycare. And people wear street shoes in many offices in Japan.

> Phones are more robust these days than ever.

They are certainly not more robust than ever. The trend of screen glass extending all the way to the edge of the phone and around it has ensured that most people need a case. Back in the 2010s I never used one and my phone would survive many drops.

I think we are kidding ourselves if we think writing software was only accessible to the cognitive top 10%. And even if that were the case for the highly paid software jobs, there was a long tail of WordPress customization type jobs that required less experience and will probably be going away.

Sure but if the customer installs the app on their own computer how do companies charge them a recurring subscription fee? Adobe can get away with it but most cannot.

Tatami is very common in Japanese houses and I was told you're not even really supposed to wear hard-soled slippers on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatami

> But ambulances in with full sirens begging over their speaker-system to have pedestrians at Shibuya crossing let the vehicle through, is probably the worst thing about Japan.

Unfortunately ambulances in Japan blare their sirens any time they are transporting a patient, and because they are free some people use them like taxis. So you may see an ambulance at 2AM driving down a residential street blaring their siren at full volume, going 5 mph while the medics call around to various hospitals to see who will take their patient with an upset stomach.

Once I passed a moving ambulance with the siren on...while slowly riding my bike down an otherwise empty road.

The result is that Japanese people seem to tune out the siren. If the driver isn't also on the loudspeaker telling them insistently to move aside, they assume it's not a "real" emergency.

People in Japan not only take their shoes off at home, but also in many other places as well. Most elementary schools and many doctors offices, eye doctors, etc.. have you take your shoes off, although it varies from place to place. Some restaurants require you to take your shoes off. I once visited a radio station and they took their shoes off there too for some reason (no, I don't believe it was ESD related).

So people are already doing this multiple times a day at their own homes and form a habit that often doesn't require much thought to follow.

I suppose using LLMs to write is like not wiping your ass, and using LLMs that are bad at writing is like not wiping your ass and wearing a T-shirt that says "Wiping is for losers."

I might have smelled something suspicious before, but knowing for sure is worse.

> any more than you can understand the English of 1026

We can't understand the English of 1026 because almost nobody in the society of 1026 CE England was doing any writing at all in English. When a language is extensively written down, it tends to slow the evolution of the language considerably.

> the ads came out before the thing was even built

> the lead engineer was a teenager. This project is way to complicated for a bright kid.

Sounds a lot like a hardware Kickstarter.

At a certain point, it must be cheaper to just hire someone remotely to route the PCB than to burn through Claude credits on it.

In the context of newly written work in the modern era, I would argue it's best to use grammatical constructions that are used in modern 20th/21st century English, at least most of the time. Those who wrote the KJV were trying to be expressive but the whole point was to do so in language that ordinary people would be familiar with.

> the first strikes me as being written by someone that might be smarter than I am

This is why Joseph Smith tried to imitate the language of the King James Bible in the Book of Mormon, albeit not very successfully.

Am I the only one that finds the second one much easier to parse?

It's a bit curious that every image of the boards on their website looks like a render.

> When its 5 V supply disappears, the circuit has to keep the processor alive for another 20 ms so it can save the accumulated reading.

> Most models intuitively jump to the right base conclusion: add a capacitor.

This is written as if it's some astonishing expert knowledge and not something that would be obvious to any hobbyist who knew the names of basic components.

> Hah, are we talking about the same profession here? Programmers, famously known for understanding what they don't know, and the ones who know stuff seldom were assholes?

I was a TA the whole time I was in university, for computer science and computer engineering classes. I don't remember any of my students being an asshole even once, and I think this is the kind of thing I (unfortunately) would remember.

Im glad someone else still remembers the plus operator. I miss it.

Also not to be confused with the place where Kubla Khan decreed a stately pleasure done.

I assume you mean Ehud Barak? Surely not, or I would have heard about it in the US media for sure.