It’s funny how the people who flip out over naming your for-loop variables i, j, and k, are the same people who wax poetic about for_each and auto.

Shame if people reposted this thread, as a deterrent against using the services of a clueless, moneygrubbing dinosaur "advisory firm", while also promoting Gergely's superior reporting. Just saying. 🤷‍♂️

I’m surprised someone passionate hasn’t vibe coded a “Dragon’s Lair”-style game with Nano Banana yet.

The Economist publishes a yearly democracy index. For 2024 the top 4 countries were: 1: Norway 9.81 2: New Zealand 9.61 3: Sweden 9.39 4: Iceland 9.38 The “land of the free” shows up here: 28: USA 7.85 Will the US even be in the top 50 in 2025?? d1qqtien6gys07.cloudfront.net/wp-content/u...

I hadn’t even considered there were different interpretations of “free speech” between right and left, but the first few paragraphs of this article explains so much. www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...

Henceforth America will have to rely on the rest of the world to mock what’s happening in the US, because the US is too afraid to do it ourselves.

The below discovery is all in the news now. Corrupt governments censors information that doesn’t further the false narrative they want to project.

A mind map is just more “fun” version of a tree, yet it created a ~$2B industry. What industry can you create by trivially coat some boring but key thing in a new brand of exciting lacquer?

Bezos cowering to the punitive damage that the orange mafia Don can dish out from his corrupted government entities.

JD Vance's willful ignorance is only exceeded by his gratuitous unpleasantness.

Anyone else have a sneaky premonition of: 1. AI coders replacing human junior/mid engineers, collapsing the junior->mid->senior->principal funnel. 2. AI-iterated code becoming increasingly complex and brittle, eventually with no (architecture) oversight. 3. "Hilarity" ensuing.

In case you were wondering why RFK Jr. looks like hot dog that's been rolling on a heating element at a gas station for several weeks. He's not only Team Measles, he's Team Cancer. www.reddit.com/r/washington...

Sturgeon’s Law is often seen as a humorous commentary, but it’s really a more pointed Pareto principle. Business practices do (rarely) consider Pareto, but never Sturgeon. I think they should. Finance: Mag 7 vs S&P 500 is Pareto but with Sturgeon underperformance in “S&P 493.”

The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.

Americans can no longer scold others for taking hostages and placing them in barbaric conditions when we now do the same thing by kidnapping people living in our own country, and trafficking them to concentration camps both foreign and here at home that have barbaric conditions.

It’s disappointing that none of the LLM models (and their handlers) have yet come up with a sensible way to name and number themselves that actually makes sense. It’s like graphics card naming all over again.

Prayer won’t stop the next flood. We need science, not sermons. It’s time to fully support NOAA and the National Weather Service — and stop the White House from undermining the very agencies that keep us safe.

It's adorable that Elon "Sieg Heil" Musk thinks he can still palm himself off as being in the "middle" politically. People in the middle don't endorse the Neo-Nazis in Germany or give over $250 million to a fascist like Donald Trump.

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken Congress? Our corrupt Supreme Court? Our ridiculous buffoon President?

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

"AI Chatbot, show me examples of psychological projection."

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What's the hardest problem in computer science? Getting PCs to connect to printers flawlessly, always.

There’s no better way for you to spend 5 minutes right now than listening to this.

After almost 11 years at Activision I decided the time had come for a well-deserved break. Friday was my last day. Looking forward to manage only myself for a while, reading accumulated books, and slowly figure out what the future might hold (leisure, work, or mix of both). 🏝️

I think the new programmer interview questions will be “how many ‘r’s are there in ‘strawberry’” and “show your calculation.”

If you’re wondering why Americans are leaving religion, look no further. Atheists don’t need a holy book to know corruption is wrong.

“Consumer staples” clearly isn’t going to be the same defensive stock market play it used to be.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Some good news re H5N1… A single dose of broadly nAb protects macaques from H5N1 flu. All the pre-treated animals survived, incurring very limited signs of disease vs controls developed severe or fatal illness. Protection from severe disease would last wks. shorturl.at/jfOo0 #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

The “but China” US paranoia about TikTok is crazy. Like the same doesn’t hold true for FB, X, Instagram, Snap etc vs the world?! Obvs the only sane solution is to divest ALL social media to a holding company coowned by Switzerland and Norway.

We need a new politician leaderboard. For every injured or killed person at a shooting event, every sitting politician gets one extra point. And we publish the leaderboard at each new shooting.

Is the Great American Dumbening accelerating, or is it just the ridiculous idiot paranoia and unwarranted media coverage of “drones over New Jersey” that makes it feel that way?

It is easier to GIVE UP performance than to RECLAIM performance. “Don’t prematurely optimize” statements are nonsense. Proper guide: don’t give up performance prematurely. As such building engines / systems (as opposed to scripts or simple tools) in slow languages (C#, Python) is likely a mistake.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Pro tip: When going outside to pick up your Amazon delivery, I strongly recommend closing your door behind you even if it’s just a 20 second roundtrip. Or you might end up with, say, a squirrel inside the house.