David Adams

They can’t though. And if they could, those movies would be bad.

The only reason I was able to spot this as a potential mistake is because of my knowledge of the Go language spec. If I can't trust the results, I'm not sure how helpful this is for learning. I rather get no answer than a wrong answer.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

There is *zero* reason the most consequential tech company in history, synonymous with the most controlling and powerful exec in business history, needed to be this obsequious. Pathetic. Tim is cooked.

From everything I’ve read, Spotify has the best feature set and catalog breadth. The closest competition is probably Apple Music.

I’ve heard good things about Tidal, specifically that they pay artists the most. And that their features are similar to Spotify. But with a much smaller catalog.😕

WTF is the matter with people?

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

In what way does using this bot constitute “contacting” you?

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Since 2005 college application process has completely changed. You no longer have to make separate applications to each and every school. You fill out your info and check a box for each school you want to apply to. No school would be able to keep their acceptance rate the same.

Shame on you.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Why is it that MAGA dudes keep talking about the importance of masculinity, but are afraid of basically all our cities at a time when they're safer than ever (if you ignore ICE kidnapping people off the street, that is).

Who on the left has said that masculinity is not valuable or healthy or that anyone should be ashamed of it?

Do you hate your own city? Why do you amplify a perception you know is untrue?

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Did I miss where it was ruled that only guns count as “arms” and not knives, chains, and bats?

Craving fat, sugar, & salt are survival instincts. It motivates critters to put in extra effort to get foods that pay off.

I know it's very hip & chic or whatever to freak out about craving "bad foods."

But getting pleasure from high-calorie foods is. like. why our ancestors lived to make us

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

I suspect the major negative fallout of vibe coding isn’t going to be taking jobs from software developers but instead an epidemic of insecure apps that get hacked with ease

“Evokes”? What do you imagine the definition of “secret police” to be?

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

If anything this increases uncertainty. Bowing to Trump’s whim means continuing to bow to his latest whim. What reputation and trust Columbia had left is now in tatters. They are now a willing tool of the Trump administration.

the right: “structural racism isn’t real”

also the right, “we have designed government programs to specifically help and advantage white people”

There is no way to deploy this technology safely. Do not give access to your personal data and finances to an LLM.

I keep coming back to this bit by Marc because it’s literally breaking things over a grievance he literally made up in his head, like this dude became a billionaire in his late 20’s entirely because of the institutions he now wants to destroy