Ryan Cavanaugh

From top to bottom the conversation somehow revolves entirely around people *feeling* safe instead of *being* safe

Yet the Netherlands is one of the safest countries in Europe in terms of road safety. Makes you wonder

This is like saying a bicycle doesn't work because you can't ride it up stairs. No one is claiming LLMs are great for the specific use case of counting letters.

Colonize the abyssal plains! Deep sea adventure awaits!

"I am going to lead a mass party realignment by appealing to the median voter" - the most out-of-touch guy you've ever seen

As the child of a single mom who worked multiple part time jobs to make ends meet, let me assure you that not all of those people are single individuals

If Kessler wanted to make the argument that Lawfirm Georg who works at three different six-figure jobs is an outlier, he's free to make that case, but he didn't, and I think we know why

Median part time wage at the second quartile is $20k/year

Donnie Darko: I can't translate this word because English has no equivalent Therapist: simple word, or compound word you could translate in pieces without losing any meaning Donnie Darko: compound word I could translate in pieces

Please stop doing this

Trump take Crisco

oh no

"The mere fact that you call it that tells me you're not ready"

It's actually letmejustdefineavariablepleaseidontwantittobeconstantbutalsodontwantittobeglobal. I'm really glad they shortened it, much easier to read this way, but you do kinda lose some of the descriptiveness

'const' is short for 'constant'.

'var' is short for 'variable'.

'let' is short for what? Wrong answers only.

Arguably a good bill if the next step is putting other high-risk investment choices behind the accreditation gate. You should probably not be able to buy 2 week OTM puts just by clicking a couple boxes on your broker's website.

Pale pink wavy mushrooms

My father-in-law got us a kit where you can grow the fungus from The Last of Us, pretty cool

Typo hall of fame, screenshotted, louvre, etc

i have been developing a theory of things lately and it's called "big number scary"

not saying it has to be a trend or new, just new to my personal thinking: every time i see a big number now, without contextualizing it, i wonder if someone is trying to use big number scary on me

I saw one that was "as much [resource] as a transatlantic flight" for training some particular AI model, a thing that has happened a few dozen times total worldwide

There are ~10,000 flights a year between NYC and London alone

The amount of just sheer innumeracy I'm seeing every day is getting out of control

Today: No, we are not spending more on AI than *all consumer spending combined*

I love how we get real emails that look like this

From: Official Security Team <don-jameson@yourcorp.com>
Title: Important!!

It's time to take the annual "Don't click on suspicious links in emails" training!

To begin the course, click on glonzoparty.mcmansion.hypermail.bl-1.com/18212n4faew3...

"We finally invented the educational system from the classic sci-fi book Harrison Bergergon"

Where are you getting the numbers on 3 there?

US consumer spending is 18 trillion a year. AI capex is in the hundreds of billions range.

People keep saying pneumatic tools are useful, but look past the marketing for once -- they're just a series of hoses and valves.

You're going to drive a nail by blowing into a garden hose? Come on now, be serious.

A useful litmus test is what falsifiable conclusions you would draw from reading that statement, and whether or not they are actually true

I was going to link this in response to a prior post of yours but didn't want to implicitly spoil the twist

Home ownership sounds like a good idea until enough stuff has broken that you and the "Call before you dig" guy are on a first-name basis

Good parenting is about setting boundaries for you and your kid. We both need our own space to live and grow. You don't need to know where your kid is at all times!

Example: My 4-year-old doesn't tell me where he's taking the bus, and I don't ask

Section 4: Demographics and Political Views of News Audiences In general, the regular audiences for most television and print news outlets tend to be older than the public as a whole. Yet there are some notable

Outside of a few sources, there's practically an inverse correlation between knowledge of current events and whether the thing you're watching/reading call itself "news"

www.pewresearch.org/politics/201...

Sometimes it's just convenience? Picking up my 7yo from summer camp in the middle of the day is a huge pain in the ass because I don't know which playground the camp is currently at, so it's a game of phone tag to figure out which counselor is working, where they are, if they're leaving soon, etc