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adsfoiu1on .zip is now available as a TLD

I guess this could be a more common issue with zip, but any TLD could also be a file extension so in that sense this isn't a new problem

adsfoiu1on Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?

It was open sourced, just under a non-commercial license.

adsfoiu1on A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks

Building on that, how long did the AI take to draft the 77 news articles? Now ask a human to draft 77 articles in that same amount of time and see how many errors there are...

adsfoiu1on The Grinch Stealing the Future of Gen Y and Z

Afford a wife? lol? what does that even mean?

adsfoiu1on How a dangerous stew of air pollution is choking the United States

https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/03/tire-related-chem...

very interesting read for people curious -- one way that tire wear pollution is causing problems

adsfoiu1on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code

Not OP, and I don't think it directly indicates how smart you are, but it does show you are at or above some smartness threshold (i.e. smart enough to get the answer).

If you don't get the answer, you might still be above that smartness threshold, but didn't get it for some other reason (didn't have time to study, didn't sleep enough the night before, interview anxiety, etc.).

adsfoiu1on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose

I think their point is that anecdotes are not very valuable and then gave examples of anecdotes that differ as a way to show that individual experiences / perceptions can be vastly different, which isn't at odds with their original point.

adsfoiu1on A walk in nature is better than microdosing

A lot of street drugs have never even had a chance to "run the gauntlet" so it's really not necessarily fair to rule them out. Which isn't to say that they _are_ effective, but we can't really rule them out just for being "street drugs".

adsfoiu1on Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub

I personally have seen the opposite problem - the friction of making small changes to "utility" libraries becomes a huge pain point for developers when you have to make changes, test locally, push to package manager, update all consumers to use the new version... It's much easier, in my experience, to just consume a class that's already in the same project / repo.

adsfoiu1on Software Engineering Laws Everybody Loves to Ignore

I definitely don't feel that way.

I don't go into the code I wrote 6months ago knowing exactly what every line does, but I remember the broad strokes about what it is generally doing, where different logic will live, and it makes it much easier to jump back into code I wrote 6months ago vs code I've never seen before.

adsfoiu1on 10 years-ish of Elixir

I have been using it for the past ~1yr and really like some aspects, but these are some negatives that come to mind:

- I really wish it had type safety.

- The ecosystem isn't as mature as other languages.

- IDE tooling in particular seems like it has a ways to go from my experience.