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I don't think anyone cares who the bomber was. I think more people want to know why the investigation was shut down when they had ALL the evidence they did.

Who and why, and why that person is not in jail.

Yes 38% of students at stanford are either blind or in a wheelchair

Touche, I'm just going to go ahead and upvote you.

My dad at 50 got a disabled parking placard. He did have knee surgery, but he really didn't struggle with it about 4 months after his surgery. I asked him why he still had it - I got the impression that at this point he wanted his priority parking spot anyway. Didn't like driving around with him much after that.

If it turns out half of all people have something, it's just normal human stuff. Today's ADHD is likely a symptom of tiktoking your brain's serotonin out or some other chemical

right now, more people need it

I think we should be honest and consistent about losing our jobs to AI. For decades we justified automation by saying things like: "Sure, the toothpaste tube machine replaced 30 workers, but someone will need to maintain and operate it." And whenever someone pointed out that one mechanic doesn't replace those 30 lost jobs, everyone went quiet.

Now we're using the same logic again: "Well, you just need to learn to use the AI before someone else does."

And if anyone doubts that the world can move on without the software engineer, remember that it moved on just fine after eliminating the toothpaste tube fillers. The world kept turning, just a little colder and more indifferent each time another role disappeared.

Maybe instead of pretending this time is different, we should focus on writing the best epitaph we can.

Have you been employed continuously for the last 2 years?

So it's a jobs program

Acq's typically have additional stips you have to follow - they probably have new deadlines and some temporary stress for the next few months.

If they found themselves pushing PRs to bun that got ignored and they wanted to speed up priority on things they needed, if the acq was cheap enough, this is the way to do it.

I remember in 1999ish I got yelled at for not using Tuxedo for our message queue and instead used our MSSQL server (different time people)... because a database can't do queuing.

If there is a feral kid they have left the sphere of what is acceptable. If you drop them out, then you raise the chances of everyone else. If you accept the feral kid, you're moving the needle, the average over. It becomes acceptable for more kids to act like the feral kid.

It's the same as the overton window in politics/news.

The reality is too, that even if "what is acceptable" has not yet caught up to that guy working at Atlassian, polishing off a new field in Jira, people are using AI + Excel to manage their tasks EXACTLY the way their head works, not the way Jira works.

Yet we fail to see AI as a good thing but just as a jobs destroyer. Are we "better than" the people that used to fill toothpaste tubes manually until a machine was invented to replace them? They were just as mad when they got the pink slip.

it was desirable because our reason for the conversion was subtle bugs all over the place where data was disappearing.

if a random thing flying around the galaxy has nucleotides and other ingredients for life - then the drake equation needs a 10^100000000 upgrade.

I think "facists" is a tiring word to describe them. I would recommend christian nationalists.

why are you against static types in languages?

I once converted a fairly large JS codebase to TS and I found about 200 mismatching names/properties all over the place. Tons of properties we had nulls suddenly started getting values.

LLMs won't design rockets, but it can make it so that many many more people can be a "rocket scientist" tomorrow.

With many extra backyard rocket scientists around, you're going to get new designs.

> Housing, their neighborhoods, their schools

All of these can be great, but the class of people that make a neighborhood in "the heights" won't have dog barking, basketballs, drugs and gunshots. The people that don't live in "the heights" could decide tomorrow to no longer have those 4 things either - but they don't because - it's a different class of people.

What I don't understand however is what IS actually expensive about the care itself?

Doc will get paid his normal rate, $500k per year (maybe more maybe less?) Nurses all get paid something between 100k and 200k (maybe more maybe less?)

Then we hear about these surgeries that cost 100k.

What exactly is costing 100k for 5 hours of knife and time in a bed?

Wildfire, I understand, there is no way to re-materialize a house for less than (what is basically a fortune these days). But time and materials for a surgery seem to me that it should cost 5k at most?

And at those rates, wouldn't everyone just pay like $15 a month? And if the answer to this question is malpractice costs, can we have two plans:

I trust you doc: $15 / month

I might sue the doc after: $1500 / month

Burn it all down, start over.

when the gov foots the bill, there's no reason to have competition.

can also look at it as an opportunity to gather friends and start a small drywall company. Those are in demand, for example. The rich are building more buildings than ever. If you live in the bay area, you can very well see 300k / year if you keep yourself busy.

After about a week of 1000 IU per day my chest started hurting and I could feel my heart anywhere in my body.

She believed that even wealthy kids that just live off their trust funds were parasites too. It was about consuming vs producing, not elite vs non-elite.

During the Pan I took a lot of VitD. It started giving me the feeling that my heart was beating out of my chest, so I stopped.

I just bought a 2tb SSD drive that's the size of a tictac container...

Is there a way to bypass Voyager with a new craft in some reasonable amount of time if we put enough thrust on it