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piuantiderp··on Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers
But meanwhile keep focusing on CO2....
piuantiderp··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Owners of car companies, to make more money. More disposable, more expensive cars, in less easily entered industry. How else will they keep BYD and others from coming in?
piuantiderp··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
Google is going to lap them. The hardware muscle they have has not even started flexing
piuantiderp··on In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture
You'd be surprised. And sure, in the 1930's about 80% of Asian immigrants got deported out of Mexico. But even before and after, their descendants became very well integrated and mixed with the rest of society. Also, they tend to not identify as Asians, just like Mexicans unless it is very obvious or 2nd generation
piuantiderp··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
You just haven't been to a good one.
piuantiderp··on In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture
Look up Chaufa, and yes, you can get Chinese food everywhere...
piuantiderp··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
A lot of theater
piuantiderp··on Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer
Not all gut bacteria cause this, but the bad ones sure, will break sulfur-aminos into badness.
piuantiderp··on The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
Read that you can very quickly blow the budget on the 200/mo ones too
piuantiderp··on Uber staff revolts over return-to-office mandate
WFH is the perfect example for execs to point out why offshoring is now incoming.
piuantiderp··on An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
Plato detected
piuantiderp··on Damn Vulnerable MCP Server
Ad populum fallacy will now be replaced by Ad AI said so.... the funny part is the "Sources??" people are some of the most reliant on it
piuantiderp··on In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
Think of the other side of the coin. Through history the first thing slaves are denied are weapons. And there is many countries that allow weapons at home, US, Mexico, Latin America....
piuantiderp··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
Brazilians are the proverbial boiling frogs....
piuantiderp··on What if we made advertising illegal?
In True Communism (tm) there would be no need for advertising! Because anything people could want they would already have!!!!
piuantiderp··on Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
The world is better with multiple flavors instead of one bloated one.
piuantiderp··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
One does not use the trackpad in a thinkpad. If anything they should be removed. The old keyboards are a dream to type on... Only computer that came close (that I had was HP DV1000)
piuantiderp··on Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)
Or you know, you could just use .NET?
piuantiderp··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Book by Christopher Bryson. Needed context
piuantiderp··on 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket
Maybe 5y
piuantiderp··on How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
"range of hundreds of millions of people in tech environments, other hackers, programmers, executives, etc. making this exploit deadly if used."

Bit too hyperbolic or whatever... Otherwise thrilling read!

piuantiderp··on Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
This made me snort my coffee, what backing was needed or lacking? Need peer-review to validate them?
piuantiderp··on How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
Anytime you read "as an X", spidey senses should tingle and be careful. Caveat lector
piuantiderp··on How Jane Street accidentally built a better build system for OCaml
The article said the team working on it has 5 engineers.
piuantiderp··on My second year without a job
I'm not sure the average school peers are any better. Unless we're talking private education. Do consider that for the better part of history, even in school, kids were not separated into years.

That they need permanency, sure but that's the parents and the living situation

piuantiderp··on Education and Healthcare Suck for the Same Reasons
Actual intelligence. The measurable is always, once you have your number, make it go up!!!!!!!
piuantiderp··on Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project
Might just be some kind of salinity thing. Upstream -> Less minerals dissolved
piuantiderp··on Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
LATAM
piuantiderp··on Mitochondria Are Alive
Do the same but with Potassium chloride or bicarbonate. Done! And way safer
piuantiderp··on Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
In most countries that have them, they are free. Taxes already paid for them. Yes, even replacements
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