If You’re So Smart, Why Can’t You Die? (On AI and Intelligence) by ymiyw

1. When a coffee shop makes a bagel, it’s a pretty good bet they can make a croissant as well. Not every shop that has one has the other, but they’re pretty strongly correlated. We call this correlation “baking”. This sounds like a weird way to say it. We call “this correlation” baking? It just…is

ByHackTechFebruary 19, 20250Comments

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You’re at a Local Minimum by remotepancake

Who knew human psychology was just calculus in disguise? Countless times, with countless individuals, when I’ve asked the other person how they’re doing, the conversation went something like this… “Are you happy where you are?” “Well, I guess, sort of, maybe.” “Why don’t you leave and try something new?” “Because it’s pretty good. And who

ByHackTechFebruary 5, 20250Comments

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If You Ever See This Speed Sign, You’re Probably Going to Die by colinprince

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is widely considered to be a dry and unemotional document. Published by the Department of Transportation, it outlines the basic specifications of all the street signs you could expect to see out on roads and highways across the United States. Most are familiar, but if you dive

ByHackTechJanuary 14, 20250Comments

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Surely You’re a Creep, Mr. Feynman (2019) by xqcgrek2

This spring, scientists and science writers alike celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize- winning physicist Richard Feynman. To mark the occasion, I sent out a tweet that included a quote from Feynman’s widely beloved memoir, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” in which he calls women in bars “bitches” for not sleeping

ByHackTechAugust 20, 20230Comments

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You’re the OS by samvher

I am a terrible, terrible OSAnxiety-inducing, in a good way. I never knew how it felt to be the OS. Now i know, and i will be more patient with it.Feature requests: please also show the difficulty on the score page. I’d like to screencap and send to my friends with the difficulty attachedThis is

ByHackTechAugust 16, 20230Comments

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OSHA Max fine $15625 if you’re killed in the workplace by maerF0x0

An airline has been fined $15,625 following an incident late last year at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama, where a ground crew worker died after she was “ingested” into an airplane engine. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Piedmont Airlines, an American Airlines subsidiary, after investigators determined the airline was at fault in

ByHackTechJune 20, 20230Comments

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CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017) by KomoD

When I was a small child, I took an IQ test. One of the first questions I stumbled on was “A piece of candy costs 25¢. Jonny has a dime. How many nickels does he need to buy the candy?”My 7-year old brain popped. WTAF is a nickel? Or a dime for that matter? We

ByHackTechMay 2, 20230Comments

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Tips If You’re the First SRE Hire by Instacart’s First SRE by kwent

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) have a considerable set of tasks to juggle no matter where they work or how long their company has had an SRE practice. But if you’re the very first SRE to join an organization – as many SREs are these days, given that the SRE trend is trickling down into smaller…

ByHackTechMay 27, 20220Comments

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What you’re not being told about make money with coding by teleforce

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