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Policy changes should be rolled out gradually Every software developer knows that when you change a service you don't just modify the code, release it, and hope that everything works correctly. You first: * test the change extensively with both unit and integration tests. * run the change in a...
My wife and I are both naturally stingy people. When drafting our wedding list we spurned the posh department stores and I carefully picked out the lowest price best quality items on Amazon instead. I bought 100 dollar beds and 100 dollar mattresses, and we slept on them for a...
I've occasionally heard people suggest that at some point AI companies are going to run out of money, the cost of using AI will shoot up, demand will collapse, and the AI bubble will be over. At first glance this risk seems real. OpenAI spent $25 billion in the first...
Europe (and the UK) have strong protections for flyers in the case of delayed or cancelled flights. However very few people are aware of these, and airlines will almost always try to wriggle out of paying up. Even travel agents are often unaware of these laws, or unwilling to fight...
Contra Aella on chattel childhood Aella has a post where she argues that today's parents don't sufficiently respect the independence of their children: > Every culture throughout history has justified the abuse of treating their children as property by arguing this is good for them and good for civilization. Kids...
A pattern I've noticed among authors I enjoy is that their short stories are often very sedately paced, with a lot of descriptive prose and not much action. But their long stories are peppered with fast dynamic scenes and they avoid detailed descriptions as much as they can get away...
My aunt's family are ultra orthodox Jews, and I used to stay with them occasionally in Bayit Vegan for Shabbat. Once I went for a walk with my cousins. Families there sometimes have dozens of children squashed into tiny apartments, and with the streets closed for Shabbat, the road becomes...