The AI search results were actually better last year; significantly fewer hallucinations.

Gemini still isn't sure what details are in the version of OBBA that actually passed, because there was more discussion about various proposals (that didn't make it into the bill) than there was about the final version of the bill itself.

Unfortunately, it's an intractable problem based on the ways that LLMs work. In order to overcome those limitations, you have to provide so much detail to the prompt that you would find the answer faster searching manually.

Does this justify what Israel is doing to the West Bank? Most people would say no. On the other hand, before the invasion normal Palestinians were chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on a daily basis, and they still refuse to recognize the existence of the nation of Israel. If your counterparty doesn't agree that you have a right to exist, there's no negotiating.

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Offering Waymo and taxis as "commuter" benefits (meaning, to/from the employee's home) to the employee is considered taxable income to the employee unless it's used so rarely that it is considered a nontaxable fringe benefit.

As this creates payroll headaches, most companies outside of perhaps a few in the Bay Area do not offer Waymo or taxis or black car services or Uber/Lyft as "benefits" to the employee.

This is different from the kind of travel costs that can be expensed by employees (i.e., for business trips, client meetings, etc.).

But it will only take a few days before the tanks start filling up again. A lot of oil runs through this facility: most of the U.S. production excluding the West Coast. They're only running dry right now because other countries are buying expensive U.S. oil on the spot market because they can't get the (cheaper) Middle East oil they already have long-term contracts for. Once the conflict ends, the only lag time for them to switch away from U.S. oil is the time it takes for the tankers to get to their destinations, which is measured in days and weeks, not months.

In the last 15 years it's been all about the programmer's experience and user-facing software is objectively slower, buggier, and more resource intensive.

This stuff is legal in Texas. It's exactly the desired outcome from the lack of regulation.

This myth keeps getting promulgated and it's just that: a myth. The podcast was wrong about how the music industry actually works.

Venues and promoters set the ticket prices, not the artists. The artists get a fixed fee for their performances, and may get a bonus if a certain % of tickets are sold. Even artists on tours don't get to choose the ticket prices. They can ask nicely, but ultimately the promoter decides.

That isn't discussed much because it's not true. Artists get paid a fixed amount for each performance and only get a share of ticket revenue if the # of tickets sold exceeds a contractual threshold. Artists don't get a portion of the fees; those are entirely TM's revenue regardless of the number of tickets sold.

Ticketmaster gets crap for its business practices because they are crap business practices.

Software is not protected as speech.

The standardized testing changes resulted in a decrease in mathematical preparedness across the board, but outside of CS/EECS it's not very significant in other STEM majors since most students to other math-heavy majors self-select on the basis of being good in math (and took AP math classes in high school).

The big change is that LLMs became widely available 3 years ago, and practicably usable within the last 2 years. FTA, all of the failing students had enrolled in the precursor math sections that allowed for AI use on homeworks and tests; none from the other sections.

...This is probably for the best. Studios try to avoid catering to the incel fandom, as that scares away everyone else who might otherwise be interested.

Also...SG-1 and Atlantis both featured competent women. Carter, Fraiser, and Weir were smart but not strong. Teyla was strong but not too bright. Most of the guest characters were minorities. The show was woke as heck.

But by objective metric they are already producing less buggy code than $30k developers, and doing it faster.

That's like bragging that a $1 trillion tank can go faster than a cheap budget car. For $1 trillion being slightly better isn't good enough.

Not being aware of the limitations of the tools you're using is a hallmark of junior-level programmers. That's why experience matters; if it was just about raw coding talent nobody would care about experience. But making mistakes like this is supposed to be how you learn.

Unless of course you turn over the learning to the AI, as you did here. Otherwise you would have known that the defaults you're complaining about are clearly identified in the README files you didn't read.