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What is "the Jack Nicholson route"? I happened to watch The Departed last night and am genuinely asking, something to do with working a lot?

Even then they can wind up in the proverbial backyard. I don't know much about data center staffing needs and zoning laws but those would seem relevant spatial constraints and considerations.

Thank you for the link. This is trite but Patel is consistently pictured with a deer-in-the-headlight kind of look on his face it's pretty goofy.

It not updated anymore but the art blog https://www.butdoesitfloat.com has brought me a lot of joy; the quotes that go along with each post are good too

Thank you

Bootstrapping a B2C tool is hard because LTV is lower...

Can anyone speak more to the LTV (loan-to-value [0]?) metric: Does a founder want a lower or higher LTV? It seems lower is better unless the goal is to be more leveraged.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/loantovalue.asp

The boat will usually survive the storm but will you?

Cheetahs experienced diverse catastrophes (see what I did there?)

Almost stopped reading after that one (I groaned, it's still to early!) but feel that's when the article kind of lost its plot. Worth reading though some good nuggets here.

I am firmly convinced the observable universe is just too exceedingly vast for intelligent life to sustain contact. Maybe i'm wrong!

I wish there was more background on Percolation Theory because that's not something I'd been exposed to before. But after looking into it more it am happy I did: [0]

As a kid sitting in the backseat of the car (or adult driving looking through a windshield) I always noticed how raindrops would hit the glass, then continue to coalesce with other drops and form larger drops before flying off the pane. Is it the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory

It seems inflated roughly 40% to prove a point but regardless stuff is still too expensive and I don’t eat meat. Don’t know though yesterday was reading some comments here about people literally saying “$50k income a month in SF and you still can’t buy a house,” stuff like that is ridiculously out of touch.

I could make a wind turbine... I could make a musket

Respectfully, this is laughable given the constraints.

"The hunger for cash is likely to mount. Bank of America noted that these big tech companies, which formerly operated on relatively little invested capital, are now as capital-intensive as old-line fossil fuel companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron.

So the tech companies are going to the capital markets, mainly the bond market, which has begun to charge premiums for what it considers to be heightened risk. Oracle and Amazon bond prices have been hard hit. So have those issued by SpaceX, which is also building A.I. data centers. Its bonds are rated as investment grade but have been trading at fire-sale prices, like junk bonds.

One problem is that the expected revenue for the data centers isn’t rock solid. Much of it is linked to A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic, which themselves rely on borrowed funds and speculative investments by venture capitalists and private equity funds. Oracle’s heavy dependence on OpenAI makes it especially vulnerable, S&P Global said."

Oh Nice, I wasn't able to really read the hidden text before reading your squinting part, that's interesting!

I purchased a DVD player for the first time this past weekend.

Don't forget the study of neuroscience is much larger than just the human brain. Many other target organisms are studied e.g. fruit fly and are much more thoroughly understood on a fundamental level. Respectfully, when people want to understand the human brain they usually intend to study sociology or psychology rather than neuroscience. Although, of course, neuroscience is applicable to human brains as well.

Your comment makes total sense to me but generally, in regards to productivity gains from AI, I can never understand where these are realized for people. Maybe I'm just a laggard but never found myself 25%-50% behind on anything or that much more work/items/tickets available.

I agree it’s very well done. Not sure if they’re all from/by EHE but the political adverts like this I’ve seen from around the UK are so clever.

Paul Graham's website uses image maps for the nav bar, it's the only place I can recall seeing them off the top of my head.

It crossed my mind but was still curious so went back without JS haha, worth a try for the inquisitive

What is this? I bounced from the website after the "cookie banner" was so vauge; the whole "cookie options" are all Lorem Ipsum(?) or something and there're like 50 line items

I liked learning about Drawbot being created by Guido's brother!

I do not understand how to play these cards, are these the backs? I thought maybe the number of dots is the number - oh wait, there are 12 dots. Is the "bird" a suite or a Royal? etc

I think the graphics are very visually appealing; thank you for sharing.

You're reading into it too much; it's another news headline I saw today and an excerpt from a comment I read. It's related to the posted article and the parent comment.

Well as mentioned in the above comment I do not disagree with parent nor do I disagree with you. Vehicles of these extremes are rare, in my experience, as mentioned as well.

In practicality, I care more about how people drive than the loudness of their engine.

I say this with respect and part jokingly but this is basically just a "shakes fist at cloud". And I don't disagree with you! But if people use their signal and drive sane it's not much a problem for me. Very rarely do I see a modded car like this regardless of Make - and people make every Make/Model loud it's not just restricted to the aforementioned.

Your mileage may vary and that's all good

In other news today "The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends" with comments mentioning "this is actually a huge issue with girls too"

From a business perspective genuinely curious to know general location and bank name for this. In WA state I've only dealt with minor scrutiny (from credit union not bank) asking if the business is involved with cannabis otherwise it's been easy.

Link contains an interview with transcription

The title looks good but the article does not make any sense and seems half-baked.

If our entire world is ... governed by software, it'd better be correct and pleasant to use.... Maybe we could use a new term, "software artist", for when the form of the code and the tools used matter more than the outcomes?

What? People can do whatever they want on a hobby project but "production" code should conform to norms and be easy to use.

None of this has to do with "delivering".

I understand but would assume it could be solved by chord/positional groupings or similar. Manual/human tab transcription need to infer positional assumptions anyway; some artists will play the same songs different ways too ala Bob Weir

the existing tab from the page would be more efficient and precise

But what about songs that aren't made into a YT video?

For some perspective VW Group has around 680k employees per wikipedia [0].

Doubling the estimate from 50k to 100k is pretty wild, though I had read last week it was 100k on the tdi-club forum thread "What's left for Volkswagen?" [1]

[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group [1] https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/what%E2%80%99s-...

Are there technical hurdles around just programmatically generating a tab from any song or audio recording itself?

This is interesting and all but seems to use computer vision rather than audio processing?