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Realistic costs of owning a car are around 1.000€ per month - see https://assets.adac.de/Autodatenbank/Autokosten/autokostenue... (pdf, German, look for Gesamtkosten (total cost))

Wherever I tell this to people here in Germany, they are good at pointing out why their car is the exception.

While critics will question the feasibility of this vision because it relies on a radical reform of global financial institutions and massive wealth taxes – both of which have long been dismissed as unthinkable by rich countries – there can be no worthwhile assessment of its value without considering the far bleaker options offered by the far right and the old left.

Also, who carries a Bluetooth speaker on a plane? And for what purpose?

dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208304

No.

Takes decades to build/ projects run over time and budget/ where would you build?/ where would you store nuclear waste (bonus points for: in your region)?/ contributes little to global energy mix atm/ uranium is limited. Where do you get it from? Etc

I have another one:

What is lost when you put any of these in an LLM?

Yes, we can get plausible sounding answers generated algorithmically. But these are great starting points for humans to develop their own thinking.

My university, LSE, asked all students to write exam essays by hand ~10 years ago. Wonder how it is done at Oxford today.

maybe “The Only Way to Win is Not to Play”

Jobs saw the Apple Store not so much as a retail outlet but as a church for evangelizing to the unconverted. He wanted the world to know that Apple’s simple but powerful tools would give people access to whatever stirred their passions—photos, songs, movies—and help them create these things on their own.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! I really want to like the Vision Pro, but haven’t even tried it yet. Hope it will evolve into something good.

„Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.“ Oscar Wilde

triple submission - could they be merged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037772

It is a global challenge. Climate change is caused by rich people in developed countries (the average Indian person causes very low co2 emissions). There are some good initiatives to mitigate climate change, but so far, it is too little, too late. The US taking a back seat does not help either.

Here’s the science: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/possible-nort...

„Under high-emission scenarios, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key system of ocean currents that also includes the Gulf Stream, could shut down after the year 2100.“

I like the original title, „ Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn“. Why edit it?

Still available in Germany („Rechenschieber“), eg https://www.wissenladen.de/products/der-rechenschieber

Maybe it should be „forked“

In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days

It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.

on the other hand, WETI still seems to be up, so you could contribute there.

http://weti-institute.org/

Don’t live like a rich person in a developed country - they’re the only ones whose co2 footprints are too high.

Power tip: replace the Word docs with Markdown.

Interesting! I wonder a) how much of an issue this addresses, ie how much are people worried about privacy when they use other LLMs? and b) how much of a disadvantage it is for Confer not to be able to read/ train in user data.

Hint: The aspect ratio sqrt(2) should be quite convenient for foldable phones. Current ones seem to be more or less square if unfolded - what use case is that good for?

Which calendar is that? I haven’t found one with a decent year view similar to the one here.

I understand Twitter posts are still shared here, even though I would often (usually?) have to log in?

Then check out the Pomodoro technique if you haven’t done so! I’m always amazed how much I can get done in 25 minutes of focus.

And here it is: https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s

As a German, I would guess on the one hand, there's not enough digital skills in the broad population. Also, entrepreneurs historically tended to flock to classical engineering roles (= making internal-combustion cars).

agree! other notable examples include MP3 and the GSM standard. Oh, and the World Wide Web...

You could also take the Queen Mary2 from Southampton to New York. 8 nights, from 920 GBP: https://www.seat61.com/queen-mary-2-transatlantic.htm

no, it should be ' (ASCII 39, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe )