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I live in a city and the problems are:

1) sometimes it is noisy at night, usually because of people in cars, but sometimes because of people not in cars;

2) sometimes it takes longer than needed to walk somewhere, due to intersections

3) my house is not as big as I would like. (I think this applies to many people regardless of how big their house is.)

4) the busses are always late in winter

The article puts that percentage at 39%, which falls a bit short of “most” but is frighteningly high.

You can and should say the word “kill”.

Why? 10uF is already pretty beastly, and the point is to dampen signal verses intermittent drops and drains, not power the backing device for any amount of time.

I was also a childhood lover of Castle and Vikings :)

The money spent on site and land clearing results in a big empty field? Yes, yes it did, that’s what those words mean. If we’re going to bribe companies to do a thing, we should at least accept when they did do it.

Put an SSD and a modern emulation behind Windows 98 and it flies. You’re excusing inefficient software because it was paired with improved hardware.

I asked it “how can I tell if a spray paint can is empty?” And it told me that the paint can would no longer rattle.

Why isn’t it “any procedure performed by a doctor all the time with no limits”? Do you think there’s a cabal of doctors doing medical procedures for funsies? And that if such a thing did exist, it would be a bigger problem than some company who has never seen you, never examined you, and you’ve already paid money to, denying the claim because they judge it “unnecessary” when the doctor who did see you claims it is?

The doctor has already managed to find time for the service - she’s seen you. Potentially even done the procedure. The hospital has made room for you. The resource is already consumed by you, like a restaurant meal. The question is who is picking up the check, when you already have a subscription service paid for.

Quite possibly! But Google Gemini, who obtains the specs from the same flawed, inconsistent, contradictory, or absent size charts that I have to look at, is not positioned to be the solution to this problem.

It almost doesn’t matter if it’s trained using adversarial distillation - if it’s nearly as good, and one-hundredth the cost, the choice is obvious.

So you estimate costs in months and dollars, and give that in response to each. Very solvable issue.

Why don’t we just teach the designers code / the coders design? This feels very Programmer-Analyst split

AI is already contributing substantially to its own development: https://novaknown.com/2026/03/12/ai-builds-ai-claude/

People need to be physically sustained. Currently, this means working a job for money to buy (food/housing/medical).

People also need their lives to have value. We are social animals. As a generalization, there is a strong desire to be (viewed as/able to view themselves as) a contributor to the community.

These don’t have to be linked: we have (significantly!) stay-at-home-parents and philanthropists and retired community workers. But in our current values system, it is often linked - having a job in the household is viewed as a moral good. It might be hated, but it’s at least “contributing” something.

If this goes away, and we have millions completely adrift? With no structure to contribute to? Even with the largest welfare expansion in history, I think we’re preparing for a very turbulent society.

Because we haven’t had translunar manned flight in fifty years, and this is the precursor to start it up again

Yes, in some cases, but this is not automatic, nor even close. The more serious the trial (ex, murder, child pornography), the more likely it serves the court’s interest to use the illegally obtained evidence. See https://doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.3711 for a longitudinal study. Illegally obtained evidence is routinely used.

I use it frequently for reminders and calendar events when not at a computer, as voice is faster than the mobile interface (with so many screens) for setting something up

That’s not how evidence works in Canada. Illegally obtained evidence is still evidence - you simply also have a tort against the officer for breaching your rights.

Residental-scale transformers can and do explode. Shorts happen not-infrequently with freezing rain and ice storms especially causing issues - the internal oil gets displaced by the water, and the dirty water causes an internal short. It wipes out power to a few blocks here when it happens, but we get an outage due to it every year or two.

Yes! And it was bad then too!!

I want software that does a specific list of things, doesn’t change, and preferentially costs a known amount.

Have we gotten so lost that “working against your enemies” is no longer something we aspire to do?

Aside from the BSD software, the Mac software, and all the software that’s actually POSIX-compliant (on purpose or by accident).

Commodity hubs, especially USB2, come with lots of ports; it's up to how many connectors you can reasonably fit on the chassis. But running a trace across the board for USB isn't a great sell. Getting a second board on the other side isn't a great sell, especially for budget computers like this one. So we end up with "unbalanced" ports.

I’ve been using Immich to offload photos, and it’s been working well so far.

but who needs that?

I’m really happy with bringing my local workstation with me to a cafe, a coworking space, or on a trip. I love conveniently having one device for nearly everything, from AI fine-tuning to general development to gaming. And I love having a 12-hour battery life under normal use and USB-C charging. The screen is beautiful and great for watching movies on, too.

If you want one computing device, in total, a MacBook is a great choice. It’s overkill in most areas for most people, but it’s not deficient for anyone, and that matters a lot.

Torch mlp support on my local macbook outperforms CUDA T4 on Colab.

I’m super happy with it for embedding, image recog, and semantic video segmentation tasks.

We can also run LM Studio and get it installed with one search and one click, exposed through an OpenAI-compatible API.