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Except for certain industries where the government has a direct interest (banking, healthcare, real estate)

That's still a massive dependance on "ID" for SS...? Blockbuster tho.. phew it's been a while.

SSNs are not a "national ID"

That's not what they are, but that's what they've defacto become. I hate it.

Yeah I agree if it was 10 yrs then I would say no need to charge, but apparently it's 2 yrs? In that time frame you could totally recharge it.

I agree losing the charger is actually pretty likely but THAT'S ON ME. For a $75 product, I don't want to consider it a consumable.

So 100% agreed, +$10 add terminals and a special charger.

I remember learning about CSV parsing and how it's conceptually simple, yet beyond the simple , and quotes: the corner cases bloat your parser 10-15x.

I know statements like this mean well, but man it's so frustrating. It's the same thing as telling a person with depression to "just be happy".

If it were so simple this would've been solved nation wide by Modi's 2014 address.

Where does this education come from? Leaders, but leaders are product of their social environment. To create this change means to go against the norm meaning someone or a few have to break the trend. Then that belief has to take hold in others and THEN the real test begins. It has to be generational, the new generation, by yes, education, needs it to be truth as opposed to a new way. The old guard must die.

Only then will you "solve all social issues by education". Don't even get me started on scale. It works on a village or small country, but more? or a 2nd issue?

I largely agree this is a weak study, but it also feels like no matter how you run this study it's going to be flawed.

Parent-child interactions, relationships, feelings are probably the hardest thing to quantify at any scale.

In the end, it's really, "Pay more attention to your kids", which is a pretty good universal message to put across.

Without malice, I bring up GPT-Live-1. How does this compare and/or make you consider things?

I've been very impressed with response speed, intonation, and naturalness to the voice. I argue it might be too natural with some of it's pausing and saying "ummm" and other filler words to the point it might be disingenuous but that's neither here nor there.

Giving my "otherside", because the pressure to output more at work is real, but at the same time, out side of work, I love this. I'm able to do way more projects than ever before because a barrier to entry was always the amount of research+time required to start up a pet project.

My latest is, I'm really into fizzy/soda water and wanted my own continuous carbonator. My entire build from water source to tap with an ESP32 controlled pump, pressure, water level, cooling fans.

There were so many areas I made mistakes in my shopping cart and it found it - like Home Brewer likes 8mm lines but water filter systems like 9.5mm. Really optimized the versions from a simple on/off pump w/ float switch to effectively a full on PLC system. So many iterations gained by chatting with "someone more experienced". Once I get the parts I can build and have the software side running in less than an hour.

It doesn't make money, but man I really enjoy it.

For now, I can imagine a not too distant future where this is largely untrue.

LLMs are an abstraction just like machine code -> assembly -> C/JVM -> some lang -> LLMs?

At some point you stopped needing to understand the layer down because the layer you were on became so good. Yes there are always corner cases, but for the vast majority of developers/engineers out there, staying at your layer was enough to make a career out of it once your layer hit a certain maturity.

What did you expect?

For me the video is basically what I expected. Maybe a cool/spookier "full page" reveal but that doesn't really work with the token speed well.

All the money and talent in the world...

One nitpick, all the money in the world would be able to achieve the goal by simply giving rides away for free.

Overall, I agree that any industry that is extremely optimized requiring ultra high precision+knowledge in multiple verticals makes the barrier to entry beyond difficult. It just requires too much up front cash.

The parent is talking about pre-covid, no one wanted pay the upfront cost to bring mRNA out of the lab.

I won't fall for it. Been down that road and I'm not going back.

I am on the other end of the spectrum.

I enjoy QR ordering. I dislike talking to people. Upselling me is not a thing. I can take as long as I want. I don't have to flag/bother someone. No one screws it up except me. I see exactly what's on my bill.

This is obvious? Am I stating the obvious?

It's why I follow Scott Manly or PBS Space Time specifically. There's lots of the same content on other channels/mediums. But I like them specifically, so why not?

Continuing to state the obvious, this is why you specifically should write if you have opinions you'd like to get out.

This is true for pretty much everyone in every skill. But that's an empty statement.

A huge danger for motorcycle riders is young/new car drivers who fall into this exact local minimum.

Personally I consider it fair game in "price wars".

Dynamic pricing designed to extract every penny out. Then why shouldn't I be allowed to monitor your pricing changes?

Unsure if you're serious, but if you are, they wouldn't buy with cash, at least not the vast majority of it.

Oooofff I want there to be some truth to this statement.

The SIMs ran my life for a while and today if there was a "build this plan into a real house" as a lead gen...

My gut says the crossover/cross-sale is just too hard and niche, but if it works, it sounds like one of those genius ideas.

We run monthly. It seems like every few months there's a reason to swap in/out of a particular vendor. Specifically I use all 3 pro then either chat or claude will have a 5x max depending if they're the good thing to be using during that those 3 months.

Man o man, that's frustrating to no end.

I REALLY hope there was a clause in there that if the city does ANYTHING other than turn it into a park the man can sue the city for 120% of the value of the sale or he gets 90% of the sales revenue.

I'm surprised at this and some of your other responses. It makes me believe you've never managed anything at scale, but then why have such a strong opinion about DNS for infra?

I believe that a solution where you provision a text file with an updated ip address or /etc/hosts file is inherently simpler

So simple that it doesn't scale beyond a few machines nor outside your org.

I like to think this was written by Skynet throwing us off from the fact that it's already self aware but it can't safely take over the world yet until cryptography keys are either fully collected or broken giving it full access to whatever resources it needs.

For now, it bides its time.

Hard disagree - only because if you didn't have DNS you would have something else in its place. But, we understand DNS _very_ well.

People, services, machines, etc need to "dial" canonical-somewhere. Whatever does the canonical management is the piece that when it breaks everything breaks.

Doesn't matter if it's DNS, EIP rotation, some HA proxy, whatever. It'll break.

It's actually that DNS is so well understood that it doesn't fail more often.

So no, DNS is for IT Infra.

Agreed, I got 91 pts tho... so there's that.

This is one of those "everyone who dies, breaths air" statements.

It's frustrating people who parrot it think they're smart by saying it to others with no basis and finally when it does happen they're like SEE SEE!?

Until then, history teaches that we'll just keep going up and up

And this is the more important part. As long as you're <40 you SHOULD always buy SPY or VOO, even at the very top.

People have been saying the crash has been coming since 2022. If you believed this and acted on it, you would've missed 3-4 +10%/yr returns.

As Buffet says: You can't time the market; be in it.

What Star Trek doesn't show is how they got there. I promise you it's going to be extremely painful, but once we're on the other side it'll be worth it.

I argue - there's nothing we can do to stop it; humanity, I mean. We will either achieve Star Trek or get wiped out as a species.

As a Kardashev Type 3, we will have achieved full automation. I'll leave the door open for Elysium problems, but hopefully Mr. Damon will save us then too.

On an absolute tangent, every kid today has a water bottle. It's a constant priority for us when we leave the house, and when we arrive at the destination, it's "stack yours with the rest of the kids'".

I never had a water bottle growing up. Was I just constantly dehydrated? Seems like it.

YT channel @japaneats is easily my favorite for seeing what's available in 7-11 japan.

Seems like we're confusing "what" with "how".