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Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.

Which will, at best, cover a portion of his medical bills.

Back during those high interest rate days, housing costs vs income were much better

Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company. I work for one of their competitors now, one that embraces remote work.

I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones.

It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to market, not even close. They were, however, the first to popularize it beyond the field of nerds into the general public.

I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.

Some choice quotes:

2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI)

The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud

Making it possible will be brain-computer interfaces which ultimately will be nanobots – robots the size of molecules – that will go noninvasively into our brains through the capillaries.

In the early 2030s we can expect to reach longevity escape velocity where every year of life we lose through ageing we get back from scientific progress.

The brr.fyi article is SO much more detailed, better written, and a lot newer (2023 vs 2012)

To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.

This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on that path.

I love this story - code trading is such a cool idea, and one I haven't heard of much before. Anyone else have any code trading stories?

100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of.

The least shit brand is Philips.

The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children

This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.

I now regret getting the COVID vaccine for them and feel very guilty about it.

What do you regret exactly? Or feel guilty about? What negative outcome befell you or your kids?

The EFF is politically ineffective and always has been for reasons I don't understand, and no one else seems to care.

Going by the EFF's latest published financials (2022), they took in $23 million vs $16.6 million in expenses. Vs literal billionaires and nation states. Some of the billionaires have more money than the nation states do. David, meet Goliath.

I care. I give them my money. They seem to do a better job at advancing these interests than anyone else. I'm more in awe of their attempts to take on issues of this magnitude given their meager resources than anything else.

paulsutter said: > Note that this is the single most human attribute of LLMs

It might be if LLM hallucinations looked like or occurred at the same frequency as human hallucinations do, but they don’t.

Treating remote as the exception rather than the rule, or at least as a fully supported, equal labor force is the most common way I’ve seen companies get remote work wrong.

This is SpaceX, unintentionally or otherwise, making things worse for everyone else within range who uses those frequencies. The band in question (2 meters, around 144 MHz) is probably the #1 most commonly used band by the licensed amateur radio community.

Not saying I agree with this labeling, but it means approximately the same thing as “crypto bro”, but for AI

Steve knew the value of communication and respect, and when to give it and when not to, and how that strategically applied to Apple as a company. Elon knows none of these things - ego is his north star.

But now I wonder, how much is Musk and how much is it that Musk just raised a ton of money and the companies were run by people way smarter and more competent than him?

It is quite obvious that the more involved he gets in his companies, the more they fail, Twitter being the most obvious example, but SpaceX and Tesla both do as well as they do despite him, not because of him. He was able to moderate his ego better for those companies due to being less unhinged from reality earlier in his life, when he was putting more of his time into those companies.

Beautiful open-source photo editing app, and that's really saying something. A tremendous achievement. However, the lack of a macOS build shows a fundamental lack of market knowledge & project management skill that will ultimately doom this project. It always surprises me when technical acumen is combined with complete blindness to a significant potential customer demographic. I hope they wake up.

EDIT: Am a professional photographer who frequently interacts with other pros on assignments and their own art projects. We're discussing tools constantly and have no qualms between paying for commercial tools or paying in the form of dedication to ascend the learning curve of a less friendly tool. We'll figure out a tool if it's worth it.

How many iPhone owners know their phones cannot be turned off, i.e. a faraday bag is required to stop radio transmission?

This can be fully disabled in Settings.

Most of it is artificial. The term people seem to use to describe this is toxic positivity.

For those looking for details about how nuclear technology is used here:

Irradiation, such as with gamma rays and X-rays, is used to sterilize mass-reared insects

https://www.iaea.org/topics/sterile-insect-technique

The issue is this shouldn’t have happened in the first place. We as a society should have learned from, at least, the debacle that was leaded gasoline and its impact on populations over generations.

The “but” is there because a 15% reduction in rotational inertia is more than you’d expect from being just 10% lighter.

That cat had one hell of a life before it died though.

there's just no way this works out in terms of physics:

- the weight a semi-truck is expected to carry vs the surface area available to absorb photons vs motor efficiency. the energy obtainable via the sun exposed surface area available is multiple orders of magnitude lower than the amount of energy required by motors of current or near future efficiency to propel such a vehicle, with typical weight, to the even 1/2 the speed of normal traffic.

- the only way this works is if for some reason the truck is unmoving for long periods of time and has a massive battery system installed that can be charged up while the vehicle is immobile, which drives the cost up a lot, because any truck that's not moving is a capital asset that's losing money.

and a video (Weezer!)

Was it the Happy Days music video that came on the Win95 CD? :)