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My wife had a terrible fear of loosing me in this station, afraid she would loose me and never find me back :-) .

It felt like the biggest station we knew before, multiplied by 10 and then molded and warped like a ball of dough.

IIRC there is a multi-level bus terminal at this station too that we had to use to get to Narita airport, which we had never seen before for a bus terminal.

Would love to go to Japan again, but when the kids are a bit older and we don't have to fear loosing them in this station.

We just want work done we don't want to do ourselves.

Whether it's slaves, animals or dumb to smart machines and anything in between, that is an 'implementation detail'.

These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector

Coming back for another 5% seems unlikely. But the whole thing is unlikely and uncommon, so what's it matter?

Exacerbated by nothing being normal with this administration, to say the least.

I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands.

I know electric aircraft are not quite feasible on the same scale as airlines.

On the other hand, China has an extensive high-speed rail network for inland travel. OI have no idea how often the Chine fly inside the country vs how often they use aircraft, but this is the sort of different technology for the same purpose I mean.

I'd expect the competition for these companies to come in not from someone using the same technology, but a different technology that serves the same purpose. Eg. what happened to Kodak and Nokia.

For jet engines, the only thing that comes to mind is electric aircraft. No single-crystal turbine blades needed at all.

I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands.

EDIT: China has an extensive high-speed rail network. While those don't quite cover intercontinental flight, it is the sort of paradigm shift I mean.

Besides direct control, what could a dividend on the profits do what a well-proportioned corporate tax on profits cannot do? The state would only get dividends assuming it would not sell shares.

And the state can exert control much more fairly (ie. to all competitors as well) with regulation and laws.

Regulations and taxes are seen as 'un-american' I suppose, while giving stock to the government is not somehow?

Discussed also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108.

I'm using DeepSeek v4 Flash through OpenCode and OpenRouter, and works just fine. It's not the bottleneck, I am, for what I'm building. That involves understanding the problem I'm solving, checking correctness

Meanwhile, it's such a cheap model that I've spent not even $25 over 3 weeks.

Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db

According to Kimi, I'm a Dutch robotics engineer. Got that part actually right! Not so much for the rest, about First Lego League. But I did RoboCup, so close enough I guess.

The other models think I'm Dutch (I guess the 'van' gives that away?) and am a soccer/football player. I don't know anything about soccer though

It will be a spectacular crash if/when it crashes. But there is this old adage of 'the market can remain irrational much longer than you can stay solvent'.

I'm not holding my breath for this bubble.

10% of the US economy is IT

The US is the IT-supplier of the world. I don't know how large a % of that comes for outside the US. But with all the 'shenanigans' of the Trump regime and the trust the US has lost due to that, that should lead to losing IT business from the rest of the world.

In other words, If Europe would disavow using US IT, as would be the wise choice I think, then Europe might close the gap.

I just hope this is not just wishful thinking though.

How many people have homes that require chores to be done? Laundry, cleaning, setting/clearing tables, yard work, some consider cooking a chore.

If I could get an affordable robot to do a subset of them, I'm in the market for one.

If a few years it'll be old enough to drive a car. That'll help exploration!

If anyone wants to play, go to https://live-battlefield.ngrok.app/join/uag-fav-dzs and if there's a bunch of players I'll start a game sometime this evening (some 8 hours from now).

I had OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Flash create a quiz about the HN FAQ, so use that to earn bombs :-)

You will need to place some ships (or have them auto-placed) before the game can start.

Made a multi-player Battlefield game for my scout group: up to 6 players set up ships like in the classic Battefield game. But you can try to hit any of the other up to 5 enemies and each team can see who hit them.

And instead of turn-based, you have to hike to/visit a physical location, fill in a code you found there to get bombs for the game. Or do a quiz and get the answers right.

Great fun so far!

All laudable efforts, but I'd love for my Dutch govt to actually use these broadly. With the support behind it to file down those rough edges for the benefit of all.

All great, but I would love EU and (national, local, ...) governments in the EU simply use the open source stuff already available.

Often there is an 'you must open source, unless you explain why not' and then there is some faff about why they really need to be buying more stuff from Microsoft (which is more and more cloud stuff and thus under the CLOUD act etc.)

Time to get rid of the 'unless' bit.

I was thinking the same thing. Why not call into a dedicated math tool?

But I don't as well, and I have some intuition about numbers that I would probably not have if I always relied on calculators. Would the same sort of thing apply to LLMs? I'm probably anthropomorphising here...

- Claude fixed my Linux laptop install, with me just describing issues and pasting commands and output

- OpenCode one-shotted a basic implementation of the classic battlefield game, but with 6 players and visiting locations and doing assignments to earn bombs for the game. Over the last month, 'I' expanded it into something I could actually monetize I think.

- it's just productive at work

I see `mitxela`, I click. This guy has been making such absolutely beautiful, skillfull, stunning, technical stuff.

I'd argue that is this post does not go into the 'beautiful' category, but nice technical read nonetheless.

On X/Twitter, I'm sometimes seeing graphs comparing energy usage per capita in the US vs the EU and China, with the narrative that the US is 'better' in some way because the higher energy usage.

And then there is stuff like the above indeed, uselessly wasting energy while things could be so much more efficient.

12000 pieces over 200 days, means about 60 pieces per day. I'd say that is a reasonable about actually.

Why do people put up flowers? No skill (I think...?) involved in getting a bouquet and putting it a vase on a table. Or buying (not creating) art. Some people just like the look and it;'s hard to argue about taste.

If people have a Lego set on display, that is surely a conversation starter for me. Especially if it's a ginormous Minas Tirith or Sagrada Familia set, or an old Technic set.

Not for everyone I suppose.

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TIL what 'moquette' is, I thought I was going to see miniature tubes and trains and that the submitter made a typo.

Clicking a button could also not be a big deal, but yet here we are.

This whole cookie dickover concept is malicious compliance. The goal was: no tracking but ask consent if you must ("who would do this, that would be super annoying"). Except every website decided they'd rather annoy everyone.