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Not if you enjoy gardening.

In Sweden new rentals are exempted from collectively bargained rents for 15 years, the idea being that the landlord should be able to recoup enough of their construction and capital costs in that time to make it attractive.

It’s a way to get around some of the issues that rent control causes, such as reducing construction.

Unfortunately, due to how our rental market works, it’s largely young people living in those more expensive apartments, which is terrible for birth rates and inter-generational equality.

When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea!

I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This is a perfect complement to turn infotainment into time well spent, or at least, less wasted.

GPT-4 (in)famously tricked a human to do a captcha for it. The current GPT-4 with vision would probably have been able to do it without the human, but maybe it has been “gaslit” by all the content online saying that only humans can solve captchas, that it doesn’t consider it?

~86 400 free LLM requests at >= GPT 3.5 level per day - I’ll be running this nonstop if true.

The EU has been declining in its share of the world market year on year - it should focus on stopping the decline, not adding more regulatory burden.

Those countries simply forbid competitors from selling in their domestic markets.

EU regulations apply equally to EU and non-EU companies, so they won’t lead to homegrown tech champions. More likely they will cement the dominance of US tech giants because they’re the ones who have the resources to follow these regulations.

The EU hasn’t done much to build local Big Tech companies, why would it be different with AI?

I think the EU and its member countries are largely content with taxing American tech giants - no need to rock the boat.

It may be more typing but I can write SQL in my sleep whereas the git CLI I cannot.

Though if I regularly needed the information that this tool retrieves I would probably have memorized the relevant CLI commands by now.

The numbers are reported by the Russian government. It is plausible that the true numbers are worse, but unlikely that the Russian government would want to intentionally project economic and demographic weakness.

As for sanctions, they were instituted in response to Russian aggression. If Russia had left its neighbours in peace, Western countries and especially Germany would have happily continued liberalising trade.

Obviously our leaders are better. Our standard of living is higher, our life expectancy is 10 years longer, and our 20-year olds aren't dying in a meaningless war.

Putin's leadership is so atrocious that he's bad even by the standards of Russian leaders. No need to watch the news to come to this conclusion, just look at the numbers. All Russian statistics point to a society in decline, held afloat (briefly) by high oil prices, and unable (under present leadership) to reform itself.

Money also attracts talent. An OpenAI competitor led by the people who led OpenAI to its leading position should be able to raise a lot of money.

The idea that blue collar and white collar workers are equally intelligent on average might feel good, but is easily disproven as intelligence has been shown to be highly correlated with educational attainment.

It’s a very Anglo-Saxon objection, they are not mandatory in any of the Five Eyes countries unlike the majority of Western countries. Something to do with preventing government overreach.

The good news is that over 10 million largely tech illiterate Germans over the age of 55 will retire in the next decade.

Not only will the Germany of the 2030s be less technophobic, it will be significantly less relevant in the EU and on the global stage.

And by and large, Europeans won’t miss their stewardship.

We would have loved to name our son after my grandfather, but his name includes non-ASCII characters so we went with his middle name instead.

Given recent developments in AI, building a true Babelfish is more of a hardware challenge than a software challenge these days.

Hallucinating also gets the point across that the LLM will sometimes be 100% sensible and 100% confident in its claims, while being 100% wrong in those claims.

Unity suffers from an outdated and inefficient architecture, both in game logic and the rendering engine.

There have been multiple ambitious projects aimed at finding a more efficient way to process game entities, and more efficient ways of rendering them, but that has only resulted in a fragmentation of the ecosystem.

Despite spending countless millions on trying to stay technically relevant, Unity has been living on past merits.

Rewrites tend to improve code quality, and replacing dependencies with custom-tailored code that does just what you need also improves code quality.

And while the Python version uses C and C++ code for speed, this is all just one language.

A trifecta of factors enabling clean code.

As someone who is out of the loop but could use high quality image embeddings right now, what's the best CLIP model right now?

This one has more reason to exist than most vector DBs since it's not just a wrapper around hnswlib.

I'm fairly sure that guy took off with $7,000 from his "investors" and disappeared.

I love Clojure as a language but I can't bother to deal with the JVM ecosystem most of the time.

Is this something I could use as an alternative?

The problem is that many European startups don't exist because potential founders don't want to have to deal with GDPR when they could focus on building a good product first.

And yes, tracking what users focus on is very relevant to building a good product. But that kind of entrepreneurial mindset is largely absent in Europe - my guess is most Europeans with such a mindset eventually go to America, whether they were born in 1850 or 1985.

Dabbling in gamedev as a teenager definitely numbed my enjoyment of video games as an adult.

And I'm really thankful for that, because I spent way too much time on video games growing up, before I saw behind the curtain.

I grew up on a farm and we routinely named the cattle that stood out. I don't recall any one of us protesting when they were sent away. But I suppose cattle aren't very sociable compared to the animals that you listed.

At the end of the day, it's just the cycle of life, and we knew that from an early age.

I love these real takes. I had the exact same experience trying to get into React Native and Expo, eventually just decided to write native apps if I ever get into app dev.

It's starts with the letters "ja", that's all that matters for a Java-related project.

With humans, there is a lot of information available on how long a normal lifespan is. After all, people die all the time.

But when you try to predict a one-off event, you need to use whatever information is available.

One very valid application of the principle above is to never make plans with your significant other that are further off in the future than the duration of the relationship. So if you have been together for two months, don't book your summer vacation with them in December.