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huge irl laugh at “i don’t have 437 billion dollars”

this is no longer true as of a year ago. also “the author” is dan abramov lmao

this is sorta the Blumhouse model

i have but one mouth and don’t know what to do with it. i do think i’m going to stop using some of these AI tools for personal queries. it does feel like it would at least stave off the “o’brien’s mind containing winston’s mind” moment for at least a little bit

my employer (one of those huge contracts) dropped cursor in favor of claude and i don’t think this is true at all

while we had it i used cursor for probably eight months as my main ide (i did really like the interface for embedding code in prompts!) but had no problems switching to claude code. i asked around, and i truly don’t know a single coworker who misses cursor even a little bit.

lol statistically life is longer in 23 other states

that’s true, i was considering only the perspective of the major city i live in rather than networks with lower ratepayer densities where the economics are probably totally different

i do think “fully consumed or gated to never backfeed balcony solar at scale” is all i’m referring to, which i naively hope is a smaller regulatory change than backfeeding

i think it’s kind of the opposite: balcony solar is good for power companies in the same way that them asking you to turn off your lights is good for power companies: if each customer is using less overall power they can serve more customers with existing infra.

that obviously depends on time of use and the sun etc, but balcony solar in the USA can’t come fast enough. my electricity in NYC is almost $.40/kWh, a limited secondary source is still huge

it makes a lot of sense to me as someone who has casually researched as a way to make the load of an A/C vanish from the perspective of my utility, but i can’t see regulations catching up nationwide soon.

any real microinverters can detect the grid being down and shut off to prevent zapping people working on power lines, but the complexities of split-phase power (you can consume on one leg but backfeed on the other leg rather than consume what you generate, which is bad for billing etc) and risks of intra-circuit overload will all freak out americans.

we put outlets absolutely everywhere because of how scared we are of extension cords, there’s an education and “am i going to start an electrical file” consumer sentiment obstacle to widespread adoption in the US

i’m amused by Triangle New York

yeah, in the way that knives are “just metal”

you’re being so reductive you’ve made any discussion about it completely useless

you’re making their point, you just don’t know it yet

perhaps one important detail is that cassette tape guys and Lucasfilm aren’t/weren’t demanding a complete and total restructuring of the economy and society

i can’t believe i’m seeing an “yet you participate in society. curious!” reply in the wild

we both know there is an obvious difference between “using Ghost to share a hypertext article” tech and “the metaverse and palantir” Tech

the comment is 30 words long and refers to an eye condition that 1/3 of all people on earth have. will two other people ever look at your laptop lol

lmao you're coming in pretty hot, stephen. it is actually possible that from time to time you may encounter comments written on the internet that do not perfectly reference every aspect of your lived experience

i think the minivan analogy is flawed, and that AGI is moving from "bob driving a minivan" to "bob literally becoming the thing that is formula one"

study aside, pink noise is awful imo - it's perfect if you're calibrating a PA system and need specific power spectral density properties, but bad for my brain. if sleeping somewhere without a fan or whatever i use brown noise, it's closer to a lower rumbling.

mainstream opinion piece

my job here is done, but i’m here if you need any more help

these are exciting new goalposts you’ve decided on! i, too, think that any article that is different from how i would’ve written it is a listicle.

if you’ll indulge me, i’m excited to hear how you have “categorically” decided the author’s intentions

one nit: surely you, of all hacker news commenters, have the extraordinary media literacy to know that the journos themselves do not add the affiliate links or pocket the affiliate link search arbitrage

this article has 19 paragraphs of text in just the main article body, making three recommendations.

it’s pretty rich to both decry media literacy issues in sibling comments while completely elastically using the word “listicle”

yeah, in the same way we all revisit our studio ghibli family photos from time to time

endlessly amusing to see people attempt paradox of tolerance gotchas decade after decade after decade. did you mean to post this on slashdot

what are the revised priorities? what revised the priorities? maybe consider doing just the teensiest bit of journalism of your own

These things are now more important than ever

oh definitely. i agree here. can't wait to read the rest of the sentence, probably saying something meaningful about the creative benefits of unstructured writing, or the importance of relying on your own thoughts and language and unique voice in the era of LLMs

as they can literally help fine-tune agents to help assist you using your personal style.

oh

yes [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No

but if you are 'right' and out of business nobody will know. Is that any better than 'wrong' and still in business?

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon

which cultures? which public transportation? is it possible that what you assume is the problem is colored by your personal experience and not representative of members of a country at large?

Oh which continent?

what answer could i possibly give to you that would change your response? antarctica?

Is it possible that what you assume it's normal and default is colored by your personal experience and not representative of the world at large?

of course this is true. what are you going for here. my objection is to standing up a Train Security Panopticon with "modern AI" and locking commuters (in north america) on a train (in north america) who might depend on a schedule (using a north american time zone) stuck at a station until the (north american) cops can come and pull someone (who statistically, but not for sure, would be north american) off of the car for being drunk (off of beer i've had in my personal experience, coloring this example, which may not be the beer that is representative of the world at large) and napping on the seats

i will gently point out that new york state and new york city are not the same thing

Under that metric, the poverty threshold for a couple with two children in a rental household in New York City is now $47,190. The study found that 58 percent of New Yorkers, or more than 4.8 million people, were in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line — about $94,000 for a couple with two children or $44,000 for a single adult. Poverty rates among Black, Latino and Asian residents were about twice as high as the rate for white residents, according to the report.

[1] https://archive.is/ygvck#selection-773.0-773.490

this… can’t be a serious suggestion, can it? have you ever had to rely on public transit in a major city?