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I offer a nine fives colo.

I wear leggings that have elastic pockets down the sides for my phone. Perfectly comfy. Not sure what the men's equivalent would be.

This is especially bad in Northern Virginia, where there is a $4 toll road that saves 20 minutes pretty reliably, and also variable priced express lanes that will save time, but ca…

I live in Wānaka, a ski town about an hour from Queenstown, and locals aren't the happiest with the growth here. Peter Thiel was actually blocked from building a house on lake Wāna…

Coming from the state of Virginia, I might say that they're a perfectly standard way to govern.

Right after graduation, I worked at a large company that had Data Stewards whose job it was to enforce standardized schema registration for all company datasets following the stand…

> comparable if not better transit Yes, but Australian, (and Canadian, and New Zealand) cities are all in the same range as many similarly sized American cities. Maybe Auckland has…

In the countries that are closest to America's peers (Canada, Australia, NZ), the public transit is also lacking outside of a few dense cities.

I moved to New Zealand from the US recently, and the tech industry here is mostly on .NET and Azure. My coworkers keep looking at me like I'm a moron because I've always deployed t…

Scott Alexander is a follower of Yudkowski and comes out of that general LessWrong space. This is the plural they, not the singular they.

I think I'm going through the same experience with my home country (USA). It has all kinds of issues that have been discussed at length, and I thought when I left I might be leavin…

I've found Claude Code absolutely amazing for the sorts of 100-500 line data cleaning/analysis/visualization tasks that used to take me a couple hours to knock out. They're often s…

Yeah, that was the main attraction of a mac for me. It Just Works, but enough stuff is packaged for it that it can drive like a linux box for a lot of coding tasks. I'm not going b…

I dunno. They've been saying this for decades, including in a very well read Harry Potter fanfic, and I'd always dismissed them as kooks, but maybe they're right in the end.

I'm on the verge of swapping my macbook for a framework laptop. I never really bought into the whole apple ecosystem (I've got a pixel phone), and I find myself using the mac as a …

The author of that post is a prominent Bay Area "rationalist," who have had a quasi-theistic relationship with the concept of all-powerful AIs for a couple decades now.

A $20 coffee gift card. Not really worth putting effort into, but if I'd been in charge of the contest I simply wouldn't have awarded the prize, let alone decided to award 3 of the…

My workplace did a sweepstakes for the world cup and there were bonus prizes for decorating your desk. All three winners had simply uploaded photos of their desks to an AI image ge…

What are you referring to with "such degrees?" Just the name of the credential would be enough. The closest stuff I can think of is a JD or an MD, but otherwise there's no common g…

I thought Google was a mess until I started working at a Microsoft shop for the first time. Boy it's astonishing. I've got two versions of Outlook on my computer, neither of which …

I went to Australia recently, which is famous for requiring age verification on websites. When I first landed, Discord blocked a few channels I was in, but within a couple hours it…

I've never had to do a selfie or a passport for Reddit or Discord, including in the US and Australia.

Are there professional degrees like that for, say, mathematics or physics? An aside, the Actuarial profession's fellowship credentials (FSA/FCAS) are considered to be roughly equiv…

I didn't use generative AI much until a couple months ago. My last employer had a copilot license that I dabbled in in 2024, and wasn't impressed with, and then I spent the latter …

There's a specific singularity theory of AI that is very popular. Eliezer Yudkowsky helped popularize it among the Bay Area "rationalist" community, and it has this idea that AGI n…