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This seems trivial: if you could add enough plants to your room to reduce CO2, we could easily do the same thing at planet-scale and global warming wouldn't be an issue.

The situation you're positing already basically exists with housing - who literally ask for proof of your income - and while housing goes up at unreasonable rates due to lack of co…

I suspect part of the reason this is playing well on this website is banning surveillance pricing is great for rich people. I don't have the time or inclination to coupon or aggres…

I worry about corner cases like rural towns with only one grocery store (although I suspect that those are already gouging people?) but that isn't San Francisco.

I would be mad if the syntax was constantly changing but I want the internal implementation to be moving as fast as possible while retaining success. I think that rate is higher th…

Python has so many footguns for server work and the world's worst typing system. It sounds like Golang is perfect for your use-case

More gets done in the Bay Area than those places.

GLM 5.2 (open-weights) is at or near Opus 4.7 level performance already. I think it's unlikely Anthropic will be able to durably charge us much more than the CapEx depreciation cos…

The scary thing is the zig project prohibits LLM contributions - the world is going to move faster than them.

I would guess the cost to do this with humans would be _at least_ $1.5M in compensation alone (I'm thinking three 500k/year Bay Area engineers) so this is already an order of magni…

> We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely. God forbid an engineer express uncertainty.

Not a compiler expert - shouldn't language verbosity and binary size be, at best, very loosely related?

Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.

It's pareto better, all else equal (which, fair, it may not be in this case) for a company to serve businesses from $1 and up than to only serve $5M and up.

The headline is implying that AI mode is super unpopular with the very large number "28" and not the more accurate number of .16.

... DDG had .7% marketshare ( https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share ). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .…

I meant the structural problem of the EU not having a tech industry (nor any similarly prominent 21st century industry). Yes, it would be better for America and for the EU if Ameri…

It is very true that if your company is a political vehicle, having the powers that be enforce that all companies must be political vehicles is quite good for you. America certainl…

I think this is more of a corporate metrics tracking than advertising. Decision makers aren't seeing these ads in commits but they certainly are seeing a report from Anthropic that…

I have a lot of issues with the Ive era and the Mac... but every iPhone he designed was a banger. I think the 12-14 era is the only era of iPhones I thought were bad and that was a…

The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the in…

You mean Chrome would have pushed it, Apple would have filibustered it by refusing to comment (via lack of investment in the WebKit team), and then gullible folks on the internet w…

Your point is taken but we've turned lead into gold: https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/

I'm sure he copied it from somewhere but this reminds me of Paolini's elves in Eragon singing (magicking) trees to their desired shape.

I feel like "find me the shirt from the Instagram post" (which is what's depicted in the ad) is a use case that most people will love .