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Using your analogy, imagine it's the year 2026. Two armies are fighting. One uses letter to communicate. One uses phones. Which army do you want to fight in? This is an obviously p…

I cycle 60 mins per day along the tow path in London on my Brompton, put it under my desk in the office, and then get the train back in the evening. No issues handling that distanc…

If you don’t understand then you should invest some time learning microeconomics, marketing, and moats. Principles from (at least) those 3 areas are involved here. To give 3 exampl…

There's the Tony Hoare Room [1] in the Robert Hooke Building. We held our Reinforcement Learning reading group there. [1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jennifer.watson/tonyhoare.h…

Seems like the role of the human operator in the age of AI is to be the entity they can throw in jail if the machine fails (e.g. driver, pilot)

"No, I am not a horse." Horse rumours denied.

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I’d suggest reading about competitive moats and where they come from. The ability to replicate another’s software does not destroy their moat.

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Anyone else think “vibe coding” is a poor choice of name. Too ambiguous. Friend of mine suggested “apping”. I ‘apped’ this in 2 hours vs I ‘vibe coded’ this in 2 hours.

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Bill Gates also lost money on greenhouses [0][1] [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/bill-gates-green-tech-fun... [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/iron-ox-lays-off-50-amoun…

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That's a nice idea. Thanks for sharing. I have a single sheet per account (current accounts, share accounts etc). I download csvs and append to the relevant sheet - usually once pe…

Has anyone else gone on the following journey: 1. Use excel 2. See ledger/hledger. Think this must be 'the way'. Go all in. 3. Constantly wrestle with ledger/hledger because you on…

AI-generated content marketing has finally got to the front page of HN

The answer my friend, is rovin’ in the wind

Skin in the game for evangelists

Did anyone else check each item manually one-by-one to ensure that the system was accurate?

Investigative journalism report into Boeing by Al Jazeera in 2014: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2014/7/20/t...