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The Fed just had an article on the labor force participation rate drops: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/aug/what-is-b...

I think that is slightly blunted by this person looking at the week over week delta.

Probably because we have little to no way to punish those companies. We can't even stop DJI from shipping their drones under other brands to get around the ban.

> To your argument of (paraphrase here) 'it is good enough why innovate'. That's not my argument, you are putting words in my mouth. My argument is "you better have a good reason t…

I use STT/TTS to interface with a local LLM for Home Assistant in my house.

> Aviation is in a massive rut and needs bold new designs and innovation. Why does it need bold new design and innovation? More people (can afford to) fly every year, more safely, …

Why wouldn’t they only care about seamless ship flights, to get some value out of the launches, while they’re still learning and figuring out how to light booster?

No, it made me laugh.

> I've been working on a similar concept based on the Escape Velocity series and love the space trader genre in general. I miss EV so much. I've always wondered if an MMO version o…

> No, it doesn't seem very creative to me. You don't think exploring a problem/possibility space (heh) that is probably unobtainable is an effort in creativity?

> Like, the people who tend (no offense) to be the most literal, black and white thinkers get exposed to art and instead of processing it as the output of human creativity, they st…

> You're not entirely wrong, but the root issue is artists not charging the market clearing price for tickets. Because there is value for the artist in maintaining the perception o…

I'm still thinking through this and you seem to have strong opinions. What do you think of speed limits for cars and e-bikes?

No RCS and iMessage via bridge (which effectively means no iMessage via phone number and a number of privacy concerns) makes the communication part an issue, but the rest looks nic…

Neither of those are dumbphones and neither resolve 90% of the problems I mentioned. I wasn't trying to get away from walled gardens or chase additional privacy, I was trying to ge…

I am a similar age to Geohot and I have tried to escape smartphones to a dumb phone. It didn’t work. So many things that used to work without a smartphone don’t anymore and people …

> The computer I'm writing this on has 64 GB of RAM, 1024 times as much. By comparison I have a 20-core Intel CPU with up-to 3GHz speed or somewhere around there, even pretending e…

From the repo you linked: > This repo is available under the MIT expat license, except for the ee directory (which has its license here) if applicable. > Need absolutely 100% FOSS?…

More recent Claude models tend to do these new longer lists. I think they've trained it on more varied sentence structures to give it a less monotonous feeling when reading, which …

Sure, LLMs learned them from somewhere, but when you use it a lot you see that it has very specific, very repetitive writing patterns. This article makes little effort to adapt the…

> Hesiod felt it. Plato theorized it. Polybius mechanized it. Sallust prosecuted it (while guilty). Ibn Khaldun put it on a timer. Five civilizations, twenty-one centuries, one dia…

It absolutely was written with Claude. There are so many Claude-isms in the second half that it was hard for me to digest, despite enjoying the ideas.

I think they should have moved Halo onto it instead of Unreal.

I like Scott Miller but he doesn't work there and "insider" information after layoffs is almost always part of a PR game by one side or the other. Again, not saying he is wrong, ju…

People will tell you they do not want endless sequels. Sales numbers will mostly disagree with them.