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Indeed. At uni, starting in my second year, I worked as a programmer (no remote work, office at 1hr commute from uni dorm) on top of my studies. It was hard, but doable. My major w…

Yes, there are many misconceptions on "learning", but LLM can be useful. The approach that works for me is using Justin's skycak methods he mentions in his books: https://www.justi…

14 years ago, Cory Doctorow warned us about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI The modern societies run via those devices and the enforcement will move to the mostly…

Yes, there was investment, but investment without free markets and capitalism doesn't work usually for end products like cars. It's not a linear function of the capital invested, i…

It was the market that delivered BYD and Xiaomi. The government did his part with industrial policy and inviting Tesla to China to help start the ecosystem, but the brutal competit…

Cory Doctorow had a very profound talk about it very long time ago (10+years). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg As the internet become the place where people do a lot of…

There is also another benefit to books, on average they are much better than a random 3 hour podcast. If you care about what you read, you'd be getting something that the author ha…

I got this problem with my own employees, LLM are fine, but lazy slop is not permitted. Current idea is to have a clear "best practice" template for most of the research/specs/prob…

I have one IKEA Apstuga on my desk, sitting right next to a good CO2 monitor. Since Apstuga uses worse approach (heat) rather than light as the good sensors, it diviates around +/-…

thanks for this link, it's a great find!

Or may be they just need to produce more, because the demand is higher than expected and looks like it will stay high to recoup their investment?

It's strange how people search for cartels where the basic laws of supply and demand are at work. It seems to me, that such a simple concept should be better understood, especially…

the one on top didn't work for me, this one did: https://archive.is/oe6NR

Cory Doctorow had a very profound talk about it very long time ago (10+years). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg As the internet become the place where people do a lot of…

It works with relatively good scans, when there are bad/skewed scans and especially something with many label/value pairs, that aren't nicely tucked inside sentences, the more cont…

I did, and also it matches what I know from history on how the flag of AU has changed so it matched several facts I knew already. Also mentioned 2 of the producers of freezes and e…

I live in a house that is at least 110 years old, built around the time Australia became a federation. The house has been repainted and extended several times, but it still has 3.5…

It's a solved problem. VoIP plus leased trunk lines by the a telco in the market you want to work at. You are limited to fixed set of numbers and you are "local" in the market you …

https://3hcloud.com/pricing#Dedicated-servers Dedicated servers Looking for bare metal? See all available configurations here. and "here" is linked to https://3hcloud.com/contact/s…

Also they're mostly a VPS provider with some "dedicated servers" available after you talk to sales. Hetzner is great because you can build from dedicated servers your own infra and…

Thanks Liriel how stable are they and how is 3HCloud support?

There is a good paper about the effects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772... Basically if you're in a "rent controlled" unit, you benefit, but live in a…

All businesses run on a profit margin. It's a resource game, thinly veiled by the money layer as means of exchange. If you make the price of buying labor by decree, the owners of t…

The wizardry is not in knowing the law or the case law, especially in commercial law it's mostly selling their experience because the have seen it all before and if they're good th…