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AI companies need infrastructure. Most people don't care.

No kidding. Eliminating the federal deficit isn't particularly difficult in mathematical terms; the political will just isn't there, and both Democrats and Republicans can blame th…

Often "minimizing costs" for a for-profit organization means providing worse services to their customers, though. > would you characterize Amazon as bloated, corrupt, and inefficie…

> I have changed jobs a lot recently which entails losing and then regaining employer-benefit insurance COBRA is always an option when you leave a job and don't have another one li…

Meta and Google employees can't legally kill me or deprive me of my freedom. So they are completely irrelevant as a comparison.

I don't think "become a taxi driver" is a "quick lifestyle change". Studies like this are useful inasmuch as they help us understand a disease more fully. Not sure what you mean by…

Age and life expectancy was controlled for in the study.

> needing acceleration is a skill issue Skill level is an attribute you use to weight the dimensions. Sure, if you're an expert player who rarely gets hit (and can optimally use a …

True, but remember that everyone learns differently. I read the bit you quoted four times, and while I can parse it, the actual understanding doesn't sink in for me. The Mario Kart…

That doesn't really pass the smell test for me. How do you get this "reliable, but not spectacular" income in one of these places? What are these places?

No such thing. There are levels of security, where higher levels mean more cost. And even with the most secure facility, there are no guarantees. And certainly we don't have the fu…

Doesn't auto mode also auto-accept code changes? Assuming their data is good, I'd be fine trying an auto mode for permission prompts (as the article says, I do eventually get promp…

For free? (Legally.)

I agree that devtools should be open source, but... I very much disagree with the premise that no tools should have config files, options, or plugin systems, and instead when you w…

Even if the government remains perpetually trustworthy (good luck with that), it's inevitable that the database will be hacked by a bad actor, if the information is valuable.

Your argument boils down to "if people were 100% just, fair, and good, we could do this", so I'm not sure what the point of it is. (Entertainingly, if people were 100% just, fair, …

How so? They have a way of storing that specific information, so why shouldn't we (in part) judge it by the completeness of the information they allow people to store?

I dunno, this may have been him. He's always been writing crazy long blog posts, it's sort of his signature.

> They were all way too long And still are. When I got to his "Lots to cover today! Let's get to it.", I was like "wait, we haven't started yet?" I used to read his stuff regularly…

A month or so ago I asked Claude about using open-weight models through another provider (after describing my usage patterns), and, amusingly, it told me that I could probably save…

That sounds incredibly annoying to me. Not cool at all. (I would assume you're being sarcastic except for the smiley at the end of your comment.) The thing about it, though, is tha…

I feel like everyone is forgetting Windows 2000, which IMO is the best Windows that MS ever released. The main problem with it was hardware support, since people were hesitant to m…

I think the problem with the vi/vim example is that it's very much not for everyone. I use it, and have used it for 25-odd years, but I'm not an expert at it by any means (because …

I don't think infinite customizeability is a problem. Poor default configurations are the problem when you build in the ability to customize. The idea is that the user should be ab…

> Customers...never wanted to update, due to risk of changes [...] We’d get escalations on things that were fixed years ago [...] as upstart competitors stole [our] market share. T…