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In the past 18 months I've seen experienced developers turn out incredible work using llm-assisted tools, over and over again. With the right harnesses, processes and result-orient…

How do you define "Western people"?

It triggers me that there's an obvious typo in 'Oxford' right under the author's name. I wonder if it was originally published like that since 1997 and never caught or changed with…

Geretsried (the town) apparently sits in an ideal location for geothermal power and heat plants, in the same basin as Munich and other surrounding municipalities who have been leve…

I'm not OP, just explaining how public and private investments are sometimes linked.

Some projects are a mix of private and public investments. A freeze on the public portion affects the risk/trade-offs of the private investment portion and therefore on the overall…

Every human being is born with zero ability for self-preservation...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Victor

What about the 4 examples of other electric semis shared at the end of the original thread? https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1600970796159336449

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro... 2-3x more energy efficient + the same performance (if not better) than other (Intel) chips ~2 times more expensive. …

I think it's only a matter of time until the US and Germany stop buying gas from Russia. It's going to cause a lot of pain, especially for us in Germany where nearly a third of gas…

Uh, Germany locked down pretty hard, several times. "Good" organisation and mass testing came later. Source: my last two years with three kids at home

The other points are fine, but a 3 or 4-year old does not understand nuance or personal responsibility. I think that in general German society encourages a strong sense of personal…

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/31872/people-with-migra... A few examples as well as general recent trends but also the challenges immigrant founders are facing.

Do you have a source for this?

> None of those deaths were linked back to the Capital building in a meaningful way (including the officer). That is simply false. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safet…

How does the Matrix experience compare to Signal, feature-wise? I ran into similar frustrations with Signal's lack of polish in certain areas when trying to move family over. There…

The EU messed up but they are at least publicly owning up to some of the blame (finally): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/ursula-von-der...

> eg, having a custom one-touch screen lock button that's always present Do you know that clicking the TouchID button will lock your screen?

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944230517/supreme-court-rejec...

Their thinking is pretty much all laid out in the 2015 Zuckerberg memo on VR/AR: https://twitter.com/lucasmtny/status/1095861887588229120?s=2...

How does one disable the signature validation?

My 99 year old grandma says that the greatest invention in her lifetime was the washing machine, freeing up an incredible number of labor and hours wasted every week in every house…

I do think it's a level above the competition, thanks to their multi-year head start on the hardware-software integration (a la Apple) and their focus on VR comfort/quality. A year…

I haven't tried the Pico but the Vive Focus is not anywhere close to the experience of the Quest, especially when it comes to tracking. The Quest stands out because the tracking is…