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I’ve no doubt they’re setting up memory-footprint auditing agents as we speak.

I dunno, a RAM expansion on my Commodore 64 Ultimate might let it open bigger documents in GEOS…

I was a kid at the time, so I only got as far as writing and modifying a few programs in MBASIC. Anyone that got anything nontrivial to work on those systems deserves much respect.…

CP/M - because pip just makes more sense than copy.

Yeah, 95% of the job is just telling people not to sell in the dips and buy at the peaks.

The Internet was hugely disruptive. The dot-com bubble burst and tech stocks flatlined for years afterward.

The difference is that there establishment space launch companies were basically monopolies using ancient technology and processes. That’s not true for commercial aviation, which i…

I wish them well but a startup building an airliner seems like an utterly impossible task.

From what I’ve read the only part of their business that is holding up is the 911 and particularly the high-end variants. It’s everything else that’s struggling.

The rate of success of side projects seems unrealistically high. Yeah, I know, it's the YC dream, but even acquisitions where the founders walk away with a few million dollars are …

You can make decent code with AI assistance. You can churn out 37kLOC per day. However, I’ve seen no evidence to suggest that you can do both.

Yes, there have been hot days across northern Europe before; however, the frequency of very hot weather has increased substantially. It may not have gotten the headlines of this ye…

> Many European countries have draconian laws about air conditioning that are killing people this summer Cite your sources. There are specific issues in specific places (eg heritag…

That sounds like an absolute nightmare to get approvals for.

The evening peak is well on its way to being a solved problem in Australia. https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-batteries-took-a-bite-out-of... And average prices in the Australian nat…

If a mega volcano explodes and blocks the sun, lack of electricity will be the least of the world’s problems.

You pay for it. There is - arguably a case for nuclear power in cold miserable places like Canada or Northern Europe because solar - by far the cheapest form of renewable energy, a…

It put the chart title directly on top of Australia. Which just about sums up my experience with using LLMs to code, really (though not with these state-of-the-art models, admitted…

You could do this, but on all present evidence you won’t get anything that anyone would volunteer to watch.

Agreed. There was already too much human generated slop in academia. And I’m not talking about good faith research that didn’t pan out, I mean research that is completely useless f…

Good. If it’s not worth your time to check the output of your LLM carefully, it’s not worth my time to read it.

I can assure you having observed the process of clothes shopping for the women in my life, that as far as they are concerned, clothes do not just “fit them”.

Alcatraz or whale watching? Sure. But Pier 39? I’d rather poke my eyeballs out with a stick. I can eat shitty fast food at home, thanks.

Good luck, but there’s a reason why subsistence farmers move to city slums as soon as they can.

Maybe I’m missing something, but there’s also the idea that you don’t need to be perfectly secure, you just need to be secure enough that it’s not worth the effort to break in. In …