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Makes the Pole of Inaccessibility easier to visit - win-win!

Why do they actually need to do it? They all allow web access from just about any browser. I haven’t tried but I’m sure there must be one where the web interface works from Emacs. …

SpaceX in a nutshell: simultaneously going to the moon and crashing.

Mmaybe- not sure. For technical applications like coding, perhaps. Though even there you have plenty of opinions about different models’ differences on subtle features, this model …

This only works up to a point. Plenty of different makers of phones for example all making fungible phones at ever lower prices, yet managing to eke out a profit. I can see a world…

I largely agree with this take. What gives me disquiet is that I thought more or less exactly this about Uber, and was proven comprehensively wrong. Despite burning money like a fu…

I didn’t make it clear but my question isn’t about cars specifically. Cars are clearly a part of it. I can’t find any handy data, but my understanding is that US and China certainl…

In fairness they’re not telling us to clean up the pool, but rather that swimming in shit is great and we should all make a nice big shitty swamp. Not much of a consolation but I w…

The world is in a weird prisoner’s dilemma right now. US, China, to some extent India, are pumping out CO2, and deriving a short term “co2” dividend of higher growth, unencumbered …

There’s plenty of second order effects. What would this do to the insurance or pension firms who hold this debt? The banks who hold this debt? Also a lot of this debt is possibly h…

It doesn't make me upset that China seems able and determined to catch up on the litography technology - what else are they supposed to do? What does make me upset is that Europe h…

I don't know about Ceuta, but it is true Belarus has been "importing" people and forcing them to storm the Polish border, in huge numbers. It is also true that many times the Polis…

Lots of IDEs claim to offer Vim/Emacs emulation. Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get (I'm only an occasional Vim user so don't have an opinion). The is…

I suppose for a non clickbaity use of a question in the title, the article should be about the question not the answer. I would think an article about the (so far inconclusive) sea…

Polar has an API where you can get more or less anything out. That bit is fine - sadly you can't put things in (like virtual cycling, or any activities not recorded on the Polar).

I read the post slightly differently. LLM code past a few pages is really unreadable. A workflow of LLM writes code, human reads/checks/corrects is IME very unproductive and frustr…

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if all the cash burned in Afghanistan and Iraq was instead used to combat global warming. As a plus, it would have likely left the…

I've noticed something else - as Anthropic models get even more and more superhuman, they seem to serve me more and more casual nonsense. Not like adding glue to pizza. Here's an e…

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It's $225 per bike so revenue of $135b. Moar valuation!

3d graphics is still mostly polygons, just much smaller? Anyway, I'd imagine the part that is an integral over the surface becomes a finite sum, the post doesn't say but it seems l…

It's worth adding that conventional wisdom says, you can't time the market. On average, people shifting between cash and stocks to time shocks lose out over just holding a fixed po…

You can add to this that the other parties running against Farage don't really have an upside. Reform is leading the polls somehow and he's quite likely to win - which would give h…

Perhaps it's going even faster, and one day will zoom through someone else's stellar system. And they'll rack their brains over what this weird misshaped metallic radioactive objec…

Don't know about other places, but in places I have worked that required sick note on day 1, you could get one via a phone/video doctor's appointment. You could argue that this is …