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None of these things are free my friend. They probably represent tens of billions of dollars in development over years, decades in some cases. You are missing the point entirely. L…

> "your first hit is free" like your crack dealer's marketing Oh, please. Don't use it then. Simple. Sign of entitlement: You get something of value for free, bitch about limitatio…

> I agree, in most parts of the US we do not currently have the political will. This isn't about political will. Politicians are whores, it doesn't matter what side, they respond t…

It's one thing to be a free user...quite another to be an entitled free user. This is precisely why I do not offer anything for free. I've been there and done it back in the iPhone…

I drive track days with some frequency. When I am on the road I have to turn my brain down to slow and just let it happen. To be fair, you can't expect grandma to drive at a high l…

> Yeah, all the people who refuse to ride busses It's not that people refuse to ride busses. In most places in the US this is either a non-existent or extremely impractical option.…

I don't necessarily disagree with you. I think single person AV pods would be amazing and is likely one version of the future. However, this kind of change takes time, a lot of tim…

>> Oh, yes, and I want to ride a Joby multicopter hailed using Uber to go to the major airports from local verti-ports. > And you think I live in fantasy land. Yes, you do. https:/…

> Moving the same number of people with fewer passengers per car increases traffic. The overwhelming majority --overwhelming-- of cars, SUV's and trucks on the road have exactly on…

> The most recent being when we built all these urban highways. What? Clarify please, because if you are going back to the 1950's/60's/70's you are talking about a very different c…

Even better. I didn't remember. It's a suppressed memory!

> America, the place where they will try anything except for building good public transportation, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods. This isn't a movie. It's real life. In the mo…

> How do self-driving cars reduce congestion? At what scale? As a non-trivial percentage of road traffic they can reduce congestion in a million different way. For example, predict…

Simple: None of us have a crystal ball. Trying to predict the future is foolish. I am not saying that what we are seeing might not be problematic. I am only saying that nobody real…

I remember when Amazon was going to go broke every year for over a decade. Until they didn't.

Well, it's interesting. I've been using LLM's for coding for over two years. My findings are somewhat consistent: Feed it jobs in small chunks and it can be a great auto-complete, …

I read somewhere that Claude is better at UI than Codex. I haven't tested it yet. I am currently using Codex for a couple of native application projects with Avalonia. The UI isn't…

> I had something like 40 “proof of concept” projects going on Right. That's the problem. In the non-coding world it's the idea that your pile of crap expands into the available sp…

This is not political or even about Trump. I manufacture products. I have been in manufacturing for decades. These are products with electronics, mechanical assemblies, software, e…

> US unemployment has been about 5% Anyone who has studied and actually used statistics beyond toy exercises understands how these single variable statements are 100% misplaced. I …

It isn't. The "didn't want to pay for American labour" idea is a false reality. Nobody makes decisions like that. This is preposterous. Business decisions are made against the comp…

> The companies shifted production abroad because they didn't want to pay for US labor. That's not true. Reality is far more nuanced than that. Sadly, it is the equivalent of a bun…

A few months ago I had a conversation with a friend who runs a small company doing about $10M/year. He was thrilled about being able to drop his $40K/year Salesforce expense. One o…

> On top of that, your laptop becomes a loud hot churning machine, it's uncomfortable to work with. Laptop? OK, I've made that mistake before. I understand modern laptops are power…

I would love to be able to have a conversation with the people who decided Liquid Glass was a good idea. The first question would be: Given all other truly useful things you could …