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Roomba made some of the first robotic vacuum cleaners and they were based in the US. Nowadays, they are just more expensive and inferior to the Roborock ones though. But thanks to …

Yeah, I wasn't a great fan of the story - it felt like they put a lot of emphasis on Keanu Reeves given he's a big celebrity and helped promote the game. Hopefully, the sequel (whi…

The Oslo Report was crazy too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Report Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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It's one of the most annoying. I have a dishwasher so I do minimal washing up. I don't have a dryer as I air-dry my laundry but I could get one if I wanted to. I have a Roborock al…

Or we can use the free time to go to the gym. Anything that frees us from labour is good.

In Europe, I think it is more common tbh. Even in the UK my dad would let me try making cocktails etc. at the weekend when I was 17. It meant when I got to university I knew how mu…

You can also be a resident, paying plenty of taxes, yet not be a citizen.

It's not uncommon to see people (and young people) reading on public transport here in Spain. The odd thing is how popular actual paper books are vs. e-readers. Since I got my Kind…

The new Xbox CEO was on the guest list. But yeah, I agree it's a bit like a conspiracy theory.

He's referring to this list of invited guests: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/peter-...

They are talking about purchase plans like Klarna etc. and like people have for their iPhone. Because it's going to cost as much as an iPhone.

Yeah, there's lots of stuff in Steam that I never use and don't even understand. Like the Steam Points and the Trading Cards and Steam Level and so on. But the purchasing experienc…

It's good for emulation too and it'll run GTA6, so I'll get mine out of storage.

Yeah, they could have spent the money on founding new studios. With that sheer amount of money you could pretty much poach any talent you wanted too, but it wouldn't be as obviousl…

I lived there for around 6 months like 15 years ago so perhaps it's changed a lot since then. But even as an Englishman, it was very different to home. I remember the supermarket w…

I'm not American so I don't really care if it's Chinese or not. But at work I can only use the approved Enterprise Plans we have and we only have those with Anthropic and OpenAI.

It gives them a massive advantage because they can cut the cost per token by a lot and eat Anthropic's market share. In what universe is any company going to give that advantage aw…

My company has a Claude Code and Codex one and I use Claude Code because I am more familiar with it. That said, I just use Opus for planning and Sonnet for implementation and it's …

Thanks! I don't tend to use the GitHub discussion very much (just commenting on a few Issues) so I didn't know! The Talkyard example is interesting - how does it differ to the algo…

The troubles over copyright infringement in AI training data remind me a bit of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. There he suffered massive patent infringement, that basically stoppe…

Ignoring the bizarre inclusion of training compute for the AI company estimates, the other comparisons are still valid. > The rest of the software market trails. The top 1% of comp…

I wonder if a hybrid might work well - a Reddit/HN style system for comments, but a simple forum style method of post ranking by last activity. So if you make a comment on a post, …

How much time and money has this ban wasted? Policemen out arresting harmless old ladies with placards like they've nothing better to do.

People wouldn’t be willing to pay those prices for food, so they’d just end up importing it all. You could force people to accept the low wages by removing all welfare but that has…