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OK this sounds fantastic, but is it going to be another case of an expert dropping in on this thread and going "Ah, 100s of these come out every month. It's promising but nowhere n…

Yes and the human would say: "your photos are ass, it's impossible to price the necklaces"

I was always wondering about this as well. How much more manoeuvrable can an unmanned drone be given that it doesn't need to lug around life support systems and avoid any G forces …

The issue is that major US banks are systematically important to the US and also everyone else. Practically nobody cares about Icelandic banks - not even their depositors if their …

The issue is the conflict of interest in POTUS' office. A news agency giving high speed access to news ostensibly just reports news, doesn't make them. The office of the POTUS lite…

Inevitably yes, the question is whether the combined cyborg is still better than the original human. E.g. I'm sure we are generally less skilled in mental arithmetic since the adve…

> it should not be legal to redefine "buy" Your post made me go on a thought exercise: imagine a world where you could either own or lease software products. Game developers could …

You raise a good point, but where would we stop? Should movies depicting medieval events use medieval English? It was the lingo at the time after all.

Chuck Norris can play a game of Russian Roulette with a loaded semi-auto handgun and win. Repeatedly.

It's important to make a distinction between ownership and carry permits. Ownership permits allow you to own and store firearms in your home in a secure place, and take them (unloa…

There are plenty of countries aside the US where citizens can and do own guns. E.g. gun control is strict in most of Europe compared to the US, but it's entirely attainable to most…

The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions. This isn't even about a single person or personality. Very few peop…

Population density is literally measured over a planar metric: people/km^2 You are suggesting it's measured over a cube volume?

I wonder to what degree this is a "if you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail" type of thing. The first place might have a strong surgical team and might be inclined to solv…

It's really telling about the state of the UK economy that the highest earner's business doesn't make anything but literally drains money from the masses.

> It even uses Ruff's code under the surface. This is the modus operandi for a lot of vibe coded stuff. Absorb the code of entire projects wholesale and then repackage it as someth…

I wonder if there's also another aspect: Games have to be fun for humans and this involves a lot of trial and error with actual humans in the loop. You can't just spin up a bunch o…

Because that's the next generation's problem, and we can do more to mortgage their future for our own luxury :)

What? No that will not allow you to buy "most houses in London in cash after saving for 5 years" unless you live far out of town in a tiny place and eat plain rice for 5 years, and…

I think we are being got at, but I'll bite :D To be clear: my objection is not at all about enjoying the finer side of life, there's nothing wrong with that. Harrods and a lot of t…

You have to be joking, right? So you are saying that it's all fine, because we can just go to Harrods to get quality food? Nevermind that I hate Harrods and that entire area with a…

Don't be ridiculous. Learning? That's for the dinosaurs. Just throw an llm at the problem!

Living in London, I notice the same. Getting access to true quality produce is not even a question of money now, it's basically just impossible to get full stop. There are a few lo…

I understand what numexpr does, I don't understand why I'd use it. Polars is able to lazy evaluate query plans without any unnecessary intermediate allocations, if I want to do alg…

Nobody said that it's useless, that's a straw man. But it also isn't a free exchange of ideas. It's a concentration of capabilities in the hands of a few corporations.