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Not really. The US has widely legalized gambling of various forms (sports, prediction markets, etc) in recent years. I'd argue that even more so than nicotine there is zero benefit…

I redid my home network this year largely to be able to get off of cloud-based cameras and properly VLAN untrusted devices.

The UK is not proposing disallowing 16-17 year olds (or any children) from carrying smart phones on public transit, though, which makes the entire article fall apart. The author le…

The article spends a long time conflating actual proposed policy in the UK with things that aren't being proposed and sound much worse. I did some googling, the UK's gone a bit fur…

How many people are arrested for social media posts and other speech in each country?

I’ll toss $10k in the s&p and you buy the rig and we’ll see who feels like they made a better call?

"Token salesman finds conclusive evidence that more tokens = more better"

We have decades upon decades of hardware getting dramatically cheaper year over year for the same performance, and ~1 year of the inverse due to dramatic buildout for AI. It's a su…

Anthropic's own models perform differently under the same version depending on how much they've decided to quietly downgrade them.

I've been using it for a week via opencode in a large, mature codebase for some moderately ambitious feature development, and a bit of debugging. Explicit purpose is evaluating if …

That's probably more precise.

> I honestly don't get the hostility against local models in this thread Consider that there are literally trillions of dollars being wagered on this not being the future state of …

I really think giving it a year for the hardware market to come back to earth and spending a fraction of that for API access to the same models is a better use of the money.

The open source models have gotten heavily conflated with local development. While that is cool and I'm excited about the future of local LLMs, it is not necessary to play around w…

> will likely be resale-able for what I paid for it for the next 7-10 years There is not a period in the history of computing where this is true of consumer hardware over a decade …

I think we should go one level higher and question when having opinions and being a multi-dimensional human became a professional risk. That has certainly not always been the case.…

Prices have gone down for the entire history of computing reliably with the past year being an extremely notable deviation from that trend line. I'm pretty sure prices are going do…

US standards are bad at considering everyone outside the vehicle in general. Headlights are another great example. I've seen videos of headlight designers bragging about how they c…

The times article goes very in depth on this. Yes, it is an issue, but it explains at most 10% of the increase in fatalities. Getting hit by any vehicle over 20mph is going to be a…

I can't speak to Australia, and yeah, western Europe has a lot less big trucks, but Canada has as many large 4x4 trucks as anywhere in the US in my experience and has seen decreasi…

Read the linked article (or even the quoted portion). Americans have a very different attitude of the acceptability of using those phones.

The problem is that other countries have seen nearly identical trends in vehicle market share trending towards larger vehicles and have seen sustained declines in pedestrian fatali…

The times article hand-waves away distracted driving by saying that other countries haven't seen a similarly large increase. The problem with that is that vehicle sizes in all othe…