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How much does OpenAI actually control the way the data centers are built and deployed? I don’t know much about the impact of their data centers compared to others, but there weren’…

You can use opencode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sst-dev....

Sorting and folding laundry is one of the most tedious chores in our household. Do you have kids?

Did you use AI to rewrite it?

A big reform passed in 2025: https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-developmen...

Since one of the major donors is Germany, I also like to consider this as reparations for WWII. I wish people in Poland would realize more how generous the EU has been to them.

Google’s training and running all their stuff on ASICs, seems to be working out well.

Perhaps, but then surely reading should be part of the curriculum at least by by grade 1 or 2 then? But if reading is part of the curriculum (which it generally is for K and certai…

If Kindergarten were just play based schooling then I’d agree with you. But there is an academic component, for example learning to read, and students abilities can be radically di…

calendly / cal.com solves this problem, just give them a link.

Also it makes a lot of difference where you are. Scandinavians rarely wear sunscreen but their UV index is much lower than, say, California, let alone Australia.

You could make multiple pools, having separate ones carved out for research and advanced technology. A lot of H1Bs are not working on anything you described though.

I think I muddled my point, I think with abundance we should offer childcare to people who have jobs. Even maybe some hours for those that don’t too.

If AI does actually lead to large economic gains but also high unemployment, then we should be able to invest most in social programs like this and let people make a good living pr…

He’s not vibe coding though

Sure, but not counting calories is even more imprecise. For many of us our built-in "calorimeters" are broken and we need to find other ways to limit intake. For example, restricti…

- More freeform -- just type what you ate (and add as much detail as you want) and it will log it, nothing more to select or search from after - You can log several dishes or meals…

This is great! Given demand, I would consider a kickstarter for upcoming batches!

The founder of parrotpal (another AI calorie tracking app, supporting both text and photos) points out that using photos is one of the least accurate ways for tracking food: https:…

How would you describe it instead? Curious and learning

Contact a rep at Google, they can probably reverse a good portion of the $8000 as a one-time thing.

When I've lived abroad everyone (Norway, Poland, Canada...) almost everyone also had lawns in the suburbs. This is not an American-only thing. Obviously the HOA resistance to anyth…

We pay sales tax on business inputs as well. But unlike European producers, that tax is not deductible from from the final VAT.