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I assume parent commenter is talking about this: https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude . But it can hardly be consider as access to a GPT-4 prompt, can it?

Maybe at highway speed. At city speeds I am constantly taken by surprise by electric cars that come from behind while I'm cycling (in the Netherlands, for context, where I'd estima…

In most places, including the UK, there's a legal principle called adverse possession ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession ), where anyone can take possession of a pr…

I'm currently residing in Central Europe and 42C are scheduled on Saturday. I think it's a new record for the town. But other than about 2 weeks of heat wave per summer, the rest o…

.ml, .tk, .ga. All free. (With a catch, I remember some reporting their TLD getting taken over once they crossed a certain traffic treshold).

Is there any other country that has a non-English ISO name? LE. There are a few, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao etc. But those names have been used in practice much more frequently…

What EEG device were you using? Is it the OpenBCI Cyton, by any chance? I'm currently working with a similar ADS1299-based device, but I've still got a lot of work to do on it.

I just realized we're less than 1 year away from reaching 8 billion people on Earth. A bit scary.

Since there are people who end their own lives early, i.e. suicides, that position is clearly not unique. But I think it boils down to where you are in life. No-one would like endl…

Not necessarily, maybe there's a strategy that returns 1 extra percent per year compared to just holding the ETF long term. Not quite enough to make a day and night difference, but…

No, you should not. Chances of it working out are probably slim. You probably don't need funding, as many solo founders can attest. Hiring should be done once the business is alrea…

People have built solar bikes, as in regular ebikes with 2-300w panels attached that power the motor. That's more impressive if you ask me. Other than that, lots of people (myself …

> 1000^n is definitely more human friendly. It may be more human friendly, but 1024^n is more programmer friendly, especially at the low level.

Advice? Try to find the reason behind this feeling, this "exhaustion", or why working is "consuming" you, because this doesn't lead to a sustainable way of living. Chances are when…

I know quite a few low profile streamers on twitch that are barely scraping a living (i.e. ~$1k a month), with average viewership at ~1-200 in niche topics (Geoguessr for instance)…

> tax progression will be removed, so that people will have a chance of levelling up Progressive taxation has the exact opposite function to what you're suggesting. It's a mechanis…

I was looking for more practical tips and challenges related to alternative housing but most of the article is about the author's love life. So the title is a bit misleading IMO. F…

> While Uber and Lyft make their money for Wall Street and Silicon Valley investors, we will be a co-operative. So any profits will go back to the drivers. Can't they set it up as …

> Anyway, people think I'm 'privileged' now because I earn a lot of money Any they are right thinking that,aren't they? That kind of money and wealth gives you a huge safety blanke…

Could you be more specific? Ted who?

In other words, it's a gamble. And it has terrible effects on the public image of the company if you ask me. If I was a stockholder, that would make me question the long-term stabi…

My understanding is that the ETH and other algorithms designed to be run on GPUs have big memory and memory bandwidth requirements, which is what makes it more difficult (or less c…

Hmm, interesting. I kept most of my old laptops and only 1 out of about 10 has failed; A Toshiba Tecra S1 from early 2000s. The GPU chip on that one failed and it would have been t…