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You misunderstand - the government issued a directive to Anthropic that effectively forced them to pull access from everyone, even their own employees.

High income earners already subsidize the program. But more importantly, why would you target high income earners instead of targeting the wealthy?

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Does a pocket calculator not understand arithmetic? What part of a fourth grader's understanding is missing?

If Windows isn't the gold standard having 70% of the market, then what is? Azure is in second place not by far after AWS. And these are huge, HUGE markets. I wouldn't say your loca…

My elderly uncle is completely addicted to these. We can barely complete a conversation without him getting bored and pulling out his phone to watch these nonsense videos. I don't …

You're comparing the wrong numbers. The question is what 1% of the purchase price does to the amount you need for your down payment and fees. On a 10% down payment an extra 1% incr…

I tried out Gemini in Google Sheets the other day. I asked a pretty simple question and the agent ran for like two minutes trying to answer it until I stopped it. I can't imagine t…

Things besides writing code that you might be doing: - Meetings - Code reviews - Manual testing - Deployments and more testing - Triaging issues - WTF how did this bug happen? - JI…

Have you ever encountered the very common real life situation where there's some software that works, and you have a binary for it but you either don't have the source code or it d…

The simulacrum of a thing is a simulacrum of the thing though. LLMs are trained to simulate human thinking, and while their thought process is not the same, you can't say for sure …

Why would you want to live in a free-standing house instead of a nice apartment given the choice? There are pros and cons sure, but unless you can hire someone to do all the house …

The day I picked up the first iPhone I was carrying a Blackberry, a flip phone and an mp3 player. Really interested to hear what you're thinking of that was an equivalent product.

When I was a kid everyone knew that JanSport was the one to get if you actually wanted your bag to survive. Absolutely one of those things where you'd spend more replacing the chea…

You wouldn't want to live there because it's too safe?

The last time I was on jury duty in New York, any time someone tried any of these, the judge just reassigned the person to the jury pool for civil cases which, he claimed, are usua…

Without getting involved in the flame war, SNW and SFA are good shows. Strange New Worlds is the closest to one of the classic shows out of the new ones, though it has some quality…

Many homes have a bunch of lights with their own switches, like lamps. Also there are rooms with multiple entrances, like a living room with a bedroom on the other side from the fr…

https://hobbybot.net I'm trying to see how far I can get using AI to help me track pre-owned items for sale, starting with watches. I started with an OpenClaw agent that was lookin…

With the exception of a few brands that have the artificial scarcity that PG wrote about here, pre-owned watches have the same kind of value decline that pre-owned cars do. If you …

In America, the military isn't supposed to be in charge. They fought a revolution about it.

I think it's made for those people as well as people who want a hackable customizable wearable.

I pre-ordered a round one which is going to be my third Pebble and I'm excited for it, but there is some really good competition nowadays. Casio makes a watch with similar display …

It's absolutely wild to see how unevenly distributed the future we're living in is.