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Seems reasonable and closer to American averages than I would have expected.

Yes, well over a hundred iirc that the US can requisition on day one of a conflict. America still leads here. Worth noting that, outside of WW2, the US has never really had a large…

Good article but, like a lot of stategic studies pieces, grossly underestimates what the American industrial base is capable of. 1. The US is second in the world, behind Ukraine, i…

Bought a TI dev board with c7x and c66 dsp cores. Have it doing PEQ and FIR room correction, along with tube amplifier emulation. Will be trying to implement a virtual bass array n…

> Maybe slightly higher. …

They’re just about dead even. Maybe slightly higher. Not unreasonably higher. Inflation is a pain in the rear.

A Big Mac meal in the states (fried and drink) cost 2.99 USD in 1990. It now costs around 8.50 USD. The inflation adjusted value of 2.99 USD in 1990 is about 7.88 USD. Did the pric…

This. It’s ugly. All of talk about the technical merits or demerits misses the point. I can spout of a dozen or more memorized IPv4 addresses. IPv6? Good luck.

It's a very US-centric perspective to assume that density = cities. Almost every town in the US, at one point, was dense enough to support a vibrant main street. Many (most?) of th…

My source -> https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/003/033/089/164...

> which can still be far less dense than urbanists really want. And this was my comparison?

The Swiss public transport system is a century-plus old at this point. Compare pictures of the Zurich tram system in the early 20th century with today - squint your eyes and you wo…

East coast cities were built before modern building codes. Something that, for some reason, people in the states don't want to accept is that - when given the choice - the vast maj…

The same way people in every other country do it (rental vans) Rail Road isn't an either or issue. It wasn't in 1850 and it isn't today. The only difference, at least in the US, is…

Or just rapidly spinning up something. Codex -> LiteLLM -> VLLM |____> MCP Takes a couple of minutes to setup.

Completely agree. I don’t see why people view this as an either or decision. Also worth mentioning that some paid MCP providers offer an actual value added. Sure, I can use curl or…

> Do you want issues of Nature and cell to be replication studies? As a reader even from within the field, im not interested in browsing through negative studies. Actually, yes, I …

Langstrasse is as close to a red-light district as you'll find in Zurich. It's gotten a lot better over the last couple of years, but stating that you were offered drugs there is l…

"waiting at a bus stop in Langstrasse" -> what were you expecting?

Shortage -> Glut

Contrarian here. I've fell in love with Firefox's AI Chatbox sidebar. It's extremely helpful to have Gemini immediately available to help with translating and summarizing text.

Reintroduction of phonics has been pushed - hard - by academia.

> Construction in the USA is driven by capitalism. From my own observations, a big part of why we build less in recent times is the real estate market crash in 2008. We're still fe…

> We have too much space relative to our population If you're arguing that there's an abundance of space, this is true in many countries (and was certainly true prior to the Federa…

MB provided a cash infusion during the GFC in exchange for 10% of Tesla. Both companies saw it as a strategic partnership. Tesla planned on sticking to luxury vehicles and selling …