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You get given water during races, and you don't need a support team for that to happen. There are people handing them out at set locations, so there's no need to carry all of that with you. You often get gels too and its worth training with that brand that they are giving out so that your gut is ready for it, but you can't rely on them because they do sometimes run out.

I've never seen them run out of water though, and it would be a lot to carry for a marathon.

> Marathons are about running my own pace. The fact that there exists a world record is a piece of trivia.

I do find the record fascinating. If I take the 5k, 10k and half-marathon world records and double them then I can run faster than that. But for the marathon I'm a long way off. There's something uniquely difficult about it because it's not just going for a run, but fuelling and training your gut and pacing. I've only done 2 marathons, but I do find them uniquely difficult so for me its extra special to see how fast a human can do it in.

Would it be less dystopian for Operating Systems to ship with their own browser that ships with their own models? Or do you find the current situation where Operating Systems ship with browsers dystopian?

You can but it's a very cumbersome UX.

I had a few different circles depending on if friends were interested in running, cycling, hiking or computers and then I could make posts that could be just for specific groups.

> You don't need 'advanced' gel to do that, a bottle of water with 120g of white sugar an hour.

Did you carry all of these bottles on a marathon? Did you have to stop to get them out of your bag? How did you find drinking whilst running?

I find gels much more compact and for the amount of time I need to run one - over 4 hours there's a lot of weight I need to carry. I can store a lot of them up front in my running vest and keep going.

You'd need steering, throttle and braking actuators as well as radar to get comma.ai working with it.

> the other you have to buy a completely new device.

You can sell the old Macbook and recoup a lot of the original investment.

Don't most LCD screens have localised dimming of the backlight these days?

I wish they booted them up in that video. Its one thing being able to plug parts in but its another for them to all work together.

It is clear what you are buying

How is buying a midrange phone new a scam? Just because a second hand premium one is better value (assuming you don't place any value on being brand new). You buy it knowing full well that it isn't a premium device but most people don't need a premium device.

Are non-premium new cars a scam too?

Live in a country like Ukraine where everyone uses Telegram

> Not long till complete authentication of the human at every level is required to use a computer.

It'll be needed to tackle bots

I expect a lot of people who run adblockers on mobile, also configure their DNS or use a VPN to block ads. On Android, you can't even get an adblocker on Chrome, which is the browser most users and using.

I recently did an install of Windows 11 on a machine without TPM

To bypass the check during installation:

    Boot the laptop from your USB.

    When you see the "This PC can't run Windows 11" screen, press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.

    Type regedit and hit Enter.

    Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup.

    Right-click Setup, create a new Key named LabConfig.

    Inside LabConfig, create two DWORD (32-bit) values:

        BypassTPMCheck = 1

        BypassSecureBootCheck = 1

    Close the registry and the command prompt; the installer will now let you proceed.

Maybe the agent can ask the user clarifying questions. Even better if it could do it at the point of submission.

Blocking the domain of the video player works. For example, primis.tech you can add this to your uBO filter:

  ||primis.tech$domain=~primis.tech

Primis is one of them, but there are a few of these companies. I can't remember them all.

I'm also in the UK, and it came to 31MB. Then I turned off uBO, Firefox tracking protection, and rejected the cookie notice, and it went over 40MB.

In 10 years - 100MB In 20 years - 20MB

I think there'll continue to be growth in page sizes, but then maybe we'll consider efficiency, or the NYTimes shuts down and the 20MB page will be the liquidators selling the domain. Maybe we don't even use domains by then as everything is on an app.

Even with ad blocking, it's transferring over 200KB of data, half of which is to load a couple of fonts. Not terrible but the basic HTML is only 17KB.

If scripting wasn't allowed, we'd probably all have a different browser that allowed it - probably wrapped in a Flash wrapper.

27KB of CSS for me, but only if I switch off uBO. Otherwise, there's no CSS. I think the CSS is just for the cookie popup styling.

The good thing about the heavy use of GTM, is that its easy to block. Just block that one endpoint and you remove most of the advertising and tracking. When some new advertising service is invented, its already blocked thanks to the blocking of GTM.

Then the AI assistants will be the middle men.

> An owner can list their apartment/house directly online.

How will anyone find the house? If I use an online estate agent, then that's still a middle man. If I publish adverts on Facebook or Google, that's a middle man. If I'm hoping that I can generate enough SEO for my house to appear at the top of searches, that's also relying upon a middle man - the search engine. I guess I could just put a board outside the house with a URL on it and hope someone stops to take a photo.

Estate agents provide that marketing service as well as others around arranging viewings and interaction with solicitors, although that might be UK specific. But they do provide a service that would take a crazy amount of time for you to replicate by yourself for a one-off house sale.

I can recommend NotebookLM [1] for reading through scientific papers. You can then ask it questions and even get a podcast generated.

1. https://notebooklm.google/

Curve works and you can set that up as a replacement for Google Pay.

I like that uBO can manipulate the dom, so that I can remove annoying divs or animations that I don't want. Its so much more than blocking network requests which I can do with DNS anyway.

So do browser fingerprints