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But wait, I do pay taxes? By you logic, no policy choice can ever cause harm because the responsibility is always redistributable to several billion bystanders. Pretty convenient!

I’ve been using GLM-5.2 on openrouter with pi and, while I’ve only been playing with it for a couple days, seems stronger than Opus 4.8, nearly on the level of Fable for coding/architecture tasks.

I read a book called Breath by James Nestor, it’s all about the benefits of nose breathing. Anecdotally this has completely fixed my sleep apnea/ snoring/ energy levels/ etc. Highly recommended!

Also for blind programmers, tabs are much nicer for a screen reader.

If you hold the function key (‘fn’) and press the left arrow it works. Macs map fn+arrows to home, end, pgup, and pgdown.

Indeed, Myron Scholes was on the board of LTCM when they blew up and kicked off the Asian financial crisis. LTCM could be a poster child for fragile financial systems.

Fermentation is a great way to create cheap or free fertilizer and garden amendments. Look up the works of yungsang cho or hankyu cho.

15% interest? No, surprises!

There’s an option for this under System Prefs > Accessibility > Reduce Motion

In system preferences, under accessibility, there’s an option to “reduce motion” or something that removes that annoying animation. It’s great!

If you’ve ever written code, and if you’ve ever written a bug, then you will understand that code as law is terrible idea, especially when it comes to finance.

> I don't feel compromised.

I get it.

It’s a long road from “dont be evil” to illegal wage fixing, mass ad fraud, omnipresent dragnet surveillance, and cooperation with totalitarian nation states; all of those with compunctions are long gone, the rest are like you.

You mean there’s a contingent within Google that further compromises their moral integrity.

Edit: downvotes won’t help you sleep at night!

Or in xkcd form: https://xkcd.com/1012/

We have footage of cluster bombs striking civilian apartment buildings in Kharkiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuKEwuZznw

It requires trusting code instead of humans.

Here’s the thing though: any one who works with code knows that you cannot trust code. Code is as tricky and ambiguous as the humans who write it.

The FreeBSD youtube channel is great for long-form intros and talks, if you are curious: https://www.youtube.com/c/FreeBSDProject

IMO, Proof of work crypto is fundamentally immoral because of the externalized environmental costs.

I have a macbook and and Iphone, so one handy thing I use is the clipboard is shared between devices on the same LAN that are signed into the same icloud accont. so I can select some text with my mouse, hit "paste" in my phone, and it works instantaneously. definitely one of those "wow we live in the future" moments.

An AI which “just needs to be taught properly” is the same as a genie or magic pixie which also exist but for “just needing to be taught properly”

I like to think of it as: insurance = risk pooling = “socialism”, whereas markets = information pooling = “capitalism”, and risk is simply the negative of information.

I believe science is a democratic process. If someone has the correct idea but communicates it poorly, so poorly that others in the field disagree, then this person is doing it wrong. (Thinking specifically of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki )

There’s a great YouTuber named Ultraviolent4 who plays lots of “unwinnable” or maybe just really odd combinations, and watching his games really improved my own.

Regarding your second point, Firefox does both of these.

A web based admin interface might be handy as well...

Those are all much better options than a Ponzi scheme/ financial bubble.

Totally unrelated but good luck today with your interview! You have a stranger on the internet rooting for you

There’s a really great short story by Alistair Reynolds about an artist that’s obsessed with a certain Zima blue (name of the story) which is essentially an extended meditation on the above, I think you might like it. :)

I don’t think Elon could build a pyramid. He might be capable of tweeting about one though.