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Why 2019?

Facebook was already immensely popular a decade before that.

Basically a slap on the wrist.

According to this paper from 2025 "The metabolic costs of goal-directed cognition are only 5% greater than the ongoing costs of resting neural activity and homeostasis.".

Zoning out doesn't change the energy consumption of the brain that much.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/abstract/S136...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39809687/

I agree and I also wish Node did more.

Otoh should a standard lib give you absolutely everything? Probably not. There needs to be a line somewhere.

Right now Bun’s policy on this seems to be "whatever Jarred feels like should be in there".

Probably 90% of users have never used a cli and will never use it. As for gimp the vast majority of users don’t know it exists either.

Of course there’s corruption everywhere in Mexico but it’s not uniform. The state of Morelos is probably one of the worst.

> you've got a really high bar to clear to prove that you're actually helping students learn better, and teachers teach better

Absolutely.

In fact the data from the past 10-15 years clearly shows the best education technology is still pen and paper, books, and good pedagogy.

Amazing stuff. Hopefully it will work.

The future will be much worse. Some effects take years or decades to manifest and we wont see them during a relatively short event like El Niño.

Eg: the severe disruption of the jet stream or the collapse of the AMOC.

Plus all the long term feedbacks like methane etc.

I’m probably in the minority but 99% of my bsky usage is on web desktop.

> I'm 36 now and feel like my spatial reasoning is declining in a strange severe way.

How do you know this is caused by gaming?

Does gaming also use similar spatial skills?

Shall we play a game of thermonuclear war?

> always confused when people are complaining about it these days

The biggest complaint I've heard is about the owner and how he's using X as a megaphone.

sounds like the "what have the Romans done for us?" bit

Some of the first LED bulbs we bought are still running after more than 10 years. I don't remember the brand but they were expensive at the time.

I've never heard about writers writing with an audience. A real one at least. Of course there's always an imaginary reader.

Performing and writing couldn't be any more different or attract different types of people.

For sure LLMs can write in perfect English (or any other language) and convey information.

But good writing is more than just conveying information. To me it's about connecting to a voice. This is a rare quality and AFAIK I have never experienced this with AI generated text or even with 99% of human written text for that matter.

Writing has always been a solitary act.

Yeah. If anyone doubts this go listen to some gamelan music and see if they can make any sense of it (harmonically speaking).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGCSrC8RN6c

Obviously search results can't be copyrighted but it's a completely different situation for Reddit, no?

"Worse" is definitely a subjective appreciation influenced by culture and personal taste.

Yes. Something like 45% of global emissions come from electricity generation.

Indeed.

We needed to reach zero emissions 20 years ago and today we should have strong negative emissions.

At this rate I don't think humanity will reach zero emissions before 2050. It's going to take a couple of very bad years for humanity to take this seriously.

Excluding all the capex from AI this last quarter has been one of their best.

Very cool. This should be a default feature in all browsers.

> It was simpler, better, more stable, _and_ had better UX.

It had less features too.

Now, I do agree doing more doesn't mean that something is necessarily better... but I think the UX difficulty increases exponentially as more features are added.

Things aren't going great if Google is investing into... whatever this is.

so when will xAI default on its debt?

It is an indisputable fact that Anthropic made money on models trained on those pirated books.