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Agree to disagree, I guess. Not everything interesting has to be comprehensive.

I think I'm done with this conversation now you're comparing a website about manufacturing to child porn. That's in bad taste.

How do you stay injury free climbing every day? I feel like at even twice week I am entering the danger zone with ligamentisis.

Sourdough is the bomb though. I agree about the lack of variety, but in its defense, sourdough starter can be used for a variety of other baked goods.

Fair point. My actual conclusion: California has made it structurally impossible to manufacture things it consumes, and has exported the environmental burden to places with fewer protections.

All data points can be called confirmation bias if you frame them that way. The question is whether the data is accurate, not whether it's complete.

The site isn't claiming regulations are the only factor, just that they're sufficient to make things impossible regardless of other factors.

It's providing a single geographic data point to you, for free. You're welcome to do your own research if you want a complete picture.

Having less garbage is a whole other issue. Small utility vehicles makes a lot of sense but doesn't seem to be the way it's done in NA. Maybe it’s a labour cost thing. But even the long haul trucks are huge here compared to the rest of the world. They haul the same amount but the cab and engine are enormous. Maybe because the roads are wider they can just make everything bigger.

I assume you're being a little obtuse. The comparison to wherever manufacturers phones and EVs is implicit. They are manufactured somewhere with looser environmental regulation than California, where they are purchased en masse. You can draw your own conclusions from that.

> Not sure what the point of the website is

I think it's just informative. I found it interesting at least. I formed my own conclusions from it.

We can't do without garbage trucks though

For every scientific discipline that is well represented across modern corporate labs there are a dozen that are not. Most "serious" research is not directly connected to making money.

Individuals can of course make choices to reduce their emissions, Americans more than most since they're starting higher. Buy less new stuff, eat less meat, fly less, etc.

But policy is where real change needs to be made, and the effects of policy still scale with population in most cases.

Climate doesn't care about political borders either.

But per capita is more informative when thinking about policy for curbing emissions, which is how we actually change our effect on the climate.

Not per capita. The US is still the worst large country. If you account for offshoring manufacturing then the US looks even worse.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions

We're going to need to become a lot more creative about what and how we test if we're ever to reach dark factory levels. Unit tests and integration tests are one thing, but truly testing against everything in a typical project requirements document is another thing.

I do VIU in Canadian Dollars to help balance my other "global" ETFs that are over-reliant on US.

VIU: Vanguard FTSE Developed All Cap ex N Amer Idx ETF

I'm not dumping US, but since Trump got back into power, all new investment goes into ex-US funds to help balance what was previously a portfolio over-reliant on US stocks. I'm based in Canada.

> You can't prompt 99.95% uptime on Black Friday. Neither can you prompt your way to keeping a site secure, updated, and running.

Uh, yeah you can. There’s a whole DevOps ecosystem of software and cloud services (accessible via infrastructure—as-code) that your agents can use to do this. I don’t think businesses who specialize in ops are safe from downsizing.

If you have pre-commit hooks it should do this last bit automatically, and use your project settings

It’ll also save time on both sides. My experience is that companies can be open to it but there’s no way to know without getting into the interview process

It's both disappearing opportunities for physical play AND addictive platforms

Many argument the current batch of models provide a large capability overhang. That is, we are still learning how to get the most out of these models in various applications

Cursor and the agenetic IDEs are great for this kind of context control. Although designed for code, I’ve started using them for regular language, by converting large docs to broken-up plain text files (which it can do for you). Then you can @ whatever chapter you like in your questions

Love this idea of branching chat history and visualising it as a knowledge graph. Also, the site looks very nice and works well on mobile. Wishing you success

But new models to date have cost more than the previous ones to create, often by an order of magnitude, so the shoe metaphor falls apart.

A better metaphor would be oil and gas production, where existing oil and gas fields are either already finished (i.e. model is no longer SOTA -- no longer making a return on investment) or currently producing (SOTA inference -- making a return on investment). The key similarity with AI is new oil and gas fields are increasingly expensive to bring online because they are harder to make economical than the first ones we stumbled across bubbling up in the desert, and that's even with technological innovation. That is to say, the low hanging fruit is long gone.

Ah, I misunderstood the parent then :)

Seems unintuitive to include audiobooks if they're interested in literacy though (literally their first motivation).

There's a large difference between reading a book and reading social media posts or news articles: books require hours of concentration to consume, have long-spanning arcs of plot or other structure, and require significant use of our imagination (particularly fiction). You just don't get those three things from any other form of written media.

One of their primary motivations was understanding changes in literacy, so it makes sense they wouldn't include audiobooks (or podcasts).

Outer Wilds is amazing if you like puzzles and/or sci fi.

Seconded. And play Half Life 1 and 2. They’re arguably the best single player FPS games of all time.