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ChatGPT will probably save the planet. Within a year I predict large number of individuals will have typed sentences like "how do I get laid" or "how do I become famous" in ChatGPT. Since the advice will tell people how to achieve these goals in an efficient way, people will stop buying a lot of crap like expensive handbags, watches or sportscars. It will be the end of conspicious consumption.

Thank you Tiger Lily for your insight into the world of apples.

Norway has an airport and a tax free shop in Antartica. The commercial airliners from Boeing and Airbus lands on the ice. Many nations has stopped using the Russian airport in Antarctica. This has increased the traffic in Norway’s Troll airport lately.

It has been mentioned numerous times here, but hypercard could have been what the web is today. Thirty years ago the hypercard alternative supercard opened a whole new world for many developers. Supercard made it possible to make standalone mac apps, in colors, with access to the internet.

I remember making a simple app to send text messages to motorola pagers at that time. It even looked like a pager on the screen.

...and it is destroying our planet fast.

GDP was never ment to be used as tool for measuring anything other than how fast the British economy grew after the recession. A lot has happened since then, almost 100 years ago. GDP has unfortunately stuck as a tool.

Here is a good one;

Office friends by Gavin Ewart

Eve is madly in love with Hugh

And Hugh is keen on Jim.

Charles is in love with very few

And few are in love with him.

Myra sits typing notes of love

With romantic pianist’s fingers.

Dick turns his eyes to the heavens above

Where Fran’s divine perfume lingers.

Nicky is rolling eyes and tits

And flaunting her wiggly walk.

Everybody is thrilled to bits

By Clive’s suggestive talk.

Sex suppressed will go berserk,

But it keeps us all alive.

It’s a wonderful change from wives and work

And it ends at half past five.

IKEA uses dark patterns of warehouse design. In the book "The truth about IKEA", a former IKEA executive describes how they purposely creates mazes in their warehouses.

This would be impossible to play on Spotify, without several Spotify accounts. It might explain why these tracks has been mixed together on Spotify.

Shameless plug for my own take on file watchers. The filewatcher command line utility is available as a ruby gem. It exports shell variables, so you can print name of files that changes this way: $ filewatcher *.js 'echo $FILENAME'

It recently reached 1 million downloads. The current maintainer, Alex Popov, is a very skilled developer working from Moscow.

This is basically a really good compact keyboard, with a web browser. This could be an awesome product if the edges around the screen were smaller, and the whole thing was a bit thinner. It would be even more awesome if the keyboard came in different flavors, like for instance a mac layout, and was easy to connect via bluetooth to an iPhone. Yeah, and a trackpad would be nice as well.

Does this mean that in just a few years, about 10 people would actually own most of the world?

Companies needs people. It is the most important resource. Cities not hospitable for humans, are bad for business. Local authorities in Vienna,Austria, still has control over 25% of the real estate. This ensures that the city will be affordable for many years to come.

The Netherlands has really nice bike lanes!

http://randomstreetview.com/#uxdmk_2n6ql_6r_a_5

I sometimes wish Hacker News had emoticons, so I could add a sad face instead of just an upvote.

Always nice to read a nice fairytale with the wonderful drawings by Theodor Kittelsen. The norwegian artist is famous for his depictions of trolls, and also illustrated the old icelandic book Snorre saga with depictions of vikings.

Excel turns out to be a great user interface for making music. Use the interface you probably allready know.

The Prolog programming language implementation is just 139 lines of Lisp code. Never the less, Prolog is a really powerful tool.

Absolutely! And rim brakes with new break pads can work better than disc brakes. Besides you don’t need to refill brake fluid in rim brakes.

A bicycle is in my opinion one of mans greatest inventions. It empowers almost everybody to transport themselves five times more energy efficiently than walking. For two hundred years the bicycle has been improved by countless ingenious inventions. Cities where the majority commute by bicycle, are much better to live in.

The Apple M1 processor should be used as a benchmark. Not other Intel processors.

Norway is 61 degrees north, and has a subarctic climate. Many Norwegians are sort of happy to welcome global warmth. It makes it possible to grow wines, and the water becomes warmer during summer. Too bad most of the snow has disappeared in winter. Especially around the capital of Oslo. You have to go to the mountains to go skiing now. It was mostly around Oslo skiing first became fashionable in the late 1800’s.

Great read. Friends is the best way to achieve just about anything.

One day I hope to be able to meet a friend from Moscow. Even if Russia shares a border with my home country Norway, it is impossible for us to meet in person at the moment. The russian fellow took over my open source project when I had lost interest in it.

The problem with New Zealand seems to be that if you have an education, it is often no where else to use that education than Auckland or Wellington. I have never been to New Zealand, but the problem seems to be very similar to the housing problems we have in Norway. The sub arctic capital city of Oslo, has ridiculously high prices.

This is a good example of the first principle, made famous recently by Elon Musk. If you identify the problem and common assumptions, you will probably ask yourself if a few vibrating loudspeakers is simply what everybody is doing. Lots of tiny loudspeakers working in unison, could actually produce sound cheaper and better.

The biggest change to Adobe Photoshop since version 3.5, seems to be the retail price.

That's how you do it!

SC-IM is a terminal based spreadsheet. It is the modern version of visicalc. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

The web standards are large and complex. I still discover new parts of the standards almost every month, even if I have made websites since the stoneage, in 1995. The title attribute of stylesheets was new to me.

Actively managed funds with low costs and a value investment style, can be a good alternative to picking stocks.

It can be a good idea to identify actively managed funds that have performed better than the market in the past (ie. they have got alpha). Which investment style the fund has used, can be identified using number crunching (using fama french factor analysis). For example Warren Buffet uses a mixture of value and quality investement style.

I work for a Fintech startup. We are working on a tool to do quantitative fund analysis.

Truly ReMarkable. (Pun intended.)