Not at all, actually. In fact that's the opposite of what I'm arguing. There are countless things left to invent. It's just not worth doing most of the time. As a trivial example, Unicode is not a 100% perfect text…
Perhaps because the tools that we have already are already good enough. "Why don't we have any new programming languages" or "Why don't we have any new web frameworks" or "Why don't we have any new operating systems" or…
Well, I imagine they aren't fans of Francis either, and the Gospel of John does say "many antichrists have come", so it's entirely possible Pope Francis is also the antichrist. That said: while he was conservative in…
In the same way that all conspiracy theories are all slightly different in their own unique interpretations, making them fun to learn about, I am endlessly fascinated by the fractal nature of religious heresies and…
well, no, the WFP's current yearly budget is 13B, which is nowhere near enough to solve world hunger, considering world hunger still exists. They actually say they need 93B/yr until at least 2030 to solve it.…
No, I kill innocent animals because that's my hobby, I just usually stick to deer because they taste better, are overpopulated in my area, and give a greater meat yield. But I shoot nuisance animals all the time, such…
Crows are clever enough to be dangerous (they can remember a face, connect it to a past incident, carry a grudge over that incident, communicate this grudge to their friends, and actively plan violent revenge) but dumb…
The Sheetz disparate impact case was in 2024, post Ricci. Griggs is still the law of the land even though some justices have signaled they might want to revisit it.
You're free to make whatever mistaken assumptions you like about the kind of places I go and the kind of travel I do. You're wrong, obviously, but it's not like I can prove that any more than you can. Some unlikely…
part of the issue is that there are multiple laws and legal frameworks even at the federal level in the US that are kind of contradictory here. See "disparate impact" law, where using a neutral standard (such as a…
I've traveled to about 50 countries, on every continent except Antarctica and I've found Tabasco in every country I've been to, from Tajikistan to Tunisia to Turkey to Taiwan. At a minimum, it can be found at 99% of…
Seems like there is obviously a spectrum of positions here and various people have found themselves calling certain positions "DEI" or "anti-DEI" or "affirmative action" or "racist" depending on which positions they…
I feel like "don't agree" is a weird framing, because it assumes that all technological innovations must have the explicit and affirmative consent of all parties they could directly or indirectly affect, and that those…
Then they presumably are fine with open weights models made by hobbyists by scraping publicly available art on boorus and such, yes? because they are neither made by corporations nor are they selling any product. (to be…
I mean, the obvious way it's better than the Chinese open-weight models is literally the fact that it's not Chinese and is therefore less likely to be banned or restricted. Chinese models cannot be used on certain…
I have found that in order to reduce laundry times to something like this, you have to very deliberately make very specific tradeoffs in the types of clothes you wear and purchase. It is perfectly possible to have a…
An example I can think of off the top of my head is Luis Alvarez, the nobel physicist who came up with the asteroid impact theory of dinosaur extinction. The geology and paleontology community shunned him until the 90s…
I like coding for the sake of it, like solving a puzzle. for example I love Advent of Code challenges each year. I don't use AI for it (except for documentation look up) even though it could solve it trivially. I also…
Nowadays we'd call that "engineer's disease". I wonder how many potential Von Neumanns were discouraged from branching out into other fields by jealous gatekeepers who assume that any interest in their field by…
I've always wondered if you could solve most of the negatives by imposing a "money in per year" limit on online gambling. Let's say, you can only transfer in 1000 dollars per year or something; maybe it's a federal…
I wonder if it's all just downstream from class. It used to be that rich people would regularly host feasts for their dependents as a form of patronage. This was then imitated by the gentry and bourgeois: proving that…
I think "convenience" is correlated to the actual thing you're gesturing towards, but isn't the actual variable that matters most. "grocery stores being open until midnight" is certainly very convenient, but doesn't…
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alternatively: pipe tapping: $5 knowing where to tap: $95 taking on the legal liability and accountability in case the water heater explodes: $400 ChatGPT is more than capable of telling you where to tap, but you can't…
I haven't played with claude code with 5.5, but I tried using claude cowork for a bunch of tasks and was surprised how much hand-holding it required. I gave it full access to my desktop and email but I kept running into…
Not at all, actually. In fact that's the opposite of what I'm arguing. There are countless things left to invent. It's just not worth doing most of the time. As a trivial example, Unicode is not a 100% perfect text…
Perhaps because the tools that we have already are already good enough. "Why don't we have any new programming languages" or "Why don't we have any new web frameworks" or "Why don't we have any new operating systems" or…
Well, I imagine they aren't fans of Francis either, and the Gospel of John does say "many antichrists have come", so it's entirely possible Pope Francis is also the antichrist. That said: while he was conservative in…
In the same way that all conspiracy theories are all slightly different in their own unique interpretations, making them fun to learn about, I am endlessly fascinated by the fractal nature of religious heresies and…
well, no, the WFP's current yearly budget is 13B, which is nowhere near enough to solve world hunger, considering world hunger still exists. They actually say they need 93B/yr until at least 2030 to solve it.…
No, I kill innocent animals because that's my hobby, I just usually stick to deer because they taste better, are overpopulated in my area, and give a greater meat yield. But I shoot nuisance animals all the time, such…
Crows are clever enough to be dangerous (they can remember a face, connect it to a past incident, carry a grudge over that incident, communicate this grudge to their friends, and actively plan violent revenge) but dumb…
The Sheetz disparate impact case was in 2024, post Ricci. Griggs is still the law of the land even though some justices have signaled they might want to revisit it.
You're free to make whatever mistaken assumptions you like about the kind of places I go and the kind of travel I do. You're wrong, obviously, but it's not like I can prove that any more than you can. Some unlikely…
part of the issue is that there are multiple laws and legal frameworks even at the federal level in the US that are kind of contradictory here. See "disparate impact" law, where using a neutral standard (such as a…
I've traveled to about 50 countries, on every continent except Antarctica and I've found Tabasco in every country I've been to, from Tajikistan to Tunisia to Turkey to Taiwan. At a minimum, it can be found at 99% of…
Seems like there is obviously a spectrum of positions here and various people have found themselves calling certain positions "DEI" or "anti-DEI" or "affirmative action" or "racist" depending on which positions they…
I feel like "don't agree" is a weird framing, because it assumes that all technological innovations must have the explicit and affirmative consent of all parties they could directly or indirectly affect, and that those…
Then they presumably are fine with open weights models made by hobbyists by scraping publicly available art on boorus and such, yes? because they are neither made by corporations nor are they selling any product. (to be…
I mean, the obvious way it's better than the Chinese open-weight models is literally the fact that it's not Chinese and is therefore less likely to be banned or restricted. Chinese models cannot be used on certain…
I have found that in order to reduce laundry times to something like this, you have to very deliberately make very specific tradeoffs in the types of clothes you wear and purchase. It is perfectly possible to have a…
An example I can think of off the top of my head is Luis Alvarez, the nobel physicist who came up with the asteroid impact theory of dinosaur extinction. The geology and paleontology community shunned him until the 90s…
I like coding for the sake of it, like solving a puzzle. for example I love Advent of Code challenges each year. I don't use AI for it (except for documentation look up) even though it could solve it trivially. I also…
Nowadays we'd call that "engineer's disease". I wonder how many potential Von Neumanns were discouraged from branching out into other fields by jealous gatekeepers who assume that any interest in their field by…
I've always wondered if you could solve most of the negatives by imposing a "money in per year" limit on online gambling. Let's say, you can only transfer in 1000 dollars per year or something; maybe it's a federal…
I wonder if it's all just downstream from class. It used to be that rich people would regularly host feasts for their dependents as a form of patronage. This was then imitated by the gentry and bourgeois: proving that…
I think "convenience" is correlated to the actual thing you're gesturing towards, but isn't the actual variable that matters most. "grocery stores being open until midnight" is certainly very convenient, but doesn't…
[dead]
alternatively: pipe tapping: $5 knowing where to tap: $95 taking on the legal liability and accountability in case the water heater explodes: $400 ChatGPT is more than capable of telling you where to tap, but you can't…
I haven't played with claude code with 5.5, but I tried using claude cowork for a bunch of tasks and was surprised how much hand-holding it required. I gave it full access to my desktop and email but I kept running into…