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check the admin headcount vs healthcare worker last time I looked up admin grew exponentially

so either people aren't mathing or the frictionless experience is actually of value...

rare as an unicorn though, especially the smaller version

not every console stays connected to my tv... and wii stayed. wii sports is still fun and get everyone moving during a rainy day which is quite an achievement all by itself

probably should look into what Japan is doing with their 8020 campaign.. idea is you get to keep 20 of your teeth by the time you're 80yrs old

I really hope AI can democratise custom designs and push it further... just improve a simple Bubble-pump Absorption to either cool directly or use it to make ice etc... so much opportunities

they just said no ipo this year, most chinese models are distilled from claude anyway

very interesting thanks for the insight, I feel like there are broadly two camps of developers, one like yourself probably wants to know every last detail, and the other that are somewhat prefer to stay naive and taking the "declarative" part very broadly...

there's a bit of cyclic relationship at play here, the data changes the query plan, and the query plan affects the performance, while the performance is being optimised by the engine. if the architecture is bad then sooner or later the engine runs out of tricks and performance suffers but then nobody never is quite sure whether the current architecture's good enough.

I totally get the whole nosql that was the rage for a while... quick to prototype but I do believe once it's somewhat settled, moving the consolidated parts back to SQL is much easier to manage and optimise

I think it strikes a good balance between still human-readable and low-ish.. any lower I suspect you'd need to dedicate a lot more documentation else where..

did you use llm to create the llm-friendly schema.md? This sounds like a brilliant idea I might need to steal it... thanks!

dba here and I really don't get why SQL is so feared... I get that it requires very different way to think about data but it is quite simple in terms of you tell it what to do, and if it does it badly you probably told it wrong so just try something different...

the fingerprint exists to do dynamic/adaptive pricing... if you never return anything they assume you'll take any price as you enjoy their services more

if coding is free, the number 1 issue that need to be resolved is separating features so people can roll back any part they don't like and the magic would be resolving all the gory consequences of such action well enough

awww geocities how much have world changed since, it was an era of stranger danger don't get in strangers car world. It was about connection online however, no matter who they are, post your corner of the world online for all to see, hoping to strike up some connection. It was about tiny pictures, midi files because we have no bandwidth. We were optimistic, eager, and already had to filter out the paedophiles by pretending to be a 60/f/china. I miss the era for sure, the optimism especially, we truly believed internet would bring so much progress, world peace wasn't even that far away even.

To get a hint of the backdrop.. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/1993-rabin-and-ar...

usual shortsightedness from bean counters, while studio do lost revenue on second hand trades they gained another player! I can't believe they think that's not a worth while trade. Games are like books, the amount of time people spent on it far outweighs their opportunity cost in earnings, and you only have such a short window to capture that audience so do it however you can, allowing piracy is a legit business strategy, let alone trading second hand games!

same rule applied during housing boom in taiwan in the 1970s, my parents bought an apartment as the construction company had their headquarter in the very same building on the 2nd floor!

they can lean at all sort of weird angles too, experienced finish carpenter are worth their weight in gold

don't buy your drugs from shady operators children! always get it from the source

interesting, I remember reading population of Beijing seem to have lithium in their water or air so their new born and mothers carrying seem to have 20x of lithium concentration of what's considered normal...

making customer happy is one thing, didn't huxley specifically wrote about how consumer hedonism is how tech bros gain control? lol honestly are we at the end stages that billionaires are trolling oxford union... so DIRE

so glad performance is back on the agenda again... oh and removal of stuttering of any sort from modern computing experience will make me a very very happy individual...

if you click fast enough you summon additional axes from the ether

yeah and alignment is all about how to be less evil which is no easy job... I can just imagine Chinese LLM renders 1989 tianmen square as an incident orchestrated by CIA which CCP successfully thwarted etc etc

to me this erodes trust in the Costco brand, they should've put these back in the prices, as this suggests everyone else are paying extra 4%

unfortunately when there are so many choices the usual reason is because they are all bad...

shopping at Costco reminds me of reading news in a bad way, Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect way. And it's bit of a shame because there's this already implicit trust that have formed over the years, but it just seems really hard to keep enshittification at bay. For Costco to continue they really need to up their game and make consumer their absolute fan by first stop destroying their gut health. Junk food's fine, but chicken mince honestly don't need all that additives.

tariffs made Japanese rice farmers lazy.. just drop it and Japan will go back and eat rice

all in storage stocks! imagine how much extra storage the world over is required...

i think if google can show that they know what it does and able to contain it then sure, it's a tool they have power over. if not then I don't see how it is being contained by the terms