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13-inch M1 MacBook Air: 2.8 pounds (1.29 kg)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111883

The point of science and math is to discover truths about the world, not to have a "career" being a "scientist". They should "steal ideas", uploading documents to a company that they are going to store for 100 years is what you're doing when you use a model on someone else's servers. As long as they say who they stole it from there shouldn't be any issue.

QR codes are really ugly artifacts, completely inhuman. It would be better and more technologically advanced if instead we had really good OCR for a printed text code or skip product codes entirely and scanners just use vision to see what the object is.

My experience with Pi was that I pasted some error and asked Codex to solve it and it explicitly said something like "you could be mistaken into thinking this is X but it's actually Y", which was weird because it was pretty clearly not X and I've never seen it say that. Then I installed Pi with the same OpenAI model and gave it the same task and it told me it was X and I promptly never used Pi again because why would you want to take chances like that.

The actual referendum question will be

> should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?

So it's a referendum on whether or not to start the process towards possibly, maybe, holding a referendum in the future.

https://www.elections.ab.ca/elections/referendum/

You can't start doing this, the only way it ends is with a full rainbow deck of cards that the referee has to spend 5 minutes digging through every time someone gets tripped.

There's also the effect that sunscreen makes you spend more time in the sun than if you didn't use sunscreen because you think you're "protected".

"I was concerned about being surveilled so I also uploaded all my data to an LLM company"

$1920 in Jan 2023 has the same buying power as $2143 in June 2026

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1%2C920.00&yea...

I turned this off because it engages when you're on a flight and in that context it feels kind of nonsensical and just annoying. I don't think the people who made this thought about flights.

A finite set of symbols (laws) can never express everything a reasonable person would want to be allowed to happen in the world.

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Maybe it's physically impossible to build a theoretically secure system, just as it's (presumably) impossible to have a cell that isn't susceptible to any virus. Maybe this whole time we've been getting away with a type of security by obscurity, where the obscurity is just no one having the time and focus to actually analyze the code.

As compared with 41 for deno

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%22Se...

With the total number of issues being 16,458 for bun and 14,259 for deno.

It's surprising that Visa and Mastercard are even private companies. I expected that the government would be in charge of money and not let a group of people impose a 1-3% tax on their population. In the US, credit cards account for "71% of nationwide retail sales dollars".

Governments aren't competent enough to do tech stuff well and they would never make something that works in a different country as well as credit cards do, but still.

Computers are feedback loops that ultimately are trying to take up 100% of 100% of people's consciousness seconds, so it makes sense that the winning/dominant ideologies on the internet are just whichever ones cause you to not spend time on anything except the screen.

WhatsApp is one of the buggiest UIs I use daily. Random things like images/messages stacking on top of each other, seeing the HD and low definition videos as two separate things in favorites, never being able to view the HD one, sometimes the messages never scrolling quite to the bottom, just amateur level stuff, I'm a bit impressed with how bad it is.

If I'm reading the order book correctly, right now you can "win" $474,746 on Polymarket with a $4,000 bet if Trump "ceases to be the President" by April 30

https://polymarket.com/event/trump-out-as-president-by-april...

which is effectively an assassination market on him. And there other such crowd-sourced hits on other heads of state.

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an out and it was ultimately a good thing.

No idea if this is the case here, but I hope the author sticks with this decision. Although, looking at https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/graphs/co... , it doesn't look like he started this project, so I'm not sure it's his place to archive it.

I want to quit Magit because it's unbearably slow. In a repo with 6000 files `git status` takes 100ms but the Magit equivalent takes 2-4 seconds.

You need to account for inflation.

Facebook is running the same kind of engagement-maximization algorithm on Marketplace postings, so half of my suggested postings when I open Marketplace is girls posing in the clothes they're selling.

Mr. Superintelligence increasing Nick Bostrom's life expectancy to a trillion years but killing everyone else would as well. Why is he showing us the grace of letting us tag along with him into The Singularity in this fantasy just because we happened to be alive at the same time? Is it because he needs someone to do the actual work?

In my experience from the couple of times I clicked an IPFS link years ago, it loaded for a long time and never actually loaded anything, failing the first "I wish we could serve static content" part.

If you make it possible for people to donate bandwidth you might just discover no one wants to.

On this graph, the most expensive RAM is $12.5 / GB ($400 for DDR5-6000 2x16GB). Apple charges

- $25 / GB ($200 for 8 GB for the M5 MacBook Pro and the M4 MacBook Air)

- $16 / GB ($400 for 24 GB for the cheapest M4 Pro MacBook Pro)

- $12.5 / GB ($200 for 16 GB and then $800 for 64 GB more for the most expensive M4 Pro and M4 Max MacBook Pros)

and Apple's RAM is faster than PC RAM.

That remaining 1% are then actually the most advanced species, since they can continue their billion year existence through a blip of a couple thousand years when the environment became a bit more radioactive. We're so fragile that we're effectively biologically unstable, they're so advanced that they don't even need to know what happened.

Would've made more sense to add a grey "Edited" to edited releases. Releases are not actually immutable, GitHub could change them. I don't know why you need to use sciency words to say "editing disabled".

Everyone who puts up a persistent bright dot in the night sky should compensate everyone who has to see it with 1 cent for the sensory pollution.