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A pair of 9 and 11 year old boys made a similar trip going from Needham MA, to the World’s Fair in Montreal. They did it with a pony/pony-cart in 1967. PBS did a really nice short documentary on them where they're interviewed.

https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/made-here/2024-09-05/pony...

I was/am a fan of z.ai’s GLM models as a drop in replacement for Claude. But they more than doubled their prices recently. Still a ok alternative, but not really an amazing deal anymore.

I've tried out gpt-oss:20b on a MacBook Air (via Ollama) with 24GB of RAM. In my experience it's output is comparable to what you'd get out of older models and the openAI benchmarks seem accurate https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ . Definitely a usable speed. Not instant, but ~5 tokens per second of output if I had to guess.

Your article states 68,300 figure is using average global energy supply at the time. As grid decarbonization happens that break even point can be reduced to as little as 30,000 according to the article(pure renewable scenario). It's not an overnight fix, but it's a clear improvement.

I had a wisdom tooth removed by a dentist within the last 5 years. This was in the United States, for what it’s worth.

Kanye West 'patched' multiple songs on his album The Life of Pablo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Pablo#Post-release...

If you’re looking for an example of a successful small plane airline in the United States: Cape Air.

> The more harm is done, the less likely that people will support a public option.

I don't think that is the case most of the time. If anything, suffering makes people more likely to be sympathetic. For instance: people with low incomes, and those without private healthcare are more likely to support socialized healthcare in the United States.[1] These are the people most likely to have been stuck with ruinous healthcare bills.

[1] PDF Warning : https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/100752...

"You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's worth of minimum wage pay (if you know something that I don't, let me know where you're finding these deals)."

It's pretty close. Ammoseek shows 9mm starting at ~$0.30 per round, and most other popular pistol calibers starting at ~$0.40 to ~$0.45 per round. And it's easy to find better deals if you're checking the r/gundeals subreddit periodically. That puts 2000 rounds of 9mm at around the gross income weekly income for someone earning $15/hour.

Confusingly Apple actually has a few ‘Apple TV’ product. There’s the app that you’re describing then there’s the physical device, as well as the subscription service.

The physical device is the Roku competitor, and supports Netflix/Disney+ etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(disambiguation)

For what it's worth; I banked with Simple for the better part of 10 years, but then they acquired by BBVA who was then acquired by PNC. That meant that all Simple customers had to go through account migration twice this year, and in the end now have all the typical fees associated with traditional accounts. Ultimately I decided to move to a local credit union.

That’s incorrect. If I’m remembering correctly Nigeria was the second largest Bitcoin market pretty recently.

Canada doesn’t have the ability to manufacture the vaccines. The United States does. The United Kingdom also has manufacturing capabilities and has had a strong vaccine rollout.

>do we have more data points for these cherry blossoms

Yes, the article includes a nice graphic showing the "peak bloom day of the year". It shows that average peak bloom date has been getting steadily earlier in recent history.

BTC seems to have found a use in Nigeria as a means of dealing with inflation, and a USD shortage in the country.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nigeria-one-bitcoin-cost-68-2...

Colt used to sell many rifles to the US military. They lost that business to FN. And with that they lost a lot of value.

Depending on where I clicked in mobile safari it wouldn’t scroll.

No. There is difference between a little rush job, and an incompetent rush job. I’m only speaking for my own experience, but when put under pressure most competent teams don’t end up throwing away such important data. I’ve been incompetent for most of my career, but it’s given the serious of task this is inexcusable. I don’t know how things work elsewhere, but checking that the same number of unique records(by some composite key) are ingested as exported isn’t an advanced concept. Know the value of the data you’re handling. Marketing data <> health data. If health data doesn’t line up: you figure out why and solve it. If you don’t have anyone available to do so then the problem is managerial/structural.

Excel tops out a little more over a million rows without specifically handling of larger files. I’m not sure excusing it, just a heads up to all the junior analysts out there who haven’t dealt with the problem(not implying you’re a junior analyst, just wanted to point something out to those who aren’t familiar with the issue).

Many pay-to-use(coin or card) laundry rooms in apartment complexes are entirely contracted out to a third party company that handles everything; payment collection, machine leasing, service/repairs, etc. On the whole I think it's easier for them this way.

https://www.wash.com/360-laundry-room-solution/

https://www.coinomatic.com/multi-housing-coin-laundry-soluti...

And box office receipts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_futures

Having a great legal team doesn't mean you can't lose billions of dollars in court; as Monsanto/Bayer recently found out. The jury may not look favorably upon tech companies.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jury-awards-couple-2billion-mon...

The most popular, recently released RTS I can think of is Factorio. It seems like RTS game elements have been splitting into their constituent parts and forming a game around those.(e.g. production to Factorio, or combat to DOTA) It may be that way there’s a greater ROI on smaller/simpler games than building out all the components involved in an RTS game.

If I'm not mistaken, Google has called off any plans for expanding Google Fiber.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/googl...

For what it’s worth, it’s my understanding that they’re ‘only’ transferring plasma which other companies are already paying people for.

If you're going Postgres to Postgres I enthusiastically recommend Bucardo.[1] I'm not very technical, but even I managed to get an ~1TB DB successfully replicating using it. In my case it was going from AWS RDS to AWS Aurora. Previously others had tried AWS DMS, but we kept having data integrity issues. And DMS cost us significantly more than Bucardo whose only cost was a medium size EC2 instance and data in/out.

[1] https://bucardo.org/Bucardo/

The iPhone 6 and beyond are too big for my tastes. I reluctantly upgraded to an iPhone 7 after destroying my SE. Even after owning the 7 for over a year, I find it uncomfortably large at times.

I agree that this should just be everyday normality. However there seems to be wave of recent popular articles and essays about an epidemic of loneliness. I think essays like this can serve as a positive example of how to interact with/behave towards others and hopefully try to improve social well-being. It’s certainly not the end, but I like to think it can help.

It’s a poetic statement not a literal one. It speaks to the aspirational idea of what America could and should be/aspire to be.( in the mind of the writer)