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by Insanity 3mo ago
Used to do this in Belgium. Still less convenient than driving, and kinda annoying to use during a Canadian winter. And again, more limited space. I commute by walking (1h per day) and typically avoid the car when possible, but for grocerie
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I don’t but YMMV of course. Maybe if I was single, but it’s just inefficient to go multiple times a week. And then there’s heavier things to carry (drinks).
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I doubt this is true. I walk to the store when I quickly need to get eggs or milk or something random I forgot. But I’ll drive to do the weekly grocery trip because I can’t carry food for a week (for a family) on my own without driving. It’
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I live in a metropolitan area and can walk to many stores within a 30 minute radius. (First supermarket is less than 5 minutes away). But there is the added complication of weight. I can’t buy food for a week without driving there. Nor can
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by Insanity 3mo ago
This is kind of non-news to be honest. Reporting on _having_ the conversations is much more valuable. And reporting of absence can also just means it's absent 'as far as we know'.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I walk to the office during warm days, it’s about 30 minutes to get there. I get essentially an hour of walking just by commuting. If I drive, it takes me 15 minutes (Toronto traffic is horrible). So doesn’t even gain me much in terms of ti
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by Insanity 3mo ago
Haven’t bought a physical game in at least 15 years (because of Steam). I do wonder how many people still buy physical copies these days. Not sure what the sales are like on PS but at least on Steam you can find great deals for the digital
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by Insanity 3mo ago
A (sad/funny) anecdote. Someone told me earlier this week "Not using a coding agent today is like using Vim for development instead of an IDE, you're just lagging behind". As someone who's been exclusively using Vim
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by Insanity 3mo ago
There have always been plenty of “9-5” programmers who will do the minimum to get by. Even just being on HN is somewhat of a bubble of people more interested in keeping up with tech than the average Joe building websites.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
Yeah, was to be expected. It's a nice idea though, mooi gedaan!
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by Insanity 3mo ago
It’s a new account (2h old as of me commenting) and it does read like LLM content to me.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
That's pretty cool, I like that idea. I'm in Canada now so shipping cost would make it more than 30 EUR though. Might have to ship one to my family in Belgium instead lol. edit: just checked, 12EUR to ship to me in Canada, so >
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by Insanity 3mo ago
You raise a fair point, but I'm not convinced it'll offer a meaningful difference in performance as long as we're stuck with the current AI paradigm.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
But you have to factor in that this device will last you 5-10 years. That said, I wouldn't spend almost $7k USD on this macbook lol.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
Could be, I don't follow the CEOs closely lol. Any source on this?
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I haven’t used Mullvad, so can’t say how it compares to ProtonVPN but I’m happy with Proton. It is super easy to set up, even on Linux and iOS devices.
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by Insanity 3mo ago
We're at an interesting time for programming language development. Typically, newer features made the developer experience better. Either a faster way of doing something, it being safer, or easier to read/understand. But if GenAI
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by Insanity 3mo ago
I'll +1 that, and I'm one of those people but only if I'm already in a poor mental state. When I have something to feel anxious about (e.g, health concerns), then coffee consistently makes me feel more anxious. Although, it d
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by Insanity 3mo ago
Or avoid the trails all-together. Given the 30th anniversary of Trainspotting this seems relevant: https://youtu.be/xtbS_PdA198?si=8ba8Fp8_uzdpIq6J . I’m pretty wary of ticks, when you go for hikes just do a body check after
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by Insanity 4mo ago
At least they didn't use quotation marks for "emphasis".
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Yup exactly :) I named July/August for the connection to real people, but yeah it’s pretty much all around us.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Just wait for Hollywood to create a film about Roman mythology and not cast a single Roman! But less tongue-in-cheek, the other thing is that the legacy of the Romans is pretty much all around us. The Roman Calendar (with July and August bo
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by Insanity 4mo ago
If there are these places on the internet the article mentions which perfect bread ingredients “to the gram”, someone should share that with American bakeries. It’s near impossible to find decent bread, compared to EU countries like France&
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by Insanity 4mo ago
This looks quite nice! But suspiciously absent data points.. no Java or Go for the languages? Seems odd. No Amazon in companies, yet I think it's often mentioned. I wondered if "go" got filtered out because it's also jus
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by Insanity 4mo ago
I was never in the army, and I still enjoyed and would recommend Catch 22 regardless. It (sadly) applies to the goofiness of companies and bureaucracies more broadly. That said, being in the army might add an additional level of apprecation
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Sorry, I should have said "profit path", good catch! They have revenue, but their cost scales with revenue and they're losing more than they are making. See: https://www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/ for
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by Insanity 4mo ago
They are reserving future HW productions to meet their hypothetical usage as well. Which is why others (like Apple) can’t reserve it for their future products. Yet the AI labs are speculating on usage, and spending money from investments wi
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by Insanity 4mo ago
You are assuming the HW shortage is the result of meeting a real demand and not just build-outs for a hypothetical demand that might never materialize.
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by Insanity 4mo ago
Oh wow. I attended one of his seminars in Brussels after he was awarded the Nobel prize. Memorably event, he seems quite charismatic and a good speaker. Always a bit of a shame that the “Higgs” Boson stuck as the name, dropping Englert (and
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by Insanity 4mo ago
LEO is incredibly saturated.c if you build a data center there at the size needed you deal with space debris. MEO is about 500-1000ms latency in a good scenario (blanked coverage), that’s not snappy.

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