SturgeonsLaw

Yep. I installed Claude as a PWA and used Powertoys to remap it to a command that launches it

It was quite a good article if you don't care to nitpick over terminology. Too many technical people avoid the business side of things because they find it boring or are too cynical to engage with it, which limits their impact. Instead we get sleazebag money guys running the world.

The people who are in a position to influence the world are those who understand it, and if this article nudges people with a hacker mindset towards having more influence, then that's a good thing.

Creating any kind of wallet in Javascript with its gazillion dependencies is always going to be a roll of the dice

I get some wild ideas out of LLMs too, is that all CEOs are bringing to the table?

The UniFi router depends on you already having a UniFi environment. If you do, it's a good option, but the GL would work with any heterogeneous network

That not-your-money is still going towards rewarding user-hostile decisions

>why would a government actually do anything for a population that is net value extracting?

Because we outnumber them a million to one, and history is littered with examples of what happens to leaders who squeeze their population a little too far

Antibiotics do one thing, and one thing only - kill bacteria. They don't do anything for viruses, fungal infection, inflammation, chemical irritants or pain relief.

In the case of poison ivy, all antibiotics would do is lower the already slim odds of a secondary infection. They wouldn't prevent the contact dermatitis/inflammation from urishiol.

With hardware getting more performant and LLMs getting more efficient, what's preventing this outcome from being an inevitability?

Sure, the average person has no interest in self hosting, but businesses will at least run the numbers.

Depends on your supply chain's exposure to foreign markets

It's the establishment putting measures in place to entrench their position with an uncertain future coming towards us, fast. They are setting up systems to prevent revolution.

"This time it's different"

Yeah, even in those examples it sounds contrived. Way too much "it sounds like you're feeling xyz" and "am I right?"

If someone used that conversation template with me I'd wouldn't interpret it as an authentic discussion. At best I'd think it was therapy speak or they'd read some self-help "how to influence people" book.

Like any tool though, knowing when and how to use it is the way to get the most out of it.

Incredible at some things maybe, but for the average user Gemini is what broke Google Assistant (the article touches on that). Most people use Google Assistant to "do things" like play music, interact with smart switches, etc. Rolling out Gemini as a replacement before it could do these things was always going to be viewed as a regression.

People don't care if it can answer questions with more nuance when the smart stuff they paid hundreds or thousands for no longer works.

This is something I find my fellow Aussies fail to appreciate. There are many dark sky spots an accessible drive from our cities. We have vast areas with almost zero light and air pollution, most of the continent is Bortle class 1. There are some stunning starscapes available for those who care to see them.

A logistics problem is just a money problem, throw enough cash at it and you can get anything moved to anywhere

Guess China's resources aren't as limited as some of their competitors

To a company like Boeing? I think their tendrils are deep enough into government that it doesn't matter who the administration of the day is.

The number of people who work in government and the military and aren't subject to elections is orders of magnitude greater than the number of elected politicians.

$300 could run a whole sweatshop for a day

I have it on good authority that quite a few people are nude under their clothes. Disgusting.

I'm sure the people placing multibillion dollar bets have done their research, but the trends I see are AI getting more efficient and hardware getting more powerful, so as time goes on, it'll be more and more viable to run AI locally.

Even with token consumption increasing as AI abilities increase, there will be a point where AI output is good enough for most people.

Granted, people are very willing to hand over their data and often money to rent a software licence from the big players, but if they're all charging subscription fees where a local LLM costs nothing, that might cause a few sleepless nights for a few execs.

It's already the world we live in

No only do I have a separate work phone, but my personal phone has two SIM cards (one physical and one eSIM), one of those numbers is my general spam number that I give to businesses and acquaintances, and the other is my actual personal phone number that only the people close to me in real life get. I have a widget on the home screen that can disable/enable the spam SIM card at will.

Makes it real easy to control how available I am to different groups of people.

And then shelved it, fearing that it would cannibalise their film sales

Respecting regional settings is so inconsistent among Office applications. The desktop ones usually get it, but online is a crapshoot. Whenever there's a date like 3/4/25 I get the play the fun guessing game of whether that's March or April.

For Project Online, the most reliable way I found to fix it was to manually edit the URL to replace en-US with en-AU, then bookmark that.

>But surely the real problem is a systemic one and you can’t blame the workers for participating. After all, they are just trying to feed themselves and get healthcare. And, that is correct, of course. What’s also correct is that systems are powered by people. They rely on the labor of people to function

That statement is pivotal and one which people really need to be called out on when they use it as a crutch.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game"... Motherfucker there's only a game because of the players!

While we're throwing out recommendations for Windows software firewalls, I've previously used and liked Portmaster. Nice UI and its open source

https://safing.io/portmaster/

I wouldn't speculate on the cause of action, however all those activities are linked by activation of the dopaminergic reward circuit, so semaglutides might have some broad based anti-addiction properties by moderating dopamine activity.

Yeah, nothing improves their prospects quite like adding a criminal record onto their drug addiction

If it were me, yeah, park it in bonds and live off the interest on a tropical beach. Spend my days spearfishing and drinking beers with the locals. Have no concerns except how even my tan is (and tbh I don't see myself caring too much about that).

I'd forget the word shareholder even exists.