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And no one has mentioned Rovo yet.

Atlassian's in-built AI assistant for JIRA will generate a task description with a complete SDLC task breakdown, requirements and deliverables.

While the person creating the task will need to provide some details and modify some of the generated text (if they bother to read it) - the sheer verbosity and the fact it's clearly generated just makes you not want to engage with it.

Or the Russian POM-3, scattered by aerial deployment, detects vibrations before bounding and detonating in the air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POM-3_mine

For a non-bat to experience what it is like to be a bat, you have to embrace one of two philosophies: - Dualism: body and soul/consciousness are separate), or - Panpsychism: consciousness is fundamental and doesn't emerge from the material physiology.

For a materialist, and someone who thinks consciousness arises from the physical aspects, the idea of a human experiencing bat consciousness is not possible. Our evolution developed algorithm for processing the world is wired to our senses. Similarly a bat's perception of the world has evolved along with bat senses and is not the same as ours.

Without any of the evolutionary pre-wiring, a human conscious dropped into a bat would be deaf, dumb and blind.

Sure, but does that mean he's right all the time about all things, including everything in his own field?

He is saying no generative AI is going to produce output that is both good and novel because it is always derivative. And then adds a generative AI (Claude Code) into his list of AI that have produced output that he feels is good and novel, invalidating what he is arguing.

"...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white."

"We have many AI systems which can give us more. ... and Claude-Code, which have brought true advances in science, mathematics, and programming."

That contradiction kind of says he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Problem is, most of these "coastal" acacias don't live very long. Same with grevilleas.

The ones we have planted in our garden will likely need replacing in 7-15 years.

As a child traveling around northern Spain and rural southern France we got caught out and had to stop and wait for a service station to reopen so we could buy petrol. All part of the experience.

I've lived in a few places that would get consecutive 40C+ days. Perfectly fine unless the wind is a strong northerly blowing from the interior. The 37C in Brisbane this year was much less bearable due to the higher humidity: 75% rather than 45%.

What I find bizarre is the word "siesta" doesn't appear in this article.

People have been working around the hot summer hours in Southern Europe for centuries. Until recent times it was part of the culture.

I would also add Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Andy Clark, Jeff Hawkins and Jesse Prinz to that list.

I always thought the TV show Ozark was fairly accurate in it's depiction of money laundering. The family would buy a small business that they could inject cash and cook the books with fake sales.

Can we just say it was basically vibe coded, but with real humans in the loop?

Version 5 was when the source material dried up, and the hallucinations became more frequent and obvious.

As far as I remember there was a basic outline of major plot points and where all the major characters ended up (a prompt) and were left to fill in all the blanks.

Given he posted this comic in 2008, Randall Munroe was way ahead of the ball on the idea of autonomous agents.

Maynard Keynes posited a future 15 hour work week in 1930 based on the productivity gains after WW1, nearly 100 years ago now.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

And yet...

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

Back in the days when launching a website was an event, and sometimes included junket trips to attend.

It depends. If you own a single block dwelling and have a yard with trees, plants, lawns or a pool there are always things to do.

$500/year for the garden is very conservative, even when you're doing all the labour.

It would be more like $500/month were you to get a gardener in. If you need an arborist (for example cutting back tall trees close to power lines or encroaching on neighbours) it gets expensive very fast.

A pool also costs at least $500/year just in chemicals.

"Other products" is quite a long list, though there's more a link between a high intake of refined sugars that promote particular bacteria that can damage the lining. Still often the same products to avoid or minimise.

We've been on the whole food path for a few years now, and while there's a bit of extra time in prepping all the ingredients from scratch and you have to turn over fresh vegetables often (therefore more frequent visits to the market) you at least know what you're eating.

Always wonder whether this fits with Jeff Hawkin's "Reference Frames" where he ties movement to learning and understanding - and I would also say creativity.

React was a major improvement over Backbone + Marionette. Pre-jQuery was a shit-show as they hadn't even standardised the DOM.

Before that was XMLHttpRequest (particularly during my .Net WebForm days) and even had to use the ActiveXObject in IE that predated JSON.

Groupon? Did an IPO with a 12.7b valuation and was mostly dead within a year.

Joined Usenet in 1990 and for a few years it was great.

I always wonder whether HN suffers from periodic influxes of newbies who don't get it yet and rile up the regulars.

"Sun as a sympathetic victim".

Isn't this Sun YuChen, who has been dogged by crypto scam accusations for years?

They're often polymaths - generalists who are very competent across the fields they touch on but not necessarily the best. It is their ability to reach across multiple fields simultaneously or bring together experts in those fields that you see great things occur.

As would Neil Armstrong.

The few iconic blue police boxes that are left also need to be protected.

I would think right-handedness is largely reinforced through learning gross motor skills as an infant. If you always use your right, your brain optimises for that.

I wonder whether something simple like being allowed to select and use an object with either hand rather than having it offered to your right hand retains ambidextrous by the time handedness became fixed in the brain around age 4-6.

Interestingly, playing left-handed in "field" hockey is actually illegal for safety reasons and left-handed sticks don't exist.

As someone who is fairly ambidextrous, but predominately a lefty - the things that are harder to switch between are some of the gross motor skills.

For example, throwing (or kicking) with your non-preferred side is not as simple as picking up and throwing a ball or simply kicking it. You have to adjust your position and stride to lead with the correct foot. I found learning right-handed pace bowling in cricket (for fun) especially challenging as you have to land your back foot in the right place as you bowl through the popping crease. A few steps and rolling the arm over to spin was easy, and I actually can get more spin on the ball with my right hand.

My theory is that the handedness came about through learning basic survival activities such as running and jumping, throwing spears or rocks, etc that require using a preferred or learned hand.

From reading his journals the editor of the Corsair publicly mocked him and used the paper to hide behind (in the name of journalism). His lamentations on journalism are very much due to this personal attack and he does name the perpetrator in his writings.

Kierkegaard himself had his targets for cynicism, primarily the state church (Danish Lutheran) that he attacked endlessly in his writings.

Your knees will thank you when you're older.

Wife currently has a knee issue and the physio has her doing more hip bridges and lunges to build up the supporting muscles. Had a hamstring injury that caused issues by compensating for it and running incorrectly which put additional pressure on the knees.

I used to run in Asics Nimbus and currently just wear them all day. Switched to these bright red Novablast 5s for running and they are noticeably better. I do a mix of Norwegian 4x4 Hiit or a steady fast jog a few times a week.