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If you compare the cost of renting a room in a house, and renting an apartment it is a little easier to figure out. Usually room rentals will charge extra for kitchen access or just ban it outright.

Generally speaking the problem is rent. Restaurants are paying massive amounts of money to banks, property taxes, and real estate investors.

I think a lot of it is depression and anxiety causing executive dysfunction. The claim about "Lack of Time" usually indicates that the person doesn't have the energy or wellbeing to engage in activities like cooking or cleaning. If there is one thing that poverty and financial instability do, they destroy your mental and physical health.

I think most people don't know how to cook cheap stuff and don't even know where to start. It is a bit of a learned skill. You get a repertoire of cheap but delicious menu items over time. It used to be that our parents would hand them down like sacred family heirlooms on notecards in a greasy metal box. But our parents were way richer than us and they only kept the most delicious ones.

One big hit for me was having to create an entirely new set of recipes when I cut out meat from my diet. It got really hard because plant protein is way different from animal protein. The processed vegetarian stuff is insanely expensive too.

If you want to make your own frozen potato product like this you also need to parboil them. Otherwise the results are acceptable but underwhelming.

I can make about 2000 calories for about $2-5 using staples like rice, beans, flour, salt, yeast, pepper, etc... Generally, spices are pretty cheap. Especially if you go to the bulk section instead of buying the little jars.

The thing I see stopping most people in poverty is lack of access to a kitchen. No oven, no stove, no pantry, etc... A hot plate and a microwave if they are lucky. Also the usual health issues that come from deep poverty like executive dysfunction, depression, and other chronic illnesses.

What? I make things from scratch because I'm broke AF.

This is never more apparent than when you start making your own stuff from scratch. The comparison is stark.

I wonder if we have reached the point where Agentic LLMs could produce complex enough expert systems for these games to create a dynamic experience without needing a separate cluster of high end gaming PCs just to run the model?

But nobody is saying that is a flaw of the database.

Personally I would rather vote to ban them if they aren't safe enough. If car makers want to cheap out at the expense of public safety they should go to prison for the people they kill.

This article doesn't make any sense. An LLM is just the model. This is why you have things like Guardrails and sandboxes. Also you guard the inputs for the LLM prompt the same way you guard against SQL injection attacks.

It's a bit like saying "If you give someone unlimited access to the database they can run queries!"

The security doesn't come from how you train the LLM, it comes from how you guard the input and output tokens.

Unfortunately, the mark of corruption spreads to everything it touches. Once you are seen taking bribes for pardons, engaging in crypto scams, and manipulating the stock market to make billions you no longer are given the benefit of the doubt. There is zero evidence for corruption in this case, other than all of the blatant corruption elsewhere. Worse, the person involved is responsible for investigating the corruption.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/05/07/democra...

https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/21073697321938

https://fortune.com/2026/05/23/trump-stock-portfolio-trading...

> It’s important to reiterate that this was only possible while attacking the 7 round version of AES, it doesn’t work (or haven’t been checked if it does) on the 10 round version!

Specifically this is the 7 round version of AES128 which has several known vulnerabilities from 2016.

https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/paper-ri...

I never thought it was that hard to make bio weapons? It's all over the internet and you can even find it in textbooks. College students are producing antibiotic resistant strains of non-infectious bacteria every day in bio labs. That's part of why they are so scary. Usually government agencies keep track of key supplies and machines that are used for this sort of research too. It seems like half the chemistry and microbiology content makers have been visited by the FBI.

Note: I know it is just anecdotal, but none of these experiences are unique to my experience.

Not spending 2 hours in traffic every day alone is such a huge improvement to my life. Add the ability to live in cheaper areas and being able to make a quick run to the store. Plus I see my family way more!

I think that a lot of the accounting, used mostly in factories and such, is having trouble with the new financial reality in the tech space. Running a factory, having a debt to asset ratio over 1.0 would be disastrous because the assets are unable to produce revenue fast enough to cover the interest.

With tech it's weird because something that is worth nothing on an accounting sheet could be worth a hundred billion dollars during a sale to Alphabet or Meta.

Yeah, sometimes you just have to throw out the current solution and start over/rollback. AI will go down some weird rabbit holes to solve a problem with the wrong requirements. Sometimes I feel like I'm just coding in English instead of Python or TypeScript.

If I'm working on a non-coercive environment (No deadlines, requirements, etc..) hand coding in hyper-focus mode is extremely zen. But working on a deadline it really hurts. My brain can't help but ratchet up the stress.

I agree, the speed at which the agents work is a problem. It creates an interrupt workflow instead of a flow workflow. This works for some people but I notice that I don't do well that way. Typically I'll have an agent working on a task while I use a separate one in Ask mode just kind of satisfying my curiosity while I wait. This keeps me engaged but makes the interrupts less jarring.

I've found that my requirements and acceptance criteria are much less clear than I think they are. AI reveals when you are being too vague, almost instantly sometimes.

I've noticed that you can either move very fast with AI, or very slow. Moving fast, you place a lot of trust in the agent and let it proceed and create something very quickly that works at a surface level and that you don't understand at all. Moving slow you take the time to ask questions and understand every part of the application and learn more about how to code it yourself and make changes as necessary.

One thing I've noticed is, that coding manually is exponentially more stressful than the slow AI approach. I'm not going any faster than I normally would, but the burnout doesn't show up on the fifth day of the week. The hyper-focus is kind of fun but utterly exhausting.

With the fast approach I can create impressive demos and POCs that are nowhere near ready for production. But sometimes that's exactly what I need.

The problem is that environmental regulations kind of act like a double edge sword with regards to hybrid conversions. They prevent Jim Bob from selling his environmental disaster kit, but they also prevent Bob Jim from selling his Hybrid drivetrain conversion without expensive approvals. This is why most people do BEV conversions. The kits are available because they are zero emissions and don't fall afoul of the environmental regulations.

Welcome to the Kafkaesque world of automated enforcement.

> "The Trial" by Franz Kafka is a novel written in 1914 and 1915. It follows Josef K., a bank clerk who is arrested and prosecuted by a mysterious, unreachable authority. Neither he nor the reader ever learns what crime he has committed. As Josef navigates an absurd legal system filled with bizarre encounters and inexplicable procedures, his case consumes his life while remaining perpetually unresolved. The novel, never completed by Kafka, was published posthumously in 1925.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

The answer is: It's complicated

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/5-big-myths-abou...

Ecologically, wildfires are necessary for some biomes. However, not all of them. Many are needlessly destructive due to climate change and over logging of forests.

This is honestly kind of accurate accidentally. The Luddites were a movement trying to stop the exploitation of labor to work in dangerous factories which was destroying the health of large groups of people for the sole benefit of factory owners. The underlying problem isn't the AI, or the factories. It's the anti-social actions of rich sociopaths.

A lack of trust in corporations and the ultra-wealthy who own these models is only natural. Especially considering the use of AI has so far been less than ethical. (Targeting decisions for air strikes, surveillance, blatant IP theft, fraud, etc...)

I'm not sure that is entirely accurate. I wasn't able to verify any of your claims with a casual Google search. Do you have sources?

I think the biggest advantage rails have is that they are electrified and are accessible by rail based maintenance vehicles. Panels have gotten so inexpensive that the major cost is usually the mounting, installation, and electrical access. Some of that is mitigated by installing on railways. You can automate the installation process and connect into the tram lines.

If you save a child from malaria but they die in a civil war a few years later you have saved one life (Temporarily) but had very little impact on the death rate. Using changes in death rates to gauge the actual number of "lives saved" from preventable illness is going to be fraught with confounding factors.

USAID certainly had a massive impact in mitigating death from starvation and illness. They also did a great deal in spreading goodwill for the USA among nations that would otherwise have only seen us as only a shadowy menace thousands of miles away.

I am using miracle in the sense of: "So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal."

It isn't magic, it's just math.