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‘… many tech titans, Steve Jobs in particular, limit the amount of technology their children access…‘

Is he not aware that Mr. Jobs has been dead for over a decade?

Ahh yes, much like abstinence only education worked so well for teen pregnancy rates.

Didn’t the FT both vet his numbers and also publish on the same leak?

Reports which are (un)surprisingly light on actual financial details regarding their AI ‘investments’ and any profits therein.

Reciprocal tariffs alone don’t make much sense, it’s just making things for Canadians more expensive with an adversary that’s larger and can sustain them longer (although how long remains to be seen with guilt yields rising.)

If they really want to hurt them start making it legal to circumvent DRM on American products and allow build meaningful replacements.

Several of the links go to the wrong films, almost all of which are not free?

This reads like Dynamicland is no longer a thing. Their website seems to end in 2024. Anyone have any idea what Bret Victor is up to these days?

Who says you need Ford to do it? Aging Wheels tried a prototype of a small electric pickup a year ago from a team making one without the support of a huge car company. I have no dog in this fight, other than wanting more of transport to go electric but if Americans refuse to buy vans which probably make more sense for transporting goods this might be a good option.

Video: https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs

You didn’t like the broader consensus views towards llm usage but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t ultimately a positive to their community that you left. It sounds as though there was a mismatch in what you and the broader group wanted so perhaps a non-confrontational split is the best that could be hoped for in this situation?

It is, on hacker news, easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism it seems.

This is echoing a term made by Varoufakis about an increasing amount of money being held by a smaller and smaller group, not a return to literal peasant existence. It’s not feudalism, it’s ‘neo-feudalism’.

The argument that labour can move is true, except where it can’t. Look at the entire towns of miners made irrelevant with no replacement to their jobs. Sure you might say they can move half way across the country to clean toilets but they have skills, a family and houses somewhere else.

Where the argument of a feudal analogy really rings true is the increasing attempt to do back to extraction of rent for everything. Subscriptions for everything, including homes are becoming more and more normal. Are we really okay with a world in this form?

Same here, at least three nearby no longer exist and are now flats already.

I guess prepare for an acceleration of the same.

Amateurs. One close to me is at an +821% increase in its tax bill and rateable value at 613%.

Good for the time but dated. When your negative is the big it doesn’t matter as much but it’s absolutely not as sharp as more modern constructions. It’s also arguably a step down to use his printed body versus the original Mamiya press in terms of functionality other than reduced weight. Still an impressive design though.

It uses mamiya press lenses, the focusing helicoid and shutter are in the lens.

It’s also worth seeing how many US superfund sites are on former chip fabs. Intel, AMD, Fairchild etc. all just dumped things down the drains.

Regulations can be bad but they can also stop environmental disasters from happening.

I really hope this donation means the lost chapter of ‘the power broker’ about Jane Jacobs resurfaces.

Parking 2, aka Wellbeck Street car park has since been demolished to make way for a hotel. I wish I could have saved one of the concrete forms.

Or the most money and access to lawyers to do so.

While the story is interesting one thing struck me about the writing. The author for some reason mentions the wording in some eBay auctions:

‘“This Redbox lot is a must-have addition to any movie collection,” one of the sellers wrote, while another promised, “From action-packed blockbusters to heartwarming family favorites, this collection has something for everyone.”’

As someone who has seen the use of eBay’s questionable ‘help’ tool, this is clearly the AI generated slop auto description. I find it interesting that someone writing an entire article has taken it as real sentiment and not just someone taking the easiest way to try and make some money on used dvds.

It’s a shorthand for news articles intended for laypeople but it gets the point across; no natural processes yet found break down these compounds and in small but measurable quantities they build up in our environment. It’s not practical to say, treat all sewage effluent or refuse going to recycling / landfill / incineration to break them down so they build up and we don’t really know what they will end up doing. So for most practical purposes, yes they’re not going anywhere.

Yeah but he didn’t write it so it doesn’t matter, that’s why he has half a dozen links to his own work in a short essay. The man isn’t wrong but the relentless self promotion Doctorow does always comes over as mildly off putting.

Because they tell you before you get to the last station in the zone. You can get off, tap out & buy a ticket to wherever you’re going from that station.

I’ve been thinking about buying a copy of this but it seems like a pretty steep price to do in a whim. Is the third edition that much more necessary/ up-to-date than a good used copy of the second as a relative novice? Will I end up learning decades old things that are not relevant now?

I would counter that it won’t see adoption in cars but will in heavy machinery. It’s a much better proposition for hauling huge loads than tonnes of batteries are (assuming you can’t use a train in the first place) or for things like large excavators. It also removes some of the need for regular filling stations along roads etc. if you can centre the infrastructure around where fleets are based and return to for more cargo.

In the UK I would say the latter is incorrect and would never use it in writing.

One could also use is rurally to heat greenhouses for crops that need warmer climates. Apparently there is one company using their data centre to heat (a?) swimming pool in the UK however!

Could someone have used uv-c black lights thinking they looked cool and not realising about the severe health hazards?

The key word here is ‘could’. Not will, could.

It’s an analogue camera with all the complexities involved in making something that exposes and results in a physical object and with relatively low production numbers and a high r&d spend required to make it. Why, coupled with a lack of anyone making anything else like this for Polaroid film would you think it would be dirt cheap?

The I-1, the model previous to this was designed by teenage engineering. They know what they’re doing.