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Amsterdam also declared war against fatbikes. There are plenty of electrical bikes in Amsterdam, but only fatbikes are the problem according to the Amsterdam City Government.

It seems they are targeted as a proxy for the people who drive them, which are generally younger people.

Maybe every year we should ban the car brands with most accidents. Kinda the same idea?

Innovation brings a golden age, then innovation flattens, competition arises and branding becomes more important

Flying was having its golden age around the times of Concorde and 747, coffee bars were great when Starbucks reinvented the 3rd place and social media was cool when it just came out

It very much relates to that Steve Jobs clip about what happens when the marketing people take over the company

Codex completely remove the layer where you see the code and it doesn't bother me, which is surprising

At least with Cursor or Claude Code I had an idea of what happened to the code. But it seems I don't need to see the code after all.

I was reading the post and had the same feeling of superficiality. I don’t think a human wrote it tbh

1000 years ago there was the medieval warm period which at least for Northern Europe provided warmer temperatures than today (eg grapes in the Netherlands)

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

Reason I shared this is because I wonder when ai assisted engineering interviews will become a trend

Kinda summarises my experience: I get a lot more done but learn a lot less

I can now claim I have experience with Docker, AWS, Rasberry PIs, … but don’t ask me to do it myself manually

> 4) why Singapore got to be such an important global hub.

Thailand is still dreaming of building a canal to create an alternative option.

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” Presumably most politicians own one (or more) houses

The fact that there is a housing crisis in most of the western world seems to prove this

In the old Michel Vaillant comics the f1 and indy cars seem to be interchangeable, they compete in each other’s championships

Not sure if true given that it’s fiction, but they do seem to be based on reality

But you do need a different sticker for each country

If Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam don’t like it they can probably do something about it

Every euro city seems to be able to set their own regulation on car exhausts

So why not limit the sizes of cars or prohibit specific cars into the city?

I’m frankly surprised Amsterdam didn’t ban some of these huge machines yet

I detest how each city has different rules on exhausts but it might be the only way

Why, does it breach any rules?

Assuming energy consumption per capita continues to rise

I believe the more technologically advanced we live the more energy we will use. Travel requires energy, ai models require energy, healthy food requires energy

The cheaper and more abundant we can make electricity, the faster we can reap the benefits of new technology

imo nuclear is an important part to have abundant energy at all times

The right hand keyboard could finally make me look like Boris from Golden Eye typing away while holding a pen in the left hand

> As a reminder, this applies not just to devices that exclusively use the Google Play Store: this is for every Android Certified device everywhere in the world, which encompasses over 95% of all Android devices outside of China.

So what happens in China? Should we buy Chinese Android phones?

Had a cancelled flight with Swiss which they claimed was birdstrike and hence force majeur. So no compensation …

the pushups are a great idea

Its not for the coffee

They are not hostile to laptops, and overall they have a well-thought out vibe with convenient seating and electricity plugs everywhere

Sounds like the start of the Die Hard 2 movie

Yes, I’ve read the spy who came in from the cold, and i tried to read a perfect spy

I liked the first one but its very raw and dark, no glitter and glamour

I quit the second one, part of the book are flashback scenes and I had a hard time staying concentrated, i forgot why exactly i didnt like those scenes

I like the old world charm

The book was written in the 50s, its way slower than the movie (though still a short read). Some things from the movie plot are the same

I love details like how difficult it was to get something communicated across a border only 75 years ago

Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

I still have old personal projects on there

Its inertia, its just not a priority to move them over

At that time time they were still hunter gatherers. So they might have been aware of their surroundings, but I presume not as much if they would have been a sedentary community.

The first communities started to settle more or less after the ice age ended, the sea level had risen and the planet had a more pleasant climate around 10000 years ago (source: I'm not a professional on this topic, just summarising what chatgpt tells me)

Yes, or Apple who with all the talent don’t manage to pull off anything useful in AI

xAI seems to be the exception, not the rule

Every time I read an article like this I end up in a rabbit hole of reading about ice ages, sea level changes, and how the human evolved throughout it. It’s mind boggling that only 20000 years ago the sea level was 120 meters lower and much of Northern Europe was covered in ice

You can still do it, just never do it alone

We used to hyperventilate before underwater training to extent our time under water

My thoughts exactly

When I’m tired or uninspired I notice laughter gives me energy

But I would like instant access to it