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Important context that many of these dollars are counted multiple times.

Ex: you bet 100 and win, bringing your holdings to 200. You bet another 100 and lose, back to 100. You’ve gambled $200 but have arrived at the same number you started with.

I have friends who gamble in excess of 100k/yr total. In general their net is ± 3k. A lot to spend on a hobby, but the total is often misleading.

This reads like a precision vs recall problem.

If I say every model is trained on CSAM, I too will correctly identify 100% of the models that were. Says little about my false positive rate though.

Not OP but my frustrations come from it being impossible to ignore and outright distracting.

I've found the same thing showing with Claude-coded/designed front ends that overuse the same semi-monospaced fonts, Blue/Yellow/Red palette and rounded corner borders. It isn't that it is bad, but it often isn't fit for purpose.

You're right it wont change anything, but authors shouldn't be surprised when people who care about their time/attention comment on low/no effort pieces.

> “Great. So, do you use AI a lot at work?”

> “Oh, I can’t! It’s really not reliable enough.”

Gell-Mann Amnesia strikes again.

> Buettner himself says he oversaw the blue zones frozen meal initiative

This really captures the reality of longevity, at least in US culture. Whether or not blue zones are verifiable or real, the ingredients to statistical longevity are well understood to minimally include: eat better and maintain a level of fitness.

Those are not easy to do when laziness, sedentary device time and fast food options are just so easily available. So instead, we end up with frozen meals that almost certainly don't contain the same nutrients and definitely don't include the same effort as having to prepare a meal by hand while walking about the kitchen.

Medicine has extended longevity, but the relative ease of our senior years is perhaps robbing us of the quality of that bonus time.

This may be one of the least informative articles i’ve read in a while. Apart from the headline i can’t imagine what compelled it to be shared here.

Left-footed and right-handed. I find my "handedness" follows where the activity is driven from (upper/lower body).

Soccer, snowboarding, batting, golfing: lefty

Writing, throwing, tennis, pool: righty

This triggered a rabbit hole search that had me rediscover Packard Bell Navigator[1]. The nostalgia and joy this page brings me is hard to describe. I hope everyone remembers their formative tech journey so fondly.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator

I have an opposite reaction for what I assume are reasons we agree on.

Social media has been a transparent race to the bottom for many years. The sooner it is shittified beyond repair the better. AI flooding content to them should help speedrun its descent, or maybe I’ve giving the average user (above child age) too much credit.

Thanks for posting this. It should be the link in the OP frankly.

The Gorsuch concurring is quite the read, but wish more Americans internalized its final paragraph (excerpts below).

Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. ... But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today’s result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.

Unhook[1] has been my go-to for this. Gives full customization over shorts, recommendations, comments, etc.

1a: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

1b: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu...

At a big enough scale, previously large differences are effectively 0.

50k/mo is 600,000/yr vs 360/yr at 30/mo. Thats existential for a 1MM/yr company. Neither register on a balance sheet for a 1B/yr company. They are both closer to 0 than being a major cost.

Your blog layout, particularly on desktop, is brilliant.

Lived in Denver for the last 15 years and own a company. You couldnt pay me to have office space in Denver simply by virtue of i'd rather spend commuting time doing something more fun. This applies to just about everyone i know here as well. Many come to Denver for the outdoors and the activities, commutes cut into that time.

People making both the "they are a draw on the system" and "they are taking all the jobs" arguments confuse me.

You can be anti-immigration, but you should pick one.

“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago.

Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (probably still buggy) code today.

Yes. You can install firmware updates over usb.

Good news for blue collar workers, tough for investors. The bean-counting dream of LLM's and Robotics remains, but until ChatGPT is placing your order at Mcdonalds drive-thrus and Amazon is laying off warehouse associates en masse, i'd say that last 5% is still taking 95% of the time.

SponsorBlock became an instant, install-everywhere extension for me the same way UBO had. I'm amazed how few know of it considering its value and elegance.

"I saw the best minds of my generation..."

I'm not typically sensitive to AI-sounding text but those image captions leave me understanding others' issues with it.

> How is BTC not the exact opposite of gold?

If BTC is the exact opposite of gold, it follows that Eth, Ripple, USDC, etc are all more gold-like than BTC. I'd be interested to hear why you believe that to be true.

BTC is a coin with longer investments and does not fluctuate as much as other cryptocoins (by %). It has a known supply (past, present and future) and predictable mining rate. It has a known finite future supply cap.

To be clear i don't believe BTC is a perfect gold analog. But if you have to pick the "most gold-like" digital asset, it would make my short list.

Gold fell on Friday and recovered over the weekend. BTC certainly remains a more speculative asset than physical gold, but the comparison is not as unhinged as you make it sound.

Are you familiar with any? I know people who bet on sports for a living and one of their biggest operational challenges is keeping accounts unbanned long enough to make consistent income.

I haven't any help to offer, but want to say that this post along with reading your site the other day has shown a level of composure and resiliency that i aspire to.

Good luck getting your access back.

Disabling “Ambient Mode” in the settings helps cpu usage a lot on my intel MBA.

All my music gets copied into OS X's Apple Music, which still supports iPods. Other repliees are arguably better alternatives these days.

I daily drive an iPod (currently listening to it on a flight). Some benefits:

- Listening to music doesn't drain your phone. Also it's offline, which is a bonus for hiking/biking/flights.

- Underrated convo starter. Set one down on a bar top as you sit down and i promise you'll be talking to everyone around you

- The battery life is unmatched, including by modern DAP's. Mine is running a stock battery (still!) and gets days of playback. Weeks/months when idle (use it too much to know for sure).

- iFlash [1] has replacement boards for $30-$40 that let you use modern nvme storage over spinning media. Simple swap and has been rock solid for me for years.

- Audio quality over 3.5mm aux ports is noticeably superior to bluetooth in most (older?) cars

Would they take off today? I think there could be a retro-y scene for them, especially if they had any wifi connectivity. The device remains one of the best purpose-built consumer devices, and that's hard not to appreciate. My 10yr old daughter thinks it's less cool than i do, though.

1. https://www.iflash.xyz/

This is a superb take. I've admittedly always thought of interviews as a process in desperate need of improvement. Thinking of it as a market is a helpful perspective shift on some long-standing ideas.