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sumek83on Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

due to large percentage of younger people not being able to afford to move away from their parents

sumek83on Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

That makes me suddenly way more interested in the upcoming redesign of the Pro laptops. I don't care about pretty much anything else that is gossiped about, but a reperaible design would be sweet

sumek83on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

https://github.com/maderix/ANE

sumek83on How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

hopefully soon down to 48h with EU-INC

sumek83on Welcome to Gas Town

I wonder if gas in the name is a reference to a natural gas given that it powers so many of the new AI data centers

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solvin...

sumek83on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins

and the people that believe it tend to be also very happy to be exposed to biological weapons running wild

sumek83on Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI

I've paid for a month! Now letting subscription lapse. ChatGPT-4 is still garbage

sumek83on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

ChatGPT burns quite a lot of energy. We need less of LLMs, not more

sumek83on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]

We need passive building cooling like:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

AC won't scale

sumek83on Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather

And tech carries out churning out artificial intelligence systems that consumes way more energy than genuine human intelligence while being worse off at the same tasks most of the time

sumek83on jq 1.7

"Improving in non backwards compatible way" sounds like "deteriorate"

sumek83on Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

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

sumek83on How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti

IMO key is the cost of shelter. In all the desirable locations with good jobs the cost of accommodation rises so much that even well earning middle class in uncertain of their future. There is a number of key services and goods everyone needs: somewhere warm to sleep, some food, and healthcare. If people weren't constantly worried that they will lack this the whole nonsensical piramid of useless work would fall apart and everyone would be much happier

sumek83on How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti

we have a choice to reduce economic activity in the controlled or uncontrolled way. sadly it seems we have to have tons of unrepairable electronics replaced every year and downfall of the civilization or it's "communism" aka ultimate evil

sumek83on How can AI help with climate change? A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti

by burning give amounts of energy and speeding it up

sumek83on 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year

is anyone using 1Password 8? I thought everyone are still on 7

sumek83on uBlock Origin 1.50.0

Chrome extension? - 'uBlock works best on Firefox'

sumek83on EU ready to back immediate open access without author fees

But how will capitalism survive without private companies stealing whats public?

sumek83on First clean water, now clean air

Belgium is making it obligatory from later this year, including gyms, restaurants, bars, etc

sumek83on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

resale value? Maybe this is one of the reasons iPhones have generally higher resale value than Android phones

sumek83on Google Cloud released a new database product (AlloyDB)

How similar/different is it to AWS Aurora?

sumek83on Every Age Gets the Mythology It Deserves

Is it the same newspaper that didn't publish a commissioned book review because it wasn't favourable enough and the editor was friends with the author of the book?

sumek83on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?

Can someone explain to me whats missing from Firefox feature or stability wise? I'm now using Chrome at $NEW_WORK and I can't see the single reason why I would prefer it. The only other time I've launched Chrome in the last 5+ years was to use some Google services like Stadia

Killer Firefox features for me are: sending pages to another browser to act on later on (and I use it a lot) and plugins in the Mobile Firefox.

sumek83on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

I'm one of the people affected. Over the years I've created multiple accounts most with multiple aliases on top of that. I would have a separate account for recruiters and job hunting, separate one for logging into sensitive accounts, separate one for each of the countries in which I've spend more time, etc, etc

Now I would need to start spending ~$90 + VAT (?) per month to keep this setup going. Anyone with a similar situation? Any services you could recommend to migrate to?

sumek83on Explorabl.es

Anyone remembers similar in style animation/explorable that was about forming of the groups? It talked among other things how groups become stronger by turning against outsiders/other groups

sumek83on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

Protonmail?

Based in Switzerland, client-side encryption

https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/

sumek83on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

And revolut?

https://www.revolut.com/jp/?lang=en

sumek83on Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital

Now that I'm out of my 20s I wouldn't want to be interviewing at almost any startup, anywhere in the world.

I'm now wiser. Startup culture is toxic and I prefer to stay away ...