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New “idiot test”… if you still cling to the idea that govt spend drives inflation in Western economies you’re either an ideologue with an agenda or you’re ignorant… either way you’re an idiot in this context. The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing…
… and here is a good explanation of why: In EVERY Node/TS app I’ve worked on… you spend a lot of your time battling over framework shit – not shipping your product. In Rails, you pick up the defaults and forget about the framework and get on solving your problem.
This tracks. Tesla has behaved like a company (in the past 12 months) that knows it can’t compete… Elon Musk just fired the entire Tesla Supercharger team. Why? It’s not about cutting costs or streamlining operations. It’s a signal. A signal that Tesla is pivoting away from being an electric vehicle company. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-is-abandoning-evs
Good. Fucking. Riddance. Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism Two weeks ago it was quietly announced that the Future of Humanity Institute, the renowned multidisciplinary research centre in Oxford, no longer…
I paid a lot of money for the privilege of getting an Apple Vision Pro brand-new in February. All-in, with optical inserts and taxes, I financed a little over $3,900 for the 256GB version of the headset. A day or so ago, I made a mistake that I’m sure many early adopters are familiar with: I looked…
From the makers of the image generator Stable Diffusion to Anthropoic, which was founded by OpenAI exiles, startups are staring down the barrel of their expenses — which in addition to the regular cost of running a tech startup also include the massively expensive compute power required to run large AI models. https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-startups-money-trouble
The Gulf of Mexicohas experienced twice the global average rate of sea level rise since 2010, a Post analysis of satellite data shows. Few other places on the planet have seen similar rates of increase, such as the North Sea near the United Kingdom. “Since 2010, it’s very abnormal and unprecedented,” said Jianjun Yin, a climate…
Resist the urge to self-commodify. Embrace what makes you different, not what makes you blend in. Focus on the process, not just the outcome. Pour yourself into your craft and trust that your tribe will find you. The internet is becoming a sea of sameness. But what we crave most is something genuine-something real-not a…
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