Insanity

I’ve never seen anything point to Anthropic being profitable.

Given how heavily subsidized it is at the moment, the efficiency isn’t as important. Typically efficiency would give you more at lower cost, but with token prices so removed from actual cost that play…

At least the dot com crash left us with m useful infrastructure. And it didn’t price regular customer out of the computer market. Going to have to sell a kidney to build a new gaming PC the next few y…

True indeed, I definitely missed some sleep because of books.

Well, I guess both risk management and the 5 stages are inherently a human activity. Not too surprised that behaviour transfers across personal/professional boundaries. :D

Also, reading lowers stress. Which in turn improves sleep an overall mental / physical health. I always read before going to bed for at least 30 minutes, and anecdotally I have a much easier time…

And yet again the age of the universe is pushed higher. As our understanding improves, it tends to get older (and larger).

Poor title or poor understanding of 'Lonely'. Lonely means the negative experience of being alone / longing for connection. I guess better phrasing is 'Maybe men like solitude'…

I didn't read Peak Mind, but two books that are somewhat in the same vain (based on your description) are: 1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59794522-non-things 2.…

This resonates with me. I enjoy being at my grandparents’ home. And it’s exactly as you mentioned, if I would describe all the stuff in the living room it’d be called “cluttered”. Yet it feels “homey”…

I've been a paying customer for many years and can't recall the last time this happened apart from now. It's honestly been a pretty stable service and rarely encountered any issues with…

Same here. I started describing it as the “uncanny valley” of text. It’s like a gut reaction that something is off with the text even if you can’t pinpoint it immediately.

Ah yes, remember how back in the day people spent about 6-8 hours reading the newspaper. /s

I think there’s just a decent component of “random chance” involved. You can live a healthy life and still die too young, or you can be a lifelong smoker who lives to 90. When thinking about the impac…

+1. The base price for US healthcare is entirely removed from the cost of the service provided. And you can of course just look at other countries to figure out that the cost is much higher than it sh…

I tried a “cleaning sim”. I already forgot the name but it was just like doing chores with a pressure cleaner. Have not tried the train / driving sim though.

I like this comparison. That’s a good way to think about it.

I never got the appeal for these sim games. From the screenshots, it looks like a beautiful game and I guess I could enjoy the visuals for an hour or 2. But I don't see how it'd entertain me…

They prompted the model by hand.

I did this but have (partly) reverted. I don't always want to read a wall of text that an AI regurgitates for search. The google AI snippet (1 short para) does seem better than the typical ChatGP…

+1. I’m in the exact opposite camp, I enjoy programming more than “shipping a product”. But the programming itself, coming up with solutions to tough problems, is the fun part. Shipping a product is a…

Betteridge's law of headlines :)

It was! Downtown near the financial district.

You definitely need infrastructure for that. Biking infrastructure in North American cities is.. not great. Definitely viable in some of the EU ones though.

Used to do this in Belgium. Still less convenient than driving, and kinda annoying to use during a Canadian winter. And again, more limited space. I commute by walking (1h per day) and typically avoid…

I don’t but YMMV of course. Maybe if I was single, but it’s just inefficient to go multiple times a week. And then there’s heavier things to carry (drinks).

I doubt this is true. I walk to the store when I quickly need to get eggs or milk or something random I forgot. But I’ll drive to do the weekly grocery trip because I can’t carry food for a week (for …

I live in a metropolitan area and can walk to many stores within a 30 minute radius. (First supermarket is less than 5 minutes away). But there is the added complication of weight. I can’t buy food fo…

This is kind of non-news to be honest. Reporting on _having_ the conversations is much more valuable. And reporting of absence can also just means it's absent 'as far as we know'.

I walk to the office during warm days, it’s about 30 minutes to get there. I get essentially an hour of walking just by commuting. If I drive, it takes me 15 minutes (Toronto traffic is horrible). So …