kilburn

There's very few people in the world that can maintain 47 years of uninterrupted discipline. Most people hit one or a number of:

- A significant health issue that also drains them economically

- A broken marriage that cuts their savings in half (or less)

- A low point in their life where saving for retirement just doesn't make sense in their heads anymore because they feel they'd rather die tomorrow.

- A streak of bad events longer than they planned for (the car breaks down, they got fired and their mother-in-law needs financial assistance all at the same time)

- Etc, etc...

The point is: nobody is retiring a millionare through the process you described. Either you save signfiicantly more at certain points (because you earn more) and get lucky enough with the above where you make it there, or you don't retire a millionare even after having saved consistently for many periods in your life.

Other legistlation plays a similar game:

- Slandering laws set a limit for what you can say about others

- Copyright laws set a limit on what you can share with others under which circumstances

Both those things seem similarly complicated to implement and yet we have them.

> do they think if they get the disc, they can just hold and be able to play that disk for decades or just copy to drive they have?

We can legally back-up owned discs to hdd or whatever other media in my country, including to the cloud. I can use the original media or any such backups as many times as I want, forever.

We can also sell a "hard media" copy wheven we want. IP owners cannot take away that right from us. Of course you must delete your backups if you sell the original media.

With digital "purchases" neither of these is true anymore. That's where the outrage comes from.

The harness was absolutely not an issue in my case.

The new pricing model where I got banned from using Opus entirely and half a day of work (with weaker models) consumed the 10$ plan was.

I'm now using a Claude Max subscription and I can get close to the daily limits but I'm fairly happy with the overall plan consumption.

If you enter a bookshop and you ask for a book that does not exist then it's definitely your mistake.

If you ask for a book they don't have it's a different matter.

In any case, when you ask for a book in a library you are using their "search" endpoint. The equivalent to opening a books/1 url would be asking for a specific instance of a book by serial number or so. Then it's clear that you made a mistake uf you do that for an unexistent serial number...

> even if it means slightly-to-modestly more expensive meat.

This is a hard one to prove without trying. A lot of people would say that and then buy the cheaper version when the time comes.

I don't know what kind of breakage was the parent talking about.

My experience is that as the car gets older it is common for the vents to lose the capability to stay pointed where I place them. As in: you point them where you want and they flip back all the way to one side as soon as you let go.

(Hot climate here, with several months of "a/c set to max during the whole trip" per year)

There's no car identification in this protocol, meaning that impersonation/mitm attacks are trivial. Try again :)

> The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades.

You seem to think that joke is out of date now. Many others don't ;)

Random is prng. They still cannot cache though because they do many reading "passes" through the same data.

If build a cache that gets hits on the first pass, then it won't work for the second and later passes.