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Comment · 1 day ago
I know the name of my child’s chess coach. He doesn’t have any titles, but he’s really good.

There’s lots of community amount lower ranked players. You don’t have to be the best.

Comment · 1 day ago
I sort of did that. In October 2019 I started calculating my net worth every month. I have lots of graphs and charts.

Now I’m a FI millionaire who works because it’s the best way to meet interesting people my age. I look forward to when AI frees everyone from work and they have time to do fun stuff during the day too.

Comment · 15 days ago
The question of when to compress the air in the tank is an interesting one. Ideally you’d use the rockets for acceleration, breaking and cornering; which is all the time.

So probably the compressor will run all the time.

You’ll have to do a lot of modelling to work out the best time to use the rockets, my instinct is that fast cornering is the best use of the rockets. Maybe with a boost button to get you off the line fast at the beginning.

From the marketing materials it looks like straight line acceleration is being prioritised tho, so you charge the tank during braking and cornering.

Comment · 24 days ago
Agreed, if a company wants to fill roles it advertises on linked in. Maybe the rules need updating.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Additionally, without pretty extensive work there is no means of physically disabling the telemetry

My car has a fuse for the antenna module. You can remove this fuse to block all data transfer. Have a look at the fuse box diagrams for the minivans you are interested in.

Comment · 1 month ago
I find the rangers evolution into a proto police force fascinating.

It starts with being ready to help people who are having health crises. Then when a serious crime happens the community wants it to be investigated, and they call the only organised group that can help.

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I’m learning French and I’ve tried both AI and a remote tutor from Cameroon.

The tutor from Cameroon is much better.

She tells me when I’m getting the basics wrong and designs lessons to go back and fix the basics.

AI loves to tell me how great I am and do lessons at the frontier of what I understand to make me feel good about how much progress I’m making.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think OP means the existing open source ecosystem, things like the Python requests library.

There’s a real risk that AI kills contributions to traditional open source projects, and we all move to custom libraries written by our own AI.

Comment · 1 month ago
Why is a try/catch wrapper clutter but a switch case is not?
Comment · 2 months ago
Manageable during peacetime.

In a war with another major power resources would be stretched thin and depriving bases of food would reduce combat effectiveness.

Comment · 2 months ago
They go to meetings.
Comment · 2 months ago
You absolutely can deny long term productivity gains.

Pre AI it took 100 engineers 5 years to get into a legacy code situation. Once you’re in a legacy code situation it’s very hard to add new features and your code is full of bugs. Fortunately most old companies with legacy code are making loads of money so they can pay the increased development costs to add features to their legacy code.

Now with AI five engineers can build a legacy codebase in six months.

Comment · 3 months ago
That’s because big developers drip feed the houses onto the market…

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