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My question to that is: Why do you? Why on earth do people want to tie themselves so hard to a specific mast?

HN was - and probably still is - very negative to Bitcoin. Which always puzzled me. But I’ve realized: To grasp such concepts, you can’t only be good at code.

You can not have done any calculus on cloud costs? Capex -> opex is the only thing they fix. But the costs are way higher.

You really must be new to this, huh? Expensive software that you paid for?! Claude? Yes, the question is whether you want to share knowledge that cost you literally nothing, and will bring humanity one microscopic step in a better direction - or not, feeling superior in that only you have access to that knowledge. You have a choice!

In Norwegian that means 9:30. It is indeed very common, that’s how we say every x:30. It’s «halfway to ten» or something.

I'm just trying to catch up with you after the "I get so confused on this"-screenshot that's evidently going viral wrt. LLMs. I just turned 50, and that resonated so hard.

Wrt. this feeling you're describing here: You might mostly be feeling the Enshittification. At least that's a big thing for me. Companies are not making things better, they are making everything worse. Instead of actually making new stuff, they're wringing the existing lemon five extra times to squeeze that last drop of juice out of it, adding one extra ad in the youtube viewing, making it harder to integrate. APIs being deprecated, walled gardens. Things have been going downhill for at least a decade. This makes me sad.

Google and Facebook?

Correct. It is insane. Bonkers. Absurd. How the hell can you live with that-stupid.

Duty Time, straight out.

A tad surprised that curvature isn't discussed? With such a massive screen, the distance from your eye to the middle of the screen, and eye to the corners, are very different - unless you sit far away. Your eyes thus need to change focus all the time. That's AFAIK why those ultra wide screens are curved - and I find that the more curve they have (smaller radius), the better it is. With such a massive screen, I guess it would be best if it was part of a sphere! (Curved both ways)

It has been exactly the same with outsourcing production to China...

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

A bit light on the detail of how the standard green-screen process works in post: I'd prefer a bit deeper dive into the problems one encounter. And then compared harder to how this became easier with the sodium lights, compare and contrast. I think that was glossed over too fast. Otherwise really interesting!