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  1. Perhaps I’m naive, but buying from an IKEA (in Norway) or another big store feels less risky than buying something handmade.

    Several people are involved in making every product at IKEA. At least one of them must be an expert in compliance. They can expect scrutiny and product recalls, fines and bad sales if they’re found out.

    The one person making the hand-made spoon does not necessarily know all the environmental regulations that should be followed.

  2. Mind your off-by-1s: 97 items is not large, 98 is.
  3. Anecdotally, I find early mover advantage to be overrated (ask anyone who bought Betamax or HD-DVD players). It is significantly cheaper – on average – to exploit what you already know and learn from the mistakes of other, earlier movers.
  4. This Twitter profile gives hard conspiratorial vibes.

    See for example the retweeted post about “atheist Jews” being behind the “LGBTQ Agenda”.

  5. I personally would value a spam filter that filters out AI generated content.
  6. This is called Recursive AI, and is briefly mentioned in the paper.
  7. *en skam
  8. And maybe they do? If you make the elevator more accessible than the stairs, people get lazy.
  9. What does EI mean in this sentence? Tried looking it up and found no definition that stood out.
  10. Most of the adults alive today have lived sometime when CPU speeds doubled every 12–24 months (see Moores law). This has conditioned many to believe that all information technologies improve exponentially, while, in reality, most are not.
  11. I use batman from bat-extras[0]. It may very well be the best named command line utility I know.

    [0]: https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras

  12. At around 32 minutes, he explained that a sufficient implementation of negative infinity would be the smallest possible value representable by the data type (e.g. 32 bit integers).
  13. With a much better acronym.
  14. That is because the green button is a «zoom» button, which maximizes the window to display its contained document: https://blog.xoria.org/macos-tips/#window-management

    I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, but that’s the explanation.

  15. Saying that a profession is less stressful than others, doesn’t imply it’s stress free.

    Most professions have a much higher risk of physical violence, for instance.

  16. I really liked the critique of the US sales tax. I did not know such taxes still existed.
  17. It may be a “level of abstraction”, but not a good one, because it is imprecise.

    When you want to make changes to the code (which is what we spend most of our time on), you’ll have to either (1) modify the prompt and accept the risk of using the new code or (2) modify the original code, which you can’t do unless you know the lower level of abstraction.

    Recommended reading: https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet

  18. Interesting. Does Epic come with any pre-built UI for its products? Some of the bad UX complaints have been explained away as bad reuse of interfaces adapted to the realities of US private health care (which is very different from Norway’s public health system).

    I do not think a language barrier is at play; Norwegians and the other Scandinavians are among the most fluent English speakers of English as a second language in Europe, surpassed perhaps only by the Dutch.

  19. Do you have any links for this? Tragic that people got killed, but even more so if the same software was at the core. And I sure hope it was cancelled, if that was the case.
  20. Yes, this was the kind of thing I was curious about.

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