Usually it's just jousting and overpriced ale; you guys go to weird Medieval Timeses
20.4% price increases for the energy sector as a whole. 74% Y/Y price increase for heating oil! 0.1% wage gains (= real wage losses)! What a bloodbath of a report! I'm kind of surprised that the administration didn't try to hold it another month.
Fun fact: the other YC-grad execs are all pretty jealous of this. My boss wants us to come up with some similar-level stunt I think.
The whole industry's gone a bit loony over the last couple of years.
The people who spend 23 hours a day running agents and outputting 300 slop emails an hour aren't seeking cognition, they're seeking quick rewards; "working" with "AI" isn't a cognitive task so much as it's a gambling task. Just keep asking Claude to try again on that PR and eventually you get that dopamine hit from it making a not-totally-shitty solution and you never had to actually engage your higher brain function, you just did lots of low level churn of "prompting".
Dan Moren's Galactic Cold War series might be a good fit. Like Scalzi, it's very soft sci fi, with a somewhat military bent (spies, in this case) and well-written characters.
Also, if you liked Old Man's War, I actually thought Scalzi's Interdependency series was better so you might enjoy that.
Yes. We're consuming lots of natural resources at a prodigious rate, like topsoil, phosphorous, and even fresh water — never mind fossil fuels. It seems fairly clear that the planet cannot support a population of 7 billion humans for very long (on a geological timeframe), so either we're in a civilizational bubble that will pop or we're going to have to come up with another round of magical technologies à la the Haber Process to keep the bubble going...
Technically, a router is any device which routes traffic at the IP layer (layer 3; based on IP addresses like 10.1.2.3 or fe80::abcd:1234), as opposed to some other later (e.g., a device which routes at layer 2 is a switch; a device which routes at layer 7 is a load balancer).
In colloquial usage, "router" usually refers to a home internet gateway, which is a device that does a few things:
- serves as a masquerading gateway for your local network (allowing multiple devices inside your home to share a single IP address provided by your ISP)
- serves as a traditional router for IPv6 if your ISP provides such access
- contains an Ethernet switch allowing you to connect multiple Ethernet devices
- often contains a WiFi access point, allowing you to connect WiFi devices and bridge them into your main network
- has firewall/ACL systems to prevent the outside world from getting into your network
It usually does this by being a single box containing a small Linux or BSD computer running some custom software, dedicated WiFi and Ethernet chips, and some antennas. No magic there; you can do the same thing with any computer if you put enough elbow grease into it.
Great! Glad to see neither item pass!
Because everything costs more than you think. Having a child without insurance is often over $100,000. Any visit to the ER for an emergency? $25,000 to get in the door and often millions of dollars if you need lots of interventions. Heck, even with insurance, chronic conditions often cost thousands of dollars per year. Even simple procedures like my daughter's tympanostomy tubes have self-pay prices in the tens of thousands of dollars.
There are still some of those that I'm familiar with, mostly entry-level white collar professional jobs like "receptionist" or "desktop IT".
Beyond that, the 9-5 is dead, though. A lot of the rest of American white-collar jobs are 24x7 where you're expected to respond to slack or email within a few minutes all day, and probably also be in the office 8-10 hours per day. And working-class jobs have all moved to unscheduled part time nonsense where they'll give you 29.5 hours a week (to avoid having to give you benefits), but won't tell you which 29.5 hours until the last possible moment.
Licensed childcare runs between $2500 and $4000 per month per child here in the Bay Area; $200k salary is about $150k after tax. Doesn't take a terribly big family to totally exhaust that amount if both parents need to work to bring it in.
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