I dislike having to use any AI tool. Solving the problem is the fun part. Not telling the machine to solve it.

I say this as someone who is required to use Claude Code at work and is generally not happy about that.

The functionality is useful enough that it will never go away. I think after the bubble pops and these companies have to actually make a profit, it will be too expensive for your average person. Businesses will want to still use it and will be able to pay what it actually costs to provide the service.

The idea that everyone is going to write emails and manage appointments and stuff like that is nuts. The value proposition isn't there. No "home user" is going to pay $50/mo for things like that. It just won't happen.

I was in Montreal last summer. I felt like things were a little cheaper, but not enough that I could point to it. I mean gas is absolutely more expensive. Were other things less expensive? IDK.

As far as culture, no not the same...but I was in Quebec so it's going to be different.

Interesting. I mean, "don't live on the upper west side" seems like good advice, but they also aren't really complaining about anything. It's a different story if they were complaining about how tough it is.

I have my phone set to show me the temperature in Celsius. I've tried really hard to internalize how far a kilometer is, and have failed so I still have my distance units set to miles.

The crazier thing is that other bettors know people with inside info are cheating and don't care.

This is just like gambling on sports when you know that the players are also betting. It's insane.

The only winning move is not to play.

By that definition no one owns any open standard. Either way this was an academic argument to start with, so it's not worth belaboring.

I do podcasts at 1.25x. I can't do videos anything other than 1x because the movements of people become unnatural.

I'd have had a 4.0 if i got a 50% for not doing my work.

AP is just a protocol. Like HTTP. The IETF owns the HTTP protocol. Anyone is free to implement it, but they decide what HTTP is and how it evolves over time.