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"WESCAM" seems like a crazy name for a company.

The "We" is short for Westinghouse, or at least it was: Westinghouse Steered Stabilized Camera Mount, thus WESSCAM. Then they dropped an "S".

Granted pronouncing the name is ambiguous, Wes-cam or We-scam. But they're known well enough in the industry at this point that it's not a problem for them.


It's the we-scam part that's kinda funny. But of course they don't target consumers at all so that connotation doesn't matter I guess. Professionals just go by the product specs and not brand feeling.

I'm not super surprised that these examples worked well. They are complex and a ton of work, but the problems are relatively well defined with tons of documentation online. Sounds ideal for an LLM no?

Yes, that's a point I've been trying to emphasize: if a problem is well specified a coding agent can crunch for hours on it to get to a solution.

Even better if there's an existing conformance suite to point at - like html5lib-tests or the WenAssembly spec tests.


When did Linus say he doesn't know how to install a distro? My understanding is he's only said he prefers to use simple to install distros.


Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just incredible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s


The second line. The video description for me says the following:

"HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - An incredible sight at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Saturday morning, as Episode 38 erupted enormous lava fountains across the caldera, destroying one of the webcams that was live streaming the event.

All images and video are courtesy the U.S. Geological Survey. A synthesized text-to-video voiceover was used in the narration for this story."


There is pretty heavy pressure to buy stash tabs once you hit the later parts of the game, but you get a LOT of time to figure out if you actually like the game before you feel it.


How long before they start deleting? I haven't logged in for 5 years and my account is still there.


There is a huge amount of space between "not really an issue" and "it will not lead to humanity’s demise".


Like how folks cherry picks reports on health by focusing on fatalities rather than incidents.

It is like how you can have a car crash much safer nowadays than ever before, doesn't make car crashes fine or good.


Except its not 6 years for the vast majority of people?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

~75% of people get diagnosed in <1 month of urgent referral and 90% of people that want treatment get started in <1 month.

>and the poorest in the US are among the most plentiful medical tourists to Malaysia and Thailand.

This is such an absurd statement. The poorest Americans can absolutely not afford travel to the other side of the world for treatment.


I agree with the kid point, but YouTube is littered with travel influencer couples that are living this lifestyle.

I would imagine if you had significant other to join you on this lifestyle, it would be significantly easier since your companionship is covered.


These people’s lives are not what they’re showing in the YouTube channel.


youtube isn't real life, it's what the algorithm shows


Of course, my main point was my second sentence and was using YouTube as an example.

I know I'd be much happier travelling with my partner than solo.


$1/month extra cost on $16/month of revenue is very significant though.


1$/month was just wildly off.

They have 17 million paying subscribers. If they subtitled 1,000 episodes of content a month * 200$ = 200k / 17 million ~= 1 cent per subscriber per month. Actual cost per subscriber is well below that.


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