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https://llmdeathcount.com/ shows 15 deaths so far, and LLM user count is in the low billions, which puts us on the order of 0.0015 deaths per hundred thousand users.

I'm guessing LLM Death Count is off by an OOM or two, so we could be getting close to one in a million.


Densifying a city will make it cheaper than if we don't densify, but we usually densify because of high prices, so high density correlates with high prices despite being a counter-force against it.

And, yeah, living in a dense city definitely tends to cost more than the suburbs, especially per-square-foot. There might be exceptions (high crime urban areas with wealthy suburbs), but you're usually getting a pretty nice house in that suburb.


> While I have never not been able to get somewhere because public transport is not working.

Oh man, when I first moved to Austin and used the bus as my only method of transport, getting to work was usually straightforward, but whenever I wanted to go somewhere on the weekend, I prepared for the fact that there'd be a detour around downtown, where I normally make my transfer. I'd have to get off the bus somewhere new and try to figure out where to catch the bus for the next leg.

There were also a few occasions where there was over an hour between the "every 30 minutes" bus. Rare, but it happened. Buses naturally tend to clump together, so they need careful, intentional management to prevent this.

Public transit is great, and we need more, but it's not as reliable as I'd like. Cars are far more reliable, at least for moderately wealthy people who can afford to buy new-ish and keep them well-maintained. Bikes, too, if you're able to bike in rain and snow. (I ended up switching to almost 100% bike travel after about three years, and just kept a change of clothes at work, and at least dry socks, shirt, and underwear in my bag. Spare pants added too much bulk to lug around.)


This is all highly dependant on the specific city. In Melbourne, Australia trains to the city during work hours are around every 5 minutes, dropping to around 15 minutes for off peak. Going to work by train is faster than driving.

Buses that share roads with general traffic are always the worst solution and should really only be a temporary option to cover for downtime on rail.


> Why prioritise node instead of jq? The latter is considerably less code and even comes preinstalled with macOS, now.

That was my thought. I use jq to pretty print json.

What I have found useful is j2p and p2j to convert to/from python dict format to json format (and pretty print the output). I also have j2p_clip and p2j_clip, which read from and then write to the system clipboard so I don't have to manually pipe in and out.

> Any reason to not simply use `uuidgen`, which ships with macOS and likely your Linux distro?

I also made a uuid, which just runs uuidgen, but then trims the \n. (And maybe copied to clipboard? It was at my old job, and I don't seem to have saved it to my personal computer.)


Infinitely easier?

The challenge in migrating email isn't that you have to move the existing email messages; any standard email client will download them all for you. The challenge is that there are thousands of external people and systems pointing to your email address.

Your LLMs memory is roughly analogous to the existing email messages. It's not stored in the contacts of hundreds of friends and acquaintances, or used to log in to each of a thousand different services. It's all contained in a single system, just like your email messages are.


Firefox on macOS is fine. I've been using it as my primary browser for years. I consistently get captchas on archive.is (and just verified I also do on Brave), but rarely see it elsewhere.

I don't know the cause of what you're seeing, but it's not simply Firefox.


I get them with Firefox on FreeBSD. Chromium on FreeBSD less so.


Looks like around 12Hz, counting the forward rock and back rock as distinct chops. I'm not sure a rocking motion is what people mean here, though. This only works for mincing something you've already cut up, not slicing an onion.


Maybe the solution is an ultrasonic slap chop? (https://www.amazon.com/Slap-Chop-Stainless-Vegetable-Accesso...) Many slices at once, preserve whatever the ingredient is without crushing it, doesn't stick to the blade. It may sound ridiculous, but if it makes kitchen prep easier and faster, I might cook more.


> Blimps and airships can carry the weight, but they bring a laundry list of complications. They’re too slow, need an expensive hangar to shield them from bad weather, require helium—which is currently scarce—and struggle to land when it’s windy. “And by the way, wind farms tend to be windy,” he says.


Can you make unmanned hydrogen filled versions?


> Shipping them in multiple pieces and reassembling them on-site won’t work because the joints would create weak spots. Junctions would also add too much weight compared with that of blades made from single pieces of polymer, says Doug Arent, executive director at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation and emeritus NREL researcher.


Counter, from the linked paper

> While blade segmentation poses serious challenges, the wide variety of possibilities and the potential benefits are bound to lead to further developments in this field. Furthermore, segmentation appears most likely to be cost effective for very large, offshore turbines or on-shore turbines with promising conditions, but accessibility issues.


> Blimps and airships can carry the weight, but they bring a laundry list of complications. They’re too slow, need an expensive hangar to shield them from bad weather, require helium—which is currently scarce—and struggle to land when it’s windy. “And by the way, wind farms tend to be windy,” he says.


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