@chrisdemeyere @Porkchop_EXP Willingly suffering for a whole month is pure europoor behavior.
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Or maybe… it doesn’t make sense here? Most of the time, we are looking to heat up our houses, not cool them down. Our houses are made of brick, well insulated.
We have about 3 months during the year where it is warm. About 1 month with an actual heatwave where AC would make sense.
And we have access to it. Climate change makes it more interesting, in combination with solar panels. Many commercial spaces, hotels, medical buildings… already have it. Because at that scale it makes sense for the limited usage.
It is one of the weirdest discussions since it is so easily debunked.
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The weirdest thing about the “europoor no AC” discourse is that there is AC everywhere in Southern and Eastern Europe so this is obviously not a financial issue.
It is an ideological issue in Northwestern Europe, which is admittedly even funnier.
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@Noahpinion @IMAO_ More likely: “100,000 people who are already at the end of their lives would live slightly longer.”
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Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR.
But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.
Steve McCormick@Quasilocal
How can someone who markets himself as some kind of intellectual, with over half a million followers on here, post this same old silly misinformed take that gets posted a million times every summer
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@AlexEveryGuy @Shadow_ofaDoubt @unusual_whales Amazon has 320 million active customers. NYC has 9 million people.
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Apples to oranges. NYC took in $140 billion in 2025. Amazon took in over $700 billion the same year. Government funding of a city relies on the state as well as the federal government. It also requires placing that money in the right places and taxing people in an equitable way. Amazon just needs to make as much money as possible lol.
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Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
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@blissful017 @TheDegenWeekly No, you're a pussy if you let a hangover dictate your life for 3 days.
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@TheDegenWeekly You said it’s poison, and that you’re a pussy if 3 glasses gives you a hangover
Maybe be more careful about what you post
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There’s a great story about when Clinton Portis was severely hungover before a game. He was going to tell Mike Shanahan he couldn’t play. Shannon Sharpe stopped him and made him run sprints till he threw up. Portis rushed for 228 yards and 2 touchdowns.
I’m not here to tell you alcohol is good bc it’s not. It is poison and I wish I didn’t love it. But if you can’t go to the gym bc you’re hungover after 3 glasses of wine, you are just a ginormous pussy.
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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@bcherny @johnturner Just took this screenshot. This is a problem I run into every time. Claude version - 2.1.139.
Granted this is me pushing directly to main, which is not a typical pattern for big prod repos, but it's still something we all do for sideprojects.
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@johnturner Which permissions issues, can you screenshot what you’re seeing?
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People often ask what my biggest tip is for getting the most out of Claude Code.
These days my #1 tip is: use auto mode
Auto mode means no more permission prompts. It is the key building block for multi-clauding: start a session, then while it runs, work on another session in parallel.
ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs
Two updates to auto mode: · Now available on the Pro plan · Sonnet 4.6 is now supported, alongside Opus 4.7 Shift+tab, and let Claude run.
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@laurashin @BStulberg Sounds like he was resilient and now he’s fragile
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To how his body feels. Before he probably had a baseline level of inflammation and numbness because there were a lot of inputs that didn’t make his body feel great so he was less aware of any one of them. But then cutting out the alcohol gave him a certain level of clarity and awareness of how his body feels without these inputs and so when he added it back it made him more aware of how it affected him. It’s very similar to an elimination diet
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Y'all—this optimization stuff can make you fragile.
If you are in recovery then yes, of course, a few glasses of wine will mess up your week (or worse). If you get drunk then yes, I could see it messing up a day or two.
But if going out to dinner and having a few glasses of wine throws you for this much of a loop then perhaps you've actually just become fragile?
I mean how would Steven manage having a newborn, or really any age kid? Or just the general uncertainty and messiness of life?
In my new book I tell the story of golfer JJ Spaun, who was up all night with his vomiting toddler. His Whoop sleep score would have been zero. The next morning, he went out and won the U.S. Open.
Actual excellence (not the elaborate, performative internet variety) demands resilience. It controls the controllables, no doubt. But it also ensures you don't optimize yourself into fragility, which is an increasingly common trap and performance killer. bit.ly/4uCzeQ7
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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@number_pizza111 Oh he’s accelerating baby. Accelerating your ass out of here.
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People who saw Trump as an accelerationist who would work with Elon Musk to climb the Kardashev scale are now finding out he’s just a person who has been president before and hates immigrants.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
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Honestly pretty devastating.
Founders can't afford to leave the country while managing a billion dollar company.
This will also affect many employees who are some of the top scientists in the world in their specialty, working on mission critical tech for the US.
Sad day.
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Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years.
Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
Theo - t3.gg@theo
This sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can’t fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion dollar companies that want to anchor themselves in the US.
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@Blockedhmmmm @michael_wiebe > So the density isn’t the problem — But I never argued it was.
> My point is if you build enough density to ruin the exclusivity. (iE allow poors)
Brother ..
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@lambda_thoughts @michael_wiebe That’s LITERALLY not what I said.
You are struggling with the comprehension.
My point is if you build enough density to ruin the exclusivity. (iE allow poors in)
It would ruin the desirability
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Hear me out: if we build more homes in desirable neighborhoods, then (and this is the complicated part) more people will be able to live in them.
Nick Huber@sweatystartup
We don't need more housing. People just "want" to live in the highly desirable neighborhoods and can't afford it. This will never end and this problem is not solvable.
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@Blockedhmmmm @michael_wiebe Brother you literally argued that density reduces desirability in your very first tweet.
Blockedforwhat@Blockedhmmmm
@michael_wiebe If they built more houses in desirable areas they would no longer be desirable. Desirable = exclusive. Never ending treadmill.
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@lambda_thoughts @michael_wiebe There is no clean American success story of integration with the wealthy and poor in a neighborhood.
It always results in wealth flight, because they don’t want to live around poor people.
So the density isn’t the problem — But I never argued it was.
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Congrats. No one will ever trade a pick again. Good job silver
Kevin O'Connor@KevinOConnor
Sources: The NBA has sent the latest version of its Draft Lottery reform proposal to teams ahead of their May 28 vote. The “3-2-1” proposal is largely the same and details have emerged on a rule that had previously lacked clarity. More on @YahooSports: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/nb…
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Better yet, tell the waiter how using that water for almonds is a far worthier cause than hydration. To think: if everyone at the restaurant pooled all the water they would've drunk and watered an almond tree, you'd help create a single new almond. From nothing. That single almond will satiate the hunger of a human for approximately 50 whole seconds. Unimaginable prosperity.
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was out to dinner recently
waiter approached our table
"let me fill those waters for you, do we have any allerg-"
before he could start pouring, i stopped him in his tracks
"sir, is something wrong?"
"yes, i don't want a single drop of water wasted on this dinner."
he seemed confused, so i explained
"a data center can use that entire jug of water to power 3 minutes of agentic workflows. that's a much higher ROI than keeping me hydrated."
eventually, i managed to convince every table at the restaurant to do the same. they all clapped as i loaded the spare water onto a truck heading for the closest data center
i haven't had anything to drink in weeks, and i'm starting to hallucinate, but if hallucinating is good enough for the LLMs, it's good enough for me
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@kunchenguid Idk that sounds a lot like the argument that if OpenAI didn’t build gpt 5.5 it’s ok because Anthropic and Gemini both create top tier foundation models.
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i'm strongly against model companies focusing too much on harness, but i would love to hear if anyone has a strong argument for it
my reason against it:
if openai didn't build GPT 5.5, no one else can. this is their core competence
if openai didn't build codex cli and app, we have opencode and t3code. building harness is NOT their core competence
this is not saying products like claude code, codex aren't good - i genuinely think these are top tier products built by really talented people
my point is - the world might be a better place if model companies focus more on their core capability and give us better, faster, safer and cheaper models, rather than competing with the ecosystem in the application layer
what do you think?
Greg Brockman@gdb
the model alone is no longer the product
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@Alicia_Bittle_ @k971d Yeah if you experienced either of those things you might find yourself changing your mind ..
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@k971d I don’t have to experience infertility to believe IVF is immoral
Just like how I can still believe abortion is evil without having ever been raped
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We have data to show that a baby’s epigenetic profile is extremely fragile and altered by all sorts of strange variables, even the stress level of its father.
We now even have evidence that eggs live in “communities” inside ovaries and the ones with better/more robust communities are healthier.
What influence would living frozen and alone for 30 years have on your genetic psyche?
Lancesico 🇱🇨@Bornakang
The world's oldest baby was born from an embryo frozen in 1994. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce is over 30 years old despite being born on July 26, 2025
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Bronx is less desirable but also a lot cheaper. Manhattan is both the most clearly desirable place in the US and also the most dense. I should know, I lived there for many years. We all willingly choose far smaller and more expensive places vs living in the Bronx because Manhattan is a much nicer place to live in.
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@lambda_thoughts @michael_wiebe Sacrificing QOL for career opportunity is not the same as finding that neighborhood desirable. Nobody says ‘I love my 400 square foot Bronx apartment, it’s so desirable.’
They say tolerate it because the job is worth it. And they’ll move eventually.
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@Blockedhmmmm @michael_wiebe Opportunity is an aspect of desirability.
Are you saying people just willingly pay more for less just for the lolz?
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@lambda_thoughts @michael_wiebe Millions of people live in dirty, nasty, low QOL of life parts of NYC for opportunity.
If you think “expensive” relative to Indiana means every neighborhood in NYC is desirable.. you’re fucking insane.
70% of NYC is not pleasing or excellent.
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@pau11960 @OpenAIDevs My issue is a company who wants to be seen as a “utility” isn’t building for everyone.
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Codex anywhere and everywhere, all the time.
Now your Mac doesn’t have to be unlocked for Codex to use your computer.
From your phone, Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked.
#locked-use" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developers.openai.com/codex/app/comp…
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Bro the densist city in the US is also the most desirable. Density is a big part of why it’s so desirable.
Why do people sacrifice 10x the space in NYC for what they could get in most of the country? Because it’s fucking dense which means the action is right there.
Like what is going on inside that head of yours.
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@lambda_thoughts @michael_wiebe There is just so much demand from rich people in NYC they you can continue to build and it doesn’t lower desirability in Key areas.
But you’re a fucking idiot if you think wealthy people are going to stick around if there neighborhoods start attracting poor demographics.
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@CasperOnChain He used his uncle, a cop, to violate that mans privacy illegally. Great story.
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Shaq reveals he tracked down his biological father who abandoned him and found out he lived 40 blocks away the whole time
"My mother said you should connect with your biological father. I called my uncle who's a cop. He said, 'You ain't gonna believe this, you know that restaurant we eat at all the time? He lives in that building'"
"There was always a chef there who'd start crying when he saw me. He said, 'I'm Joe's best friend. I just hope one day you come down here and y'all can eat'"
"He's 40 blocks away. I went to meet him. He said sorry. I said, you don't need to say sorry, everybody has their problems"
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@NoldorHolder @the_P_God @notjessix Yes. You will die of thirst as there is no more water left once the data centers came in
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@the_P_God @notjessix i’ve never played. Is it too late to start?
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