Setup a burner Gmail account, e.g overgard.saas@gmail.com. Use this with Google login for all the AI tools out there. Then transfer to your more trusted account when you're ready to be a long time, paying customer.

With or without LLMs, the culture of Amazon would eventually lead to all of their positions feeling like warehouse work.

Source: I worked there.

Looks good!

thx mate!

I'm naturally an outcome-focused person. Couple that with thinking long-term, I feel it's my best defence against falling prey to fads, hype and general distraction.

I keep on top of the desired result - my mediums are code, images and 3D renders. I'm critical of my own work, let alone AI, so I'll never use Cursor et al. The act of copy pasting is a proxy for quality control.

That said, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini are plenty for me right now. I downloaded the ChatGPT OS X first, so that gets used the most. Gemini gives better results, but I often forget that's a choice.

The contempt for international law is the true headline here.

What international law? The United States isn't an ICC signatory. Microsoft is a US company.

The one you display contemt for by sanctioning organizations trying to uphold it. Neither of the facts you mentioned is of any relevance to this point.

Another often overlooked difference is that non US/UK citizens are typically bilingual, so by definition can access more news sources

Thanks for these.

Here's another one: coordinate space (e.g object, world, normal, tangent) to make vertex transformation calculations almost trivial.

Trying my best to put this politely, but this reads like a list of excuses.

If you have dependents and a stable income is important then by all means, wait for the perfect conditons to arise (they likely won't - or when they do, everyone else will also be taking advantage of such conditons).

Otherwise, take the plunge. Reduce your expenses e.g live in crappy apartment to save money and go all in on your dreams

This is an excellent take on the intracacies of where to build housing.

The "capitalist model" does indeed address supply and demand issues. However I feel it breaks down when the market is globalised and housing is used as safety deposit boxes rather than actual places to live.

London is a peculiar in that the communities are propped up by the renters. Having lived here all my life I have gotten used to communities changing hands every 5 years or so.

It's beyond me why housing security isn't more of a thing here for those with jobs crucial to a thriving local community - e.g teachers, healthcare workers etc.

It's apparent that what we have isn't a fully liberal capitalist market, but a game of monopoly.

I'm a software dev and I'm tired of LLMs being crowbar'd in to every single product I build and use, to the point where they are unanimously and unequivocally used over better, cheaper and simpler solutions.

I'm also tired of people who claim to be excited by AI. They are the dullest of them all.

And so the counterculture begins angst angst angst! Let's find an empty rooftop, I'll take a long drag off my vape, a swig of my forty, and you can talk about how all those people down there using AI just don't get it mannnnn. How the big corporations are lying to them and convincing them to buy API credits they don't even need!