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Start by doing a long walk, like the PCT or Te Araroa trail. 3+ months of hiking. You are busy every day, get up, eat and start walking. Finish the day physically tired. Sleep rinse and repeat. Have a break from news etc You come out fit, mentally reset and have a good perspective. Just my 2c

Looking up stuff, with any efficiency, requires a significant amount of prior knowledge to ask the right question.


Prior knowledge part becomes important as you realise, verifying the output of an LLM to be right requires the same too.

In fact you can only ask the smallest possible increment so that the answer can be verified to be true with least possible effort, and you can build from there.

The same issue happens with code. Its not like total beginners will be able to write replacement for the Linux kernel in the first 5 mins of use. Or that a product manager will just write a product spec and a billion dollar product will be produced magically.

You will still do most of the code work, AI will just do the smart typing work for you.

Perhaps it all comes down the fact that, you have to verify the output of the process. And you need to be aware of what you are doing at a very fundamental level to make that happen.


How does AI learn from it's mistakes ? Genuine question as i have only briefly used ChatGpt and found it interesting but not usefull.


Well, money is, in essence, an exchange for energy, so if energy is free we'll see a significant change in our economy system and my guess it's gonna be a wild ride


Yes, and that free energy will be seeking an equilibrium (where excess energy converts back into liquid capital) through clever uses and previously non-economical activities like separating lithium from brine. The great news is that each niche is a business opportunity. We, the clever ones, can spot those opportunities, build the tech to make them possible and build the companies that live in those new energy niches.


City of London is a separate legal entity to England but still under the king. Hence all the banking industry is located there, to add another step in the money train to tax heavens.


> City of London is a separate legal entity to England but still under the king

Not true. You're probably thinking of something like the Isle of Mann, or the Channel Islands, or arguably all of Canada or Australia.

The City of London is part of England.


This isn't meaningfully true: it's still subject to UK tax law and the law of England&Wales in general.

The Channel Islands and Man do fit that description and are not subject to English tax law.


> great as a retention tool.

Until it becomes standard then its 3 days a week. Im all for it, if you can increase productivity, but it's likely too many people won't be able to.


well how long ago was the 5 day work week established as the standard?

how long do you reckon it'll be before a 4 day work week is standard?

do you think an additional day off takes less time than the prior one took to get? the same time as the prior one? more time than the prior one?

i feel like you're getting way ahead of yourself and remarking on events that have only taken place in your mind.


> how long ago was the 5 day work week established as the standard?

We work unusually hard compared to our ancestors [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo&t=1482s


Or to put it another way, September 1926.

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28...

Also: ancient Rome, one day off in eight, revolutionary France, one day off in ten, Han China, one day off in five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek_and_weekend#History


Productivity is already increased, employees just never got the benefits from it.


K cool lets do three days a week


50% doesn't seem that much, but it really needs to be compared to production. Geographical risk spread will always cost you.


A Tesla car is pretty much off the shopping list for me, due to Elon's behavior



Relays and contractors are the same. It's a coil physically movin some contacts together to allow current to flow. I got no idea why, where or how the naming came about or who decides. But i guess its the same as creeks and rivers, when does a creek become a river


I'd say they're physically different, but logically the same. They're both a coil that moves some contacts to make or break a current path, but a contactor has physical differences which allow it to break much higher current. Contactors have features to ensure the arc resulting from breaking the connection can be extinguished, relays just assume no significant arc will form in the first place.

It's like the difference between a pickup truck with a ball hitch & a class 8 semi-truck with a fifth wheel coupling for a 53' trailer. Both are just vehicles that tow a trailer, but the physical details of how they do that are different in important ways.


The term contactor came from industrial machinery, while relay came from telecoms.


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