How does a billion break down into 49 million? I'm assuming you mean 400 and 90 million?

I think they mean the vast majority are using the free version to do silly shit.

Free vs paid users.

100%. It really depends on the application domain and system complexity.

I see a lot of people speaking about a 10x productivity improvement and so on. When I work on hobby projects, I do see that. Just last weekend, I set up a hobby project that I've been thinking about for a while. I'm pretty sure it would have taken me at least a week to implement manually, but instead, it took me three hours.

But some of the systems I have to work on during the day are so big and complicated that you can spend multiple days on a small feature or even just tracking down a bug, even with the support of Opus.

Expecting even a 2x productivity improvement on some those systems is wildly unrealistic. I'm seeing a lot of people get stressed out because the productivity gains from simple application building trickle into the expectations for these complex systems.

That said, if things keep improving at this rate it might just be a matter of time.

I set up mine with WSL and used a Linux terminal over xserver. Once you have a decent unix shell (and a good terminal) it's fine. VSCode etc work fine. This was 2020ish, things might've gotten easier now.

But I do prefer a Linux or Mac for development, just because it's so much less hassle to set up.

Windows developers who don't set up a good terminal environment... I honestly don't know how they manage.

I think there are no safe harbor investments at this time. Even gold is unpredictable.

Personally I went 80% world excl US and 20% equal weight S&P500 to hedge against what I think is an AI bubble. But if the market decides to adjust Nvidia's valuation 20% downward next week, I expect there to be ripple effects throughout the economy.

(Like the .com bubble, I think the tech is genuinely transformative and here to stay, but the valuations are just ridiculous.)

The notation is supposed to mean: you have a matrix Q, and also a shared K=V matrix.

I agree with GP that it's super confusing to us the minus sign as a delimiter between formulas. The tuple notation suggested elsewhere would be way clearer.

IMO the easiest way to open the straight is for the US to back down. "The EU helping the US" doesn't sound like a great way to achieve that.

I don't want the EU to join a protracted Iran war.

I don't even see how this is a controversial opinion to hold. Israel blatantly roped the US into an unwinnable political conflict that can only escalate. Any rational politician will see a quicksand pit out of this scenario, and many military analysts arrived at the same conclusion in the 1990s.

Europe cannot contribute relevant naval power to reeopen the strait. They cannot significantly turn the tides in a ground invasion, nor do they have the impetus to. The only thing they can do is legitimize Israel's war, and why would they do that? It's not like America or Israel are any closer to achieving their key objectives, Europe wouldn't even get a tour-de-force out of it. This is purely CENTCOM's fuckup, NATO has nothing to do with it.

Nope, no one else should definitely not get involved. The moment the EU or anyone else joins, Trump will pull out and leave it for others to clean up.

I agree with the sentiment, but this is not something I can send my colleagues.

You can be annoyed and right, and still avoid being crass.

Perhaps this falls into "how to have hard conversations" bucket?

If I told my coworker that his or her "brain is a gizmo" and to "not reproduce" I would expect to be frog marched out the door a few minutes later.

"Your brain is a gizmo" doesn't sound very harsh to me, but "please don't reproduce" would be a problem in any reasonable workplace.

Established accounts are worth money, often for scamming/propaganda.

Not too dissimilar to people bot-leveling in MMOs to the sell the accounts.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. He hired a cartographer to iterate over the design, but from the images, he likely used that feedback to create a map style.

For example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_style

However, you're also kind of correct in that the rendered tiles are typically cached server-side (presumably also for Apple Maps).

Genuinely curious: what would you have had him do instead?