There are a few, with varying degrees of residency time (and possibly other conditions) required. New Zealand requires being a resident for a year.

The UK is particularly interesting, if you're a citizen of a common wealth nation you can vote in national UK elections if you're a resident.

Personally, I agree with you though. I didn't vote in the UK despite being able too. Let the citizens decide the future of their nation, I have the privilege to leave (and have done so already). Feels wrong for me to influence the nation when I'm not fully invested in the outcome.

Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital". It's definitely beneficial for the "elite" in the long term for people to have kids.

It happened in a Round1 (near Umeda in Osaka), we knew exactly when since we sat down to play Mario Kart and after one race it was gone. First the police tried to convince us that we just forgot it somewhere. Eventually we convinced them to check cameras, and they said it was a blind spot. They refused to check entrance and exit cameras.

She had her airpods in there, and we could track the location, they refused to look at any cameras in the area (we tried searching the area ourselves but couldn't locate them, we figure the thief chucked it somewhere hard to find). We had the serial numbers of USD that was in the bag, they wouldn't even write it down.

Currently still waiting for an official report so that we can try and deal with their immigration to move her visa to another passport.

Having spoken to her embassy, it's the second time they've heard the story (same exact Round1, same Mario kart section). And if it's happened twice to citizens from her country, it probably happens more.

The whole thing made me completely disillusioned with Japan. Yes, statistically it's extremely safe, but if something does happen, don't expect any help. Reading this story just makes me think I should avoid any interactions with police if at all possible, and I've stopped carrying my passport with me. I rather get fined than having it stolen.

Yeah, that happens where I work and I hate it. A combination of lint rules and AI reviewer prompts complain about long files and long functions. This means something that could be a 300 line self contained function that could be read linearly, gets split up into 6 functions across 6 files.

It's the illusion of "clean code". If you're casually skimming the code, you feel good. But as soon as you go beyond the surface level it becomes annoying.

Then again, I was looking in the UK, maybe prices are extra inflated there.

"Straight" can be ambiguous, second exit isn't. Maybe it's because I'm terrible with directions and hate driving, but I like the constant feedback that I'm going the right way.

Since you have no way of knowing when they change stuff, you can't really know if they did change something or it's just bias.

I've experienced that so many times in the last month that I switched to codex. The worst part is, it could be entirely in my head. It's so hard to quantify these changes, and the effort it takes isn't worth it to me. I just go by "feeling".

You could argue that the value is in the entertaining filming/acting/story telling etc, but if the videos are about digging holes then I think it's valid to say someone is paying you to dig holes.

I'm guessing it's because the laptops are popular enough that there's a dedicated group of people that make it work [0].

I'm still on X11, dunno what the story is like with Wayland though.

[0] https://asus-linux.org/

It's funny, because you could actually take that story and use it to market AI.

> I once watched a team spend six weeks building a feature based on a Slack message from a sales rep who paraphrased what a prospect maybe said on a call. Six weeks.

Except now with AI it takes one engineer 6 hours, people realize it's the wrong thing and move on. If anything, I would say it helps prove the point that typing faster _does_ help.

Otherwise I don't understand how MCP vs CLI solves anything.

I couldn't find much info here, but I'm guessing they've built tooling to automatically convert model weights to RTL and the reason it's such an old model is that it takes a long time tape a chip out (especially the first one). Would be interesting to know how much is automated and how much is handcrafted.

I think the "next big thing" with AI hardware will be when they switch from "digital" implementations of LLMs to "analogue". We already know that we can lose some bits of precision and still have a "workable" model. If/when folks figure the fine-tuning out, I'm guessing it'll be another order of magnitude improvement.

I'm a bit younger (33) but you'd be surprised how fast it comes back. I hadn't touched x86 assembly for probably 10 years at one point. Then someone asked a question in a modding community for an ancient game and after spending a few hours it mostly came back to me.

I'm sure if you had to reverse engineer some win32 applications, it'd come back quickly.

I would have imagined that the data could be used to get mostly accurate numbers.

Things rarely went to plan, but as soon as any blip occured, there'd be plans to trim scope, crunch more, or push the date with many months of notice.

Then I joined my first web SaaS startup and I think we didn't hit a single deadline in the entire time I worked there. Everyone thought that was fine and normal. Interestingly enough, I'm not convinced that's why we failed, but it was a huge culture shock.

I just try and get LLMs to do it for me because I'm lazy, and they like to use setInterval instead of mutationObservers and if it works, I just live with the inefficiency.