This is why you see in trad climbing the lead will place cams and nuts, while the last in the group on that pitch retrieves them.

The highlight was always the tree felling competition. Each competitor has an axe and four springer boards, and it's a race to basically chop the top off a standing telegraph pole.

That would make a better game.

Atlassian's in-built AI assistant for JIRA will generate a task description with a complete SDLC task breakdown, requirements and deliverables.

While the person creating the task will need to provide some details and modify some of the generated text (if they bother to read it) - the sheer verbosity and the fact it's clearly generated just makes you not want to engage with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POM-3_mine

For a materialist, and someone who thinks consciousness arises from the physical aspects, the idea of a human experiencing bat consciousness is not possible. Our evolution developed algorithm for processing the world is wired to our senses. Similarly a bat's perception of the world has evolved along with bat senses and is not the same as ours.

Without any of the evolutionary pre-wiring, a human conscious dropped into a bat would be deaf, dumb and blind.

He is saying no generative AI is going to produce output that is both good and novel because it is always derivative. And then adds a generative AI (Claude Code) into his list of AI that have produced output that he feels is good and novel, invalidating what he is arguing.

"...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white."

That contradiction kind of says he doesn't know what he's talking about.

The ones we have planted in our garden will likely need replacing in 7-15 years.

I've lived in a few places that would get consecutive 40C+ days. Perfectly fine unless the wind is a strong northerly blowing from the interior. The 37C in Brisbane this year was much less bearable due to the higher humidity: 75% rather than 45%.

People have been working around the hot summer hours in Southern Europe for centuries. Until recent times it was part of the culture.

Version 5 was when the source material dried up, and the hallucinations became more frequent and obvious.

As far as I remember there was a basic outline of major plot points and where all the major characters ended up (a prompt) and were left to fill in all the blanks.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

$500/year for the garden is very conservative, even when you're doing all the labour.

It would be more like $500/month were you to get a gardener in. If you need an arborist (for example cutting back tall trees close to power lines or encroaching on neighbours) it gets expensive very fast.

A pool also costs at least $500/year just in chemicals.

We've been on the whole food path for a few years now, and while there's a bit of extra time in prepping all the ingredients from scratch and you have to turn over fresh vegetables often (therefore more frequent visits to the market) you at least know what you're eating.