Do these IRC clients support persistent chat history, file drops, and link summary bots? Because those are among the major features that Discord, Slack, and the like offer compared to IRC. I'm aware that a set of protocol extensions collectively known as "IRCv3" exist, but what sub-64K clients support them? And what public servers offer them?

$175-200 per weekday in unsubsidized LLM use is roughly equivalent to a single $200/month Claude Code account. There is no way a developer using it heavily for their work could get through the month with that little amount of token use. I have two of these $200/month subscriptions just for my personal use. I would need more if it was my full time job.

Most people may get much less than you, but most people aren't using coding tools like Claude Code at work. According to Anthropic's S-1 filings, $1500 per month is roughly the average amount that corporate Claude Code users spend per month, not the upper bound. Based on AI usage at my company, if $1500 is the average I'd assume the top 5% of Claude Code users average around $4-5k per month.

A single personal $200/month Claude subscription represents around $3-4k of tokens per month (heavily subsidized). I recently scaled down from 3 of these accounts to 2 of them after Opus 5.5 became far more efficient with token use (plus being more effective without needing the Ultracode effort setting), and I am not even using these tools 40 hours a week.

The real problem is that Cybertruck wasn't sufficiently ugly to become a cultural icon, in a way Gaudà did.

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You are correct that 307 days of the year counts as "most of the time." My city of 200,000 doesn't run any public transit on Sundays or major holidays. Instead, bus drivers on all shifts are scheduled to be home with their respective families.

I agree that Google should be regulated out of existence. Do you remember Internet before they swallowed everything up? Individual creators, websites that had viable revenue, hardly any tracking, websites that were fraction of a size that they are now. Today you can't even browse without multiple layers of protection, unfiltered web now looks like what a squatter website looked like, and it is about as harmful, and a lot more invasive.

Yes, social media is largely regurgitation, but that is not useless. Social consensus is established by many individuals regurgitating the same point. That is not the problem with Reddit.

The issue with Reddit is that consensus is distorted by moderators that are not viewpoint neutral. Reddit is a series of echo chambers, not a true representation of broader social consensus. As such, its unity and appeal is limited.

For example, Reddit for my city is an extreme example of such echo chamber. They tend to support fringe candidates, brigade everyone that mildly disagrees, and then act all surprised when fringe candidates inevitably lose in each election.

As the price of DRAM, SSD storage, electric power, and data center real estate rise, what prevents LLM service providers from suddenly raising their rates such that it's no longer less expensive than hiring a human? Compare what happened when Broadcom jacked up the price of VMware.

And what prevents programmers whose copyrighted programs have been included in the LLMs' training set from suing LLM service providers for copyright infringement on grounds that the output of the LLM is substantially similar to their programs, and the LLM is not following the license? I remember that demonstration where an LLM had effectively memorized the reciprocal square root routine from the GPL source code of Quake III Arena and failed to include the "appropriate copyright notice" mandated by the GNU GPL. Even permissive licenses, such as Apache 2, MIT, 3BSD, and zlib, require preservation of the copyright notice in derivative works. Doe v. GitHub, pending in the Northern District of California.

In Slashdot's home country, both copyright and radio transmission are regulated at the federal level. So what's the plan for to peterww and tepples to start to change the laissez-mourir policies popular among conservative members of the U.S. Congress? See "antisocialist", "extreme capitalism", and "laissez-mourir" in RMS's glossary.

I wouldn't be so sure of that momentum. Several countries in the European Union have implemented age gating through an application that runs only on an iPhone or a certified Android phone. An iPhone runs proprietary iOS, published by foreign monopolist Apple Inc. A certified Android phone runs proprietary Google Play Services, published by foreign monopolist Google LLC. The EU talks out both sides, regulating foreign "gatekeepers" on one side (the Digital Markets Act and provisions of Digital Services Act that apply to very large online platforms) and requiring use of services provided by said "gatekeepers" (provisions of Digital Services Act that apply to "protection" of minors).

What ID do Brits use if they use public transport instead of a motor vehicle?

Last I checked a few years ago, the United Kingdom offered no domestic non-driver ID. It offers only a driving licence, which requires access to a motor vehicle and probably paying someone to let the learner practice driving in their vehicle for some number of hours, or a passport, which is valid for international travel but expensive. If this has changed, let me know.

I see my mistake. I calculated in metric instead of imperial.

Sam is right about low utilization. I use my toilet only about 0.1% of the day, it has much higher throughput than I could ever realistically hope to utilize even after eating Taco Bell. I am very over-toileted.

Reddit Inc. stock is down today. A lot.

Can you explain to me why not? I do not produce code for living, so maybe I am missing something. Being able to check for flaws in code, which is pattern recognition, is not the same task as being able to create flawless code, which is creative process bound by functionality.