Fiber was never a great focus as if you can get fiber, you probably already have options at all!

I can't even get fiber where I live (yet), and I live in the middle of a dense city suburb. I only have Comcast as an option, yet even hear we don't really need help.

The places that need help is where everything sucks. My mom lives in a very rural area, and I tried different options for many years - cellular internet, point-to-point to a local tower provider, DSL... it was all TERRIBLE. None of them could support streaming higher than 480p!! And often not even that. It was OK for email and texts.

It was not Starlink came out and covered her location, that I was finally able to get her what I would consider *real* internet. It is the ONLY viable solution if you really want to reach all these almost off grid rural areas. Claiming you are going to run thousands of miles of fiber optic out to all these places is insane.

I know it' fashionable to hate Musk right now but seriously, what else besides StarLink can you even suggest for real right now?

Maybe rural cell coverage can be just good enough for some parts and they could go there when it works but having travelled around the U.S. a lot that is not viable over huge areas. And in case you had not noticed cell companies suck which I very much did notice when I tried an all-cell based solution, even outside of poor technical performance.

The EU really wants war,

The western nations generally REALLY want a "light' nuclear war, so they can drop down all of the same restrictions across the EU that Ukraine has imposed currently. In a wartime after al no need to allow elections, or even opposing parties or a free press!

So I'd say it's a 50% chance any action like this could be a false flag attack.

I'd flip that around and say that as long as it's new they're still trying hard to make it work.

Dude this is not a restaurant that is just opening up that I go to help them out.

This is a freaking ROCKET going into space, it doesn't matter at all how hard they are "trying", all that matters is proven repeated success. One small failure can lead to disaster. Only when launches start to get boring does my own personal fear dissipate. I guess that's why I'm not a test pilot.

I forgot to mention that the other organization I would of course trust is NASA. Because again, they have had many repeated successes.

Blue Origin has been "trying hard" for some time but they have had some concerning failures. I actually give them pretty high odds of a successful flight with Bezos, but for my own person life I need something pretty darn near close to 100%, not something like 80-90%. I don't think it's at the level of danger the Titan was because many failures you could recover and return from but not going to lie, it's giving off a faint Titan vibe with the passengers, like if you were living in a horror movie you would be shouting at the screen for the people to not get into the second tiny metal capsule with a billionaire and a family member also going along. You know where the plot is going with that one.

On a SpaceX rocket, yes.

On Blue Origin? No.

SpaceX simply has a longer track record of success.

After maybe 20 error-free Blue Origin launches with people, and knowing they had a well tested passenger eject system, I would go for it.

If AI is speeding up your work by 33%, It seems to me like you must have been doing very little real at all!

I've used AI when I think it makes sense but for me it's MAYBE 10% improvement, after I correct for mistakes and review code it produces...

MAYBE I could believe that 33% if it were not accounting for re-editing time after.

I have to think that once Apple provides a way for people to specify the age of some users, it opens the door to Apple also allowing much more adult-oriented apps on the App Store as they can realistically claim parents have the means to prevent children from accessing the adult material.

Could be even nice to have checks in app, like a NSFW post (or whole subreddit) on Reddit could not be read if you were under-age.

I'm sure we'll see a flood of stuff on Steam that derives from this but frankly those were great games so anything built on them has at least a study foundation.

He very likely did not have MFA on his 1Password account.

The article (or at least an article I read) said exactly that - the malware had a key logger, he logged into his non MFA 1Password, and boom!

It even cautioned people explicitly to set up MFA on 1password, which does seem like a great idea for a master password store, although obviously more annoying in day to day use which is why most people do not do it!

Thanks for the report. I keep forgetting you can tell CoPilot to use Claude, I should switch mine.

I'm doing different coding (iOS development), for me I find the CoPilot integration kind of bad. It works using VisualStudio but that's just not as good a tool for general iOS dev work.

I find CoPilot fires off suggestions maybe a bit too often, sometimes I just park my cursor somewhere to read through some code and bam, half a screen of CoPilot making up some complex function it would like to add. But when actually using it when I want to use it, suggestions are generally reasonable.

I prefer Cursor which I use for my own stuff (because I like the integration better), but my company has only authorized use of CoPilot thus far out of an abundance of caution...

At launch Gemini had some of the most laughable errors. And off and on I hear grumbling from Android users I know about not liking it replacing a meter working Google helper they used to have.

Maybe because of that, or just because I don't think about it much, I've been experimenting with just about every other AI as a coding assistant, except Gemini.

Has anyone used it for coding? Is it even any good? For some reason it just doesn't seem like Google has had a great team on their AI efforts.

Well after reading your post I really want them both to lose.

At least they have to pay a lot of money to fight each other so that's something.

Amsterdam is indeed a fantastic city. And one little startup in a snit does not mean anything; it's a press release designed to get clicks.

I hope so, will reach out to the people I know still working there and see what they think.

I was there just last year on vacation and went to a tech meetup, everything still seemed good...

(I originally posted this to a later dupe of the same story but in case that gets removed I thought I'd repeat it here).

I had the opportunity to work in Amsterdam for about a month and a half, and what I found was that it is absolutely the perfect tech city. Even better than SF.

It had tons of technical people of all kinds, Almost any technical person there is just as able to speak English as Dutch, and kind enough to automatically switch to English even if you never ask them to. Also a great culture of sharing technical knowledge, with all kinds of great technical meetups on almost any subject.

The Dutch are also a very practical people so it's a greta place to build soemthing you really want to actually deliver instead of iterate on forever!

The city also has a great artistic scene, which I've always thought makes for a great backdrop to live in and code well, since coding always has been at least in part artistic and so feeding that part of yourself regularly is important.

I have strongly considered off and on moving there for the great work environment, and I know a number of other people who have done startups living there.

So it's really sad to hear that regulation from a monolithic state has finally sunk down to fact Amsterdam and the tech culture there. If Bird finds things hard it has to mean even smaller companies have it worse.

What a loss for humanity, I hope Europe can figure out how to untangle itself from the creeper vine of regulations it has created that is strangling a fantastic city. Maybe they can make exceptions for obvious tech hubs...

I had the opportunity to work in Amsterdam for about a month and a half, and what I found was that it is absolutely the perfect tech city. Even better than SF.

It had tons of technical people of all kinds, Almost any technical person there is just as able to speak English as Dutch, and kind enough to automatically switch to English even if you never ask them to. Also a great culture of sharing technical knowledge, with all kinds of great technical meetups on almost any subject.

The Dutch are also a very practical people so it's a greta place to build soemthing you really want to actually deliver instead of iterate on forever!

The city also has a great artistic scene, which I've always thought makes for a great backdrop to live in and code well, since coding always has been at least in part artistic and so feeding that part of yourself regularly is important.

I have strongly considered off and on moving there for the great work environment, and I know a number of other people who have done startups living there.

So it's really sad to hear that regulation from a monolithic state has finally sunk down to fact Amsterdam and the tech culture there. If Bird finds things hard it has to mean even smaller companies have it worse.

What a loss for humanity, I hope Europe can figure out how to untangle itself from the creeper vine of regulations it has created that is strangling a fantastic city. Maybe they can make exceptions for obvious tech hubs...

As much as I totally agree we should focus on going to Mars, I think we need something like the Space Station for just basic research.

It seems really valuable to have something close to Earth that we can do zero gravity research from, either manufacturing or basic biological study.

Now if there's something better than the Space Station to do that from, that's a whole conversation - the current Space Station is getting a bit old now with odd leaks and smells... so maybe it is time to put up something new.