> His letter (at the top of Apple's web site) is moving

As an aside, I absolutely love the minimal elegance of that web page.

This was a neat design choice I remember it well.

And also that my “sound card works perfectly!”

There’s a pretty great penguin colony site seeing area in Cape Town called Boulders Beach for those of you that happen to visit and are keen to see them up close.

Also this article is just great.

In long term archival use cases this is less of an issue. Especially if it’s many exabytes we’re talking about, needing to be stored for decades.

But I 100% agree with your main point about possibility vs productionisation.

Indeed it is forced savings but with the benefit of covering your funeral expenditure if it is required suddenly and unexpectedly.

For context, it might cost you $5 per month, and give you funeral cover of $500.

As OP mentioned it is very common in South Africa, likely owed to the unpredictable life expectancy. All the large insurers offer it, it’s a massive market.

I’ve read elsewhere that the cut-away during booster separation was intentional given the high risk manoeuvre.

If something went wrong / explosion etc, then they wouldn’t want to broadcast it.

Something to that effect. I’m paraphrasing someone else.

Don't they usually manage that by having the broadcast be slightly delayed?

I heard this in a Justin timberlake as Napster guy voice

This is such a cool way to build brand awareness - kudos to the author.

I'd never heard of dbpro.app until now - and this article is just so awesome.

Nice job!

Thank you! That means a lot.

Tried to open this page on my mobile, good grief the changing advert spam overload kills the reading experience.

Firefox Android + ublock origin. There's ads on the internet? Wouldn't know.

Very weird to see people on hackernews of all places complain about ads on the internet. We solved this like 15 years ago.

Hacker news attracts all sorts of curious people, including luddites like myself! ^_^

> And at a moment when the climate demands immediate action to reduce our footprint on this planet, the AI boom is driving data centers to consume a full 1.5% of the world’s total energy production in order to eliminate the jobs of the poor and replace them with a robot that lies.

That sentence jumped out at me.

It's a little wrong. It's probably going to replace middle class jobs more than the jobs of the poor.

The middle class is poor now.

Yep. The middle class is quickly disappearing.

Poor tend to think of themselves as middle-class.

so do the rich

note I used "rich" there, not "wealthy"

The "upper middle class" is not strictly defined, but they are pretty clearly the folks below the wealthiest 1%. You can't be in the middle without something on either side.

They certain consume far more than the poor, on account of having resources, but they also consume far less than the wealthiest 1%.

You are almost certainly in the global 1% of the wealthy [1]. Compared to developing nations' residents, we have an order of magnitude greater impact on the environment.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040

>Remember that the majority of industry is upstream of consumption.

People forget this. Oil companies may have dug up the oil, but they did so because we paid them to, so we could use the energy for good and useful things.

Climate change isn't 'evil billionaire companies are ruining the world', it's 'these things we did to improve our lives turn out to have side effects'.

The discussion is about the current generation of LLMs. It's not yet clear whether side-effects outweigh the advantages.

OTOH, I can already argue with numbers at hand that Bitcoin made the world poorer and worse off.

This is backwards. If it weren't for 'eliminating jobs' we'd both be peasant farmers right now. Automation has improved the standard of living and raised wages for everyone, rich and poor alike.

Ok, Claude.