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I build bicycles. I was shocked when our internal team built a bicycle that goes to the moon

We are afraid to release it to the public! And thus we are shutting down the company. We don't want humans polluting Moon and the atmosphere and space!


Unlikely. Kindles are e readers that last a long time. I have a 10yr old paperwhite as good as new!


Your paperwhite will soon become paperweight.


Yes, if by soon you mean 5 more years. 15yrs is ok for any electronic device! I changed 6 phones in the last 15yrs


how well does the battery hold up after that long?

Mine is only like 2-3 years old and I charge it so rarely. I can read several entire books on a charge easily. It lasts months. I imagine even if the battery degraded significantly it would be quite usable.


I replaced the battery in mine. Unlike big tech, I believe in repairing old devices. Something Amazon have not considered is how many of these old devices are used as companion devices for other high end kindle owners. I have a scribe and old paperwhite and use them interchangably, with cloud sync of reading position etc, which won't be possible after 20 may.


My paper white is about 7/8 years old, and is still holding up fine though the battery is noticeably degraded - charging it approximately once a week now.

I was also having a play with a demo model of the latest one in a store and the page turn speed is much much better, which is tempting me to upgrade though I'd prefer to run the current one into the ground first.


I have to charge once a month or once 15 days I didn't keep track tbh. And I read like crazy. I finished 22 books on the kindle this year so far.

Its a Lithium battery so unless you let it drain to single digits every time, it'll last a LOONG time


And which human will fly in an llm operated plane?!


I am sure some Ryanair customers would risk it for good price.


Give the whole scheme some sort of mile multiplier and you will get high-freq fliers salivating over taking a llm flight with a 12 hour layover in Iceland to get to Portland from New York for those sweet miles.


Please welcome aboard of Airthropic Lines!


Humans can also fly. Once.


Douglas Adams formulated how it would be possible for a human to fly continuously, though.

http://extremelysmart.com/humor/howtofly.php


I have the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but I never got around to reading it. I might have to read it next


Let companies manage to automate 100% of their processes by having their own country/law/constitution!

Companies produce goods which people consume. If you hand everything over to the oligarch class, how will people consume products built by companies???


I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools

It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?


Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.


Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020


So the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?


You don't use the same marketing strategies as people did in 1960 if you want to sell your product in 2026 unless you purposefully want to fail.


So, tracing back to the original comment in this thread, Go and Rust were failures due to them having insufficient mindshare? If anything, people have often criticized the Rust community for marketing too much.


I read that it is 5x costly. Could that be the reason for the marketing?


It's also 5x costly apparently!


This is also the same company who uses electron for their tooling rather than platform specific binaries generated by Opus! If their LLMs are that good why do they need to use electron?


Yeah, agreed. Unironically they would be better off using GTK or winUI and the mac equivalent.

They’ve supposedly driven the cost of code to zero, right? So platform specific versions with a shared core should be easy. So where are the better products?


Exactly! Microsoft invested so much in OpenAI and yet Windows keeps getting worse


It looks like they revamped the agents window. They will not remove vscode bits


Maybe I'm just behind on the features, I didn't even know there was an agents window. There's an agents sidebar.


Yeah, now there is a new agents portion on the left side I suppose. That window enables us to control cloud agents and the regular sidebar agents


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