I have a feeling the Great Lakes Compact members will have something to say about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact
let's hope this holds, i have no reason to expect that in 2026
Readit Newsblastro commented on Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai techcrunch.com/2026/01/29... · Posted by u/ishener
unreal
blastro commented on Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found lightbrd.com/ZacksJerryRi... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
The market is now a casino is how
bingo
blastro commented on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee arstechnica.com/cars/2026... · Posted by u/CharlesW
The subscription model seems to profit off of inertia/inaction/forgetfulness/laziness.
There's a whole app called rocket money to fight back against the subscription model by helping you find and cancel subs. I've never used it and don't plan to but it would be cool if it helped push back against the modern shift towards subscription-everything.
Although if we're talking about software or anything else that could easily be one-time/up-front or ongoing, then I guess there's a case to be made that monthly subscriptions let you try before you buy, like rental skis. In that sense they are user friendly.
Rocket Money is an app designed for millennials to hand over their important banking information to Rocket Mortgage in exchange for "help cancelling subscriptions".
blastro commented on This is not the future blog.mathieui.net/this-is... · Posted by u/ericdanielski
> Does it matter? Like how does it matter?
It matters because the amount of influence something has on you is directly attributable to the amount of human effort put into it. When that effort is removed so to is the influence. Influence does not exist independently of effort.
All the people yapping about LLM keep fundamentally not grasping that concept. They think that output exists in a pure functional vacuum.
the words themselves have influence, regardless of who spoke them.
blastro commented on Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch github.com/scallyw4g/bons... · Posted by u/jesse__
very cool
blastro commented on Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities castiching.com/... · Posted by u/jackzhuo
As a fellow iChing developer - this is nice! Thanks for sharing.
blastro commented on · Posted by u/anonymous_ibex
good reminder that we all have to live with our actions, and we might not have the perspective to evaluate them until death comes a knockin'
I've always noticed that when I'm giving advice to someone or trying to help out, it always feels their problem is easier than whatever problem I have. As someone with some anxiety around things like calling some company to get something done or asking a random stranger for some help in a store, I would gladly do it if it was to help someone else (family member or friend). But when it's for me I find it harder.
I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves..
Golden rule - treat others as you would like to be treated. Applies externally and internally - IMO. ie. "Treat yourself as you would treat others"
Someone mentioned in the comments on a similar article that sun synchronous orbits are a thing. This was a new one to me. Apparently there's a trick that takes advantage of the Earth not being a perfect sphere to cause an orbit to precess at the right rate that it matches the Earth's orbit around the sun. So, you can put a satellite into a low-Earth orbit that has continuous sunlight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit
Is this worth all the cost and complexity of lobbing a bunch of data centers into orbit? I have no idea. If electricity costs are what's dominating the datacenter costs that AI companies are currently paying, then I'm willing to at least concede that it might be plausible.
If I were being asked to invest in this scheme, I would want to hear a convincing argument why just deploying more solar panels and batteries on Earth to get cheap power isn't a better solution. But since it's not my money, then if Elon is convinced that this is a great idea then he's welcome to prove that he (or more importantly, the people who work for him) have actually got this figured out.