What annoys people about Singapore is that it's an incredibly right leaning society with single party rule and "outrageous" social policies like "get divorced, lose your home", "10 grams of meth and we'll hang you (and we mean it)". And yet it's incredibly successful, and the people there are happy.

Well, apart from the people hung for meth possession or the people trapped in abusive marriages.

Do they still not allow men with long hair?

"Scientific Linux was never simply "RHEL with a different wallpaper." It gave the scientific community an institutionally independent implementation of the Enterprise Linux platform."

Claude Code is an absolute dog. They hijack the scrollbar. Keybindings don't work properly on WSL. A jumble sale of slash commands that are almost all useless. Stupid flair like "Boondoggling...". I despise everything about it.

Compare this to the Codex CLI that is no fluff, minimal and just does it's job. Open AI models are in a totally different league to Anthropic (in the real world) so no loss really.

And no one has dirtier hands than the BBC

Maybe there's a benefit to having diverse natural memetic microflora on your cognitive convolutions. Like it could innoculate you against aggressive viral ideological infection.

So much dumb stuff in your brain that you are just immune to propaganda as you can't take it seriously (it's just as dumb as the other stuff)

What I find ironic are the "creatives" who declare resolutely that AI cannot create art,... now here is this cool vibe-coded software I've made. It's like saying a chisel cannot create a sculpture. Yeah, OK, but without the chisel the sculpture wouldn't have been made. Who cares. It's a tool. What you do with it is up to you.

This is silly. You can't tell a chisel to go make a sculpture for you.

I used to attend Kevin's Number Theory seminars at Imperial College many years ago and he's both a first rate mathematician and a very nice person. His blog has got me interested in maths again. Considering how pro AI he is and that he's been working on this problem for such a long time I'm a bit disappointed that Anthropic didn't involve him directly in this work. However, I think it's important to remember that without all of the work Kevin and people like him have done, the machines wouldn't be able to do this.

No thanks

Come to a country with universal healthcare (England) and realise that if you work then you're paying 5x the market price for the worst healthcare imaginable. MRI scan - we don't know, one month wait, maybe two. Operation - are you going to die tomorrow with out it? No, ok then that could be years.

You need to pay rock bottom wages to doctors to make it work, so guess what all the good doctors leave for private healthcare and you end up with the dregs from the third world.

So the solution is get rid of private healthcare. I agree.

And we all sit on beanbags, sing kumbaya and write poems about our feelings.

I don't know why you thought this was a clever thing to say.

I think this one might not be true anymore. Canada has 432 machines as of ~2023 (340 in 2015) and MA is on the order of ~300 (can't find exact figures). It's still a lot lower per capita (10.8 per million vs 42 per million).

So the new comparison is Canada and Illinois. I can remember that! :)

(Thanks for catching this! I had no idea.)

This is super weird, isn't it? Some of it is obviously overprescription on the US side, but also: Canada could just get more machines.

It's kinda weird, yeah! Not sure if Canada thinks the rest of the world overuses MRI machines in a cost x diagnostically inefficient way, or what, but I'm sure months-long waiting lists aren't optimal either.

I know that you tend to be balls deep in American Exceptionalism, but the truth is that reasonable countries with reasonable health care average 15-30 MRI machines per million inhabitants.

America is a wild outlier, and unless you have data to back that those machines are put to good use, I'd trust the rest of the world who decided the sweet spot is 15-30 mer million, not 60.

This statistic appears to have flown directly over your head. It is not an illustration of how awesome the United States is. The overprovision of MRIs in the US drives costs in a variety of ways; one of the most obvious is that routine imaging for things like back pain leads directly to things like spinal fusion surgeries, which don't work.

The gap between Canada and the United States is immense. Canada could add quite a large number of machines and not come even within the line of sight of where the US is.

React isn't immediate mode. The dependency array, amongst other things determine what redraws and what doesn't. Yes, you can make React look like it's running in immediate mode, fully redrawing on every frame. But if you do that then you're probably in the wrong line of work. Maybe try management.

This post is impressively bad. It's been AI generated and the AI doesn't even know what immediate mode is. Did you use Grok?