This is really common, I think because there’s also “leery” - cautious, distrustful, suspicious.

Pretty rich coming from an AGI that’s running on a bowlful of mildly electrified meat. Emergent properties, my guy.

Silicon ingots used in chip manufacturing aren’t that small: like a ~400mm diameter cylinder a metre or so long, and from memory several hundred kilos.

Looking up their website, it sounds like the company are making only the seed crystal in space, not the entire silicon boule:

"Space Forge is using space-derived crystal seeds to grow ultra-high quality semiconductor substrates on Earth."

https://www.spaceforge.com/

Pointing Claude Opus at an SDK and its docs likewise yields impeccable results in my experience.

Wonder if it would be more efficient to use a single-pixel column and then draw the colours with gradient stops?

New Volvos let you “hey Google, turn on my seat heating”. I wish it wasn’t google, but the voice interface is great while driving.

Oh lovely, now my kids can fuck with my seat, assuming the computer can hear one of them over the other one talking about something else. This is a regression in usability compared to luxury cars from 30 years ago.

This doesn't seem like that big of a problem to me. Yeah, your kids are going to be amused when they find out they can turn on the heated seat. Then you tell them not to do that. If they still do it, then you hand out punishments as appropriate. The kids will decide that the amusement of messing with your heated seat isn't worth the consequences and you go on with life.

It'll be pretty obvious if that happens, though.

I guess they don't have hands to press the seat heat button either?

They would need some pretty long hands to reach the dashboard if they're in the back seat.

That message is really just confirmation of which driver profile is active. It could say “selected profile: Liam”, but “hello” is just as good, I think.

It's the difference between the Star Trek computer and HAL-9000

I expected to hate a touch-screen for the main UI, but in my Volvo ex30 there is just so much less to monitor and _do_ while driving that it’s a really relaxing and enjoyable driving experience. Because I’m just paying attention to where the car is going, it feels a lot safer to me vs my previous manual-transmission ICE car.

There’s a big speedometer top right (it’s right-hand drive), an indicator of the driving mode (manual, cruise-control, pilot assist), and the rest is basically map/navigation. No gears, no RPM, no oil temp, no cryptic warning lights.

Steering wheel controls for music, calls, speed control, etc are fine, but the voice control over music, navigation and climate are so good I barely use them: “hey google, make it a bit cooler in here” or “hey google, let’s go to xxx” both work basically flawlessly.

The chicken that KFC uses, sure. There’s a huge difference between that and a chicken that’s been raised well and allowed to get to a sensible age before slaughter.

I grow more and more convinced that we’re going to need to geoengineer our way out of this on a massive, massive scale. Even if we went zero emissions tomorrow, the cascade of secondary and further effects from what we’ve already done is going to need to be undone. Project Vesta still seems by far the most promising to me: low tech, moderately low energy, and actually addresses the root cause, unlike approaches that aim to cool the planet by shading or tweaking albedo. Check them out if you haven’t already.