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  • Most of Africa, from what I heard from African developers.

    There are still large patches where the internet has outages often, data centers there too suffer from it. Same with energy, depending on the region it is not a guarantee.

    (This is of course a consequence of Africa still transforming and putting up infrastructure, and it varies vastly depending on the region).

    It’s hard to code with remote LLMs if they can go dark for half a day, and it is pricey to have it running on a local stack (at good token output speed).


  • Sure one can, currently, get decent code output by using hundreds or thousands of tokens, or using multiple LLMs / loops, or having agents go burn however many on iteration!

    This always stumps me. Because if that was true, Anthropic products (API, Cache, Claude Cowork, Claude Code) would not be shitty.

    They are shitty. They are coded shittily, and Anthropic is unable to solve some bugs for years now. E.g. there is the console flickering bug that they tried to fix 3 times and rollbacked or failed all of them.

    Or maybe we define decent differently.













  • How else do you plan on tracking 34000’s peoples diet for 12 years? Lock them in a lab?

    Track local shop data what sales there to double check if people are not lying.

    You you must track people until a statistically significant portion of them die.

    That’s my point - they didn’t repeat the questionaire every x years. They didn’t check if self-reported habits changed. What they in fact measured is “if people in the ~30 have those habits, what is their life expectancy”. Heck, for all we know, at 40 they all became cat eaters or smthing.

    Yeah and I never claimed it was only cuz of not eating meat.

    That’s how I read your previous comment.

    Why do you think natural selection optimizes humans for longevity? (living 85 years free of chronic disease). Evolution just optimizes for survival to reproductive age and successful child bearing.

    That’s not what I meant. I meant that our digestive system is optimized for (some) meat intake - see e.g. iron and meat effect on iron absorption (from measly 1% non-heme iron to whooping ~15% non-heme iron absorption if meat is present in the dish).

    a meat-heavy diet is bad for life expectancy

    We agree on that, sorry if that wasn’t clear.