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This article starts off well enough and covers some things I had been thinking about myself: exploring the many-dimensional space of an LLM. But then I think it veers into good old…

Just like planting trees, the second best time is now. Travel (with sensitivity and understanding) to see cultures and places that are at risk: glaciers, savanna, wildlife parks, m…

I hope that pun was intended‽

Also note that due to isotope decay in the ore, a natural reactor is no longer possible. From the wikipedia article: "A key factor that made the reaction possible was that, at the …

Another example is the Honeywell corporation: from thermostats to computers, then parts of defense/aerospace. Looking at its wikipedia, it also seems like one factor of diversifica…

hacker news really needs a best-of page the way craigslist did (sorry, does), just so I can nominate this. Made me discover a great song (and a great cover), with such a wry commen…

Another candidate that I hope isn't vaporware: https://www.telotrucks.com/

The island of Kaua'i in Hawaii has both tours of a chocolate farm (Lydgate Farms) and a coffee plantation (Kaua'i Coffee) with a visitor center. Just gotta find a conference out th…

Why make (wrong) guesses when you can find the answer in minutes on Wikipedia? Plus it doesn’t make sense to do a TEI with unnecessary mass. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apol…

The tile device works for members of my family who misplace their keys OR their phone: https://www.thetileapp.com/

The canal expansion in 2014 was actually completed in one year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Area_Development_Pr...

The boba phenomenon has always surprised me. I enjoy boba, but there are so many other cool slimy-solids-in-sweet-drink to be had at Ranch 99 market (the Chinese supermarkets in Ca…

As others have mentioned, Teslas charge at their fast chargers (and getting faster all the time) spread around the area. Other cars can do the same, or at workplaces. Some new buil…

I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun would’ve lowered their p…

I remember that company towns had to allow private speech, but I never heard that shopping malls had to. I always thought that any protest or disruption or unpopular speech in a ma…

Yes, and if they required the host to live in the space too, 90% of the issues they caused would have been avoided. But “disrupting” VRBO’s market by making it hip and ignoring all…

This is a great distillation of the issues, getting to the second order effects. I hope @pg thinks about this.

It still does in non-mobile browser tabs—and my iPad Safari can be set to non-mobile user agent (or whatever, it’s in the settings). So I can listen to YouTube and browse the inter…

> Atomic Park on Bodega Head, but that never happened for now probably obvious environmental reasons. I think you mean tectonic reasons. Bodega Head is on the San Andreas Fault, no…

tl;dr from the video itself: "the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." I'd forgotten the commentary by the reporter.

It is art, but the author also said he reads it daily to get a news digest. It is full-sized and sharp, so just as easy to read as a newspaper, and also hanging at eye-height. I ca…

I got caught up in all his videos and had the same question. Fortunately, he has a dedicated video where he answers this with testing on the scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

I want to second that and add: grab a few tools and do some basic landscaping. Remove weeds and cut grass that is growing over curbs and sidewalks. Make it look tidy again.

There were 2 replies that I want to summarize together: empowering the current residents as part of the renewal, and rent control. I think as part of the urban improvement is to wo…

Not quite your description of bully becoming the bully, but I knew someone who was bullied who became a needy adult that used emotional abuse in their relationships. The person was…