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You can AOT typescript types from zod schemas if intellisense is your main complaint. I think it generally makes more sense to transform from more expressive => less expressive, an…

They're talking about window units, not heat pump systems or central air. It's a complete AC that sits in your window. It can't cool a very large space (even in apartments people m…

Do effect systems actually avoid colored functions? Don’t most typed effect systems require the used effects in the signature?

It seems like it would drive down housing prices, but (given limited zoning) drive up land prices?

In the times of the French Revolution that was enough, but I think technology is obsoleting us there too. If evil oligarch can make a bunker and ten million $100 kill bots, I don’t…

Here’s my favorite post on the subject https://adam-p.ca/blog/2025/04/string-length/

Another thing I’ve encountered with tree/structured diffs is a concept of identity. diff([{id:1,name:foo}],[{id:2,name:foo}] should show object w/ id:1 removed and id:2 added, not …

I think if this can keep a knife effectively sharper than the equivalent nice steel with less maintenance, then it’s going to find a market. I’m a nerd, but Ive found that once I’v…

Reddit’s eventual livelihood would be based on selling ads, so legality is not the line they were aiming for.

Hasn't the proliferation of streaming services shown that the content is the "drug"? To remain competitive, they had to start producing themselves.

Check out design within reach. Fancy furniture can be incredibly expensive.

Thank you for writing this! It’s something I’ve always wanted a comprehensive guide on, now I have something to point to.

Consensus is that the evidence supporting that is not strong.

It seems insanely risky to attempt to fill a niche that only opened up because of these tariffs. If they’re removed, congrats you just spent a bunch of capital to make a factory th…

Same deal with other industries with hybrid public/private, like the postal service or insurance. Arithmetic is based on serving some people at a loss but amortizing those losses a…

I feel like immigration is effectively unlimited from the perspective of big cities. There's friction moving states, and some things keep people anchored, but the market is nationw…

I think all metrics can be reconstructed as “wide events” since they’re just a bunch of arbitrary data? Counts, gauges, and histograms at least seem pretty straight forward to me. …

This is about a council rule that forbids “derogatory statements or comments about any individual.”

This is about a different man, Noah Petersen, who was reading a statement mentioning the linked encounter at a council meeting.

There’s a difference between “approving of” something and thinking it shouldn’t be a crime. What’s your feeling on the first amendment? Do you approve of hate speech?

Isn’t that kinda what stock options are?

Maybe discoverability? If you can’t google “major event” to find news, you’ll wind up just going to big-news-site.com and searching there.

This discussion isn't new[1], and I'm not sure re-hashing it here will be useful unless you think AI generated child porn is significantly different from any other form of fictiona…

I don’t think so? Household Cost = Total Cost / Households, Household Duration = Capacity / (Household Usage * Households), Houshold*2 would half both.

I grew up in the suburbs and walked out my front door to play with my friends. There were probably 15 kids around my age within 100 yards of my house, 50 in my neighborhood.