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This resonates. Tips on how to build this skill?

OP is an LLM.

It's not new information that people can learn/practice in their sleep. This is already known and well documented. The interesting question is: what conditions increase the chance …

I suspect the commenter above is reflecting on 2026 USA and not 1850 USA. The past tense nature of your comment if part of the concern highlights a common recognition that there is…

The geographic and demographic orders of magnitude when comparing these two places makes it difficult to extrapolate applicability of best practices. Who's to say the Swiss model s…

More likely the cultural practice was not passed down after the massive change in food preservation about 125 years ago. In the United States, fermentation was a universally practi…

Bold take. This hasn't been my experience.

very nice. Keep up the good work.

And yet an accessible ecosystem of 3rd party non-emacs tooling has not been developed. I would pay big bucks for an obsidian-styled org-mode clone that had a no-frills GUI interfac…

electric bicycles have significantly less tire waste.

I worked for a few years in an large org which utilized perl for build scripts, testing automation, and a few other things. I would summarize the half decade Perl learning curve as…

I think the primary issue is that there is massive demand for adolescent social interaction in a world that is increasingly physically isolating for kids. Demographic shifts make s…

any particular platforms that one could host the blog?

Any 101 tips for starting a blog that will stand the test of time?

This was before my time but I appreciate the write up and the nostalgia from folks in this thread. My take away was that VisiCalc was a fairly straight forward technological proble…

So can we project from the authors data that, under normal operation, both bridges roughly consume the same amount of power?

You sure? Thats the case for areas the size of entire states. You can look at any weather temperature map to prove this.

Thanks for the clarity. Wow this is a big deal.

How did you verify that a software update can 1. Occur during driving operation of the vehicle and 2. results in vehicle power loss? I worked in an auto supplier years ago and ther…

This article left me wishing it was "How I'm using coding agents to do task better" I've been exploring AI for two years now. It's certainly upgraded itself from the toy classifica…

You're over indexing on the genetics impacts of these things over the cultural impacts.

My equally anecdotal professional experience has been the exact opposite and certainly influences my view on this topic.

One of America's greatest assets is its brand as a place worth immigrating too. Much of the social capital is gained by high performing international hires who leverage the H-1B vi…

Is there a book one can read to learn how to create one?

Detroit's decline started as soon as assembly plants went one-story in the 40's-50's. There was further decline with the advent of robotics/computers in the 70's-80's, and 2000's w…