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It’s an alternative to coups and civil wars. The deal made in private conversations is something like “Give up power peacefully. Everybody gets pardoned and goes home to their fami…

Replace Gmail? Meaning instead of real emails from my actual contacts, I’ll read AI generated emails?

Hey, remember that time we used "an organic" kitty litter instead of "inorganic" kitty litter and the resulting explosion cost a half-billion dollars to clean up? https://en.wikipe…

Here's a dumb idea: - Take the most recent sale prices of all neighboring parcels within a quarter mile - Take the land-area weighted average price per square foot - Assess the giv…

This will make lobbying more powerful. If you can’t make money from insider trading, you have one less alternative to accepting bribes. I’d rather require insider trading than ban …

Here's Vitruvius in "De Architectura" claiming it's common, easily verified knowledge: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius... Of course, him mentioning "Do…

Science is a tool for finding truth, or at least weighing evidence. It isn’t policy and doesn’t have anything to say about policy. You can have a policy of waiting for overwhelming…

As described in the article, sharing data between apps is currently impossible. I wish Solid/PODs had taken off, but I get the sense that project spent more time on ontologies and …

Cursor with defaults, I guess mostly `cursor-small`. Typically I write and adjust function names or signatures and let tab-complete draft the code and propagate refactors. It does …

Windfall, for those who want it. LLMs were fantastic for writing a project[0] in a new, niche language[1]. They help write any missing libraries. They help iterate when I get stuck…

Work didn't let me paste our code into online web tools like ChatGPT. But we trust Amazon. So I built the simplest chat interface I could think of, using AWS Bedrock as a backend. …

> If this happens, the designer had a error in his design, and should extend the design to accommodate the facts that escaped him at design time. Errors in the initial design shoul…

It is useful for humans if a farmer can lock in the price for their crop at planting time, rather than get a nasty surprise when they harvest. In financial terms, this is "selling …

I thought at 0°F you're supposed to bring the cows inside! Also at 100°F I guess it depends on the cows

[Written laws] were just like spiders' webs; they would hold the weak and delicate... but would be torn to pieces by the rich and powerful - Plutarch

It’s not about an unfamiliar syntax. S-exprs are objectively hard to read. The same shape for function calls, macros, blocks, and data means I can’t distinguish them by sight to de…

"Non Plus Ultra" Followed by another company introducing their "Plus Ultra" model.

There's no reason for the doctor to involve any patients, other than to write their names down. These are fraud factories submitting thousands of templated claims per year.

I’m quite happy with my Perixx Periboard 335 replacing the Microsoft Ergo Sculpt. Standard layout, semi-split, tented, low (-ish) profile, mechanical switches, wired. Took me a lot…

Plot the days when your air conditioner is on with the temperature of your room. It will have many concrete examples and a long-term correlation showing that actually, the air cond…

Solving recurrence relations has always felt just out of reach for me. But rewriting it in matrix form makes so much sense! Thanks!

This works on my system76 lemur pro 10 with pop!_os: - click and hold on the touchpad with thumb - swipe with another finger to drag around. Multiple, disjoint strokes work, so the…

The lenses in your eyes refract different wavelengths at different angles - think of a rainbow coming out of a prism. Only one wavelength can be perfectly tuned to project a clear …

I love it! I’ll have to play around with it today

The funny Unicode symbols are actually ASCII `->` and `|>` rendered in a font with ligatures. I agree it's a bit jarring to see, but you wouldn't need a special keyboard.