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People are ignoring climate change too even though they know about it. It’s hard to make good decisions over these long lifestyles, which is why pay as you go taxes or structured r…

> “while taking the time to figure out how open source should work in the agentic era” I can’t even guess what this means

When Australia decided every address should have a number (early 60s I guess) my grandmother simply refused to comply. She continued to use the name of the house in all corresponde…

I have lived my life this way and I’m surprised more don’t. I gave a talk every year to MBA students and inevitably most of them seem confused by my work history. They are missing …

My sister and I used to wait after school at the ER for my mother to finish her shift. Back then we could wander in to the ER if we were bored (basically no privacy for the patient…

Surely a usb c headset would work

I can hardly find anything to praise in the current situation. But what we see today is a culmination of various longstanding pathologies.

Climate report is exactly what it sounds like: turning back the clock on temperature rise in the atmosphere and oceans. I’d like to get it to 1750, but really it isn’t really neces…

When has it not been?

Yawn. I was just in Tampa where I saw several billboards for “permanent male enhancement”.*. I don’t drink or smoke, so liquor ane cigarette ads just slide into my blind spot (a ne…

Not really, even with a venture backed company. The investors only care if they believe there will be paying customers, and at the end of the day those are people. In many cases th…

I guess time zones are driving a significantly US-centric response. My company works on climate repair. We're just a four person menlo park startup so far with some pilots in the f…

Last autumn we sourced boards (both fab and assembly) in the US. The vendors I’d used in the past in MV and Sunnyvale are gone but some folks are still around. Getting the boards m…

Maybe they didn’t save any money but they did manage to exfiltrate huge amounts of info on citizens and residents that had been provided under the understanding that it would be he…

If you’re in California you could try using consumer law and small claims court (no lawyer needed). On one hand that would be extra work for a small amount of money, but on the oth…

That’s because SpaceX is Gwynne Shotwell.

I agree, though I don’t think it’s relevant to this post.

Why would a local facility like handoff need to talk to the mother ship?

Office apps no longer autosave unless you have OneDrive installed. So no autosave for me! Instead I save compulsively lie the days of floppy disk PCs. (Meanwhile Emacs has had auto…

I’m not a criminal*, but I hope when I’m 76 I’ll still be sufficiently lithe and compos mentis to pull off a career in crime, should I so choose. * Though wouldn’t a criminal say t…

But that’s really the opposite of τέχνη, isn’t it? It’s an emergent phenomenon rather than one guided by teleology or at least by deliberation.

Science fiction, even more than historical fiction, is always about the present, which is why SF novels rarely age well. But good literature is good literature and she sure had the…

A side point: when you say “Lewis” I assume you mean Charles Staple Lewis, not Sinclair Lewis. I find it hard to consider the former “foundational”. It was and is popular (much to …