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Where are you located? Around 2020 I put together a landslide risk monitoring site that's entirely based on stream gauges: https://khmpsitka.org It's an interesting approach that's…

I didn't see this until this morning, and the continuing through for the whole 18 words was a really good experience. I got 14/18, and that was much more satisfying than ending at …

Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-c…

When vehicles were starting to get noticeably bigger about 20 years ago, I asked some family members why they were buying vehicles they had to climb up into. "On the highway, I'd r…

> In fact, I think Guido himself resigned due to the experience he had trying to get a PEP through the committee. If you're referring to the steering council, that group was create…

> But adoption is the starting line, not the scoreboard. Yes yes, shout it from the rooftops! Over the next few years I think we're going to see that companies that get this point …

It depends on your definition of "threaten", but the short answer is yes. I live in a mountainous area that's a destination for road bikers and mountain bikers. There's lots of sou…

So many areas in the US are much less walkable and bikeable than they used to be. I say that as someone who bicycle commuted for years. When I rode my bike to school as a kid I dea…

This is great, but it's also easy to go too far in this direction. This can work through elementary school and into middle school, but I don't think it works in high school. It's r…

Have you ever met Chad? I have no doubt this is sincere.

I met Chad during the gittip years, and one of my life goals now is to go find him in the offline world some day and sit around an open fire at night to share stories. :) I wish I …

Anecdotal data point: My son is finishing 9th grade, and he's taking 10th grade math because he got ahead a year when he was younger. At his school, you're exempted from having to …

I'm partway through Anthony Shaw's NDC talk, "Are LLMs good software engineers?" One of the realizations he shares is that he found himself treating AI assistants like junior engin…

People are talking about Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, and AI. No one has mentioned defunding public education yet. In Alaska, where I lived most of the last 20 years, …

> With most parks the crowds quickly disappear once you are 2 miles in. And those crowds just aren't present in the early morning. Nobody gets up early enough to be out at sunrise.…

From my understanding there are a lot of companies that need their own package repositories, for a variety of reasons. I listened to a couple podcasts where Charlie Marsh outlined …

This has me thinking about VS Code and VS Codium. I've used VS Code for a while now, but recently grew annoyed at the increasingly prevalent prompts to subscribe to various Microso…

Astral was building a private package hosting system for enterprise customers. That was their stated approach to becoming profitable, while continuing to fund their open source wor…

The last section focuses on how to use LLMs to make contributions: > Use an LLM to develop your comprehension. I really like that, because it gets past the simpler version that we …

> One of the main issues is that pointing to your GitHub contributions and activity is now part of the hiring process. If I were hiring at this moment, I'd look at the ratio of acc…

I'd be curious to know what portion of that 40% makes any meaningful income from their open source work. I would guess that most of those people are being paid a small appreciation…

I have a friend who's fond of saying, "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has."

That's part of why they are trying to take control of elections, which have (I believe) historically been the responsibility of each state.