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There is near zero actual risk. These systems have been around for a long time and are widely deployed in Europe. Circuit breakers have been around for a century and work great. Yo…

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this." Fantastic work!

I was looking for a dead on feature for feature exact replica including look and feel. You are 100% correct there are some excellent tools and libraries that duplicate most (all?) …

I recently asked Claude to duplicate Google Docs. It practically threw up. I tried to have it write a plan, decompose it, deobfuscate it. It gave me all sorts of reasons why this w…

Kagi is awesome. And frankly, it's the end game. Just pay for your search full stop. The original 1990's assertion that "information wants to be free" and all that related nonsense…

Oh this is one I can answer. I was the co-founder of Prosper an early p2p lending company. Your problem is a relatively easy one. Go find one or two companies with a lot of package…

This is a great incredibly well written piece. Nice work showing under the hood build up of how a db works. It makes you think.

Look a rural electric coops like www.lpea.coop if you want a battle tested approach to an org structure that resists the inescapable profit dynamics of a corporation.

AI slop for all its banality may give us enough noise in the signal to accomplish exactly what the author is asking for. As the dead web continues to emerge, content looks less lik…

Been using Kagi for about a year (paid). Best money I ever spent. I did a google search recently... Yuck. I want a calm internet. I ask it answers. No motive. No agenda. Just a bes…

I've been using Kagi search for a while now and frankly it's fantastic. Google looks like AOL to me now. These guys are doing great work and this news product is exactly what I wan…

Usually the observation that “a widely used thing is objectively bad” is strong market signal for entrepreneurial opportunity in a big tam. I for one would welcome a set of deeply …

Just the worst propaganda. A whole website devoted to "Tesla Bad. Musk Bad"? Seriously guys. Context ... https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...

And the inevitable despair of being smart in Milwaukee.

You are not alone. There are a lot of startups working to solve this problem: https://ttconsultants.com/top-10-battery-recycling-startups-... However, you're doing the right thing.…

Flat Earthers rejoice!

At the risk of being cancelled and banned, I think Trevor Noah pretty much summed up the situation in Solano County ... https://youtu.be/QhMO5SSmiaA

Despite these very exciting data points you can watch California systematically push against these trends: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/new-california-ru...

People engineering solutions for the win.

The rumble in the jungle. Ali vs. George Foreman, 1974. https://youtu.be/9bRiFEvxlp8

Pepperidge farm remembers the same types of dismissals when Netscape first come about. "I already have a compuserve account", "It's just a bunch of geeks talking about Frank Zappa"…

Yawn. But omg Penelope Scott! Skip the article listen to the song... https://youtu.be/LpxT9TLGoLI

Most open water distance swimming takes the tides into account. Here's an article that gets into it a bit with some data to boot... https://evanmorrison.com/swim/posts/manhattan-sw…

+1 And to pile on a bit here... part of learning to be a good engineer is learning how to give good constructive feedback. If you are creating real risk of truly hurting someone wi…

It's not a binary choice. We can and should have both. We can also provide constructive feedback and at times criticism both without risking hurting their feelings. Again, the poin…