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Same thought - 80% through reading it occurred to me to check the citations. A few items from 2025 and most well before that. So much has changed since late 2025 one can’t really d…

No nuclear apocalypse yet. Nice.

Plenty of startups have tried the “penny per article” approach and failed. They might get 20% of the penny on behalf of the publisher - who has to get 1M pageviews to get $10k. Har…

Pursuit of growth

> This article describes drone physics. Audience should have familiarity with introductory linear algebra, introductory calculus, and introductory classical mechanics. Having famil…

The real unlock is at line 149 of bin/burn

The issue is that it’s relatively low effort to make false and unverified claims. Defending and refuting it is a much higher effort task for the person doing the work to everyone e…

“Yak shaving” It’s a classic move. Start a new diet, so you join a gym and or buy a bunch of workout stuff. I won’t knock it though. An important minority of my yak-shaving endeavo…

> It probably would’ve been easier if I didn’t use Rust and just used the Arduino libraries, or if I used a different board. But I was really married to this blog post title idea W…

There’s a lot of meeting hate here and as a developer, I used to feel the same. But after bootstrapping a SaaS company and at times struggling through cross-team execution, I’ve co…

When your dreams and visions die, you don’t have any reason to believe in yourself, and you’re pretty much the walking dead

When you’re deep in a thoughtful read and suddenly get the eerie feeling that you’re being catfished > But the real threat isn't either of those things. It's quieter, and more bori…

I’ve seen this too. And with AI, it’s empowered even more people to spam, imitate, steal and remix others’ work, research and artistic expression. The big grift is on - and sadly, …

I think you missed the point of the parent comment. The money (from advertising) that used to go to news now goes elsewhere (Google and Meta). It’s left very little in terms of res…

As a news publisher (RedBankGreen.com) I’ll tell you that pretty much nobody is in it for the money anymore, at least at the local level. It’s passion and love of the community, de…

A few things: 1. You can't judge the person, you can judge the behavior 2. To judge the person requires the ability to quantify the unquantifiable (circumstance, sequence of events…

The role of cause and effect is unshakeable. > If everyone would make the same choice, then free will doesn't exist. It's only one step away from what you said. I didn't say anythi…

I didn’t say anything about free will. What I did say is irrefutable.

> It presumes people do not have choices. No, there are choices. It states that given the exact same starting parameters and sequence of events, you would make the same choice.

It’s not really subjective if you don’t believe it’s your place to judge the human to begin with. If you were in their exact life circumstance and environment you would do the same…

You’re correct that belief is a powerful driver of prosperity/poverty - and that believing that you’re headed for either can lead to you to different modes of decision making. I’ve…

I had, by chance, taken the same approach when reading the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance years ago. The title failed to inspire but I heard it was worth the read and steppe…

For Grateful Dead fans, a little while back I made an interface for digging through show recordings - all sourced from Archive.org https://katzgrau.github.io/jerry-picker/