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> It is not bold at at all to say K-12 will be eradicated. Higher Ed not so much because many were always buying the status of higher education anyway, so the status in itself stil…

Aka solar power

If you're open to physical media you can probably request it through your library, or similarly buy the dvd from ebay or something.

This totally makes me thing of Martin Kleppmann's recent blog post about how AI will make verified software much easier to use in practice! https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/…

I'm reading The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs right now. One of the main theses of the book is that small "inefficient" enterprises are actually the engines of economic grown. L…

I wonder how comparable this actually is to "American Nervousness" which I learned about on Derek Thompson's blog https://substack.com/@derekthompson/p-170457512

Points taken about benefits of run scripts for portability, reproducibility, CI, etc. I'm mostly just trying to find a way to debug arbitrary programs and run tests in the IDE. It …

The thing that's so sticky for me with JetBrains IDEs is their run configurations. Being able to configure all of the environment variables etc. for the actual code that I need to …

Do you believe making things easier and more accessible is bad for workers? I don't think it inherently is or isn't, it just depends on who benefits from the increased efficiency. …

As someone who sometimes thinks of themselves as an "optimizer", I feel the opposite take away. I spend too much time "polishing" trying to make something perfect, at the cost of a…

I think your statement is reasonably reflective of his web articles (especially his SubStack) but I've really enjoyed the books of his that I've read, which felt well researched an…

If you factor in the cost of any government managed trash cleanup, it might. Basically require producers to cover all of the costs required to get the trash disposed of properly. F…

This is a fun analysis, but that's not traditionally how a land value tax works. Land is taxed based on (surprise) its value. Land in cities is obviously more valuable than a big f…

There's a create blog from the creator of RhymeBrain that talks about Succinct Tries: https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=120 I'm pretty sure these were used to store the built…

I tried this just for fun and youtube said to update my browser :(

It's relevant to compare though because Google has done the same thing now.

This is fascinating! How can I learn more about this tech if I wanted to try an build something myself?

Probably I'm a bad person with poor taste, but I enjoyed this and hope it was written by generative AI.

I think PowerShell works this way essentially. As I understand, all data is structured which makes formatting and piping to other programs much simpler.

They used fire for much more than just promoting plant growth for baskets, I don't think OP did a very good job of explaining that. Fire was used to promote plant growth to encoura…

> There's not much evidence that indigenous Californians were doing any kind of fire management in the California coniferous forests My impression from the book was that there was.…

I read Chasing the Molecule by John Buckingham recently and thoroughly enjoyed it! It give a good outline of the history of modern chemistry in a way that felt accessible but still…

I wonder if I can take credit for that :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23838755 I can to this thread to talk up the book too!

In San Francisco, rent control doesn't apply to new construction as I understand.