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Strangely only "Kimi" has accurately heard of me. Gemini thinks I'm a German-language version of the stuff I do in English, Kimi recognizes my long-defunct blogging about technolog…

I got one of those dongles from my insurance company that plugged into the ODB2 port and reported my driving habits. I was a bad driver. It would frequently beep at me to let me kn…

One of my mom's best friends when I was a kid had Huntington's. She was a few years older than mom, and her sons were a few years older than my brother and I. One of them chose to …

For a time in the years around 2008 I would sign my credit card receipts "Ron Paul," which eventually resulted in a sternly-worded letter from Wells Fargo that carried no legal wei…

One of my favorite... solutions, I suppose, was to find a break (not a leak) in a pipe by running current through it and using some sensor (I think the vocabulary is "signal genera…

Are there similar optimizations available for basketball? Shoes can only do so much.

If the company is employee owned, how do you propose that an investor even could back it? Investment results in an ownership stake.

Luddite technologists. What a time.

It doesn't preach so much as it explores. The author strikes me as being more economically literate than Rand or LeGuin, but not as good a writer as the latter. The real and stagge…

One of my favorite science fiction novels deals with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain

It would surprise me to learn that Steve Yegge had deferred the opportunity to type a lot in favor of using an LLM to generate natural language. I'm biased in his favor, but I reco…

I shut down my company (Stage, heystage.com) back in December. It feels silly to keep renewing the domain, but it also feels silly to let it lapse; since only one of those decision…

I'm prone to plantar warts, and the only success I've had has been from surgical removal. I have not tried duct tape, though. Once I went to a podiatrist who injected bleomycin, a …

Those of us who have the foresight to make such sacrifices should also have the foresight to structure our investments to make them resilient against redistribution.

Fractal seems to have addressed the entire market they had identified. It doesn't appear that they're still recruiting founders. I was in their pipeline and interviewing potential …

If you live close enough to the property and you've built the right relationships with your tenants the matter is trivial. If you live far away and rely on third party managers, th…

I started something and failed catastrophically. We returned the remaining cash to the investors. VCs are beating down my door to discuss the next thing, and they're introducing me…

More Texans will buy NordVPN subscriptions and the world will keep turning. It's a waste of legislation.

You can still go die in the forest. One fellow had a book written about him for doing just that.

This is just delightful, but is no one else bothered by the honey bear mustard bottle?

I drink heavily. Sometimes it occurs to me that I need a break. These breaks are sometimes months long, but after just a few days I feel amazing. I haven't gone for eighteen months…

It is possible that the sixty-one percent tip for a vanishing but nonzero minority of rides.

"the author needed to grow a spine" cuts to my soul. I was the technical cofounder of a startup. We spent a similar amount of money on a similar agency, on advisors to tell our des…

Even if the subsidies that drive increasingly sophisticated models evaporate, we'll still have the existing models we can run on commodity hardware. Some of those models will be go…

I just shut down my startup (we raised a huge seed and we weren't gonna find product market fit with the original thesis; pivoting madly would have been a poor way to justify our v…