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The US government is undoubtedly aware that renewables are the future. I assume they're still cooking up a backup plan to the petrodollar system and it will be business as usual un…

Tired of these absolutes. Software should be about the code, but not for every person on every project for all parts of that project. It's great to "wake up" and realize that code …

3.5) You decide what evidence you need to see to convince yourself it works 6) You maintain the program with architectural gymnastics as time eats away at the utility and relevance…

I think you've got the cause and effect backwards. If X dollars buys 1.2 times more stuff in the future (deflation) you will hoard your dollars and deprive the economy of them. If …

This is a great example of a blog post that isn't obviously AI written, but that also doesn't make much sense. > Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you h…

I do this too, but I use cmake to switch the backend between pandoc and lowdown [0]. Lowdown is not a drop-in replacement for pandoc flavored markdown, but it's between 10-100X fas…

Burdensome regulatory compliance is a moat. These companies have AI and enough money to lobby the Pope. They can afford to reanimate members of congress and push some tactical legi…

All paradigm shifts and regime changes happen because of a coalition of people that have nothing to gain and everything to lose by the current system. But I think we should decoupl…

Can't you just put a real PCIe NIC in an eGPU enclosure with a fan? I bet you can solve this problem for like $150 and two craigslist transactions.

It's far-fetched that the GNU project is authentically concerned about software licensing?

The GCC stance seems reasonable to me, where do we think the rage is coming from in comments like this? Off the cuff, I would be surprised if the GNU project embraced AI, so I'm co…

> Endless tweaking of your tools that eats all your time can be a sign that you are just trying to avoid that daunting and uninspiring task I think a lot of this comes from beginne…

News is perpetually in decline just like the old perpetually fear the young will bring humanity to ruin. Kierkegaard in the 1850s: "The daily press is the evil principle of the mod…

I have to point out how deeply unserious it is that the following line... > As the technology matures, advanced robotic devices have growing use cases in monitoring and securing cr…

I'm tired of friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors being revealed as soulless time-optimizing automatons. 2026 has been the year "you're not just X, you're Y" creeped into serm…

I think too many billionaires convince themselves it was fate and scramble their brains under the weight of figuring out what the greater purpose is for their extraordinary wealth …

I have almost the exact opposite problem. My focus is as strong as ever, maybe stronger, but as time goes on I notice that it is harder and harder for me to gracefully respond to i…

> Learning to check the compliers optimization reports is arguably more valuable Where do I start? I want to trust the compiler, but I don't always have time to feed every little p…

Nobody can tell you what to diversify into without information about what you are concentrated in. Sure, spread investments across stocks and bonds and treasuries from different ma…

Genuine questions from the ground floor: How do you spot the quality candidates in those top roles? It seems like forecasting success is exponentially harder when the skills are so…

it has the electrolytes plants need

I find it hard to trust economic narratives when so many metrics cited upon further inspection do not really measure what they are implied to measure. Or maybe we measure what is e…

I thought there was a lot of buzz about AI creativity after the infamous move 37 in that series?

I bet there will be a very interesting generational divide between the kids that were born before or after about 2010; old enough to have some critical thinking facilities at the d…