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I can accept the author's premise that LLMs double coding productivity today. Semiconductors following Moore's Law increased their density, which is a reasonable metric for effecti…

This August 2026 roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las V…

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tl;dr: Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve improved the speed of Substrate's computational lithography stack by 680% and reduced compute costs by 97%, enabling the simulation and printin…

Key take-away: "Domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs. [...] Human expertise will continue to be useful even as models get stronger. The human is the bottleneck for many …

tldr; Here are five signs your startup may still be a hobby: 1. You are not making real offers that include a price, delivery date, and a promised result. 2. You rely on a spouse, …

"While reviewing a list titled “Retractions by Nobel Prize winners” ( https://retractionwatch.com/retractions-by-nobel-prize-winne... ) compiled by the industry watchdog Retraction…

Interesting analysis of the consequences for Scientific American breaking with tradition and endorsing Joe Biden in 2020 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-ameri…

This July 2026 roundup lists online events for bootstrappers including Bootstrappers Breakfast and Lean Culture. There are also in-person Bootstrapper Breakfast meetings in Las Veg…

I don't care if it's trivial to implement and impossible to bypass: it's an effort to eliminate anonymous Internet browsing/commenting because everyone over 16 has to submit ID as …

That was my experience as well. Paid for it for a year, it was a clean presentation of a subset of Google results, but when I was really looking for something I would fall back on …

And start to build a relationship with sales that, at least in a B2B firm, can be of significant benefit.

From Chapter 8, available online at https://deepness.trmm.net/c08b/ "Our main cargo is a one-time cryptographic pad. The source is Commercial Security at Sjandra Kei; the destinati…

I agree: a "state of nature" leads to lives that are "nasty, brutish and short." How do we find legislators who are good stewards for the public trust and welfare. We subject publi…

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session." Gideon J. Tucker

We are truly living in a science fiction future where quantum code cracking is not a remote possibility but a near term risk we are planning for. In Vernor Vinge's novel "A Fire Up…