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by pchristensen 10mo ago
I always have to recommend Mother Earth, Mother Board by Neal Stephenson[1] if the thought of undersea cables sounds at all interesting. I'll also second andyjohnson0's recommendation of The Victorian Internet[2] - it blew my mind
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by pchristensen 10mo ago
Gamification helps with growth and engagement but not necessarily learning. I have a feeling that a "calm" app would grow more slowly but if the experience and results are good, you could have more durable and satisfied customers,
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Tips for Better Coding with Agents(steve-yegge.medium.com)
2 points by pchristensen 10mo ago|0 comments
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by pchristensen 11mo ago
This documentary goes into a lot of detail on the causes worldwide: The Birth Gap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GeVG0XYTc
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Don't forget non-perishable. If you're already having a hard time affording groceries, it really hurts to throw away wilted veggies or moldy fruit.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
It demonstrates carelessness in only targeting people whose presence is illegal, with legal residents being collateral damage.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Off the top of my head, Kilmar Abrego Garcia had a judicial stay against exportation and the administration said his deportation was an error, but he spent weeks in an El Salvadoran prison. And there was the Korean battery factory workers i
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by pchristensen 1y ago
This took longer to cut and paste than it did to find on Google. Arresting and detaining citizens based only on race/language: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/scotus-analysis-... Rhetoric fro
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I believe it's this one: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Hardly a boom.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
If you’re not certain that these boats are drug muddlers, you shouldn’t be blowing them up. If you have proof and are certain, you should be willing to share it to demonstrate what you’re doing is just.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Just that "largest manufacturing state in the USA" isn't a very helpful measure, since the largest state in basically every measure of development. This tweet shows the same problem with absolute numbers giving misleading app
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by pchristensen 1y ago
That's because it's so much more populous. That link shows that CA is 34th in % of workers employed in manufacturing (similar to TX and MA). CA is tops in many, many absolute measures because it has almost 10M more people than the
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Having the original founder leading the buyout is not typical. The Dell situation was much more like Steve Jobs returning to Apple than a typical LBO.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
> 25s have no idea either!
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by pchristensen 1y ago
People cannot afford to move to places where the economies are booming, because their standard of living with higher pay and higher costs is the same as if they stayed where they are. Moving to opportunity used to be worth it, but is less s
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by pchristensen 1y ago
This is incredibly enjoyable read!
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I fondly remember using a program called MoSlow to slow down older DOS games that were used to using every cycle they could get, and so were unplayable when I got a Pentium computer. I joked about how I wish I could find the corresponding &
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Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe(infrequently.org)
72 points by pchristensen 1y ago|21 comments
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AI's "Just Ship it." problem(leahtharin.com)
4 points by pchristensen 1y ago|0 comments
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Here’s a write up of an experiment I did, with idea, spec, prompt, and Claude code commits. http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/first-impressions-of-v...
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by pchristensen 1y ago
If you enjoy the Phantom Menace for any reason, you'll probably enjoy John Carter.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
I didn't see that when it came out, heard it was a flop, and disregarded it for years. Then we watched it over winter break a few years ago, and it's basically the same as Phantom Menace - pretty good action, pretty good but dated
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by pchristensen 1y ago
My favorite terrifying fact about the WW2 Pacific theater: The US expected that invading the Japanese home islands would be so bloody that they manufactured tons of Purple Heart medals, and they’re still giving them out today because they h
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by pchristensen 1y ago
My guess is that's a specific example of e.g. novel scientific modeling.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Which is a very safe assumption given advancements in chemistry, textiles, and industrial processes.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
If you're interested in this, I recommend reading Casey Handmer's blog. Here is one of several pieces about cost curves and learning rate for solar and batteries: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/11&#x2
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by pchristensen 1y ago
For reference, those states cover 4.5x more land but only 20% more population (50M vs 40M) compared to California.
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by pchristensen 1y ago
"I like drawing silly plots in txt" To thine own self be true!
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by pchristensen 1y ago
Cool, I already don't fly Delta so no need to change.

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