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by showerst 8mo ago
This AI boom is just a hyper-version of previous tech booms (web 1.0, VC, crypto, etc). You have an enormous number of people who just want to get in and build something, but the products they are pumping out don't serve anyone's
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by showerst 8mo ago
I'd argue that QoL in middle America is not great compared to similarly priced places in the EU. Americans have worse health outcomes (including lifespan), travel far less and have less time off, and retire later. That said, you do get
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by showerst 8mo ago
Yeah, haha fair. Even my friends with two look noticeably shell shocked most of the time. Good luck =)
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by showerst 8mo ago
Minus the commute you had to do most of that anyway though, right? We get my four year old ready and walk her to school (city free pre-k a few blocks away, plus paid aftercare). It takes about an hour to get breakfasted, dressed, and ready
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by showerst 8mo ago
I have a small child. It's awesome! It's also enormously stressful and expensive. We're stopping at one where in past times a family like ours might've had 2-3. There are a variety of reasons, but cost in money, time, an
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by showerst 8mo ago
Each new episode of this I've said to myself "wow, that problem is much harder than I expected". Then he solves it in an elegant way, and I realize the problem is even harder than that! I'm into a number of the hobbies h
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by showerst 8mo ago
I'm sympathetic to ops issues, and particularly sympathetic to ops issues that are caused by brain-dead corporate mandates, but you don't get to be an infrastructure company and have this uptime record. It's extra galling tha
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by showerst 8mo ago
If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an
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by showerst 8mo ago
A common joke is that it was the flintstones.
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by showerst 8mo ago
90% of TSMC's capacity is still in Taiwan. A substantial amount of global high end chip capacity is also in South Korea and Japan, which would likely get pulled in. A war would not wipe out chip production, but the squeeze would be imm
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by showerst 9mo ago
I don't think even the non-3d printed commercial ones are for law enforcement purposes. Besides being for fun, the main draw seems to be that it picks the lock _and_ gives you the bitting. So if you lose all your keys, your locksmith i
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by showerst 9mo ago
What a fun project! The use of wires to get around the corner is such a clever idea, although I see that goes back to the 90s. I'm surprised the idea isn't older. I wonder what makes it take a minimum of 0.7s per combo, it seems l
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by showerst 9mo ago
I've recently been modernizing an old milling machine, and learned that for most types making your own cables is not that hard. The one painful thing is that there are a zillion tools involved for the different types of crimps and term
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by showerst 9mo ago
I agree with you on the value > price, but disagree about why. If you take out classified (and later internet) Ads, almost no newspaper and no TV news in the US was _ever_ profitable. It might sound crazy but as a percent of revenue, new
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by showerst 9mo ago
I'm honestly much more worried about the fact that China has access to production lines for zillions of the things than what they'd do with existing ones, but I did make the comment so I'll run with it =). Let's put on o
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by showerst 9mo ago
There’s currently nobody in the us small drone market to get complacent. Is there a single company that designs and builds sub $10,000 drones in the US?
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by showerst 9mo ago
I build hobby scale drones for fun, mostly sub250g micros with no military value. I’d pay more for domestic parts, because I think the capability is strategically valuable, and the quality of Chinese stuff is super variable. There’s basical
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by showerst 9mo ago
Both making and removing regulation boosts my business, as my clients care about changes. That said, I assure you that one regulation getting made out of millions has no effect on my bottom line. The drone thing is a personal opinion. If th
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by showerst 9mo ago
Absolutely. And as someone who’s seen some condo boards, I can tell you that when presented with “we all need to pay a small amount of money now to avoid a big bill later” the response will generally be “no way!” It’s a tragedy of the commo
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by showerst 9mo ago
I'm in favor of tighter regulation on drone imports, both for national security reasons and to try to jumpstart a US drone industry. Not allowing _any_ foreign made components, however, is insane, as is not even auditing DJI when they
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by showerst 9mo ago
I think that's great! Maybe that's the answer, hope your town gets one or two good journalists who can live off the pool of people who do care. Then you just hope that they don't get hit by a bus, sell out without you knowing
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by showerst 9mo ago
The problem with local journalism is simple: the product is produces is not worth what it costs to produce it. This has _always_ been true, but for generations classified ad revenue neatly subsidized it. Once the internet came along and ble
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by showerst 9mo ago
I know a thing or two about that, 2,400 commits to the scrapers powering openstates over the past 9 years. Even with openstates, we have an API but don't "just" dump the bills to git for legacy nerd reasons. The nice thing ab
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by showerst 9mo ago
Neither openlaws nor public.resource actually let you just pull the laws in a common format (or the scrapers) as far as I can tell? I was thinking something more along the lines of a git repo per state.
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by showerst 9mo ago
Lexis especially makes even scraping public state laws and admin codes difficult, which is extra frustrating because they are the legal publisher of record in a number of states. I've been considering trying to launch an OpenStates sty
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by showerst 9mo ago
If you pitched a pharma company with the thesis of "We'll charge US customers less and global customers more", what would stop that from working? I can think of a number of things.
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by showerst 10mo ago
FWIW I bought some 2 years ago and the quality is still very high.
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by showerst 10mo ago
Plenty of celebrities that have nothing to do with self-help also attract their share of mentally ill folks, so I'm not sure that he's as far out of the norm as you think. A few folks in my social circles are _very_ minor public f
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by showerst 10mo ago
It's a little awkward, but what it's trying to communicate doesn't really work well in one sentence. As a native US English speaker, I would probably write something like "Austria opens the world's sixth longest rai
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by showerst 10mo ago
I don't think magazines using affiliate links necessarily makes a review unbiased. Recommended or not, if someone buys it from them they may as well make a cut. That said, many of these type of articles are just thinly veiled paid adve

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