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by simonsarris 8mo ago
Flora Carta - https://floracarta.com A tool to "Design and keep track of gardens, orchards, and landscape projects." It's very alpha right now, so its quite ugly, but people are already using it. I'm committe
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
> ...stop being physically desk-bound during those wait times. > I built ForkOff to solve this This does sound useful but I have to laugh because I just work out or play with my children. If you enjoy calisthenics and stretching its g
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
Maybe, but then do we really need teachers with special degrees and other credentials that drive up cost for them and us? Maybe we can find a way to make education much cheaper if we're going to admit its limitations.
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
A company is just a group of people. Anything a group of people can believe, a company can believe. A company with investors is a little more suspect, its true. But even massive public companies like Costco still stake out some claims wit
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by simonsarris 8mo ago
A helpful visual (Wiki has a picture of an outdated version of this graph): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-production-by-country...
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
Eli Lilly has GLP-1 injectables and will have an oral pill this year. Novo Nordisk has already dropped that ball. Hence Eli Lilly +40% in the last year and Novo -23%. Or on a longer timescale you can see the problem: https://ww
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
I have about 7 acres. I kept geese once but they were killed when they ran off with a local 5K that ran by my house and they followed. They were never found. I have kept ducks (meat) and chickens (eggs) at various times, but I ate all the d
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
I did it all by hand in HTML canvas. I have spent a long time making such things for years. My day job is making a canvas-based Diagramming library so I have some practice. If you click on it the scene creates more objects by the way. And i
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
https://simonsarris.com - My site https://map.simonsarris.com - My newsletter site https://garden.simonsarris.com - My garden designer site. Currently making this so anyone can use it! Public alpha at the
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
I'm working on a complex garden planner to keep track of gardens, orchards, and landscaping projects. Meant for very large and very small scales. Public alpha at the end of this month, I hope. You can see what it looks like right now h
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
Via Garry Tan: > Larry and Sergey can’t stay in California since the wealth tax as written would confiscate 50% of their Alphabet shares. > Each own ~3% of Alphabet's stock, worth about $120 billion each at today's ~$4 trill
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
Beautiful, my favorite kind of post for HN. Thank you Brad.
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
There is nothing anti-democratic per se about restricting immigration, and in fact many countries create policy that is significantly to the left of their populaces surveyed desires with respect to immigration, who almost always wish for
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
People didn't ask for online shopping or computers in their pockets, and both of them started out as novelties. Many people thought they were overpromised fads. It's fine if genAI looks like the Palm Pilot today. Nothing says it w
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
Google has several enviable, if not moats, at least redoubts. TPUs, mass infrastructure and own their own cloud services, they own delivery mechanisms on mobile (Android) and every device (Chrome). And Google and Youtube are still #1 and #2
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
It is a lie (or decades out of date) that wages have stagnated. Wages were stagnant from ~1979 to 1997. They have increased a lot since then. Median usual weekly real earnings: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES12
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by simonsarris 9mo ago
Gardening, mostly. I am (slowly) trying to make the second largest rose garden in New Hampshire. Plastering (walls, ceilings, etc). Releasing side projects at a faster pace. This gets harder with more children alas. But they're startin
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
> if you’re doing this for your own learning: you will learn better without AI. This is not the distinction I would want to tell newcomers. AI is extremely good for finding out what the most common practices are for all kinds of situatio
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
China had an emissions decline in 2025 that is substantially attributable to a decline in industry, per their first source. The decline in industry is plausible so long as GDP growth in 2025 is lower than GDP growth in 2024, and is addit
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
A 3% GDP growth this year is a slowdown from 2024. Did you read this paper? I encourage you to at least read the abstract. It discusses whether "China's 2025 economic growth story turns on whether investment merely declined in the
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
That article is about emissions, not admixture. If you look at the source of that article, which they link to: https://carbonmonitor.org/variation First off we can now look at the full year instead of 6 months of data, its
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
I hope you realize that China's coal and oil use for electricity is at an all-time high and increasing. They have installed more coal capacity since 2020 than the US has total. US coal usage peaked circa 2000 and has decreased for the
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
I think we have a real inflection point now. I try it a bit every year and was always underwhelmed. Halfway through this year was the first time it really impressed me. I now use Claude Code.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
You do realize the US is supported in the current actions by the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner? (María Corina Machado)
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
I made https://meetinghouse.cc as a way for twitter people to put themselves on a map and write a bio, and what they're looking for. It's a way to find and be found, if you want to see who's interesting nearby for
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Even before this release the tools (for me: Claude Code and Gemini for other stuff) reached a "good enough" plateau that means any other company is going to have a hard time making me (I think soon most users) want to switch. Unle
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
Diplomacy before the "world police" era involved a lot more war than you might be willing to stomach.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
It seems possible that both capital and resources are more widely distributed than ever before in human history. The number of investors, including accredited investors, may also be higher than ever before. (though its lower than before acc
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
after some failures with Let's Encrypt (almost certainly my fault wrt auto renewal) I switched to free 15 year Cloudflare certs instead and I'm very happy not worrying about it any more.
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by simonsarris 10mo ago
https://meetinghouse.cc A place to find and be found for twitter users only right now . As a silly project I am trying to make not a social network, but an extension of another social network. So far its going OK. It also funct

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