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by yojo 1y ago
Nice try, wagon hopper.
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by yojo 1y ago
Agreed. I look for tenants that aren’t spending more than a third on rent. At $1300/month, that puts it right on median household income of $48k for the area (this is in rural northern CA). I have no interest in ever evicting anyone, i
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by yojo 1y ago
I’m one of those mom and pop owners. The decent ROI on renting out my starter home financed me adding an ADU to the lot, which I also rent out. I’ve owned the house long enough that I’ve had several tenants churn out when they buy their own
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by yojo 1y ago
Any information that requires something approximating a full-time job worth of effort to produce will necessarily go away, barring the small number of independently wealthy creators. Existing subject-matter experts who blog for fun may or m
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by yojo 1y ago
I don’t subscribe to technological inevitabilism. Cloudflare banning bad actors has at least made scraping more expensive, and changes the economics of it - more sophisticated deception is necessarily more expensive. If the cost is high eno
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by yojo 1y ago
I agree that specific examples help, though I think the ones that resonate most will necessarily be niche. As a teen, I loved Penny Arcade, and watched them almost die when the bottom fell out of the banner-ad market. Now, most of the value
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by yojo 1y ago
Ads are a problematic business model, and I think your point there is kind of interesting. But AI companies disintermediating content creators from their users is NOT the web I want to replace it with. Let’s imagine you have a content creat
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by yojo 1y ago
This assumes your time is free. The used market has tons of friction. I try to buy higher quality things, used if possible, and sell when I’m done with them. But this is primarily for ecological reasons. The complete cycle can be pretty ann
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by yojo 1y ago
Re [1]: it’s much better than a layoff (for the business), in that you don’t pay any severance, have 0 exposure to wrongful termination lawsuits, and don’t get the “you just fired my friends/will you fire me next?” culture of insecurit
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by yojo 1y ago
Only tangentially related to the enthusiastic circuit hacking: the reason the author stopped seeing living fireflies may be the drastic, worldwide decline in insect populations, with biomass declining in the range of 2-10%/year[0]. ht
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by yojo 1y ago
"Brittle" here means either: 1) your test is specific to the implementation at the time of writing, not the business logic you mean to enforce. 2) your test has non-deterministic behavior (more common in end-to-end tests) that cau
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by yojo 1y ago
I would add that few things slow developer velocity as much as a large suite of comprehensive and brittle tests. This is just as true on greenfield as on legacy. Anticipating future responses: yes, a robust test harness allows you to make c
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by yojo 1y ago
I agree rum is hard. I said as much in my post. Tequila is fine as long as you grab a bottle that says 100% Puro De Agave. Compliance requires it be all blue agave with no sugars or additives. It might have lost a lot of character to an aut
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by yojo 1y ago
I still disagree. The vanilla is just too much in a negroni. I’d rather use Dolin, or the Death & Co 50/50 Dolin/Punt e Mes mix if I think I can get through both bottles before they oxidize. But Martini & Rossi is fine. It
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by yojo 1y ago
Absolutely make your own syrups! If you add a little bit of alcohol to your simple syrup (I use vodka or a clean rum), you can drastically extend the shelf life. Honey syrup is even easier to make, just mix 50/50 honey and hot water. S
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by yojo 1y ago
A lot of Canadian Rye uses a lot of grain alcohol. If you pick a bottle at random off the shelf (assuming US market), it’s unlikely to be good. There are many great Canadian Ryes. But if you’re new to cocktails, odds are against you finding
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by yojo 1y ago
Antica is very particular, IMO. It’s good, but lots of vanilla flavor, which doesn’t work everywhere. Honestly Martini and Rossi is totally adequate, and I wouldn’t bother stepping up until your palette is dialed in.
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by yojo 1y ago
General rules for cocktails: - Avoid the big brands for Tequila and Rum (Cuervo and Bacardi). There are exceptions, but it’s easier to skip. - Cheap gin can be good or bad. Gordon’s is a reasonable entry. The step up is Beefeater or Tanquer
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by yojo 1y ago
This already seems somewhat widespread. I have a friend working at a mid-tier tech co that has a handful of direct reports. He showed me that the interface to his eval app had a “generate review” button, which he clicked, then moved on to t
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by yojo 1y ago
FWIW, my kids never took to the screws, but are still ridiculously attached to their creations. I strive to be open and honest in my parenting, but these battles just don’t seem worth everyone’s investment. A box spaceship that hasn’t been
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by yojo 1y ago
Leaks are more common on the pressurized side. Which is the clean water coming in. If you have hairy fatbergs in your supply you’ve got bigger problems. The article describes them being “dropped in at hydrants.” So I think they’re punting o
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by yojo 1y ago
There are quite a few kid-targeted coding robots. I get that this has some Hugging Face integrations, but is there anything else here I’m missing that differentiates Reachy Mini? It seems weird for a “$4.5 billion artificial intelligence pl
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by yojo 1y ago
I got one of these: https://www.thefoamfactory.com/mattress/polycottonknitcover.... Again, this was 14 years ago, no idea if the product quality has fallen off or there’s a better place to get it now.
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by yojo 1y ago
Agree with this. I’m done with anything with springs. Before bed in a box was a thing I built my own. 4” of high density foam base, 3” of med density latex, 2” of low density latex on top. I swapped out the top layer a few years back, but t
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by yojo 1y ago
The argument I’ve heard is it specifically makes investing in speculative software (new product lines, new features, etc) more expensive. If you’re doing new drug discovery at a bio-lab, treating all your failures as depreciating “assets” s
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by yojo 1y ago
I have friends that do pretty disparate things (e.g. education consulting, grant writing, solar project planning, etc). They all use LLMs in aspects of their jobs; tasks like rewording emails for tone, extracting themes from brainstorming s
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by yojo 1y ago
I get that the article is about applications, but the applications have a dependency on 3rd party models, and that dependency is costing them most (all? More than all?) of their revenue. Put another way, if I make $100M in annual revenue, b
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by yojo 1y ago
The metric the article focuses on is “revenue,” but it seems like the foundation many of these startups build on (other people’s LLM APIs) are much more expensive than the last generation of startups. Given the cost of training a SOTA model
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by yojo 1y ago
That's a fair point. My app (and possibly the OP's) is built assuming it is the user's current focus and priority, and that you'll quit it once you're done with the task. I don't feel bad about asking for a chu
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by yojo 1y ago
It's not a new or scary thing, but it's way more expensive (in time or money) than relying on "it looks good on my machine, so it looks good everywhere." I've worked on large consumer-facing web-apps where we had a

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