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Peregrine1

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Peregrine1··on I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
“I tried a prototype outside of its optimal use case and it was half baked.” Surprise surprise!
Peregrine1··on Addicted to Claude Code–Help
Link the charts! Do you think they’re awesome?
Peregrine1··on The Natural Selection of Bad Vibes
Another explanation: chart wielding optimists are in the top 10% wealth bracket in the US (And their friends are), so they’ve experienced everything getting cheaper over the last 30 years.

Then they ignore scary graphs like the deaths of despair one here: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019...

Peregrine1··on Why is Oregon about to re-criminalize psychedelics in response to opioid crisis?
There are simple, expensive answers: highly diligent social workers focusing on homelessness outreach + massive affordable housing construction that crunches housing prices. Regulate the substances but have them available to addicts, and make sure fentanyl is out of the supply chain, and make selling drugs outside the regulated system a felony.

We’re just not willing to pay the bills.

Peregrine1··on "AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine
Was expecting a deep dive into cancer therapeutics and startups working in the space.

This is not that.

very misleading title given how diverse AI applications are in medicine.

Peregrine1··on Fitness trackers find new symptom of depression: body temperature
There’s research that getting really hot (ie with hot saunas) can affect depression. One interesting supporting finding is that if you run around but don’t get hot (ie don’t sweat) then the exercise doesn’t do much for depression
Peregrine1··on Do Not Build SaaS
Last I checked you need ag tech to eat /s

Joking aside, it’s true that some folks have lives that require 350k liquid comp. If that’s you, staying at a cushy role in FAANG might be the right call. But for tons of brilliant people that’s not the case.

Peregrine1··on Do Not Build SaaS
Back when those were created, SaaS was the frontier!
Peregrine1··on Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?
“…completely unmoored from the purpose of business, which is to make money by providing a product or service within a given schedule, scope, and cost.”

Or perhaps to solve an important problem in the world, within a given scope and cost!

Peregrine1··on The Overlords Finally Showed Up
If this is a problem that a bunch of people actually complain about, hardware makers will just introduce apis to let systems know a human is typing. Think verified buyer on Amazon
Peregrine1··on The YC Summer 2022 Batch
Not quite accurate, some climate cos getting funded at Seed and preseed by Fifty Years and Lower Carbon. Trick is small number of great teams here, who also see a distinctive advantage to going through YC. YC can’t overcome that without significant effort.