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I'd be happy to do a 1999 Amish life style + LED TVs that don't spy on you.

Income isn't wealth. Like you could tax Sergei Brin 1,000,000% of his annual salary and he'd be fine (he earns 1 dollar a year).

There are two versions of wealth taxes for nonliving people that make a lot of sense:

   1) Endowments, Trusts, and nonprofits
   2) The Estate Tax

Yes, Claude + skills is what we use too. Big picture, all of the old BI players are living on borrowed time. If you have to drag and drop; you'll be dropped.

I wonder what happens if the Dems win the White House in 2028. Will he be extradited back?

I can't even get a Temu kidney for less than $999, no way there's an iKidney for less than $30,000

I have loved D3 for more than a decade but I'd never recommend it to a client because maintenance requires a large learning curve. Not any more, ${YourAIAgent} + D3 is awesome.

Math and Computer Science have low costs to verify answers. Biology is high due to reagents and instrumentation costs.

I'd love to see that number. Are those the parked domains or actual sites? I'm guessing Wordpress adds to those numbers.

If you haven't read Careless People, I can't recommend it enough.

have you played with lit.dev ? It's part of the OpenJS Foundation (formerly jQuery and Node.js Foundations)

With Muse, people can enter their bank account information and medical information so that it can work hard for them. For this, they need a lot of training material.

I think her husband was a lawyer... but the utes will be alright.

Blocked chrome incognito no ad blockers. Here's my Ray ID: a4c6da0b3b6b4257

A billionaire died in one that went into the water: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898

Imagine if your comment is part of Exhibit A in a lawsuit.

I’m sorry for your loss. Words from an internet rando don’t mean much, but you did the best that you could so don’t worry about what ifs. Do your best right now.

Discord is on brand for many of the "discussions" on there.

What does Zulip mean?

| Life Coach

Middle management is being flattened. If you have better metrics, it's easier to phase out certain levels of management.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91601567/the-great-flattening-ro... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/google-executive-says-compan... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-says-cutting-middl...

LLMs don't need to focus on the business. They can make the ideal software for you. Who cares if it's not the perfect software for me? I can have my LLM do that. Especially if there's an open source base for me to start.

Thank you for writing this article.

  1. my ignorance is massive so don't bet on my predictions. There's so much FUD. This is like the industrial revolution but on steroids. 
  2. I see the moat around software decreasing quickly. Therefore, I'm going to project that there will be fewer coders in software only companies (such as Adobe, SAS, or Intuit)
  3. It will be easier to support software so I see the need for more technical entrepreneurs. Software is going to be an amenity with services, hardware, or support. The code itself isn't going to be valuable like its current form.
  4. I would project there will be more programmers in the future, but not pure programmers. More like the 1970s programmers who had other professions but would create their own programs.

They generate svg. You can paste in pngs and they'll convert them to svg with varying degrees of success.

Top 5 side projects that I enjoyed doing without having the requisite knowledge:

  1. Adding TTL to my gmail to help clean up my account. I have an option to delete my kids' school emails at the end of the school year
  2. Allowing my wife or I to add images to Google Drive and have those pics show up on our Frame TV
  3. Showing a snapshot of my kids' Google Classroom to show up on the Frame TV
  4. Chrome extension that removes the obfuscated LinkedIn links so that I can easily open those links in an incognito browser
  5. I created a skill so that my AI will do research for me on a topic, save the information on markdown files and upload those to Gemini Notebook. 

At work, I don't vibe code and I need to understand any proposed changes. Where I do like the vibe coding are small annoyances that I don't want to make time to learn everything APIs that I'm unlikely to use again. If they stop working tomorrow, no big deal.

The removing a prescription is a federal law, something that Utah can't overrule. Unfortunately some prescriptions are good for some medication and not great for others.

To me, coding is very similar to modern agriculture. Some people enjoy growing their own fruits and vegetables even though it takes significantly more time than buying stuff from the store. Personally I care more about the end result than the process so I do a lot of vibe coding.

What stops me from using DraftKings.com from a VPN? I'm at the page right now, but I don't have an account. Will they verify that my IP and home address match or something?

they want to stop VPN traffic. If it's a plain IP address it's easy. VPN makes it hard.

Unfortunately most of the Chinese models are open weights and not open sourced.

Pedantic but it's vira or viruses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Etymology

Viri is the latin plural for men