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This seems to point to that there should be no income tax for individuals, only consumption and wealth taxes.

And there is an argument for companies to pay both a wealth and a turnover tax, appropriately scaled. This might be able to stimulate more diversity of small/medium companies, and thus negating the monoculture like markets that currently seem to arise on a per sector basis, also allowing wider ranging ideas to flourish.

The tax system in western countries generally does not seem to have kept pace with the change in what work/productivity now is, and so gives incentives to the established rather than the emerging.

A number of eastern economies seem to have worked out better regimes encouraging overall diversity of enterprise - it is a tricky balance as you don't want to remove the incentive to try, but the concentration of wealth we see is not healthy in such individualistic societies as the west has.

So why can't it improve the weights, to a specified general outcome.

Website is shit, "how it works" tells you nothing much useful about how it works, and I assume there is some custom hardware (as described in the post above) but nowhere on the website I could see this actually said, and therefore zero indication of the size of the interface electronics etc etc

Ideally an executable specification, not as hard as it sounds for many things.

it would seem our house is an outlier....

Why the obsession with triangles?

If you just want areas, or to know if a point is inside or outside the shape there is a better way.

Given a simple closed curve, points (ax, ay) (bx, by) (cx, cy) (dx, dy) as a trivial example.

Line them up a,b,c,d,a vertically and take the "determinant" as we were taught.

Axby - aybx + bxcy - bycx etc etc.

Divide the result by -2 and you have the are, positive is clockwise, negative is anticlockwise.

Put an anticlockwise shape inside a clockwise shape and you have a donut.

There is more, have to go to dinner.

He meant one motor all up, including actuators.

It is not about claude, it is about not normalising unwanted behaviour in society, in general.

One point that most people miss is there are many different kinds of electricians who, often can't even do each other's jobs.

There is the house wirer, the panel builder, automotive electrician, HV, marine, drilling, industrial, maintenance etc etc.

Some kinds pay better, others yield work almost wherever you go, others lend themselves to starting your own business better.

It is nowhere near as homogenous as often described.

Impressive array of functions, haven't tried yet, but potentially the most useful tool/s of all is missing - named destinations.

Additionally the ability to convert bookmarks<->named and to set bookmarks based on the font size and style can be incredibly useful.

Yeah well for whatever reason I often tend to drop a lot of those small words when typing something on keyboard...

Family court preperation of docs and strategy

without paying they are all 20 minutes behind in my experience

Great article.

Where I live, on the taller buildings it is common to have banks of elevators which only service certain floors, eg floors 2:25 and 26-50 are two different banks of elevators.

Some modern elevators have two cars per shaft, imagine scheduling that.

8 months ago I got claude to do a perfect reproduction of the arcade asteroids game on a simple prompt and a once through.

I then got it to do lunar lander, that was also perfect, and very hard to land.

"If you specify every possible detail in a design doc, you’ve essentially written the implementation during the design phase. That would defeat the whole purpose of a design doc."

However if you do this as an executeable specification then the job of core functionality is finished with the specification, with significantly beeter quality, potentially.

This sounds a lot harder than it is - most behaviour is state based and it is possible to define such behaviour with an executeable specification.

In the Functional Safety world this is often your best option.

I wrote my own software package to enable such practices and once used to a slightly different way of thinking it works very well.

There are more than one set of tuning settings, depending whether optimised for start up, steady state, minimum overshoot etc

Pretty easy to tune really - almost never use derivative, increase the proportional until oscillations occur then halve it, add a little integral, not so much it oscillates.

based on multiple personal experiences, and that of friends/acquaintances, I have no doubt it works for reduction of inflammation of the sort you get spraining you ankle.

must be taken with pepper extract to increase bio availability, I buy it ready to go from the supermarket where they keep it with the vitamins and supplements.

just because no one has worked out how, does not mean it is ineffective.

have you tried NULL?

Conflict arises from differing or unmet expectations.

So the easiest way to eliminate a lot of issues is clearly agree and define expectations up front.

There is a reason a whole branch of project management is called Expectation Management.

AI allows anyone with a minimum amount of intelligence and operational expertise to become an "Expert Beginner" (currently).

What can you do with a whole team comprised only of Expert Beginners?

this is fucking awesome

it is fast, there is no fucking gateway fuckaround or any other similar issues, up and going in seconds

straight away I added two skills, that it wrote for itself, read my gmails and attachments, and browse the web, text browser first up, render page and screenshot with OCR for javascript heavy pages\

then I asked it, find the best value ram in my area, second hand as well as new, try gumtree and facebook marketplace, plus anything else relevant, bam - 15 seconds maybe a concise summarised range of options

then on another project, I told it to /study and then used the gmail plugin to access all the relevant gmails and attachments (which included minutes of all the meetings) and it was fully up to date with the project I am working on and ready to go

best agent I have used so far by a country mile, if you don't try it then that is your loss

did I mention it was fast, like 3x to 5x better productivity fast compared to openclaw, at least

one thing it does not do is support the up arrow/down arrow to scroll thru past commands, but you can just tell it, "run that websearch for ram again" etc, i will totally live witht his for all the other positives

I am sort of in the same place, it seems to have lost enough of the magic that I might be better trying to do more with running local LLMs on my 4090.

The thing is running local LLMs will give some kind of reliability and fixed expectations that saves a lot of time - yeah sure Claude might be fantastic one day, but what do I do when the same workload churns out shit the next and I am halfway thru updating and referencing a 500 document set?

Better the devil you know and all that.

Pdf is all about presentation, not about communication.

While the two can be closely aligned, it is not neccesarily the case, if not often misaligned priorities.

Many pdfs are hard to read based on a consistant set of rules, reliance on edge cases and context and conventions.

Similar to aviation s marine safety. Both started with a bunch of prescriptive rules that were added to as various accidents and near misses occured. As you say.

Then, in the last couple of decades there has been a move to performance based standards.

These work by the designers trying to anticipate hazards specific to the design and it's intended duty, and then providing mitigation to reduce the risk down to sn acceptable level.

This has a number of poditive outcomes, but not least is the expenditure on mitigation is directed in the most economic manner.

All this requires a systrmd approach, and when properly applied has been shown to yield superiour results.

Humans don't really work any better, just fail in different ways. This is why certain workflows and practices have emerged.

We are now in the early days of working through a similar process with AI.

They most definately do work for some use cases, but how they are used is important.

Just because you apply human processes and systems to AI based workflows and don't get historically expected results, this is zero basis to claim the sky is falling with use of AI in coding.

As most results in coding by AI are the result of some kind of recursive application of the fundemental concept, irony is abundant.

Definately, I am similar vintage and work in Functional Safety, see my other comment re specification.

Yes definately, I do a lot of OT devops and if you want determinstic results then the best use of AI is to get it to write scripts that solve your problems and that you run outside of AI.

Often, the use of AI is a lazy case of not wanting to spend the time to understand the essence of the problem and solve it directly, often far more efficiently. (Not always, but often).

The ability of getting results that surpass your understanding, and quickly, is seducing, but you invariably end up being capped on the usefullness.

AI generally seems to raise anyone with the basic skills to "expert beginner" in almost any field, but it is then a big struggle to get past this stage, without substantial extra work.