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This makes me so glad I decided to start paying for kagi. Haven't had to mentally or technologically filter out search ads in months.

One way to look at this is that the natural state of things is that everyone has access to the local public square, and only a few have access to regional or national public squares. The early internet was a perturbation in this natural state, giving millions access to nationaland global distribution of their thoughts for no cost, but natural law is bringing us back to a steady state where you can only reach your friends, colleagues, and neighbors unless you make a career out of journalism, celebrity, big business, or politics.

Seatbelts don't magically stop major accidents from happening. But they definitely keep minor accidents from turning into major accidents.

They don't keep you in control after you slam into something head on or flip the car.

They keep you in control after you clip a deer, or hit a rock, or someone rear-ends you, or you swerve hard to avoid something, and that can be the difference between a good story and killing yourself or others.

That the Fields medal is in the public imagination at all is mostly due to its mention in the movie Good Will Hunting.

In which it is explained simply as "like the Nobel Prize for math".

So that's it. There you go

You can also choose your favorite local bookstore on bookshop.org and order from there.

You can also go to bookshop.org, buy the book there (usually for about the same price as Amazon), and most of the profit goes to a local bookstore (which you can choose) instead of a big search engine with warehouses.

The problem with zoning is that at some point we realized that it was harmful to have industrial land use like factories and dumps right next to residential neighborhoods. And then we assumed that there must be a spectrum with landfill on one end and single family homes in the other, with every other possible land use being some level of bad. When in fact, we need to zone industry that creates sounds, smells, chemicals, or other environmental hazards into its own non-residential areas, but everything else should be allowed to self-organize.

Commercial (retail, office space, professional, services) is not industrial-light. It is not something to quarantine. It is integral to a healthy, functioning, tax-revenue-generating neighborhood. The more commercial and retail are mixed into neighborhoods, the more desirable those neighborhoods are.

Of course it almost goes without saying that most of the rest of what we mean when we say zoning is also counterproductive if your goal is a functioning, financially solvent, culturally cohesive city: single-family-only, parking minimums, setbacks, etc.

+1 Kagi. I expected to get bored and go back to old habits but it's been very impressive and has "stuck" as my default for quite a while now.

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Pretty cool. What did you use to build it?

Love that book.

True, but as most catchy names go, this one is a bit more nuanced than it might seem. No-till gardening (and no-till farming) is not about *never* tilling the ground. It's about escaping from a regular yearly or biannual cycle of tilling, which tends to deplete nutrients, biological activity, and moisture from the soil. In general, the goal of "no-till" (and the real world results in some cases) is soil that gets *more* productive over time instead of less, while simultaneously decreasing or alleviating the need for fertilizers and other soil amendments.

But tilling it at the beginning to create ideal starting conditions for such a no-till approach is allowable and encouraged.

Agreed!

1. Feed it to a grazing animal. 2. Eat that animal, or use its milk to make food.

When I read this, I got really excited about a company having a well thought out, rational reason for a decision. And then I realized how sad that is.

With a modern heat pump, it is more efficient (most of the time) to burn natural gas at the power plant and then use the generated electricity to heat the home (after accounting for generation and line losses, and other efficiency drains) than it is to burn the gas in a modern, super-efficient gas furnace in the home.

So whether we fully renewablize™ the grid or not, we still should encourage (read: subsidize) the replacement of gas and heating oil furnaces with heat pumps.

Yes, and when electricity is used to do work, the vast, overwhelming majority of the energy used is turned into heat.

So solar panels are moving heat, not sending it into a black hole somewhere.

I use something called Insular[1] to install some apps in a work profile so they don't have access to my personal contacts and activity.

A nice unexpected benefit has been that Insular does background installations and updates of APKs. When I click "update" in f-droid, I now choose Insular as the handler and it happens in the background. It's much more reliable than however f-droid does it internally.

[1] https://secure-system.gitlab.io/Insular/

The money he's secured is mostly loans, not venture capital, so that sort of pressure to grow or pad numbers should indeed be diminished.

An interesting compromise would be that carbon "offsets" are available for purchase, but must be used to fund installation of renewable generation and energy storage infrastructure.

So that carbon offsets are accelerating the transition away from carbon.

Seed oils.

Using Tailscale is like using Dropbox back when it was new: it's "just X but without the setup or maintenance", which shouldn't be so gosh darn satisfying to use, but by jove, it is. It makes you feel less shackled by the constraints that defined your world before. Awesome.

The UI of the dashboard alone would be an impressive feat for a single person.

The algorithm that chooses the most likely/useful application for infinite possible combinations of modules would be an impressive feat for a single person.

The multidisciplinary coding required to get all of these pieces to work together in a hot-swap way would be an impressive feat for a single person.

The design and implementation of a single physical connection interface that can adapt or carry all these different protocols (USB, HDMI, etc) would be an impressive feat for a single person.

Not to mention the PCB design, 3D enclosure design, machine learning proficiency, aesthetic product design chops, and on and on.

All together, this is unbelievable. This is 0.01% level stuff. Mozart, Musk, Melville. Somewhere in that neighborhood.

Yeah the improvement in young Luke in The Book of Boba Fett was pretty impressive.

Agree. I struggled to get and keep it running and eventually gave up.

We play this exact game in my family, but we call it "Oh, hell!", which is what everyone else tells when someone goes out.

Tech support gaslighting. Perfect encapsulation of the phenomenon. Someone make an urban dictionary entry.

IF the domestic shipping fleet struggled or shrank without the Jones Act, the answer would be subsidies, rather than prohibition.

I'm a youtube-dl[p] user, but pretending that is equivalent to the few taps it take to sync in the background in the official app is silly.

1. No ads 2. Free YouTube Music subscription (cancel your Spotify subscription) 3. Download videos and playlists to your device before a flight or other no-service scenario 4. Every time you watch a video, a proportional percentage of your subscription fee goes to that creator, no matter whether they are in a lucrative (i.e., ad-friendly) niche or not. 5. One less browser extension (or mobile app) I need to give permission to track my activity and worry it will be hacked or sold without me realizing it.