michaelbuckbee

Same with F-150 Lightning - _insane_ levels of dealer markup.

A far more recent and relevant example is that of secretarial and typing pools in offices.

Pre personal computers, this was a viable career: taking notes in meetings, typing up and sending letters, dictation, filing, etc. functions that, for 99% of folks they just do themselves.

"How to win friends and influence people" is the longer form book version of this article that's been around a long time.

Despite the somewhat creepy title, I found it to be a very sincere look at personal communications.

- It's very hard to know what other people are going through so don't assume

- Be genuinely interested in other people, don't just wait for your turn to talk

Complicated mix of things here:

1. So it's not so much "not providing power" for some political or philosophical reason but "not providing all the power they want."

2. The miner wants the equivalent of ~500,000 apartments worth of power...which is substantial.

3. The reason the miner wants this particular power from this particular provider is that it's cheap.

4. If the miner got all the power they wanted it would be enough to drive up local utility rates.

5. The local utility + government aren't keen on this as it's a pretty blatent resource extraction with no local jobs being created.

Agree, but also the closer the screen gets to your eyeball the more it matters.

I liked that and would recommend pairing it with the review from Casey Neistat - which is much less technical and more "vibes"

https://youtu.be/UvkgmyfMPks

Doh

I've always felt that a simpler solution would be to just increase the number of representatives.

In 1912 (the last time we added more), the US population was ~90 million, and it's currently at around ~340 mil and we still have only 435 representatives.

1912: 1 rep per 20,000 people

2024: 1 rep per 780,000 people

This doesn't "solve" gerrymandering but it does blunt the effectiveness of it (among hopefully some other positive effects.)

My father has been part of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) [1] and its follow-up study Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC)

My understanding is that the study has been fairly conclusive in proving that maintaining blood sugar levels as close to the normal range as possible has a positive impact on many of the previously thought "inevitable" side effects of diabetes (like losing your vision, losing feeling in your extremities, kidney failure, etc.).

He's justifiably proud of having helped in some small way improve the outcomes for lots of other folks.

1 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2882967/

2 - https://repository.niddk.nih.gov/studies/edic/

Too low and all the surrounding UI is an impedance mismatch.

Over the years, I've collected quite a few C&Ds from various projects:

- Google for creating a mention tracker I was distributing as a mac dashboard widget

- Netflix for creating a DVD barcode to Netflix queue ios app (they were trying to to antagonize their retail partners too much at the time apparently)

- Microsoft for abusing some of their early text to speech DLL's for a really crappy RSS to Audio "podcast" app (they were meant for server side telephony apps)

- LinkedIn + Salesforce for linking their data with a Chrome extension

- Hubspot for mentioning their Inbound conference and saying that my software worked with theirs

Thinking back now these are all quite old, I don't know if the companies have become more lenient or I've become more cautious.

As an interim step, I'd just like to see an installation system that was designed to minimize the now largest cost of a solar setup: labor.

Huuuuge thanks to Michele for leading the charge on this.

You were not kidding. That article really covered a lot of the obvious questions I had (and was the single best thing I've ever read on Quora).

My understanding was that the "boundaries" marked the point where the normal stabilization mechanisms in the environment wouldn't bounce back or where they were so kicked over that change rapidly accelerated.

It was explained to me like putting salt into a freshwater pond. It can take some but the salinity eventually reaches a point (boundary) where the fish die and you can't really "go back" and take out the salt.

The "Declownification" of medical diagnoses has continued for a long time. I met a medical historian giving a tour of the apothecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg who described how "consumption" was a clown car of tuberculosis, lung cancer, black lung (from mining), and a host of other lung ailments.

Over time each was identified as something unique, given a more precise name and treatment methods and eventually nobody is diagnosed with "consumption" anymore.

There's the apocryphal story of the audiophile who when asked what the biggest upgrade to their system was replied with "getting the impacted earwax out of my head"

Nearly every local search is a leading indicator of buying intent and, therefore, is worth more money when served as a response instead of an authoritative response.

You're welcome! It's honestly a great feeling just to have other devs use your work.

Check the WaybackMachine - might be enough for you to pull some things out of.

I built https://foragoodstrftime.com ~10 years ago as I was sick of reading the docs for date formatting.

It generally gets around 1000 users a day.

Over the years, it's gotten me consulting gigs and the occasional job offer (amidst other projects).

Today, it sends a decent chunk of the traffic and sign-ups to my startup, Wafris -> https://wafris.org

OP's asking for a strategy with these, and the advice I'd offer is to treat them like assets. You make these various side projects to learn something, take the extra 20% of time to package it up buy a domain, and spend $10 on a logo or something to make it a little more like a project and not just a repo.

If it's not something directly usable like this, take some screenshots and collect them into a gallery on a personal site.

You stack these assets over time (and like my example above), they pay off over years in all sorts of ways.

I have a similar strategy as I've found it's quite hard to just not think about whatever is stressing me out. So I try and plot out novels, or write songs in my head, or come up with weird architectural problems and whatever design might solve them.

Do casinos ban smartglasses?

This is a well known phenomenon of "Google Jail" where to combat spammers just setting up hordes of new sites, getting dinged and then migrating to a new domain, Google penalizes new sites until they've been "aged" for some number of months.

I was curious so I did a quick bit of googling and apparently portions of the canal are actually lakes (Gatun and Miraflores Lakes).

Here is a cross-section diagram of the canal showing the lakes:

https://www.marineinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/pan...

I'm aware HN has a dim view of the GDPR, but I previously worked in compliance and it was a sea change in how big corporations and organizations viewed data collection.

User PII and especially sensitive data suddenly was viewed as "toxic" and that having it around was something that could only bring them hassle.

California's data privacy acts are similar (but much more narrowly focused).

Also, I always like to sum up what the intent of these acts typically are and what compliance means:

- Tell people what data you're going to collect and, what you do with it, who you share it with

- Keep their data reasonably secure

- Delete it if they ask

At a previous job at an enterprise cybersecurity company, we were spending tens of thousands of dollars a month on ads across Facebook and Instagram and _constantly_ were having ads and posts flagged as being about "hacking".

I think that's "Copilot Chat" which I also used and at time (couple months ago) was only in beta and you needed Visual Studio Code Insiders release to use it.

Cursor's major innovation is in the UX of integrating AI-assisted tooling into your editor.

- Inline chat about code blocks

- Inline instructions on modifying/creating code

- Import of documentation to the local project for better suggestions and referencing

You highlight the code you're interested in and hit CMD+K to have it do modifications for you.

This kills the copy + paste of code from your editor to ChatGPT and back, which beyond being a pain also loses all the context of where the code is in your project and is also a step ahead of Co-Pilot which is more just super intelligent code completion.

In general, I've found a great deal of dev productivity improvements in using it as a coding assistant where I'm still orchestrating and guiding the work and using the AI assistance to very rapidly blow through boilerplate tasks, reformatting things, double checking if I'm doing something right, etc.

$20/mo subs which is also the lead in to also unlocking paid API access.