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Hey, I'm Nathan, founder of autotempest.com and searchtempest.com. Feel free to get in touch. Email is my first name at either of those domains.
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tempestn··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
You can actually use a browser extension to show it still. The dislike count is still available, just not shown.
tempestn··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Number of views and views to likes ratio are both signals of value.
tempestn··on If my kids excel, will they move away?
Trump might be gone, but the people and attitudes that elected him won't be.
tempestn··on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
Nothing wrong with giving money to your kids in general. That income has already been taxed. If they were paying the kids for pretend work and taking a deduction for the higher-income parents, that'd be different.
tempestn··on iPhone Air
Samsung is Korean.
tempestn··on We all dodged a bullet
Log into Google, then click the link. If you get prompted to log in again, don't.
tempestn··on Age Simulation Suit
It's not literally pain all the time. More things like you said - much easier to overdo it in the gym or playing sports, especially if you don't warm up and cool down properly, plus occasional ridiculous injuries, like stretching too hard in the morning and having a muscle in your neck spasm as a result.
tempestn··on Age Simulation Suit
I'm not the parent, but could've written all the same (44).
tempestn··on One universal antiviral to rule them all?
After some reading, it appears it's more of a mixed bag. Evolutionary pressure from vaccines can have that effect, as appears to have been the case with Omicron, but it's not guaranteed, and some variants appear to have been more virulent than the original virus. See the "Relative Severity of Variants" section of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00841-7?utm_sourc...
tempestn··on One universal antiviral to rule them all?
Same deal with vaccination, right? We saw this with covid; as new variants evolved to evade the vaccines, they tended to result in less severe infections (even to the unvaccinated) than the original.
tempestn··on Claude for Chrome
Is it just me, or do both of my sibling comments pitching competing AI projects read like they're written by (the same underlying) AI?
tempestn··on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
Ah, so a slightly more efficient desalination plant then.
tempestn··on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
Your parent is talking about the "fresh" (treated wastewater) side.
tempestn··on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
It's going to partially offset the power usage (and the effluent brine) of the desalination plant that feeds it.
tempestn··on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
Yeah, this is the coolest part. The leftover brine from desalination is generally just a problem. It's harmful to the marine habitat if you just put it back into the ocean, and there isn't a lot else good to be done with it. (Basically you have to dilute it first.) But this way you get useful work out of the dilution!

The article also doesn't say if it produces more power than the attached desalination plant requires. I doubt it as you'd be getting close to a perpetual motion machine if so. In which case basically what you've got is a very energy efficient desalination plant, more than a power plant.

tempestn··on Who does your assistant serve?
Yes, except generally the worst case there will be that they don't see any benefit, as you said. With an AI it can be quite a bit worse than that, if it starts reinforcing harmful beliefs or tendencies.
tempestn··on Who does your assistant serve?
It's probably more about what they're telling it. Supercharged duck debugging, as the GP mentioned.
tempestn··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
This relates to dealing with people too. A few times I've hired people who seemed to have good interpersonal skills, for people-facing roles. But for some reason, as soon as they were sending an email on behalf of the company, ie. to a customer or supplier, suddenly they're communicating like a soulless corporate automaton. Like, you don't have to pretend to be a cog in a massive corporation; no one actually likes receiving that kind of communication! Perhaps at a certain scale, when you're employing thousands of customer service agents, you'll need them to follow a strict script to maintain quality control. (Or maybe not.) But it's certainly not necessary at a company with single or double digit employees.
tempestn··on The Folk Economics of Housing
The cost of building is one reason why supply is constrained. It doesn't follow from there that increased supply wouldn't reduce prices.
tempestn··on The Folk Economics of Housing
Vacancy taxes seem like a reasonable solution to this problem.
tempestn··on The Folk Economics of Housing
As your sibling comment says, there is only so much market for luxury housing. If the land, permitting, etc. exists to build two houses, then two will get built. And if there's only sufficient demand for one of them to be high-end, then only one will be. (In aggregate on larger scales of course, not literally any given two houses.) It's not necessary to force a given developer to build two houses instead of one; if the economics make sense, and are predictable, the developers will come.
tempestn··on Time travel is self-suppressing
Seems to me your comment has more of a Streisand Effect quality than the one you're replying to.
tempestn··on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness
Remember you need enough left over to throw off an income to maintain your yacht and private jet. Those things aren't cheap.
tempestn··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I feel the same way. I landed on Evernote rather than org-mode, but it similarly provides all these features out of the box, while letting me largely customize my setup. (I basically do GTD with a notebook for each priority level.)

Was regretting it a bit in the 2020-2023 range when Evernote was going downhill, but it's improved a fair amount since the acquisition. Almost (but not quite) to the point where I'd recommend it to others again.

What I would recommend is spending the time to learn some system beyond just a text file. I've ultimately found it well worth it, to the extent that I couldn't imagine going back now. It is definitely an investment up front though.

tempestn··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Because it was only a few days. If I'd been there longer I would have.
tempestn··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
I was just vacationing in the UK last week and ran into this ridiculous thing trying to browse (entirely non-pornographic, fwiw) Reddit threads. Which I opted not to read rather than going through the hassle and privacy breach.

Also got to experience the full force of the cookie law, which I hadn't realized I was only seeing a fraction of here in Canada.

tempestn··on Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)
Most communication from the highest office in the land is indeed now In this Exalted STYLE.
tempestn··on Do not download the app, use the website
Mostly it was just moving from mobile web. I think it it is contributing somewhat to long term growth as well, but that's more difficult to determine amongst other factors.
tempestn··on Do not download the app, use the website
Yeah, as others have said, I'm guessing it's primarily for the enhanced engagement and retention. And come to think of it, I've experienced it myself in reverse, in that social media is much easier to ignore when the app icon isn't right there on your home screen.
tempestn··on Do not download the app, use the website
Can you share details? Or feel free to email me directly, nathan at autotempest. I'd like to learn more about your device, browser, and search criteria so we can try and reproduce what you described.
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