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PetriCasserole

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PetriCasserole··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
I'm starting a p(ButlerianJihad) club. I'm not good at organizing, anymore. Might have to hand it over to my agent.
PetriCasserole··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Timely comment! I'm learning harness design and was introduced to the concept of writing guiding principles. I look forward to trying it. (Great site. I agree with another comment. It does look commercial. Had I not been committed to looking for ways people define principles and rules, I might have skipped it. Glad I didn't.)

Do you have any resources that guided your work?

PetriCasserole··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
Coming from a former production manager, communication takes style and you have to meet people where they are at. If they're at "Crocker's Rules," awesome! That takes 25 to 50% of the work out of the writing. They could be at "my best work was just trashed and I'm ready to quit," to which you could slow your roll and work through the crisis. Keep adding to your comm tools and you won't need one-size-fits-all theories.
PetriCasserole··on The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing
People who are paying attention see that the government is changing rules daily. Feel safe today? Wait until tomorrow when Trump decides he wants to do something that you're in the way of.
PetriCasserole··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
To be blunt, you can count on real estate people wanting to smell each others' buttholes... and they have money. They provide the motivation and the cash, you provide the mechanism. Seems like a match made in heaven.
PetriCasserole··on Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents
War Games II anyone?
PetriCasserole··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Just commenting to let you know I enjoyed exploring your site and reading your posts.
PetriCasserole··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I would have loved this when I worked in commercial real estate. Monitoring competition may have hooked me but I think there's another layer to monitoring clients.
PetriCasserole··on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
I know I'd be listening intently if I were on the jury. I'm a "sauce good for the goose is good for the gander" kind of guy.
PetriCasserole··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
Bwahaha! I'm 55 and just started grad school at an R1 because I can't compete. Fucking scary as hell! My lab partner is 23, I get up as my peers are going to bed, and I work hard to not say, "In my day..." BUT, I love being enrolled. The resources are incredible and networking is in high gear again.
PetriCasserole··on The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)
I had the privilege of living in a remote village in the Catskills. I've never missed a place so much! I can attest to the Science of Awe. We need that connection in our lives.
PetriCasserole··on Proof of Corn
But that's how it goes. As late as 2005, the real estate agents I worked with finally began to trust email over fax machines. It cracked an egg wide open for them. Now relying on email, they were able to do 10x the work (I have no real data BUT I do know their incomes went from low six figures to multiple six figures). Prior to their adoption, they just thought email was a novelty and legally couldn't be relied upon.
PetriCasserole··on The Checkerboard
Also, do you own something if it can be forcibly taken away when you don't pay an annual fee? Rent or tax, call it what you want, the outcome is the same if you don't pay.
PetriCasserole··on 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest
Taking all the tokens people gave the deceased for their afterlife journey sounds like highway robbery.
PetriCasserole··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
My contribution: Making cookies out of chocolate cake mix is so good that I stopped doing it. I couldn't say no to them. I used Dolly Parton cake mix and substituted 1/2 the neutral oil with unsalted butter. That and sweet Chex mix are diet destroyers.
PetriCasserole··on The Collapse of the FDA
That just means the FDA was restricted. The FDA is fine. The people funding the FDA are not.
PetriCasserole··on New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
Simple way to detect if you're in an area with ticks: tape a white washcloth to a long stick and swish it back and forth around the ground. Check the cloth for ticks every so often and you'll find the tick "hotspots" and can avoid them. Permethrin-treated clothing is also fantastic for protecting against ticks - it's just highly toxic to water life and cats in liquid form.