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You know what burns me about it? Like it or not, he did set the hard-driving culture of that and other companies he runs. And what's even worse, that kind of culture gets results. I think at the end of the day I just have to quietly respect it, and all the folks putting in the long hours, and be thankful that there exist companies out there that don't demand this where we can still earn a decent living.

Entire human history has been like this. How many Bachs, Mozarts, Michelangelos, etc. got to do great things just because of a sympathetic ruler who held all the pursestrings?

He's been quiet lately, wonder if he's off quietly building a revenge party

Thanks for these insights!

I did get seedlings this season, and even planted them mid May. I thought I did pretty well not being late this year.

The only thing I can think of is not enough water; I had a thick layer (1-2 inch) of straw for mulch, and figured that would let me water less frequently. (Though I did do a finger check every few days).

Interesting you mention the cherries; it's the only plant with fruit even this late in the season. The others are assorted regular size varieties like Cherokee or other heirloomy types.

(edit: correction: it was mythrwy in the sibling comment that mentioned the cherry tomatoes! Thank you as well.)

I started a tomato patch in MA early on this season but they hardly grew and are just now delivering fruit. Are they negatively impacted by high temperatures? This is the first time I have a plot in full sun, and all instructions point to tomatos doing well in full sun, but I wonder if the sun was a bit too full this season :-D

Right, maybe those words don't express the action correctly: the experienced way to do it is like you say, but it's a little tricky for new drivers. And then there is the noob way where they keep the engine rpm bouncing around 5k and slowly let go the clutch as needed. Can really stink up or even smoke up the street.

Maybe they mean "privately owned by the government". Which I guess is usually called nationalization

The problem with 100% enforcement is it doesn't allow law enforcement any discretion, and then you end up having to actually officially change the speed limit which would probably never happen

Not to mention no stick shift. The driving test from hell in hilly Adriatic cities: parallel park facing downhill

To be fair even people who have been driving many years do this by grinding up the clutch.

> Scaling AI will require an exponential increase in compute and processing power,

I think there is something more happening with AI scaling; I think the scaling factor per user is a lot higher and a lot more expensive. Compare to the big initial internet companies. You added one server you could handle thousands more users; incremental cost was very low, not to mention the revenue captured through whatever adtech means. Not so with AI workloads; they are so much more expensive than ad revenue it's hard to break even even with an actual paid subscription.

Yes but HN is not Yahoo scale

It probably depends on model, but mine is dead silent (Mammotion Luba 2). However the reason I avoid running it at night is it has a fairly bright headlight, and I worry it might create shadows/light effects in my neighbors house and I know they have little kids.

Regardless of how good the perimeter wire bots are, it's also not true that the more advanced generation "sucks." I have one and it works perfectly fine (Mammotion Luba 2). The hardware is great, positioning is great; there is always stuff to nitpick on the software side but at the end of the day that's great as well.

I think my first worry would be how to figure out if the ground will support the immense weight of a one-off stone structure. I guess karsty/rocky areas are a safer choice than run-of-the-mill New England yard where you hit water table in 2 feet of digging

I loved that time too, as well as the time before it when we used to run text-based MMOs until Origin, Everquest, and Blizzard stole the technology and put a 3D UI on it :-)

If militaries around the world are not using it, it is probably not real. See also telekinesis or ESP experiments the US Army performed [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project_(U.S._Army_un...

I find Accuweather radar UI pretty good for manual forecasting because I can grab the slider and rapidly move it back and forth to see a timelapse of the precipitation. It's amazing how often huge cells pass to either side of our little town (also in Northeast) without a single drop to our name.

The more I read about this kind of thing, the more I wonder what it would be like to up and move to a bustling tech center in China like Shenzhen or similar. Where there are stores in walking distance selling electronics parts. Where you can walk into a shop and get PCBs made. Where you can meet and talk shop with fellow makers who are not just LARPing arts and crafts but actually doing cutting edge manufacturing. Has anyone done something like this?

Do you think so? The problem with adtech is that it subsidizes the products by trading a margin of annoyance for extra revenue, allowing lower consumer prices. I would argue that the current market already does have many evenly matched players, and they naturally gravitate toward an equilibrium where they have as many revenue-bearing annoying features as the market will bear. As an example of a correction I recall the old days of popover and popunder windows that were worse than today's run of the mill site.

This is why it's hard to find an affordable dumb modern TV. They do exist, but they are pricy and made in small volumes. The market has spoken loud and clear.

I don't need a decision from atop amazon to remind me how painful it would be to migrate a widely shared dynamo instance or god forbid change dax settings

I don't think it has to do with monopoly, adtech is the problem IMO. If you are not on the adtech train you lose

> As mentioned, if you get all the software developers building houses instead

Back in the day I would often run into people who would mention something like "oh yeah, my Dad built our house." Wonder what happened to that? Thinking on doing this right now in our neighborhood, I can see lasting 5 minutes before busybodies and town inspectors showed up with stop orders

Maybe the real problem is that easy low-hanging-fruit inventions attainable by individuals in the garage are long gone, and are now so capital intensive that it doesn't make sense to keep the system in hopes of protecting this fictional small inventor.

That still seems pretty easy to game by re-filing slight variations of the original patents

The LLMs are like a Huffman codec except the context is infinite and lossy

1.3 Ability to make your own subtitles so your Klingon grandma can watch the movie

1.4 Ability to edit the video so your 10 year old can watch Top Secret! without gross anal sex jokes

> Is being a neglectful or unloving parent equal to being a bad person

It absolutely is, in my opinion

There is a huge element of hubris at play. Founders are highly competitive and high achieving people, who imagine their teams to be like leading NFL football teams where there is no room for members who are not absolutely dedicated. Working a 40-hour work week is not compatible with that. As a result perhaps these kind of companies are self selecting, and it's rare to find a leader who is willing to say the equivalent of, "hey, you know, it's OK to be a loser team and not work 100 hour weeks"

Why do you say that?

Went up and down Washington as a group of 20 somethings. Boy were we suffering on the way down. At one point below the treeline as we are crawling down, these two guys catch up to us; they looked like they were in their 60s. Grey hair, thin as twigs. They whooshed past us literally hopping rock-to-rock. That one little moment had a lifelong impact on me ever after as I though how nice it would be to be able to do the same at that kind of age.