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I'm not well-read on the history of nuclear, but is it the case that nuclear developed first in government and was then spread to private industry via gov't outreach/motivation?

Here, I think we're talking about the opposite, right? Private developed, then gov't used. It's so obvious in the first path that gov't would remain in the control, but I'm not sure how to think about what's "right" in the private-to-gov't path.

I thought this was a flimsy piece. Agree with your conclusion.

Also - I'm surprised the government didn't say "ok" and then use Claude (as they wished) anyways. Don't know the details and am oversimplfying, but seems like a plausible path without much recourse/oversight.

Funny. I also have a Boxster. 2014 981 S. I love natural aspiration 6 cylinder cars.

Smoother in what sense? My Boxster is stick so the shifting experience is very different. The flat-6 is a remarkable sound - intoxicating. Especially purely naturally aspirated though I don’t hate the sound of the turbo 3.x variations in various Porsches. BMW ZF is great but it’s not the same.

Otherwise, yes - the handling in Boxster is so different compared to the m340. It just feels like it’s on rails around corners. No body roll. And for me peak way up in RPM means my highway merges are an absolute blast / symphony.

I have a Mazda CX-9 with an I4 and, my anecdote, it sucks on gas. About 14 mpg in non-highway short hop driving. That might be fine as part of larger group but it always feels embarrassingly low.

I drive that exact car!

It is awesome. Incredible power. Silky smooth on highway. Sounds like a beast on start up. I regularly get 36/37 mpg on a long drive.

I prefer the sound of the B58 in the m340 over the S58 in the m3 but they are quite different engines. And way different power. But straight-six throughout.

Still think one of the best engine sounds out there is the s54 in the 2001-2006 m3

I've thought the same.

At least here in US: Google/Apple device controls allow app to request whether user meets age requirements. Not the actual age, just that the age is within the acceptable range. If so, let through, if not, can't proceed through door.

I know I am oversimplifying.

But I like this approach vs. uploading an ID to TikTok. Lesser of many evils?

Around me I see this usage:

- Older folks.

- People using marketplace

- People exchanging inter-personal tips and info: best stroller, contractor, etc.

Not saying FB is best for those things but it doesn’t seem dead at all.

I keep reading this as “CBS signs…” and can’t help thinking about that uncomfortable possible future moment.

My simple route for handling slow replies:

1. Quick email saying “acknowledge, will work on a reply with estimate target date”

2. Proper reply ideally by target.

Guilty as charged.

Fair point. I too like the data side of CRM. So many interesting possibilities.

Did you always enjoy talking or did you discover it at some point prior to your current sales role?

I love hearing this.

My story: mostly business analytics (2005-2022), sales engineering, sales (both at same tech start up), and now running a solo consulting business.

I also really liked sales. Updating a CRM, not so much. But sales allowed me to spend my day talking with people about problems. No day the same, and lots of focus on finding different/better ways to communicate.

In what industries did these roles happen? Same industry/domain or have you changed that as well?

Close second: conference apps.

They infuriate me. Data harvesting machines in all ways. Incredibly user hostile.

Example: making me scroll endlessly through attendee lists. Lack of good filters. Etc. Can’t download attendee lists.

I finally lost my patience and wrote a Selenium script to page through an app and extract everything. Worked well after some initial trial and error.

Hard disagree with hard parts of software are harder than domain. I don’t know your story, skills, or domain. But this doesn’t match my experience and others around me at all.

Is this a tool deployed into an internal production environment? Or is it more of “dev” or “business user desktop” type app that isn’t deployed formally.

I’m working with a company now that thinks that AI is great until you need to deploy to Prod. Probably true in some cases, especially for tools built with Prod environments as targets.

But I’m using Claude Code for a tool that doesn’t absolutely require that sort of environment. It helps a company map data (insurance risk exposure data) to a predefined intermediate layout and column schema.

I know that I’ll run into resistance once I say “this could be deployed to Prod” but I think AI is a major win for Prod-like things.

My professional world largely lives in spreadsheets and relational databases. Neither going anywhere anytime soon. And spreadsheets are the currency of the business and industry in so many ways. They are very prod-like in my opinion.

Thanks for sharing.

I briefly quit caffeine once but it as well before any realization of anxiety. So, hard to extrapolate forward from that experience.

What feels different to me (compared to you) is this: sometimes I'll drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning and be awake but useless. Sometimes totally productive. Caffeine in some form is there - recently sometimes substituting coffee for a Celsius.

Funny - I feel the opposite about chia. Soaked and plumped is when I hate them. Dry on salads/etc. or just submerged in an active bowl I'm eating is when I like them most - the crunch adds texture to what I'm eating.

Fascinating.

Can you describe what else you tried? Other supplements? Any other non-food/supplement techniques like journaling, breathing, etc.? Any therapy and other similar human interventions?

After all those - is it / was it still the case that cutting caffeine drove the best outcome?

+ great for fiber. I load up chia as much as I can throughout the day.

> The hardest part is giving yourself permission to ship something you know is flawed. But the feedback loop from real usage is worth more than weeks of hypothetical architecture debates.

Nice statement.

I think there is another equally pervasive problem: balancing between shipping something and strategizing a complete "operating system" but in the eyes of OTHER stakeholders.

I'm in this muck now. Working with an insurance co that's building internal tools. On one had we have a COO that wants an operating model for everything and what feels like strategy/process diagrams as proof of work.

Meanwhile I am encouraging not overplanning and instead building stuff, shipping, seeing what works, iterating, etc.

But that latter version causes anxiety as people "don't know what you're doing" when, in fact, you're doing plenty but it's just not the slide-deck-material things and instead the tangible work.

There is a communication component too, of course. Almost an entirely separate discipline.

I've never arrived at acceptable comfort on either side of this debate but lean towards "perfect is the enemy of good enough"

I seem to be experiencing the opposite! Lots of spam flowing through.

Thanks!

Do you have any references on loneliness interventions? Very interested.

This is my personal approach too. I stock things with fewest number of ingredients. Example that comes to mind: RXBar might be UPF but there’s not much in it. Compared to your average name brand protein bar or granola bar.

Have you considered not bothering to bulk or cut and instead just maintain? Maybe you are saying that but I can’t tell. I lift 5-6 days a week but neither bulk nor cut. Just eating/consuming whatever is necessary to maintain and/or hit goals when I feel like it.

Bodybuilder? Powerlifter? Curious what specifically you mean that requires you to bulk vs. cut

I don't feel so violently on one side of this or another, but I agree with the spirit of your comment as a child of the 80s.

I think I ate white bread or something very similar to it almost every day for lunch (in school). Cold cuts too. A shit-ton of pasta, but I'm my family is Italian, so that was a given no matter what. Tons of granola bars. Basically every processed baked packaged thing you can imagine.

Your point about sauce hits home too. Sauce purists may disagree but I despise ANY sweetness in your basic red sauce.

> In my neighborhood an electrical power outage is news; but yet another day of consistent electrical power supply is not news. But taking a step back, I think it is noteworthy! It makes my life better every day, and compared to the vast sweep of human history, it’s a huge positive anomaly. My life is full of stuff like this, as I suspect the lives are of many HNers.

This hit a nerve in a good way.

Something I think about is intersection of "cringe"-like content and genuine uplifting content. There's tons of stuff out there about how people take care of themselves, how they're improving their health, hair, body, mood, whatever. Obviously the influencer world is present in this sphere of content.

I suspect the content that leans way towards cringe goes way more viral, but if you step back, it's great so many people are trying/doing so many healthy and self-care-oriented things and making themselves feel better bit by bit.

Do you have a link?

I've seen this author's work elsewhere like Substack/Threads.

Good article, good writer.

But this whole post reminds me of a series of 1 or 2-line tweets. And I think that's the point. It's almost written as a series of scheduled posts that dribble out once a day for the next X days. Write once, re-purpose many times.

Yup.

And Excel to, well, not-Excel in my experience.