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Why would they get a full handle on it? It's great marketing!

Look at all the podcasts, think pieces, news segments (like this article) that have been generated. Endless hand wringing by pundits, pearl clutching by opinion thinkers, ultimately with focus on OpenAI and how powerful their models are.

familysearch.org + ancestry.com + genealogybank.com + archive.org + random institutional websites or government sources have been my top so far.

I throw it all together into a multi-agent team doing fact and source gathering, network tracking, location processing, and coverage analysis. Basically industrializing the research and creation of genealogical profiles of ancestors.

Wild times.

Yet.

Not really sure what the grift is here. Great Salt Lake Rising seems pretty reasonable reading their website https://gslrising.org/

To quote: “We are coordinating across 30+ organizations to get water back to the lake. The immediate goal: 500,000 acre-feet of annual water savings by 2027.

- Acquire and retire U.S. Magnesium water rights — 80,000 acre-feet annually

- Aggressively remove invasive phragmites consuming 100,000+ acre-feet per year

- Restore Newfoundland Basin — 30,000 acre-feet

- Partner with agricultural water users through split-season leasing and crop optimization

- Expand secondary water metering for accountability and conservation

- Purchase and lease water rights to permanently return water to the lake

- Refine policy tools to make leasing, delivery, and conservation easier”

Seems to be associated with an all star group of Utah philanthropists. Not seeing what the angle would be other than restoring the lake.

Same. Asked CC Opus about a change in a particular file...it looked in a totally different file and told me there was no change.

Very cool, thanks for the detail. This leads me to wonder....why haven't Windows and Linux done any similar optimizations? I assume they do lots of hardware optimizations in all sorts of places, but this seems pretty core.

A reasoned argument I agree with.

The challenge is that the competitive and economic pressures make this moot.

A person, entering the field via AI driven development, will have none of the qualms about skill, seniority, understanding the codebase, or craftsmanship. Those arguments are handwringing by the previous generation of engineers. Their focus is solely on the outcome and value produced from the input prompt. That aligns closer to how businesses see their codebase: something they have to prompt their engineers to produce in order to generate business value.

Similarly, new AI driven companies focused on delivering value at speed and lower costs will have none of the baggage of the legacy code companies with engineers stuck debating these questions. These new gen companies will be focused on delivering value, doing so at quicker speeds and lower costs, raising the level of competition for existing incumbents.

Will existing businesses be willing to spend money to purchase services from these new gen companies of AI developed products? Seems like it.

There are real problems with these AI developed codebases. They tend to collect baggage and start to feel like a house of cards. A big open question is whether AI models will continue to improve in order to patch all the vibe-holes being generated. Seems like they will improve.

Agree with this. I have Codex do analysis and feedback for Claude code. For whatever reason, Claude code seems to produce successful code more frequently, but it tends to have blind spots in performing analysis that Codex does a good job of picking up. The two together feel like a step up in state of the art.

I need a tool to put them in a loop together to get this done more efficiently…I guess I’ll plug this in as a prompt and go from there!

I've been following Sam for awhile, his business model makes heavy use of outsourcing production of components to skilled partners. It's no sweat off him if he makes the Impulse stove in California or not.

His point is that it's impossible to manufacture much of anything in California if you aren't grandfathered in. Seems pretty important for economic and security issues.

The electric induction cooktop he and his team has made is pretty cool! I'd check it out.

Universal injunctions were nerfed by the Supreme Court this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._CASA

What was the range?

Would love to see nuclear do this, but the challenges to getting nuclear built are myriad. Regulatory burdens, cost to build reactors, painfully slow learning rate for nuclear reactor design and buildout.

Solar, while certainly not ideal, is comparatively trivial to build out. Functionally you buy and lay out cheap panels. Far smaller political challenges. Some friction around land use and interconnect, but compared to nuclear, orders of magnitude easier and the way forward seems clear with the existing political realities and economies of scale in action for solar panels.

Another point others haven't made, which Terraform Industries points out: that using solar to make Natural Gas is going to be the cheapest form of natural gas production.

You can effectively short circuit the existing fossil fuel industry and pull the hydrocarbons from the air instead of the ground to stay carbon neutral. No need to re-invent industry.

Really exciting for Terraform to hit this mark. Hopefully true, and not an April 1st joke. Casey Handmer (founder) is a pretty interesting guy. He also helped with the initial analysis of the crackle on the Vesuvius challenge scrolls that contributed to the breakthrough of reading the first passages from the scrolls. See https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/reading-ancien...

Highly recommend checking out more articles on the Terraform Industries blog and Casey's personal blog.

> "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." -- Slashdot creator CmdrTaco/Rob Malda about the iPod in 2001.

I can’t remember the last time I connected my iPhone to a computer to do a data transfer.

The scope of potential impact from building luxury apartments is wider than a price decrease. It' likely your area has a far larger demand for housing than the amount that is being built + existing housing stock, regardless of type (luxury vs affordable).

Put another way, building the luxury apartments helped prevent an acceleration of price increases across all levels of housing stock. Students from high income families need a place to live, and instead of taking housing stock from the affordable pool, further driving up costs, they have additional desirable supply at their income level.

But! That only prevented price increases due to limited additional supply and was insufficient to drive down costs. Overall aggregate demand still exceeds supply. The simply answer is to build more at all price levels. Small incremental increases of supply are unlikely to drive down costs.

The spat of news stories about electric car fires tends to be news sensationalism rather than the reality of residential fires.

By far, residential fires are started by cooking, home heating, malfunctioning electric wiring or lighting. Stuff you’ve already been living with for a long time!

Best thing to do is make sure your smoke alarms are working, regularly tested, and have an evacuation plan, practiced with your family.

See: https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-medi...

Really like the idea of this as a user in the Apple ecosystem and would hop to it in a hot minute.

However, given recent trickery around stealing iPhones and taking over entire accounts: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...

I worry this makes iPhones that much richer (heh) of a target. I would be hesitant to add a significant amount of money to my wallet’s savings account as it would create an incredibly financially potent single point of failure in the event my iPhone is stolen and compromised.

That was a pretty good patio11!

A corner of a nice city park we live by contains a permanently closed Sizzler and an empty parking lot. It’s at a busy intersection, also be a freeway exit, in a desirable area. A developer came in and proposed building an apartment building with a restaurant or café on the ground floor. Seemed like a good idea and a nice use of the corner.

Residents poured in complaints. They wanted the city to buy the corner and turn it into a green patch of grass.

The developer warned that the space was too valuable ($7 mil for .8 acres), the city wouldn’t want to purchase it, and the only other financially viable options would be a drive-thru, bank or a gas station.

Well, the developer pulled out given the community opposition, and the corner of the park was purchased and will now be a Kum & Go gas station.

https://buildingsaltlake.com/sugar-house-residents-fought-ho...

I’m curious to know if JWST directly focusing on planetary objects within our solar system throws off enough heat to affect the sensitive IR equipment. Anybody know whether that’s the case?

Yes, it's a combination of both the primary mirror and struts. The JWST website has a very helpful infographic explaining: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7...

Nothing I’ve learned so far that would make me change my decision to have kids. I have one daughter, and am absolutely loving it.

That said, I can understand this isn’t for everyone. I wanted to have kids, and understood the pace of my life would change because of it. Having kids absolutely does take sacrifice, commitment, sleeplessness, stress, money, and a lot of things one might not want to give up.

But! I’ve learned a lot about love and sacrifice and empathize at a deeper level of understanding for other parents. Any child with a health condition becomes heart breaking in a way that’s tough to communicate. Stressed out and tired parents are doing their best in difficult circumstances.

There are a lot of reasons to have or not have a kid. Choose what’s right for you but make sure to be honest with yourself.

I picked up a set of Twinkly lights this year and liked them so much I got a few more sets to give as gifts. The API appears to be local network accessible and there are a couple libraries written in python and node for playing around with them.

The mobile app is decent, with a few bugs, but it does include a cool mapping feature to map the layout of lights so the effects work correctly. Definitely would recommend checking them out.

I really love what you've put together. So much so that I'm going to boot up a VM to try it out. I'd echo the responses here that there may be a business in it to help you fund further exploration. Nice work.

Your mini-game looks really cool! I think you should stick with it.

Thanks ericabiz for the follow up. These are definitely the interesting points I was searching for in the article given the headline.

It certainly seems there are indicators that the market and economy could turn south. On my personal list, I also have the structural instability created by the current tariffs and escalating trade war, geopolitical weirdness, and the long term increase of inequality.

I look forward to reading your next article on this.

The article fails to articulate a specific reason for a market failure besides:

1) The market is really good right now and has had a long run so we must be at the top.

2) An appeal to their own authority for having "trained myself to recognize the top".

This comes across as a scare clickbait piece devoid of substance. That's not to say we won't have a market failure in the near future, but without a clear rational, this specific article is junk.

It's good to run a cash flow positive company, it's good to have 6 months of savings and low debt, but please post something more substantive.

Should be fixed now:

To manually update EC2 instances managed by Elastic Beanstalk, you can run the following command:

For Amazon Linux 2013.09 "sudo yum install -y http://packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2013.09/updates/556c...

For Amazon Linux 2014.03 "sudo yum install -y http://packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2014.03/updates/e10f...

Still waiting for a fix on Beanstalk. Neither "yum clean all" followed by "yum update bash" nor "yum --releasever=2014.09 update bash" currently work.

EDIT: relevant AWS threads

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161489

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161529&ts...