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All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.Their words
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting
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14 July
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)Their words
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
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Dell XPS 14 (2026)Their words
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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Apple Pro Display XDRTheir words
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
From one piece Some Summer Reading 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.Their words
My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.
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As I've often written, money isn't really about numbers; it's about emotion.
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.Their words
My own theory is that good times foster bad financial ideas, and bad times engender good ones.
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The Psychology of MoneyTheir words
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern WorldTheir words
Ahamed, the banker and investment manager whose previous book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World covered the crash of 1929, writes well.
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The Wealth LadderTheir words
He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.
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Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and LifeTheir words
It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
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Risk & RewardTheir words
Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
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Makita XGT LED worklightTheir words
While I only spent a couple of minutes with the new Makita worklight, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
13 July
From one piece How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And our brain does a lot of interesting things in terms of, you know, reconstructing the past also has a similar brain signature as imagining the future. which you know in some ways makes sense. We shouldn't have separate parts of the brain for thinking about the past and thinking about the future.
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Now, it can also make your memory worse because you're realizing I want to I'm taking this photo so I don't need to remember it later. And so, you could see it going both ways, but that selection process is important.
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the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors. So it's not that you know it's exactly photographic but their visual memory is exceptional.
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How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.
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And I think that illustrates also how our memory works. That just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well. And this is a classic demonstration that, you know, you've seen a penny many times. You don't remember all the features on the penny.
From one piece The Strongest El Niño Ever 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Strong agreement among forecast models does not by itself mean those models are skillful.Their words
Model agreement this strong is unusual, though I'd note that agreement is not the same thing as skill as I discuss later on.
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global temperature lags ENSO by around three to five months, most of this event's warming will land in 2027, which is now shaping up to be a genuinely alarming year and the warmest on record by a sizable margin.
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El Niño events typically peak near the end of the calendar year, between November and January.Their words
El Niño almost always peaks near the end of the calendar year - typically between November and January, occasionally as early as October
From one piece Graham Platner Was Just Hunter Biden With Worse Ink 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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After all, one of the main reasons bad boys are bad is that they lie.
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They get women to sleep with them, but they attract both men and women and cause them to surrender their better judgment and make bad choices in a variety of contexts, including the voting booth.
From one piece Why Reading Matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.
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korrents.com
Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.Their words
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
From one piece The Black Markets Fallacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Prohibition reduces how much of a product is consumed rather than merely moving the same consumption underground.Their words
Quantity consumed under prohibition is almost always smaller than quantity consumed under legalization.
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What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
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Siri AITheir words
The ability to go from Siri in the Camera to a longer conversation in the dedicated Siri app is one of my favorite aspects of Siri AI.
12 July
From one piece The Network State 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As mentioned before, Uber and Lyft are better regulators than the State’s paper-based taxi medallions, email is superior to the USPS, and SpaceX is out-executing NASA.
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As incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.
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In this sense, the Network is the next Leviathan, because on key dimensions it is becoming more powerful and more just than the State.
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Encryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
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new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.
From one piece A self-absorbed giant 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
It surely does not “produce” one quarter of world culture or intellectual activity (if the latter is defined as influential books, of fiction and non-fiction, politics, history; films, plastic arts, music, theater etc.)
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China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.Their words
Paradoxically, China might have had more soft power when it followed self-destructive policies of Maoist Cultural Revolution.
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China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.Their words
China’s tremendous success had not resulted in a blueprint that could be followed from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to become rich in four decades.
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Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.Their words
To come to my key point: this self-concentration limits China’s ideological influence in the rest of the world and its soft power.
From one piece Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I would suggest not buying any of these tests.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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I believe this represents the most important advance we have yet seen in the science of human aging.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Accordingly, the brain and immune system have the appearance of master regulators of the aging process.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Our organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion.Their words
It also turns out our organs age at a different pace.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
11 July
From one piece Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Given what we know about sleep loss, that conclusion makes sense—but being reasonable isn’t the same thing as being proven.
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So a rough night here and there is nothing to agonize over.
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Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
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Population-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
From one piece The value of software in a Fable world 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.Their words
Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.
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My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
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Scarcity and difficulty of production, not just usefulness, are what let a seller charge more.Their words
Generally, the economy rewards difficulty and rarity. If something is hard to do or make, you get to charge more.
From one piece The Odyssey 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
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korrents.com
How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.Their words
Finally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
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korrents.com
Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.Their words
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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The OdysseyTheir words
this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
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korrents.com
Thunderbolt's official wake-from-sleep certification does not guarantee the feature works reliably in practice.Their words
At this point, I had pretty much given up and filed Thunderbolt's "wake from sleep" promise in the "unreliable" folder, right next to Bluetooth Pairing.
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ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDMTheir words
Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.
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Caldigit TS4Their words
I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.
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CalDigit TS3Their words
Even the best Thunderbolt dock at the time, the CalDigit TS3, would occasionally fail to wake up the system. It was super annoying.
10 July
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Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.
From one piece Don't you mean extinct? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But for everything else, code quality still matters tremendously.
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
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korrents.com
Smaller teams are betterTheir words
We can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.
9 July
From one piece Is Recall the Second Brain for the AI Era? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
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korrents.com
The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.Their words
The quality of your context beats the cleverness of the model.
From one piece What drove the early 20th century warming? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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since 1970, natural forcings have been roughly flat, internal variability averages out over the longer period, and greenhouse gases explain essentially all of the observed warming.
What drove the early 20th century warming?theclimatebrink.com
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Cutting sulfur air pollution is now unmasking greenhouse-gas warming that aerosols had been offsetting.Their words
As air quality regulations cut sulfur emissions, warming from greenhouse gases is being unmasked.
What drove the early 20th century warming?theclimatebrink.com
From one piece The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that you can imagine at least in an year or two coming that the the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary or their cost of employment.
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So you know who who succeeds is a function of whose strengths are aligned with the tools needs and the business's needs.
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
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you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.
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But they just by virtue of having less people to coordinate they can often move faster and make um better decisions a little bit less design by committee.
From one piece The Natural-Born Artist. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A kinder assistant makes for a more daring detective.
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korrents.com
Years of apparent failure and waiting can be the artistic work itself rather than evidence of a missing gift.Their words
Someone might have to live a long time before the thing they were born to say becomes fully formed and accessible to them.
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The more we know – the more we insist on being sure – the more doors we close.
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I think of it like this: any person has an innate curiosity about life, and an energy toward it, that may manifest itself in all kinds of ways throughout the course of their life.
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A History of BiologyTheir words
The chapter on medieval Islam wasn't very deep, otherwise this is truly excellent, particularly when covering the very complicated 20th century. I don't have much more to say, because it is so good, except that I should try to get my brother to review it.
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Go Down HardTheir words
Mind candy: dueling psycho-killers go on a date; mayhem ensues.
8 July
From one piece From Solvers to Research: Large Language Model-Driven Formal Mathematics at the Research Frontier (with 18 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not only informal problem-solving.Their words
These developments inform our position that AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not merely informal problem-solving.
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Despite these strides, we argue that current AI4Math systems still largely operate as solvers, excelling at isolated, well-defined proof generation rather than as researchers capable of expanding the boundaries of mathematical knowledge.
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However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.
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We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
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Claude Code /checkupTheir words
New in Claude Code: /checkup
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korrents.com
Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.Their words
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice systemradleybalko.substack.com
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So I did something crazy. I pulled out my typewriter and banged away for an hour.
7 July
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Django MigrationsTheir words
My favorite implementation of this pattern remains Django’s Migrations
From one piece Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
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Building out low-speed regional rail to small towns before intercity rail is fast enough is a waste of money.Their words
further investment in regional rail in New England - by which I mean RegionalBahn-style service to small towns like Westerly and Manchester, not core commuter rail service in Boston to be turned into an S-Bahn - is a waste of money in the current situation.
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
From one piece Deadly heat wave in France shows the future of climate risk 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without a move away from fossil fuels, future heatwaves will keep testing the limits of public health systems and more people will die.
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korrents.com
Climate models are underestimating how intense heatwaves become at a given level of global warming.Their words
the temperatures seen in France show that climate models continue to underpredict the magnitude of heatwaves for a particular level of global warming.
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korrents.com
Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.Their words
More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
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Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
6 July
From one piece Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corps 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Realizing AI's potential to expand human potential requires humans and AI working together, not AI acting alone.Their words
AI has the potential to trigger an explosion of human potential, but it will require both humans and AIs working together to realize that potential.
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I believe the same is true of the current intelligence explosion being driven by AI. We are in desperate need of new social structures that allow us to harness its power, without damaging or destroying human values in the process.
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AI is the greatest opportunity any of us has ever seen, or is likely to ever see.
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XteinkTheir words
I recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device! I thought I'd try hacking around on it, and it's been fun to tweak.
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CrossPoint ReaderTheir words
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
5 July
From one piece What America has meant to me 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.Their words
Finance only to find that it is a house of cards built on false precision, as the world collapsed around us
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America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism.Their words
increasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
From one piece If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.Their words
Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
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korrents.com
AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.Their words
It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.
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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.Their words
As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.
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The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.
4 July
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Metformin is not a general-purpose anti-cancer or anti-ageing drug, and healthy people should not take it as one.Their words
MAST adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that metformin is not a general-purpose anticancer drug.
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
From one piece Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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Recursive self-improvement only works if the base model is already capable enough to improve its own mechanism.Their words
Recursive structure alone is not enough. The base model must be capable enough to improve the mechanism.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.Their words
the layer between the raw model and the real-world context seems to be as important as the model's raw intelligence
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
3 July
2 July
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Claude Code ArtifactsTheir words
Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!
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Safari Technology PreviewTheir words
Whether you’re a web developer or tinkerer, I highly recommend checking out what Apple has released in Safari Technology Preview.
1 July
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So You Want to Own Greenland?Their words
A useful and dispassionate overview of the relevant history and issues.
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This book meets her usual high standards.
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The Shortest History of IrelandTheir words
From a useful series, even if some of the claims are wrong and the judgments intemperate.
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An engaging book about the beauties of stonemasonry, with case studies of Venice, Angkor Wat, Lalibela, Zimbabwe and other locales.
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.
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we're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.
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My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
From one piece Artificial adventures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Cheap flat-rate AI subscription pricing is a temporary loss-leader that will be phased out once users are hookedTheir words
The subscriptions to frontier models are a very good deal, but it looks like they are being phased out now that everyone is hooked.
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Frontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller modelsTheir words
I haven't seen anything I would call a hallucination from the frontier models.
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
From one piece Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Regardless of genre or style, nearly all fiction works through a balancing act of repetition and difference.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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korrents.com
Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.Their words
Stories are not raw milk or nature photography. They are always constructed by the author.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AITheir words
That’s why we’re launching the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — an initial evidence-based assessment of the current state of AI science — to help the public and policymakers better understand the unprecedented moment we’re in.
From one piece Talent Is Bullshit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It doesn’t matter what creative field you’re in. Keep showing up day after day, and the game of numbers will work in your favor.
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korrents.com
He is not the most talented writer in the room and never was; what has carried him is the capacity to grind.Their words
I’m not the most talented writer in the room. Never have been.
30 June
From one piece Quick Note on Ridership Estimation and the STOPS Model 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A new transit line still benefits riders it diverts from existing lines, not only the new riders it attracts.Their words
Riders diverted from other lines still benefit from the project, especially in a case like QueensLink, where the diverted riders would enjoy an improvement in trip time to Midtown of about 10-15 minutes each way.
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STOPS is designed for quick-and-dirty calculations and is known to choke on New York.
From one piece Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um even if it's proven just like there is a difference between proof and explanation.
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Uh but I don't think it's easy but I do think it's something you would have to do in order to uh reward the gawwa like instinct rather than just rewarding have you solved a problem.
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what makes the GAWA theory such an interesting example is you have um literally this 100-year segment of like an idea that like flows through many different people's heads before it like settles into something that the math community like agrees is good.
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I think the way that you'd measure conjecture generating ability is going to be more subjective on like that tone shift where um it'll be mathematicians saying they're not just using it to like solve their problems, but as they step back and decide what their research field should even be that a conversation with such and such model like was genuinely helpful for that.
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that like if it's capable of building mountains uh that are, you know, the correct new theory that like crystallizes how we should be thinking about a subject, that's just such a level of intelligence that then it starts to feel like it would be surprising if that didn't permeate into other aspects of the economy besides like just the mountain building for math itself.
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KoezeTheir words
Koeze makes the best peanut butter in the country. They make one batch a day, laboriously grinding for three hours.
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Rishi Dandelion GingerTheir words
Rishi Dandelion Ginger. Extraordinary and surprising. And most things taste better mixed with tonic.
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Everybody's PerfectTheir words
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
From one piece This Summer, Design a Daily Recess: 7 Ways to Have More Fun 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What's fun for others might not be fun for you, and vice versa.
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Research shows that children are far better able to sit still, focus, and learn when they've had the exercise, sunlight, freedom, and fun of recess. The same is true for adults.
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In this sense, I think I was wrong to imply in Saying NO… that ecomodernism focuses on secondary managerialist goals like the efficiency of feedlots without speaking to the mysteries and passions of what animates life.
From one piece Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.Their words
However, in our non-ideal biophysical reality, present levels of urbanism are unlikely to be sustainable without cheap fossil fuels, and the human cost of that could be horrific unless we address it urgently.
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but I do think that in a future of probable energy constraint there will be a need for a more peopled agriculture, with populations spreading out to tap diffuse solar energy input.
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"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.Their words
Another is that it isn’t ‘food from thin air’ as is often claimed – as well as the high energy use, it’s food from a lot of tap water, minerals, ammonia and industrial infrastructure.
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Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.
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To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy
From one piece Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.Their words
While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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As is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Mac miniTheir words
I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.
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CodexTheir words
I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.
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The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldTheir words
This is the best --- the most accessible and the most forceful --- case for market socialism since Alec Nove in the 1980s.
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GlasslandsTheir words
This is clearly an amateur effort (there was a whole repeated paragraph), but as such it's very impressive and I am happy to have paid money for it.
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Resenting the HeroTheir words
Comparing this to The Fifth Season, it is striking how different two fantasy novels about worlds over-supplied with natural disasters, and the people with the psychic gifts to stop those disasters with their minds, can be in tone and execution. This is immensely fluffier, but it has no pretensions to be anything except candy, and succeeds as such.
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Visual Studio CodeTheir words
When writing for my blog, I use Visual Studio Code.
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Audio HijackTheir words
For recording ATP, we use Zoom to talk with each other, Audio Hijack to record our local audio, Dropbox to share files with one another, Textual for our IRC chat room
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TextualTheir words
For recording ATP, we use Zoom to talk with each other, Audio Hijack to record our local audio, Dropbox to share files with one another, Textual for our IRC chat room
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MacBook Pro (14-inch, M3 Max)Their words
I’ve had this computer since it debuted a couple years back, and it’s incredible.
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Herman Miller Jarvis sit/stand deskTheir words
I use a Herman Miller Jarvis sit/stand desk.
29 June
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In truth, rather rapid electrification projects, without decade-by-decade continuity, exist outside the UK and are often quite reasonable in their costs, as in Denmark, Israel, and especially India.
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SuperhumanTheir words
I wanted to connect to Superhuman, the email program I’ve used for years, since that is where all my custom inboxes, shortcuts, and settings live.
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Claude ConnectorsTheir words
This is why I recommend ignoring the vast web of custom and “community-built” MCP servers you can find out there, and focusing your attention on the two safer bets instead
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Number Go UpTheir words
Zeke Faux’s great book, Number Go Up
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llama3.2:3bTheir words
Right now: llama3.2:3b appears to be the model for: is this email urgent?qwen3:8b appears to be the model for: summarize this 5000-word article. llama3.3:70b(q8) appears to be the model for: let’s write or debug some computer code.
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gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_MTheir words
The absolute gonzo gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M performance-wise. What is going on here that is making it such an extraordinary outlier?
From one piece The generic style of AI web design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
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Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.Their words
You have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
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AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.Their words
If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.
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it’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time
From one piece Why Care About The Stupid Em Dash Anyway? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The way we take care of small things is how we take care of big things.
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The presence of an em dash in a piece of writing does not indicate it was written by AI.Their words
AI uses em dashes. Humans use em dashes. That does not make an em dash an AI fingerprint any more than Batman's cape makes everyone in a bath towel Batman.
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On changing their mind
Back then I thought I was remaking the world, tearing down the old and erecting something new in its place.
From one piece How have your beliefs evolved? What did you once hold true in your beliefs that you don't hold now? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over time, that fiery intensity ebbed away, and I realised that the past wasn’t something to discard but to respect.
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There may be nothing new under the sun, but it is our distinctiveness that matters, our specialness.
From one piece SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decision 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
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Everything isn’t racist, but if this isn’t, then Alito failed miserably to make the case.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
From one piece Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) 3 beliefs · vitalik.eth.limo
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Current provably-secure indistinguishability-obfuscation schemes have galactically impractical runtimes.Their words
But within the good news, there is bad news: the run time is literally galactic
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it turns out that making a secure form of obfuscation is really really hard
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The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
From one piece Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: Ten Years of Web Security 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So while CSP adoption has more than doubled, nearly half of all policies are in need of some TLC.
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A lot of HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.
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The web really is more secure than it was a decade ago.
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HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites shrinks every year.Their words
HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites is shrinking every year.
From one piece Personal note 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Criticism as a field of writing is declining today.Their words
David Remnick, who has given me free rein at a time when criticism is withering away
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Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.Their words
Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.
28 June
From one piece I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now 2 beliefs · levels.io
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AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.Their words
I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first
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But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK
From one piece Europe Needs Air Conditioning 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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European leftists explicitly advocate that people should be kept poor, uncomfortable, and literally sweating.
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American overregulation and labor-market rigidity make elevators far more common in Europe than in the US.Their words
elevators are the rare part of the economy where Europeans have embraced market dynamism while Americans choose overregulation and labor market rigidity.
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European countries are wealthy enough to afford widespread air conditioning, comparable to Japan.Their words
Europe is not actually poor. Japan is about as wealthy as Europe, and almost all Japanese homes are air-conditioned. Europeans could afford to air-condition their homes (and their hospitals!) just like the Japanese do.
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Good automation design starts from whether context must persist between runs, not from building a complex system.Their words
The best automations do not start with a complicated system. They start with knowing whether the next run needs a clean slate or the same thread.
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ErgodoxEZTheir words
With its detached parts, the Ergodox EZ is able to adjust to any typist. I used that keyboard for 10 years. I liked it so much that I bought one for home and one for work.
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ZSA MoonlanderTheir words
The Moonlander is my dream keyboard. It has everything the Ergodox EZ offers, and it remains ultra-stable while tilted on the Platform. I really hope this will be my last keyboard.
27 June
From one piece There’s More to the Mental Health Crisis Than Smartphones and Social Media 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fear of others' negative judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.Their words
And this fear of judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.
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Perfectionism is caused by unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism from others.Their words
Perfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.
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Smartphones and social media amplify the youth mental health crisis but are not its root cause.Their words
Modern technology may be an amplifier, but it isn't the root cause.
From one piece Using Local Coding Agents 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.
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When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.Their words
if an LLM developer also develops a coding harness, it is somewhat safe to assume that their model is optimized for their own harness first
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Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.Their words
proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.
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OllamaTheir words
I am not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned in this article, but one nice thing about Ollama is that they also optionally support open-weight models hosted in the cloud
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Qwen3.6Their words
Here, I am primarily going to use Qwen3.6 with the Qwen-Coder coding client.
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Qwen-CodeTheir words
Here, I am primarily going to use Qwen3.6 with the Qwen-Coder coding client.
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North Mini CodeTheir words
Alternatively, if you don't want to use Qwen3.6, Cohere's North Mini Code is probably the most interesting, capable alternative at this size class right now.
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MLXTheir words
I highly recommend using *-mlx versions of models working on Macs (if available).
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Really the only tip I could ever give someone at this point is to pull away, reflect, do something you like, and talk to a human who cares about your current spiraling.
26 June
From one piece Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And I wouldn't be surprised if you know 6 months or a year from now, the model is able to do zero shot an entire poker solver, basically my entire PhD thesis in one go.
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Running a model five times and keeping the best answer buys a higher benchmark score without buying a better model.Their words
Um so if you say okay well we're going to instead of just running this model once we're going to run it five times and take the best of the five responses or like ask a judge which one it thinks is best then you can get much higher scores than that model. And so it's really easy to make something that looks a lot better on paper but is actually not better once you control for the amount of test time compute.
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my claim is the proper way to evaluate the models now is you either have some kind of budget for the benchmark whether it's tokens or cost or time or whatever or you plot the performance as a function of the amount of test time compute that's going into the model
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But what we're seeing today with the modern models is that 5.5 and other models can think for if you scaffold them reasonably well, can think for weeks even um before having performance plateau on some of these benchmarks. And so, the point at which they plateau is simply too far out to reasonably test.
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I think the reason why it doesn't show up as so much better on the benchmarks is because the benchmarks are being presented, the benchmark results are being presented in the wrong way. They're not controlling for the amount of test time compute that is being used on that benchmark question.
25 June
From one piece Thoughts from the 2026 London Podcast Show 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LLMs replacing podcasts as a source of information poses a real disruption to podcasting.Their words
Where I do see some disruption is where consumers start asking ChatGPT and other LLMs for information they would normally get from podcasts.
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Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.Their words
I don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
24 June
From one piece Tech interviews with NeetCode 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don't understand why anybody would learn the CAP theorem when that theorem exists because it's just more complete. It's not that much more complicated. I think it's more simple to understand.
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The training is really hard to get to get down cuz it's like interviewers are just not good. Like the most interviewers do not like interviewing. They hate it.
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I think we probably will see different interview formats introduced. I just think it is going to be a slower transition than most people think.
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And the second reason that's stayed sticky is that companies just have no idea how to evaluate. Like And they probably never did.
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And DSA interviews were never the best for that. Well, thinking, sure. But in terms of like does that skill translate to what you're doing on the job? It never really translated to that. It was more about evaluating like does somebody think?
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As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.Their words
As the model size grows significantly, we are running out of enough high-quality unique tokens.
From one piece I'm not a cat 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I have no faith in the people in charge of the future, but humanity isn't going to change any time soon.
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Thoughts, feelings, decisions, even bodies don't exist, they're only abstractions that we use to manage the chaos.
From one piece How to Be a Happier, Calmer Parent: 16 Things to Try Instead of Yelling 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.Their words
When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.
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Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.Their words
Yelling and nagging may seem effective in the moment ("I'm getting them to put on their shoes!"), but the cost is tension, sulking, and guilt.
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An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
23 June
From one piece Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
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Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.Their words
A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
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The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
22 June
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And there is Jeremy A. Simmons, Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade
From one piece The Must-Read Articles of the Month 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.Their words
what really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.
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New research reveals that the higher women's IQs, the less they're liked-and the more they're undermined by coworkers.
From one piece There Are More than Five POVs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's a cold mode. Most readers recoil at it. Characters are our windows into a story, and third-person objective narrators are opaque windows.
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A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.Their words
Narratively, there is a dramatic difference between an "I" narrator and a collective "we" narrative voice.
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The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
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FiiO Warmer DACTheir words
This DAC is insanely great for the $349 price tag and feels more like a $2k DAC in build, design and sound.
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FiiO K13Their words
The K13 let me down, was unreliable and sounded a bit underwhelming.
From one piece How not to forget what matters 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.
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People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.Their words
It is common to think that what we do achieves what we want it to achieve, even if there is no evidence for it.
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But in order to actually live in accordance with what you believe in long-term, you must make it a habit.
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The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.
21 June
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Rocking pizza cutterTheir words
An alternative — which works especially well if you’re making thick-crust pizza — is a rocking pizza cutter
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Washlet (Japanese toilet)Their words
Once you’ve used a washlet for years, it’s very hard to go back to a basic toilet.
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Pizza shearsTheir words
So there you go, Americans. Please try pizza shears or rocking pizza cutters, and please try washlets.
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WashletTheir words
Once you’ve used a washlet for years, it’s very hard to go back to a basic toilet.
From one piece How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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High-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.
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Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.Their words
Being pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.
From one piece Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather they are the sign of disorientation, disillusionment and despair.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
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They are none of these things. All three were predictable and overdetermined.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
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ZigTheir words
Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.
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BunTheir words
I have no problem with what Bun did, I think Bun is a great project, and I'm not interested in turning this into a Bun post.
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The surrounding system framework and scaffolding matter more for AI agent capability than the underlying model.Their words
The experiments showed that the system framework matters far more than the underlying model.
20 June
19 June
From one piece Philanthropy’s Willie Sutton Problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Transformation comes from fields with a plan, not projects with potential.
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When government can't act at the speed of the technology, the consequential decisions still get made, but by the companies building it rather than the public's representatives.
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Government controls both the resources and the legitimacy needed for large-scale change.Their words
Government is where the literal money is (money that could often go much further if we fixed what's wrong with government), but it's also where the impact is. And it's where the legitimacy is.
From one piece Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.Their words
I would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.
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Doing creative work in public, where failures are visible, produces faster useful feedback.Their words
I'm doing it in public, where the failures show and crap gets feedback quickly so I can improve.
18 June
From one piece Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I think clearly the AI is changing the whole landscape. And uh I think the impact will be bigger than internet. And uh it's more profound also.
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Just I explained to President Trump, TSMC when they started they have the Taiwan government as a shareholder. If you look at Japan, you look at Singapore, this is the infrastructure US government get to provide the support.
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And eventually, you have to really move into a full stack. So, not just a silicon, you need to have a software, and some of the customer asked me, "Give me the whole rack." So, there's a system that you have to build.
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It's a service business. It's a trust business. If people want to give you, you know, orders to have wafer to come, if the yield not good, they will be toast in term of revenue miss.
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He and I, we share the same view that semiconductor infrastructure actually is not catch up with the AI growth.
From one piece SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic: The S&P 500 Inclusion Question and Investment Consequences! 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Much of active investing is built around publicly available information and a belief in the power of mean reversion, not original research and seeking information.
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Active investing collectively drags down portfolio returns, and the evidence leaves almost no counter-argument.Their words
there is almost no counter to the argument that active investing collectively creates a drag on portfolio performance
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Doomsday stories about how passive investing is making markets less efficient and less inclined to reflect fundamentals strike me as overwrought
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The Great WhenTheir words
It is an epic tale full of rogues and reprobates. The story is excellent even though the plot follows a fairly basic structure. Although set up to be a series, it is a satisfying stand-alone tale.
17 June
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems are built by the entrepreneurs who lead them, take a long-term view, and give first.Their words
a great entrepreneurial ecosystem is built by the entrepreneurs who lead it, take a long-term view, and give first.
From one piece Liner notes to What Belongs to You 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In the English-language arena, Britten sets the standard for handling writers of inborn musical power-the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Hopkins.
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Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.
16 June
From one piece Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Machiavelli is the first person that we have ever in the European tradition to suggest that it could be viable for there to be more than one political party in a state at the same time.
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And so his power base was fragile vis-a-vis untruth. And for him because of the specific shape of his power and then the specific way he handled his contradictions, that did hurt him.
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They fell because half of what happens in the world is never in our control. And you can do everything right and it's out of your control, but we have to evaluate what would have happened and therefore we should imitate them, because everything they did was right.
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And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to
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When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.
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WiiM Amp UltraTheir words
THIS IS WHY I FEEL it is one of the best HiFi products ever made. Because of what it brings for the money. Because it will bring so many new people into the hobby.
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AGD AllegroTheir words
The AGD is a stunning work of audio art that has gorgeous casework and is deathly silent as well, zero noise.
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Kubernetes is fundamentally a framework for feedback controllers, not just container orchestration.Their words
Kubernetes is really a framework for feedback controllers. It's control theory turned into something ordinary people can use.
From one piece Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actually 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.Their words
But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
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But when I think about all the goals I have in my life right now—finish this Substack, get the house ready for some visitors, prepare a course for next year, write a paper, etc.—none of it is driven by an appreciation of my mortality.
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A very long life would not grow boring, because pleasures spaced far enough apart do not wear out.Their words
There are things that we naturally take pleasure in—such as friendship, sex, and Italian food—and while we can become sick of anything if continually exposed to it in large doses, we don’t get tired of these things if they are properly distributed in time.
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
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Living for as long as possible is worth wanting: if you enjoy life now, more of it is simply better.Their words
This seems like an easy yes. If you enjoy life right now, why not get more of it?
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
From one piece Europe's housing shortages are even worse than America's 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But this effect is far too small to explain the increase in house prices in Europe since 1914, when, after all, most urban continental Europeans lived in flats.
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I suspect the same is often true in the rest of Europe: NIMBYism is the ultimate reason why the French and German states don’t solve their housing shortages through unbanning densification, but since the claims of the NIMBYs have been preemptively conceded by everyone, NIMBYism has basically remained latent.
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In fact, zoning was invented in Europe, in Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the late nineteenth century.
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Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all.Their words
In fact, European housing shortages are generally worse than America’s.
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Without densification restrictions, housing shortages will only ever be serious in cities where land is really intensely scarce, as in Hong Kong.
15 June
From one piece LLM councils show groupthink 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Giving LLMs explicit instructions, rather than assuming alignment, prevents emergent problems in multi-model systems.Their words
the best way with LLMs usually is to be explicit, since otherwise even if they're aligned they cause emergent problems.
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the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
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Group committees tend to flatten distinctive or unconventional viewpoints into blander, more conventional output.Their words
With people, the problem with committees is that they "smooth out" all idiosyncrasies. They take out any "spiky" points of view, and make things much more normie.
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A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.Their words
A good book sweeps a corner of your brain. Clears out a stale assumption. Disturbs the ecosystem of old ideas you've been letting accumulate rent-free.
From one piece Does the Rule of 40 Work for Hardware? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A hardware company can be doing everything right and still fail the Rule of 40 for years.Their words
A hardware company doing everything right can fail the Rule of 40 for years.
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the market rewards growth until it doesn't, and then it rewards profitability.
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Usesrcmnd.app
LM StudioTheir words
For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
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piTheir words
For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
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gemma-4-26b-a4bTheir words
I've so far been using gemma-4-26b-a4b LM Studio implementation as my default local model.
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gemma-4-12b-qatTheir words
Gemma-4-12b-qat just came out but I've already also really been impressed with its performance relative to its size.
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GPT-OSSTheir words
The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the release of GPT-OSS.
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BlipTheir words
While Airdrop works very well between Apple devices, it can be kind of annoying to transfer files between either my Mac or iPhone and my Windows PC when I need to. The Blip app helps bridge that gap and is free and easy to use. I've actually started using it more often between my Apple devices as well than I use Airdrop now.
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Laravel ForgeTheir words
Laravel Forge is an amazing service offered by the Laravel team to provision and manage servers. I use it for both my personal and work related servers.
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HetznerTheir words
For some projects I've started to use Hetzner for vps hosting. I've found you can get more powerful servers for a cheaper cost than with providers like DigitalOcean.
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Laravel ShiftTheir words
I've only used Laravel Shift a few times, but each time I did it saved a lot of time upgrading my Laravel projects.
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FlareTheir words
To track exceptions in production, I've found Flare to be very helpful.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
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in the Peter Teal sense it's almost a moral arbitrage because there's something in our gut as a product you you became a founder an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator and so it can feel like a beatdown that your path to innovation starts with copying other people's work
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The genuinely new idea in a product will probably fail; its job is to give people a reason to try the product at all.Their words
And we have to accept that that new idea is probably going to fail. It's a reason to try it for people, but it's probably going to fail.
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And I like to say we we don't we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.
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we have these instincts like in our gut, these human level instincts that are pretty much always right. And then we put these ideas on top of the instincts that are usually wrong. And my rule of thumb is your instincts are right 95% of the time.
13 June
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