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have seen some worrying stats on slowdown of solar/wind rollouts, and some general issues with larger scale wind turbines.

Every major-numbered release of macOS is more annoying than the one before. Each release includes terrible new UI decisions, removes useful features you’ve come to depend on, and restricts the use of your computer as a general-purpose computer even more. It has probably been steadily down hill since OSX 10.8.

some more stuff on impact of Germany’s big shift away from nuclear

horrifying

cool idea. I’d like a fork of this with todos as well, so you can have daily dos and dont’s.

interesting discussion on experiences and stats of apps

Some interesting perspectives on who/what people are like when they stop working a while. In terms of boredom, interests, and other pursuits.

With random arrivals, pileups are terrible

If customers take on avg 10 minutes to serve and arrive randomly at a rate of 5.8 per hour, then with one bank teller working, expected wait is 5 hours. With two tellers, 3 minutes.

Interesting take on the differences in impact between large scale vs inidividual differences.

Very interesting discussion. Computers’ ability to solve tasks goes from ‘impossible’ to boring as soon as they solve it! Though I am still regularly impressed by GPS…

I’m midway in the philosophizing here, but my point so far is obvious enough: The ability of a machine to do or outdo something humans do is interesting once at most. Deep Blue isn’t playing chess anymore and Watson isn’t on “Jeopardy!” because nobody cares. It doesn’t matter. We humans need to see the human doing it: Willie Mays making the catch that doesn’t look possible. When it comes to art, we need to see a woman or a man struggling with the universal mediocrity that is the natural lot of all of us and somehow out of some mélange of talent, skill, and luck doing the impossible, making something happen that is splendid and moving—or funny, or frightening, or whatever the artist set out to do.

HN thread. I still do not understand the benefit of this

brilliant writeup of excellent technique. And published on the same day he asked about it on twitter!

why am I reading about notetaking tools again

Lovely memorial about his amazing dad.

Great idea

Morning prompts:
What am I grateful for?
What would make today great?
What am I worried about?

Evening prompts:
How am I feeling?
What’s something good that happened today?
What did I do well?
What could I have done better?

I love that top comment - similar system to my own, though I do most recent at the top.

Splitting by year is mostly a side effect of getting burned by Vim once when computer lost power. The panic of seeing hundreds of LINES MISSING in my document is not something I want to experience again.

This looks awesome

1. Double down on your best friendships (plural added)
2. Do one thing well and watch it compound
3. An hour of thinking can save you a decade of work

Would like to see more of this kind of write up - description and onboarding experience of a possible alternative to goodreads. Some great explanations in there - account setup, importing CSVs from other places, overview of features.

My (non-expert) opinion is still in favor of fractional dosing. Really needed more non-industry research on it though.

Great read. Super thorough look at economics and other logistics aspects of camming

Cool look at some details of chip foundries, challenges of the tiny scale and clean rooms. Some good diagrams throughout.

Some discussions and interviews on justice by twitter-mob.

By contrast, the modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms, and arguments of 280 characters, favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. Yet the values of that online sphere have come to dominate many American cultural institutions: universities, newspapers, foundations, museums. Heeding public demands for rapid retribution, they sometimes impose the equivalent of lifetime scarlet letters on people who have not been accused of anything remotely resembling a crime. Instead of courts, they use secretive bureaucracies. Instead of hearing evidence and witnesses, they make judgments behind closed doors.

cooool…