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A Fuse, not a Smoking Gun

Trust in American institutions has been falling since the 1960s, and it fell off a cliff in the 1970s. If you are waiting on a smoking gun from the Democracy...

Populist Realism: A Manifesto

Most hard problems sit between those two. You need people close enough to the ground to see the actual details and people far enough back to see the system...

E. Jean Carroll in her own words

Compiled from trumpstruth.com. The judge wouldn't allow them, but the Internet is forever, E. Jean. Especially when there's a trump hating website that handily...

Marketocracy's Secret Sauce

On second thought, go away. Just buy a market index fund, the fees are low, and you get stock market returns because you're literally buying the stock market.

Grumpy Recipe Cards

I turned all the recipes I've ever posted into recipe cards in the recipetables.com style. Enjoy.

My App Can Save the World

Keep 20+ million tonnes of CO₂ out of the air, more annual emissions than some entire countries and roughly half of Tesla’s total reported customer impact...

Grumpy, the Home Version

A Grumpy Take is not a rant and not a recap. It is a machine. LLM's are lazy, but they're obedient. If you ask an AI, you get the consensus view even if its...

AI Vampires

So software coding a year ago was you sit there and you write code and then you try to run the code and there's bugs in the code and you have to fix the bugs...

Quick Grok Upgrade Steps

Makes grok write code that is neither slop (default), or expert (bad the other direction), but actually good, practical, well documented code.

God Writes Pretty Good Prompts

Safety is a thing in AI, and so the Anthropic folks decided to do a test. They gave their AI access to a bunch of emails that claimed that the AI was going to...

How my Dad Saved Civilization

Ok I admit the title is a bit over the top. But I’m allowed to brag about my Dad. You probably don’t care. But perhaps you’re interested in how the Military...

All the Best Data Belongs to Elon

As a Tech Bro, I know that IP is now old fashioned. Back in 1776, Adam Smith proved in Wealth of Nations that the mercantilist theory that owning all the gold...

'Slaw

Stupid to buy cole slaw, or even Cole Slaw dressing, it is basically mayo, acid, sugar and cabbage. All that stuff this AM about homemade mayo and dressing...

Homemade X Salad Dressing

I learned how to make this from X, after being pissed off because I couldn't find a seed oil free salad dressing in the store, even the Paul Newman brand. it's...

Homemade Fresh, Seed Oil Free Mayo

You literally can't buy a mayo without seed oil in the store. You do need a stick blender, unless you have robot wrists that can spin around. They're cheap...

BBQ Sauce Recipe

This recipe uses two full 6-oz cans of tomato paste for efficiency and scalability. Less time to make this then you'll spend in the store reading food labels...

The Epstein Problem

At one point, I was an Epstein conspiracy guy. Now I'm not. What flipped me? I read some of the Maxwell files. Since that was too much to read, I spent a week...

Truth is Non-Binary

This is not a political article, this is a philosophical article about truth in the age of AI. The political arena just happens to be a good place to test...

Eulogy for My Mom

So the stereotype of Irish and Scottish people is that they fight and drink a lot.

Pink/Green Meetings

As an engineering leader, you need to know what’s going on. But of course, unless you’re leading from first chair, you probably don’t know. Everyone always...

The 3rd Commandment

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

My Hummus Recipe

Makes 2 cups. A creamy garbanzo spread that can be used as a sandwich filling, or served as a dip with fresh vegetables or wedges of pita bread.

Based Dieting for Billionaires

Recently, Elon Musk shared an image of himself looking noticeably slimmer, revealing he's now using a medication similar to Ozempic named Mounjaro for his...

Goto Fail and the Raise that wasn't.

Hanlon's Razor suggests that we should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. This principle seems particularly relevant...

Setting up a Daily [CI] Email Process

This is a process I've used since I was a junior software engineer, now integrated into the Sprint mindset. It is especially useful if you have remote...

What I know about sleep

Daylight Savings Time is a crock. We're giving everyone in the US jet lag for a week, for no reason. It doesn't save any energy, and there are more traffic...

Thoughts on the 13 families hoax

So I had to mute a prominent lefty account a couple of days ago, because he repeated the myth that @realDonaldTrump went to Arlington and filmed a campaign...

Mistakers in the Hands of an Angry X Mob

This article is a mea culpa (my fault). I am admitting fault, which is something everyone should do. I admit to being wrong about Joe Biden about something....

The Physics of Software Bugs

I graduated from Caltech 33 years ago, so I'm not sure if I've always been this way, but I was definitely trained to think this way there. So from first...

Letter to Chancellor McCormick

On may 31st of 2023, I found out the hard way that I had a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball. I was lucky, it was the best kind of tumor in the worst...

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