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3 × 1.01⁵² = 5.03 hours per week at the end of a year if you did 1% more than you did last week if you're already doing three hours a week.

Another pointless "up to x% better" specification.

I've started to go stand in my front yard and just watch the world go by for 15 minutes or so and if I do it around dinner time then I can get away without looking weird as it's perfectly normal to wait uber eats this way.

Which bit? The short sentences?

Also love my muhle safety razor. Also prefer rim brakes over disc on my bicycles. Steel frame bikes. Drive a 2001 corolla. Use a denon 2308 avr amp from 2008. Run hdmi from mini pc into a smart TV that's never seen WiFi or the internet. Run optical from TV into the avr, 3.1 setup. No soundbar. No stream. Everything simple and reliable.

Stare at the wall and think about what I'm actually solving.

What's next, Dog Pause?

That's unfortunate to hear. This has allowed me to connect with talent that has otherwise not been given the opportunity to showcase their skills. At the scale I'm doing it it's pretty harmless but can see how it can be easily exploited.

Me too. It doesn't have ability to alert only on true positive. I has to also alert on true negative. So dumb

Slightly related, I was using an LLM to help me understand whether I should add milk to my coffee before walking to my table or when I get to my table (objective to maximise coffee temperature at the point drinking). Turns out it's best to add the milk immediately when the coffee is made because the rate of cooling is higher at higher temperatures.

I see lots of em dash in this article.

Working with data I need to be objective, and while thinking objectively I prefer brutal/minimal ist UIs