katzgrau

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by katzgrau 19d ago
> crackhead@blorb.localhost Checks out, and I mean that in the kindest way possible
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by katzgrau 28d ago
My block is crawling with kids and usually playing baseball or hockey - they are pretty much never on screens apart from watching something on Disney+. Other than that we play outside year round.
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by katzgrau 28d ago
Really just thoughtfully and consistently disciplined. Some people think diet and exercise are miserable. Others put more weight on how they feel when in good health.
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by katzgrau 28d ago
I love my work and I love playing with the kids so it can be exhausting but in a good way. Never a drag (not usually anyway). Super thoughtful consistent schedule with little room for anything else is my tradeoff if I want to maintain high
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by katzgrau 29d ago
Granted, I do need to take a break from that schedule every so often. If I catch myself being unfocused I just go to bed. Also, the first thing I work on is usually a high leverage project that excites me. Reading news or answering emails (
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by katzgrau 29d ago
YC reject so I bootstrapped and was thankfully able to hit profitability before my first kid showed up. I’ve now got two. I also have dreams bigger than ever. In fact, writing this while sitting on the couch with the kids watching Muppet Tr
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by katzgrau 1mo ago
Same thought - 80% through reading it occurred to me to check the citations. A few items from 2025 and most well before that. So much has changed since late 2025 one can’t really draw any conclusions from this. In fact, I’m guessing things
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by katzgrau 1mo ago
No nuclear apocalypse yet. Nice.
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by katzgrau 2mo ago
Plenty of startups have tried the “penny per article” approach and failed. They might get 20% of the penny on behalf of the publisher - who has to get 1M pageviews to get $10k. Hard to build a business that requires changing user behavior o
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by katzgrau 2mo ago
Pursuit of growth
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by katzgrau 2mo ago
> This article describes drone physics. Audience should have familiarity with introductory linear algebra, introductory calculus, and introductory classical mechanics. Having familiarity with all 3, as soon as I read this sentence I knew
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by katzgrau 3mo ago
The real unlock is at line 149 of bin/burn
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by katzgrau 3mo ago
The issue is that it’s relatively low effort to make false and unverified claims. Defending and refuting it is a much higher effort task for the person doing the work to everyone else’s benefit. RubyLLM dev literally had to take time to pro
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by katzgrau 4mo ago
“Yak shaving” It’s a classic move. Start a new diet, so you join a gym and or buy a bunch of workout stuff. I won’t knock it though. An important minority of my yak-shaving endeavors have led to long term positive outcomes.
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by katzgrau 4mo ago
> It probably would’ve been easier if I didn’t use Rust and just used the Arduino libraries, or if I used a different board. But I was really married to this blog post title idea Worth it, nicely done
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by katzgrau 5mo ago
There’s a lot of meeting hate here and as a developer, I used to feel the same. But after bootstrapping a SaaS company and at times struggling through cross-team execution, I’ve come around. A short weekly standing meeting, like the one des
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by katzgrau 5mo ago
When your dreams and visions die, you don’t have any reason to believe in yourself, and you’re pretty much the walking dead
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by katzgrau 5mo ago
When you’re deep in a thoughtful read and suddenly get the eerie feeling that you’re being catfished > But the real threat isn't either of those things. It's quieter, and more boring, and therefore more dangerous. The real thre
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by katzgrau 6mo ago
I’ve seen this too. And with AI, it’s empowered even more people to spam, imitate, steal and remix others’ work, research and artistic expression. The big grift is on - and sadly, our fearless leader is the epitome of it.
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by katzgrau 7mo ago
I think you missed the point of the parent comment. The money (from advertising) that used to go to news now goes elsewhere (Google and Meta). It’s left very little in terms of resources for staff. Think about what the quality of commercial
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by katzgrau 7mo ago
As a news publisher (RedBankGreen.com) I’ll tell you that pretty much nobody is in it for the money anymore, at least at the local level. It’s passion and love of the community, despite the many struggles and drawbacks. AI bots scrape our c
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by katzgrau 8mo ago
A few things: 1. You can't judge the person, you can judge the behavior 2. To judge the person requires the ability to quantify the unquantifiable (circumstance, sequence of events leading to the outcome, going back to the literal begi
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by katzgrau 8mo ago
The role of cause and effect is unshakeable. > If everyone would make the same choice, then free will doesn't exist. It's only one step away from what you said. I didn't say anything about free will. "One step away&qu
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by katzgrau 8mo ago
I didn’t say anything about free will. What I did say is irrefutable.
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by katzgrau 8mo ago
> It presumes people do not have choices. No, there are choices. It states that given the exact same starting parameters and sequence of events, you would make the same choice.
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by katzgrau 8mo ago
It’s not really subjective if you don’t believe it’s your place to judge the human to begin with. If you were in their exact life circumstance and environment you would do the same thing. You aren’t going to magically sidestep cause and eff
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by katzgrau 9mo ago
You’re correct that belief is a powerful driver of prosperity/poverty - and that believing that you’re headed for either can lead to you to different modes of decision making. I’ve experienced and witnessed both. An unexpected windfall
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by katzgrau 9mo ago
I had, by chance, taken the same approach when reading the Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance years ago. The title failed to inspire but I heard it was worth the read and stepped through line by line. It hit with a depth that I know with
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by katzgrau 1y ago
For Grateful Dead fans, a little while back I made an interface for digging through show recordings - all sourced from Archive.org https://katzgrau.github.io/jerry-picker/
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by katzgrau 1y ago
I also (usually) go looking right away to see if the syntax makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I’m so shallow.

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