Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Good air quality is probably worth 50 IQ points and like 100k in income.
I’ve only spent like 48h in Delhi in my life and despite my interest in historical cities that’s probably unlikely to increase in my lifetime. Delhi winter AQI averages are now like peak fire days on US west coast with 200+ pm 2.5.
Kinda sad bu...
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Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.
These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of dece
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I’m in the process of rethinking my workshop organization because the half-bedroom allotted to it is getting unusably cluttered, and I need creative new levers to make better use of limited space. One I realized I’m underutilizing is the floor level.
For many maker/craft activities, when possible, I like to sit cross-...
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I’m about 100x more effective in the kitchen than in my workshop or on my computer doing anything other than writing. I wonder why? I don’t think it’s because I’m naturally better at cooking.
Some possible factors:
- LOTS of received tacit knowledge
- Immediate payoff
- Larger tolerance band around acceptable outp...
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This is the first year in nearly a decade where the new year arrives without the feeling all the planning and resolutioning either being in the shadow of ascendant Trumpism (even in the Biden years) or an effort to studiously and strenuously ignore it. AI has easily marginalized the Trumpist turn of the planet in the a...
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Turned on whoop integration to Apple health and it is dumb. It added a step count to apple’s own so it double counted, since I walk with my phone 🙄
You either average or overwrite or some other plausibly sensible sensor fusion. Not straight up add.
Luckily it does one write per day so I could just delete that entry...
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