2026-04-08
After a recent patch, Death Stranding 2 is great on Steam Deck
There are some compromises, but it's better than merely playable.
Don’t Overburden Your Most Engaged Employees
You rely on your most engaged employees to drive results. They’re dependable, motivated, and consistently deliver, so it feels natural to turn to them when extra work comes up. But...
Vibe Decay: A Field Guide to How Projects Actually Die
Vibe decay originates in the gap between expectations and reality — but not the kind of gap that gets talked about in post-mortems. Founders build with a mental model of...
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Is death and suffering axiomatically bad?
After writing about my ethics yesterday, there was some discussion about the axioms that I think are most needed to derive the rest of my ethics.pleasure is goodnobody argues against...
Vocabulex
AI Vocabulary Flashcards that Adapt to Your Memory Discussion | Link
Baking tips
These are things I've learned from experience that others might find helpful. Some of them are easy to miss for a while. (Also an exercise in "reality contains a surprising...
Semiconductor Fabs III: The Data and Automation
Semiconductor Fab SeriesSemiconductor Fabs I: The EquipmentSemiconductor Fabs II: The OperationPrefaceI tried to include as many links as possible to allow the reader to go down rabbit holes as they...
Why 60% of WordPress Sites Never Get Updated After Launch
According to W3Techs, WordPress powers roughly 43% of all websites. That is hundreds of millions of sites. But a massive chunk of them are running outdated themes, stale content, and...
Intel 486 Support Likely to be Removed in Linux 7.1
Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, it would seem that this time now has finally come. In...
An astronaut rolled a D20 in space, so yes, you can play D&D in zero gravity
The snack selection will be limited, however.
My unsupervised elicitation challenge
Note: you are ineligible to complete this challenge if you’ve studied Ancient or Modern Greek, or if you natively speak Modern Greek, or if for other reasons you know what...
Telescopes Need Good Lenses
"Telescopic altruism" is when progressives are supposed to care about distant strangers at the expense of those close to them. Scott Alexander recently argued against the concept (without quoting anyone...
Your Design System Doesn't Work: Here's Why
This article is not about how to build a design system. There are many good resources for that. This is about what happens after you build it, specifically when you...
Contra Dance Piano Teaching Videos
About ten years ago I sat down in front of a camera and recorded eleven videos showing how I play mandolin for contra dances. I've now done something similar with...
Pioneering Psychiatrist Donald Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
"A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another...
Why was cybersecurity automated before AI R&D?
(This post is mostly about why cybersecurity is easier to automate and not why AI R&D is harder.)Recently Anthropic said they had grown a model, Claude Mythos Preview, that "can...
Hedging and Survival-Weighted Planning
This wasn't intended to be a topical post, but Claude Mythos's system card is out, and... well.I wrote years ago about decision analysis, which often focused on atomic actions in...
I Asked GitHub Copilot to Plan My Next Sprint: It Failed Spectacularly
Tried using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 to generate a full Agile sprint plan for rewriting a legacy application. Results: Codex Mini: Produced a vague, waterfall-style plan → clear...
Recommendations for an Effective Altruism Gap Year?
Hey all, I'm a 20yr US college student right now, and I'm planning to take a gap year this year. Does anyone have and ideas/recommendations on how I could use...
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