A single tank hot water heater provides 72 hours of drinking and cooking water in many cases, for what that's worth.

> probably learning from Whole Foods.

Oddly our local Whole Foods, is just a couple years old, and has very poor self check-outs. They error out on random bar codes and stop until a human staff member unlocks them. The Prime barcode scanner is “broken” half the time, and can’t be overridden by the human staff. It’s bad. I go on the human side now exclusively, where they also have hilarious problems. It's like grocery store management peaked, was utterly and perfectly solved, but Whole Foods can’t stop trying new things that only make the shopping experience worse.

I meant more in the general operations of running and stocking a grocery store, which Amazon Fresh struggled with for a while but has also improved significantly. Now it's on par or better than most of my local Safeway/Kroger type stores I'd say.

Fresh seems to also be their technology test bed, and I hope the good parts can spread to Whole Foods as it gets perfected.

I actually didn’t realize till reading this article that The Long Now was so closely tied to Singularity theory.

The clock being deep in a cave reminds me of the clockworks in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. The clockworks are more of an entropy amplifier than what we think of as a timekeeping device, which I guess is the point of the metaphor, in a way. The clockworks embody eastern philosophy and humility and Bezos’ clock embodies manifest destiny and arrogance?

You may be interested to know that the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues has just recently passed away.

How about digestive bitters?

Alcohol is bad in general no matter the ailment

Digestive bitters can also be glycerites. And probably oils even.

Also AI for accountability laundering. It gives plausible deniability. It's a sociopathic manager's dream.

This. They're digital sniffer dogs, a pretext to lend credibility to vibes-based policing.

There comment is in response to the article. The article straight up advocates for starting from LLM generated code. This is a perfectly valid counter point.

Aside: it’s confusing that parent commenter used “cheating” in a completely different way than the title of the article.

I did yeah, apologies. Thanks for pointing that out.

I think the inverter is always running in between the batteries and the AC outlets. It's a dedicated "solar circuit".

I have questions. What's the point of a dedicated solar circuit? They are leasing from their "local lines company". If the lines company is in the leasing business, this system must be grid-tied right? Why the dedicated solar circuit?

Also, is it common for full sine wave inverters to produce power less clean than the grid? Maybe when the batteries are low? Curious.

E-bikes though?

Unfortunately the citi bikes are expensive enough that they may be more expensive than sharing an uber with one other person.

Anecdote, paid $15 x 2 to take two citi bikes across Brooklyn to avoid a two-leg l-shaped subway ride. Coming home took a $25 uber. The bike trip was ~30% faster. It sucked having to navigate around all the delivery trucks and random private cars parked in the bike lane.

$15 seems too much to me for the citi bike for a 25 minute ride. But I'd do it again to save 10 minutes sitting in traffic in an uber.

Oh and the next day we did the same journey via l-shaped subway ride. It took about 10 minutes more than the bike ride, and included an awkward street-level and overpass transition between the two subway lines. Much much cheaper than uber or bike.

My take is there are a variety of crappy options to get around Brooklyn.

> but at the end of the day I'm not building the service. I _am_ the service.

I agree. For me though, it gives me pride to own my services and be fully accountable to the business, especially as part of a team with whom I build comradery, and of course our value to the business justifies our good compensation. It only works because we are empowered to make decisions that keep our on calls sustainable.