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Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outagesThis post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different. 2025-09-11T08:29:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-11T21:12:12-0700 - sethherr
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Hotwire components that refresh themselves | Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fastRated 2025-09-09T08:43:46-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s TakeoverDemocrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy. #Corruption #Donald Trump #US Politics 2025-09-06T22:02:19-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 4,000 words Rated 2025-09-07T14:12:19-0700 - sethherr
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This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill GatesA company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-06T14:43:17-0700 - sethherr
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The Asshole Filter –The 2024-04-01T02:41:00-0700 Mr. Steinberg jamespsteinberg 5,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T22:21:05-0700 - sethherr
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The Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* | Studies in American Political DevelopmentThe Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* - Volume 7 Issue 2 Cambridge Core 5,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T18:41:21-0700 - sethherr
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it wouldEnding the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers 2025-08-19T03:00:58-0700 The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:32:51-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a SupporterIt’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions. #College #Mathematics #US Politics 2025-09-05T02:01:04-0700 The New York Times Eugenia Cheng ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:23:35-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Why I Am Not a LiberalI don’t think the left grasps reality in all its fullness. #Poverty 2025-09-04T22:00:05-0700 The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:17:37-0700 - sethherr
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can surviveHow the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI. #Politics 2025-09-04T05:30:04-0700 The Verge Josh Dzieza ($) 10,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T13:22:15-0700 - sethherr
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A journey inside Epic Systems' mythical and sprawling campus, a world away from Wall StreetEpic Systems, a 45-year-old health-care software company, remains privately held with a sprawling campus that's far from Wall Street or Silicon Valley. #Technology 2024-09-01T05:00:01-0700 CNBC Ashley Capoot 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-04T16:21:39-0700 - sethherr
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Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027Rated 2025-09-04T16:10:12-0700 - sethherr
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A ton of AI images I've made that I've likedI think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that. 2025-08-13T18:59:10-0700 The Weird Turn Pro Andy Masley 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-04T16:07:09-0700 - sethherr
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How a baby sleep consultant saved my sanity and my marriageOne thing I prided myself on was that I never had any preconceived ideas about how I would raise my kids in advance of having them. 2024-08-26T04:02:17-0700 Notes from New York Aisling Marron 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-03T21:17:09-0700 - sethherr
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit. 2025-09-03T08:01:15-0700 Mike Judge 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-03T16:28:09-0700 - sethherr
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Progress Studies and FeminizationYou can't undo just one part of the 1960s 2025-04-07T16:59:39-0700 Not With a Bang Arctotherium 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T22:08:07-0700 - sethherr
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You can try to like stuffit offers lessons on your nature 2025-08-27T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T21:01:28-0700 - sethherr
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Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mappedChicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all. 2025-08-28T03:30:00-0700 Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T20:47:52-0700 - sethherr
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Toronto's underground labyrinthHow Canada's largest city developed a 30 kilometer network of pedestrian tunnels 2025-08-29T04:03:16-0700 The Works in Progress Newsletter Samuel Hughes 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T13:36:55-0700 - sethherr
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Culture Has No Name for This Cursed Vibe. It’s EverywhereHow the stupid and the awful collide in our distracted, digitally-fueled culture into a new and cursed vibe. #Fascism #Horror #Surrealism 2025-02-19T10:28:46-0800 Artnet News Ben Davis 4,000 words Rated 2025-09-01T22:12:15-0700 - sethherr
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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-01T21:03:14-0700 - sethherr
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My Startup Banking Story2023-03-13T17:00:00-0700 Mitchell Hashimoto 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-28T20:54:01-0700 - sethherr
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Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference?2025-08-26T17:00:00-0700 Martin Alderson 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-28T10:16:13-0700 - sethherr
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dw_news | Mississippi legal challenge: beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPsdw-news.dreamwidth.org 4,000 words Rated 2025-08-27T21:23:50-0700 - sethherr
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How My Chicago Childhood Lead Exposure Connects Me with One in Three Kids TodayI was one of hundreds of millions of children exposed to lead as a child, policymakers and philanthropists are taking bigger steps to combat this today 2025-06-20T06:05:44-0700 Charity for All Marcus A. Davis 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T22:04:42-0700 - sethherr
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Beam me up, jellyfish: experts unveil spaceships to take us to the starsWinner of Project Hyperion design contest envisions polyamorous people thriving onboard cigar-shaped craft 2025-08-06T07:29:00-0700 The Guardian David Batty 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T21:30:00-0700 - sethherr
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Safe Is What We Call Things Later - by Scott WernerRated 2025-08-26T17:27:19-0700 - sethherr
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In Search Of AI PsychosisFolie a deux ex machina 2025-08-26T04:37:49-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T16:53:27-0700 - sethherr
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rv, a new kind of Ruby management toolFor the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from source every time. And more than all of that, it makes it completely trivial to run any script or tool written in ruby, even if that script or tool needs a different ruby than your... 2025-08-25T23:21:07-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T16:18:14-0700 - sethherr
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Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfallsNew footage provides rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish 2025-08-14T12:55:00-0700 Science Advances Mark DeGraff 500 words Rated 2025-08-26T08:08:13-0700 - sethherr
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U.S. IntelThe U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable. 2025-08-26T03:00:00-0700 Stratechery by Ben Thompson 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T08:00:03-0700 - sethherr
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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025Datacenter-Scale Heat Management 2025-08-24T11:47:51-0700 Chips and Cheese Chester Lam 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T21:01:57-0700 - sethherr
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What are OKLCH colors?Article about the OKLCH color model. jakub.kr 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T07:31:52-0700 - sethherr
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I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated TechnologyThe antiquated technology we use hinders our ability to work with our lawyers and file appeals. #New Jersey 2025-08-19T03:00:00-0700 Prison Journalism Project Jorge Luis Alvarado 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T20:28:49-0700 - sethherr
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How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securelyHow to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process. 2025-08-20T23:30:00-0700 The Eclectic Light Company 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T19:39:53-0700 - sethherr
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The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoonThere is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your biggest assumption. Instead of building an MVP identify your Riskiest Assumption and Test it. Replacing your MVP with a RAT will save you a lot of pain. 2016-09-27T00:00:00-0700 hackernoon.com Rik Higham 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T19:30:39-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised MeRated 2025-08-24T13:58:42-0700 - sethherr
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Europe Is Losing - WSJRated 2025-08-24T11:13:15-0700 - sethherr
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BicyclopediaRated 2025-08-24T08:25:14-0700 - sethherr
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What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?An open source Chrome extension that adds AI data agents to your Metabase. Get reliable answers to all your business questions with our AI-powered data analyst. 2025-08-21T00:00:00-0700 MinusX vivek 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T13:36:45-0700 - sethherr
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Being Taught to ThinkOne of the biggest tragedies of the American education system is that it teaches memorization rather than critical thinking . “Critical thinking” as a phrase is almost a cliche. It gets repeated all the time in the popular lexicon, sometimes by people who don’t really seem to understand what it m Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T07:55:04-0700 - sethherr
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Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climatesSince moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the h Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T07:41:35-0700 - sethherr
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What happened to Egghead Software - The Silicon UndergroundRated 2025-08-23T06:39:25-0700 - sethherr
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Contra A Review Of Dating Men In The Bay Areanewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com Rated 2025-08-22T18:58:21-0700 - sethherr
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Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNNEarlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its investigation on the failures that led to this mid-air collision, local investigators in Virginia were somehow far more concerned about identifying who had leaked… 2025-08-22T13:30:09-0700 Techdirt 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-22T18:52:09-0700 - sethherr
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Executive Excess 2025Executive Excess 2025 - CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations. 2025-08-21T04:00:00-0700 Institute for Policy Studies averyr 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T22:44:25-0700 - sethherr
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Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike batteryTiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes. 2025-05-22T13:12:13-0700 Ars Technica Kevin Purdy 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T14:44:17-0700 - sethherr
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Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding - Zed BlogFrom the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE. 2025-08-20T00:00:00-0700 zed.dev Nathan Sobo 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T06:09:39-0700 - sethherr
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Anubis.lock.cmpxchg8b.com Tavis Ormandy 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:18:04-0700 - sethherr
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Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical AnalysisCan Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted? 2025-08-20T06:16:00-0700 Stat Significant Daniel Parris 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:10:12-0700 - sethherr
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