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Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage

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www.minimallysustained.com 21d ago

Drying synthetic fabrics fills the air with microplastics

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www.theatlantic.com 1mo ago

The SAT Was Necessary After All

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www.portseattle.org 2mo ago

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea) Visitor Pass Program

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www.bbc.com 3mo ago

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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www.bbc.com 3mo ago

A new wave of immunotherapy is eliminating cancers

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www.bloomberg.com 3mo ago

The Era of AI FOMO Is Upon Us

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www.bbc.com 4mo ago

UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms

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www.bbc.com 4mo ago

Hottest March temperature in US history recorded in Arizona

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www.bloomberg.com 5mo ago

The dance floor is disappearing in a sea of phones

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nautil.us 5mo ago

The Brain of the Greatest Solo Climber

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www.washingtonpost.com 6mo ago

Stay-at-home sons are here – and they're not going anywhere

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www.bloomberg.com 8mo ago

The Dirty Secret of Biodegradable Plastic

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www.nytimes.com 8mo ago

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research

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www.bbc.com 9mo ago

South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?

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www.theatlantic.com 9mo ago

A Tool That Crushes Creativity – AI Slop Is Winning

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www.nytimes.com 9mo ago

A.I.'S Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain

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www.theatlantic.com 1y ago

Oceans Awash in Plastic Waste

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www.bloomberg.com 1y ago

Tesla's Adjusted Earnings Got 12% Bump from Omitting Crypto Loss

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www.seattletimes.com 1y ago

Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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ccaf.io 1y ago

Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index

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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

Google will end a core DEI program and evaluate others

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www.bbc.com 1y ago

Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

The Price – Nuclear Weapons US Price

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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

South Korea recycles 98% of its food waste. What can it teach the world?

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www.thelancet.com 1y ago

Differences in cancer rates among adults born between 1920 and 1990

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weather.com 2y ago

June 2024 Extended Earth's Stretch of Record-Hot Months to over a Year

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

Huge firework displays for July 4th in US, but the nation's air quality suffers

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Enough with the Fireworks Already

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"But the disagreement ultimately has less to do with objective criteria—such as the effects of climate change in Europe, which is warming twice as fast as the global average—than subjective questions about what constitutes an acceptable level of physical suffering and sacrifice."

What are the best open source IDE alternatives to Cursor? There was Continue for a bit but Cursor bought it. Is Visual Code by itself the only open source IDE atm? My main gripe with Visual Code is it doesn't make it easy to use open weight models or non Copilot model APIs. Continue helped but its now part of Cursor.

As for coding in the terminal, we have Opencode, Claude Code, and Codex etc. They are all open source but only Opencode can route to open weight models. But non of these are really an IDE like Visual Code or Cursor.

Are we missing a really good open source IDE to use open weight models? It seems like we are.

What are the best open source IDE alternatives to Cursor? There was Continue for a bit but Cursor bought it. Is Visual Code by itself the only open source IDE atm? My main gripe with Visual Code is it doesn't make it easy to use open weight models or non Copilot model APIs. Continue helped but its now part of Cursor.

As for coding in the terminal, we have Opencode, Claude Code, and Codex etc. They are all open source but only Opencode can route to open weight models. But non of these are really an IDE like Visual Code or Cursor.

Are we missing a really good open source IDE to use open weight models? It seems like we are.

Everyone watch out for other indices like CRSP US Total Market Index, which trade as the ETF VTI and mutual fund VTSAX.

There are countless other indices that are not well known to request seasoning time of these mega companies.

Shifting to S&P 500 seems prudent at the point. Besides S&P does anyone know which indices will be safe from these IPOs?

The Earth's climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN's weather agency has warned.

The World Meteorological Organization says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

These promos should be based on when more renewable energy is available for inference not when less people are likely to be using the AI. We need to adjust usage to when supply is more renewable for both training and inference in order to better protect our grid and the planet.

Beyond its role in climate change, elevated concentrations of CO₂ pose a direct physiological threat to human health, ranging from inflammation to respiratory stress. The Trump presidency is trying to protect coal and oil for some reason. Money, lobbying, bribery anyone?

We need to look past the political noise and focus on the immediate data: CO₂ is a pollutant that harms human physiology. Regardless of where you stand on climate policy, we should all agree that breathing toxic air is unacceptable. We need to prioritize respiratory health and cognitive safety above partisan loyalty

https://open.substack.com/pub/minimallysustained/p/beyond-th...

The best part of learning a language is being able to build connections with real people. It's about being vulnerable — learning to take chance — to embrace being uncomfortable. Somehow the uncertainty and vulnerability with other people ends up being one of the most enjoyable parts of learning a language. Taking that chance and getting to know what it's like to communicate with another person across the unknown.

What makes learning a language so wonderful is being, "Lost in Translation."

I understand people not wanting to follow the news lately and the inclination in just tuning it out. But some things you can't tune out because by tuning it out the conditions of the world can deteriorate from our complacency.

How sad is it to see the US position as a leader building alliances completely fall apart under the current administration? Pretty heartbreaking. The news today about sums up the disappointment.

"Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking to reporters in Beijing on Friday after making a preliminary deal with China on a range of issues, said Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is 'more multi-faceted' and much deeper than Canada's relationship with China — but noted that ties with China have become more predictable in recent months."

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2221259/carney-reach...

The answer is actually less technology. More in person community is the solution.

How do you get people to talk to each other again? It has to come through forming community groups that can meet and enjoy life together in the real world. It also can come from meet with a shared purpose to advance common causes that make the community and the world slightly better.

But what surprises me most in this entire debate is how little we talk about the biological cost of CO₂ itself. We focus so much on the globalized damage to the climate that we’ve overlooked the direct, physiological tax that combustion is levying on our bodies. For some reason conservative governments want us to continue to trade our atmospheric oxygen for carbon dioxide through the burning fossil fuels. I wrote more about this topic on substack:

https://minimallysustained.substack.com/p/beyond-the-greenho...

This made me really nostalgic about mIRC. I miss Dalnet. The colors of IRC. How fast and reliable it was. The rankings of members and trying to build credibility with the community to move up in the channel.

Fun times.

This is to appease the current US administration running the federal government that for some odd reasons is abhorrent to the idea of using cheap, cleaner renewable energy and battery storage to decarbonize our air and grid.

Renewables and battery storage energy are unstoppable. Why take nuclear risk when you can get more than enough from solar, wind, and geothermal coupled with battery storage?

It makes sense to see the number of questions decline over time as people google questions and get results. It would be interesting to look at the number of comments and views of questions over time to see if that has declined as LLMs have driven declining engagement and discussion.