Why is it cheaper for individuals to install some amount of cheap solar power for themselves than for the grid to install it and then deliver it to them, with economies of scale in the construction and maintenance? Transmission cost?

This is very similar to my current experience. Perhaps I'm holding it wrong, but when I try to use Claude Code, I find that it can usually implement a feature in a way that's as correct and efficient as I would write it, but it almost never implements it such that I am satisfied with the simplicity or organization. Typically I rewrite what it did and cut the LOC in half.

I am interested in trying out the new code simplifier to see whether it can do a good job. I have been asking Claude something like "while I test it, can you read over what you wrote and think about whether anything could be better or simpler?" and that catches a non-zero amount of issues but not the kind of substantial simplifications that it's missing.

Great writeup. Makes me wonder if I should do similar.

I'm a parent. Personally I'm pleased with my choice to have a kid. It's a lot of work for a lot of reward.

Me and my wife try to split the work close to 50/50. However, if I had to do it by myself or almost completely by myself, it might feel like it was too much work for me to be happy. I think that's a matter of my lazy personality and it might be different for others.

It's extremely useful to trust my wife enough that when she is in charge of deciding stuff for our kid, I can almost always just feel comfortable that she will do her best, and not be tempted to worry or micromanage, even though she doesn't always do the same things I would do. I think that kind of mutual trust is probably more important for parenting than romantic love, although I don't know how separable the two really are in practice.

I was under the impression that Oliver Sacks was well regarded among his professional colleagues, so he wouldn't just make up a bunch of important stuff out of whole cloth.

I have read about people who were skeptical of the substance of the Phineas Gage story too (i.e. that he had this big involuntary personality shift after his injury.)

I also came here to say I didn't understand this hypothetical at all. If I choose $1000 then what happens to users who don't want to pay $1000?

Am I supposed to imagine that I am implementing a paywall on LW and choosing what price I would set it at? Of course I would set it at $0.

I don't think this 10% closeness makes any sense when it's 10% of the "numeric AD year".

Without checking a source, estimate the probability that the answer you just gave is within 10% of the true value. (So, if you guessed 1000 AD, it's between 900 and 1100 inclusive.) Same rules for percents apply as above.

It's a two-place function. When I go to a conference that everyone says this same stuff about, then I usually have the most fun by attending talks and taking my time thinking about the stuff related to the talks, rather than hobnobbing.

Great concept but the pacing seemed strange.

I have been frustrated every year when it's time to vote for the local school board elections and none of the candidates bother saying how they behaved during the most impactful time for a school board in living memory. I really don't get it.