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New comment by prairieroadent in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

prairieroadent — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:18:48 +0000

thou shall not leave thy box canyon shire (i wouldn't relocate either)

Environment and Fear

prairieroadent — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:22:23 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/prairie-road-ent/2463739bc2fa7a86021bbcf54c522eba

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858417

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Analyzing Fear

prairieroadent — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/prairie-road-ent/2463739bc2fa7a86021bbcf54c522eba/raw/08479dbf17f32e8106801194e1c1e44b9a5e3119/seeking.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44856306

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New comment by prairieroadent in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

prairieroadent — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:19:07 +0000

helping educate the population of the United States with the assistance of Chinese Australian missionaries on how to navigate the "food" supply chain and minimize the consumption of adulterated/compromised food while still achieving a well-rounded nutritional diet

New comment by prairieroadent in "Two narratives about AI"

prairieroadent — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:09:02 +0000

I'm coming to the realization that unsustainable behavior can continue for a long time... in our context, for generations

New comment by prairieroadent in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

prairieroadent — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:33:05 +0000

if the population was thoroughly educated then I imagine most food would be bought direct from farmers with test published alongside the crop because the population understands the importance of unadulterated food and are armed with the ability to test their food cheaply... once relationships are established with farmers and food providers then the need to test becomes less frequent

New comment by prairieroadent in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

prairieroadent — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:28:08 +0000

yeah, it seems people don't realize the level of corruption that exists in this country... middle management is a workaround for miseducation

New comment by prairieroadent in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

prairieroadent — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:25:01 +0000

I imagine that in a competitive market where the participants are educated that the farmers would publish tests alongside their crop and the educated consumer would understand that they should be buying direct from farmers and be processing the turmeric themselves

New comment by prairieroadent in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

prairieroadent — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:35:06 +0000

my point is that regulation is a burden, not that it isn't the next step... from my point of view regulation is a workaround for our nightmare of an education system where giving kids a proper schooling is considered dangerous and a threat to national security

New comment by prairieroadent in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

prairieroadent — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:02:32 +0000

there has to be a way for us as a society to introduce a level of accountability into our so called "food" supply chain without the burden of regulation... perhaps it's as simple as spending more educating our kids about agriculture

amendment: seems to be an unpopular take... my point being regulation is a workaround for a population that is worst than uneducated, miseducated, especially in regards to agriculture and "food" supply chain... if kids were provided with an actual education and not miseducated on the subject then the demand for on-demand food testing would go up, and prices for said testing would eventually go down after supply rises to meet demand increasing competition thus encouraging technological innovations to come in and lower prices

amendment ii: in a competitive market where all participants are thoroughly educated and the consumer is armed with the ability to test their food frequently then a market would likely emerge where consumers buy directly from farmers who out of market forces publish test alongside their crop

New comment by prairieroadent in "I don't think AGI is right around the corner"

prairieroadent — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:23:18 +0000

e.g. farming

Flow batteries are the future of renewable energy – if there's funding

prairieroadent — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/03/flow-batteries-are-the-future-of-renewable-energy-and-australia-could-be-a-world-leader-if-theres-funding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483427

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New comment by prairieroadent in "Building a Mac app with Claude code"

prairieroadent — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:22:04 +0000

my brain read "before the age of 10" as "before the age of 100" haha and wondered if llms are leading us to the point where we look back and realize dying before 100 is truly young??

New comment by prairieroadent in "Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage"

prairieroadent — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 23:43:34 +0000

my intuition on all this, and what both you seem to be getting at is that is wildly difficult to understand the problems of others at least to the degree that you understand your own problems, which even then understanding one's own problems is hard... which leads to the perspective of focusing on what they understand (their own problems), and then as a side-effect of addressing their own problem helping others by documenting their problem and attempted solutions... documenting and broadcasting adds a little bit of overhead but it seems like an environmentally-friendly approach to participating in society in a healthy way

New comment by prairieroadent in "Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition"

prairieroadent — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:14:52 +0000

i didn't know that so thanks for sharing... I would love to have access to quality ginger or oregano which I could process myself and not over-granulate it... it's just so damn hard to buy food that I'm confident isn't even slightly toxic

New comment by prairieroadent in "Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition"

prairieroadent — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:19:19 +0000

i encourage everyone to reconsider consuming oils outside of their source material and granulated spices including salt... my experience has been much smoother from a health perspective since doing so, and i imagine there are a few others out there who would benefit as well...

New comment by prairieroadent in "Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process"

prairieroadent — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:36:48 +0000

one level deeper... better farm (soil, water, .etc), better food... also you can easily ruin food in a top-of-the-line kitchen by over-processing, adding tainted spices, excessive heat, .etc

New comment by prairieroadent in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

prairieroadent — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:49:46 +0000

makes sense and if realized then deno is in excellent position to be one of the leading if not the main sandbox runtime for agents