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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

New Post: Manufacturing as Maintenance grantslatton.com/manufacturin...

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New Post: Every Man a Microservice grantslatton.com/every-man-a-...

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

RCV is also extra-bad in e.g. 3-way elections since the centrist is almost always squeezed out if everyone votes honestly, leading to much higher regret for the side that didn't strategically vote for the centrist

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The problem is the voters don't have to overthink it, strategists within the campaign pass along the optimal strategy to allied news outlets who then publish strategic rank orders for their readers to copy

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber i'm into it because

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The classic look is part of the appeal to me! Very nostalgic for my uncle's lakehouse study that had them.

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just got a $50 on Amazon that looked good LED bulb, works great

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office increased my IQ by 5 pts the vibe of working late completely changes erudite, scholarly, sophisticated

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We’re in a country where Trump won the popular vote Anyone to the left of those people is, by definition, left of center

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Leftists do more than point it out, they call for her to be primary'd by a leftist who will then go on to lose

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

All the leftists in WA attacking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez need to hear this message Left of center dem representative in a district Trump won by 7 points and they want to destroy her

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research" Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not decided to get to the bottom of it probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

You can get up to speed surprisingly fast with YouTube I built our dining table as my very first project ever

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Built this record cabinet Sapele mahogany + white maple accents

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

You don't understand, this is peak beach use

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When I worked at AWS I actually got to test the prototype for them a year or so before release — just some android phone running a proof of concept app with the camera — had no idea what they were for till they showed up in stores

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast But it’s just soooo convenient Hope Bezos doesn’t wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm" made me want italian food every time i touched that repo

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

honestly we’re so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3 allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

when i was in china in 2010 i heard lots of songs that sounded like _ _ bao _ _ zhao _ _ dao _ _ lao _ _ yao like every line had the same number of syllables & ended in the same vowel sound — too easy

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music Spanish and Chinese come to mind It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

One of my favorite geography trick questions: You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific What direction are you traveling? People say West, but it's actually East Panama is more squiggly than people think

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isn’t growing much So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

New Post — A general algorithm for writing complex software grantslatton.com/how-to-softw...

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Me: So what's your specialty Astronomy prof: I study galactic collisions Me: Sounds exciting Prof: Not really since they take about a billion years

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

when you teach a kid the rules of chess, they'll start by making legal but basically random moves junior engineers are like this if they ever read a book about "design patterns" too early they'll just apply them randomly — singleton here, factory builder there, etc

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

New post! Bureaulogy, a new field on the study of bureaucracy grantslatton.com/bureaulogy

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Bureaulogy

The study of bureaucracy

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I want a robot that can use all the stuff that’s currently in my house

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The world is designed for humans R2D2 can’t use all my household items and tools

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

i've practiced meditation for probably ~100 hours and gotten nowhere either i'm very dumb or already enlightened

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Humanoid robot butlers will be the thing that actually fixes the fertility crisis Raising kids would be way less stressful if you had zero housework to do

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

friend is a medical illustrator few years ago, we were wondering when AI could do her job — getting the details right is important in this use case since then, she's been noticing more and more news articles and such using AI generated medical images note the 3rd forearm bone

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

in my experience the best technique for being good at public speaking is to simply know the subject you are talking about extremely well it's only when you aren't confident in your mastery that you need the other techniques

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

trialing: this is amazing erroring: wtf this sucks

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

i get a tube of cinnamon rolls at the grocery store and put it right at the front of the refrigerator wifey next morning: "hey honey i have a surprise for you waiting in the kitchen"

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Similar to savvy immigrants, I've known a few software engineers who decided to switch to running some local small business They mostly dominate their competition by simply looking at it as an optimization problem Identify bottleneck, optimize, repeat until you win

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Most small businesses really aren't very well run, tons of low-hanging fruit Local diner got bought and taken over by a shrewd immigrant family They tightened the menu, installed streamlined ipad & mobile ordering, fixed the drink carbonation, etc Consistently 50% more customers now

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I thought about 3D printing but didn’t wanna do the CAD and wait the 2 hours I did 3D print this shelf to fit between this lamp’s legs in the nursery a few days ago

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

It's kind of funny that doctors still test reflexes by just hitting your knee with a little hammer We have all our fancy MRI machines and pulse oximeters But testing reflexes? Just give it a whack

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Having some basic tools is such a life upgrade My wife spends a lot of time on the sofa these days nursing our newborn, and wanted a tray table to hold a drink and plate Few cuts on the table saw with some scrap wood, 20 minutes later voila Not fine furniture, but functional

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I’ve learned the secret to making coffee 10x more enjoyable is to have kids

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

With a lot of people you can make the shifts really short, i.e. 100 guys working at 100% intensity for 10 minutes, then shift change But yeah you're right there's a clear limit

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I know a guy in Seattle with a 30 footer in his high ceiling condo living room My indoor one was only have 8.5ft, and my outdoor one is 10ft This is next level dedication

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Grant Slatton @grantslatton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

have you considered that birth rates are falling because reincarnation is true, there are a finite number of souls, and we are exhausting the soul supply??

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