You can fry them, they're pretty good.

Weeds are opportunistic. They're outcompeting the grass because that environment is not good for the grass (for whatever reason), but is apparently good for the weeds.

Seed the lawn with native mixes for your region, maybe fertilize, and then maybe the new grass will outcompete the weeds.

Personally, IDC about lawns and let whatever grow. If "weeds" can outcompete the grass, then that's fine by me. Green is better than brown or dirt.

Never tried it, but beans and wheat together give you all the essential amino acids (like rice and beans), so it makes sense.

Yeah, my theory is that all the VCs and large shareholders are heavily invested in the companies making profit (or lack thereof) from AI use, so they're pressuring other companies they're invested in to use the AI. I think this was pretty common even before AI.

You can learn how to use AI coding tools in a week at most, and there's no telling if next week they'll be a new harness or loop or whatever that becomes the new trend, making everything you've learned so far obsolete. Nobody's being left behind. AWS also isn't hard to learn if you've done the similar infrastructure stuff yourself. And git isn't hard to learn if you've used other version control systems.

Grocery store baggers used to take your groceries to your car for you and it was customary to tip. I don't know if that happens anymore. You're often expected to ring up and bag your own groceries now.

A lot of people just want to work on the assembly line, get a paycheck, and go home to their families at night.

I'm not so sure about that. Having worked on assembly lines, most people I worked with were constantly trying to find a way out :) Perhaps that's just because me and most of my co-workers were young and not crushed by the world yet. It's truly mindnumbing and unsatisfying work though.

Anyways, I don't mean to be too critical; just kind of thinking out loud. I find your project really interesting, and don't want to let perfection get in the way of progress.

Cool, thanks for the explanations.

I've seen some attempts at worker-cooperatives before where workers had to buy-in, and it kinda put me off. Presumably, workers are looking for work because they need income, and such barriers would select for a certain type of well-off individual, harming diversity. I agree there definitely has to be a provisional period; both in ownership and decision making.

Reading more of the documents, I'm not sure I like that the CEO and President are compensated differently than the rest of the workers. I guess it makes sense from a incentives perspective, but it feels kinda wrong to me. In my mind, the CEO is just another role in a company.

I’d be interested in hearing what cooperatives you know about, as I’m always looking for success stories.

Most of the examples of flat orgs that I've heard of were not cooperatives. Early Valve, early GitHub, Gore-Tex, Morning Star (I remember reading "First, Let's Fire All The Managers" in an Organizational Behavior course back when I was in college, and the idea always stuck with me). At Valve, there were leaders, but it was dynamic (if you can get people to follow you/work on your project, you are a leader). In my career as a software engineer, I've also worked in agile processes like Scrum. Though, not dynamic, Scrum is less about "hierarchy" and more about collaboration with some special "roles"/not necessarily leaders (Project Owner, Scrum Master, stake holders, etc). Though Scrum is usually collaboration within teams and not necessarily without hierarchy in an organization.

And lately, I've taken in interest in anarchism and alternative ways of organization, such as Boem and Graeber's works studying the Innuit and pre-history humans; as well as modern anarch-ish communities such as the Zapitistas and Rojava, which were more-or-less successful (aside from dealing with external violence in the case of Rojava) while being radically different. A lot of ways to skin a cat I guess.

Oh, and I read Richard Wolff's Democracy at Work a while back, where he proposed "Worker Self-Directed Enterprises," that focus on workers being in control of the surplus from their labor, rather than having management control it; arguing that's the most important aspect.

My worry about having a single person at the top is mostly about corruption I guess. Even if democratically elected, compromised/corrupted union leaders, for example, are not unheard of. I see the Zapatista's system of "governance"/collaboration/federation as a possible mitigation of this. They go to great lengths to prevent people "getting too big for their britches," like very frequently (e.g. every 2 weeks) rotating elected representatives. And they have various practices and customs that echo the "reverse dominance hierarchy" that has been observed by anthropologists.

Having an entire factory is quite a complicated endeavor

Yeah, I think the biggest hurdle with worker-cooperatives is acquiring capital. Factories and the machines in them are very expensive. I think there are organizations that offer loans to worker-cooperatives, but I doubt on the scale of a factory. I kind of like Argentina's past "Occupy, Resist, Produce" movement as a solution to this :)

Cool project.

I'm confused about the "shares" though. Workers have to pay to join the company? Different workers have different amounts of ownership?

I'm not sure I'm convinced that the strict hierarchies you propose are needed. I'm not sure if there needs to be a single person (or 2?) at the top vs a smaller representative board/council. Not sure if democracy is needed vs just randomly rotating people through a council (would prevent popularity contests, cult-like dynamics, corruption). I seem to recall hearing about some successful companies that were pretty flat and non-rigid where workers would dynamically create and dissolve teams around products/initiatives (I think early Valve was kinda like that; but I guess they still had execs).

The "best" one I've tried is the latest Opus. I don't trust any of them to use for real work, so I mostly just play around with a local Qwen 3.6 27B or Deepseek v4 Flash. I have heard OpenAI's latest models produce less bloat than Anthropic's.

I should say I do find LLMs useful as a kind of search agent (both web and large unfamiliar code bases). And GhidraMCP is pretty cool (maybe just because I don't have much experience with reverse engineering).

Not a electrical engineer, so dunno the answer.

Can always just try that test circuit and investigate with a scope? Or play around with SPICE? I imagine any low capacitance mosfet would work as a driver?

I think they could significantly lower their costs if they turn their focus away from the race to "AGI." But, their valuations don't really make sense unless investors believe they will achieve AGI.

I don't really store stuff like this (well, I do use immich). If I really cared about this kind of stuff, I'd probably self-host, but encrypt archives and backup to cloud storage. For small files (e.g. documents/text), I used to use Syncthing, since it was unlikely that all my devices would get destroyed at the same time, but now I just use Proton Drive since I'm already paying for email and VPN.

A project like this would need to be open source, and encryption needs to happen client-side for trust.

Docker (and in my case, TrueNAS apps), with a single data volume to backup makes things a lot easier.