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Semiconductor Fab Series Semiconductor Fabs I: The Equipment Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation Preface I tried to include as many links as possible to allow the reader to go down rabbit holes as they see fit. I try to include analogies in case the explanation is poor or the topic...

* Why We Have Prison Gangs: Q&A whose ultimate answer is that gangs are a form of governance in a place that has little. Skarbek also talks about what being in a gang is like, rules they have in place (bedtime, taxes, no affiliating with sex offenders or former LEOs),...

Lines Will Move Further Away If They Aren’t Defined Three types of lines exist in the policy and behavior sense: * Soft: These are okay to cross, but not preferable. There may or may not be a tangible action taken afterwards, but the person whose line was crossed should take...

Over the last few months we[1] have been doing a sleep experiment inspired by our suspicion that orexin is an exciting target for sleep need reduction. We mildly deprived ourselves of sleep (5-5.5 hours, relative to 7-7.5 hours normally) and took either a placebo or orexin intranasally. We tracked our...

* An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me: An OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot)) agent goes wild on a developer for rejecting a pull request. Plenty of follow-up material. * Best Of Moltbook: Related to the above, Moltbook is a Reddit-like community for OpenClaw bots to gather and...

* My Apartment Art Commission Process: jenn details how she captures her apartments in digital art form. It even includes an email template! * “Everything’s Expensive” is Negative Social Contagion: Justis argues that saying such things makes people think the economy is bad, resulting in “facially insane political choices”. I’d...

Taiwan trip report from 23-30 November 2025. This is more a collection of thoughts and observations about Taiwan than a play-by-play report. Vibes, or What Paul Graham Would Say Taiwan is nice. By what definition of nice? you ask. To which I answer: all of them. The place itself is...