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Reminds me of the video game Everything. Its a really cool game where you explore the various scales of the universe. It has its quirks (somewhat phoned in graphics like animals wa…

Can you explain how it changed after being a father?

You just echo the institutions you defend so fervently by being sanctimonious. I hope you're a politician or healthcare exec, someone who at least has an interest in defending this…

Again, I do not care about covid and have no interest in arguing with you about covid. This is a discussion about eroded trust in institutions. And denying that the government's ha…

The number isn't the point, the messaging of "this number is science" is. If it were delivered clearly as "we done have all the information, but our best judgement based on a, b, c…

Just to preface. Covid is the new Nazis, all arguments end up devolving into its discussion. Im tired of talking about covid but it's hard to get past how our country handled it, b…

The problem is that when the government itself spreads verifiably false information, there are no reprocussions like there are for the individual who does it. Just like when an ind…

A system that naturally occurs as a result of the context like you describe sure sounds like a superstructure. Which in our case is a government that allows anyone with the money t…

>If our institutions can communicate their work better, supernatural beliefs will dry up a bit. We’ve seen this historically. I feel like this article misses the reason why people …

I'm very happy I switched from Kindle to kobo. Kobo is not ideal but getting koreader/syncthing to work on it was a breeze compared to Kindle. It's a much less locked down platform…

I think a lot of this can be ascribed to "startups don't always do the right thing" and you have to learn a lot over time. That's said, I've been a customer for a while and the t-s…

I think their problem with open source is more that they can't have complete control and make every user's decision for them, security is just a nice tag along to that.

One of those values is "ISS total mass." Is that calculated using launch/deorbit weights or is there some kind of sensor on board that can measure that? I figure if you did a speci…

This feels different. As a tax payer don't you want your city to work to get more funds? That feels far more acceptable than a private entity lobbying so they can increase profits,…

Did LLMs not take time and effort to create? There's this ongoing sentiment in the AI detractors that for something to be meaningful it requires a human to have spent time making i…

I'm excited for the day when Google finally bites the bullet and makes their biggest UI "upgrade" to date, removing the search bar and keeping pesky user input from interfering wit…

Now there is the biggest incentive in human history to invest in long distance space travel and communication tech. Before the americas were discovered by Europeans, sailing and tr…

I'm the same way with 90% of games and that's how I can tell a well written game: if I watch the cutscenes. The most striking example of this was TLOU where I expected a fun zombie…

If nix/home-manager documentation wasnt awful this site wouldn't be needed. And the level of detail should be way better than a one line sentence with no examples.

I think that's part of the problem. It seems like the only way to have a good nix experience is to go all in with NixOS. The problem is that is a huge sell for someone who already …

This is a good example of how nix is both a) far to complicated a tool chain and b) completely underdocumented for how complicated it is. I swear until I ripped nix off my systems,…

Something I find interesting is that IMO, flight simulators handle ATC better than real life. In MSFS Obviously there isn't a human there but all messages are displayed as unambigu…

It's an line to draw in terms of spending given how absolutely nothing this is in terms of spending. This website probably costs about half that of a single one of the millions of …

So if you were choosing a town to live in and one has a 2% tax rate and the other a 30% tax rate, you'd surely choose the 30% tax rate because you want to support your regional com…

I know this is what they teach in the 15th minute of a stock valuation class, but do you actually believe stocks like BRK and AMZN have no value despite never paying a dividend?