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For some reason the floor price is $5 a month when given the complexity of the app and the benefit to my life, the price should be between a few cents and a dollar at the high end.…

This is why land use and nuisance laws exist in municipalities. People clamor for deregulation when it prevents them from shooting off fireworks or guns or burning trash and move t…

Costco's gimmick is relieving you of choice and price shopping. They find the best stuff and don't mark it up. If Consumer is your identity yet you fear executing its labors, let C…

Mom brain is also a thing. Large scale, consistent, structural changes in the postpartum brain that is uncorrelated with PPD. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab463

I suspect the "alpine divorce" phenomenon is the same desire to test influence dangerously attempted in a higher stakes environment. "No, let's go to this restaurant" becomes "Let'…

I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two…

Two Kickstarters, one with the "Projects We Love" badge from the platform itself, have raised $1M+ by promising a clamshell PC with mechanical keyboard while demo videos show a kno…

When it flags something as high confidence, 3.1 is very reliable. Human-authored text I saw scoring ~70 with 3.0 now scores ~15. With scores above 90, the false positive rate looks…

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Turns out my blog is actually a newsletter? Seems like a distinction without a difference.

https://www.pangram.com/history/89da46c7-113e-4a27-8f3f-dbc8...

It's easy to be a text maximalist now we're in the LLM era, but I disagree that ideas are a separate, nonphysical realm that cannot otherwise be described. https://lucent.substack.…

Rather than "hurting America," Crossfire was the highest form of political debate America could suffer before retreating into info bubbles.

I chose the Sony 1000XM4 because the RTINGS graph showed the strongest cancellation in the 60Hz range. All my tormentors are in the AC-powered machine noise range. https://www.rtin…

I don't doubt these bring awful externalities, but children requiring cochlear implants due to hearing loss from a nearby datacenter?

Regret-centric advice always follows the implicit model of: had I taken Action, best case I add Good Result to this timeline, worst case I revert to this timeline. No, failure can …

https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO Shows the highest occupied atomic orbital in full 3D you can rotate. Select any slot in the Hund diagram to see that orbital instead.

This is an incredible relief and should be the final nail in the coffin for safety/alignment/shoggoth arguments. It turns out features are completely scrutable, and when modified, …

This is how I now see biology, and more so with each reframing. Cells being squishy, floppy bags no longer counts as a point against them being "tech" or "robotic." That's delibera…

Really went downhill when I spun off.

This is backwards. ccTLDs are much higher risk than gTLDs operated by commercial entities because those entities are governed by ICANN which has pricing requirements and a plan in …

Ptable renders them with WebGL from the quantum numbers using the Schrodinger equation, wrapping a threshold density of the generated point cloud with a surface. https://ptable.com…