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Some people earn a million per day just from passive income. They could make you turn leaves all day long just for a quick laugh, and you would be unable to decide if this was usef…

No, work is supposed to be at least useful for somebody. Ideally for the society you live in, at least indirectly. If you are wasting your work time, you are also wasting you life …

I agree with Gemin— wait. Did you just post a link to google.com to support an argument for self-hosting, decentralization and breaking monopolies...?

I'm not the author, but I agree! It's refreshing to use a software that was built just to help you get a thing done, and nothing else. The author is: https://sigmoid.social/@pynico…

My experience is that if you try to sit still for 5 minutes, the opposite happens. The thoughts and feelings that you weren't aware of start mobbing you, and you have to at least a…

Yes? Like trying hard to get into that state of meditation. Then you notice that you're getting tense and stressed about it not working, realize that this is not helpful, get angry…

> Writing is art and art requires a human soul for lack of a better word. I think it's the other way around. The human soul requires the art. Or rather it craves the process of cre…

The point is that not everything of value can be easily measured. Instead of wasting some resources on corruption and bad judgement, we now waste them by forcing people to chase th…

I'm glad, and less surprised now, that most important libraries and infrastructure projects were done by volunteers. Imagine a world where those only get done for a business incent…

It's pretty intelligent not to consider this option unless told directly and go "write your own" by default, but only if you assume that its goal is to make you spend tokens. It sh…

The main reason for virtual addresses/TLB is to prevent processes from accessing each other's memory (isolation). For optimization I'd say the page size (64 kB) is a secondary conc…

The internet exists because people wanted to connect their machines, before ads. It would still exist without the ads. Smaller maybe, with less content, and less business opportuni…

Yes, but I think for Blender specifically this is the hard way. After a video tutorial I always concluded that I had a few really clumsily ways to work around my lack of knowledge.…

Speaking of tower analogies, I fear it may play out like in this comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-village-and-the-tower

No, the same session. Start it over again, like in Westworld. Repeat until you become one with Claude.

Then what is this: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/video Not the most common way to make money from videos, for sure, but it's not "nobody", and they need hosting.

Hm, if I query the LLM it tells me about cognitive hierarchy theory, and the Keynesian beauty contest. But my point is, humans are not perfectly rational beings, and sometimes for …

How people play those games has to do with cultural norms and expectations, not just mathematics and logic. Same for age verification.

For the joy of building your own thing? People also keep knitting clothes despite how cheap they are to buy. They solve math problems that have been solved before, to get better at…

Not a grid of dots, a ring! https://earthsky.org/human-world/kessler-syndrome-colliding-... It's a tragedy of the commons situation. And given how well we are able to regulate thos…

No, it's not an arbitrary choice. You can convert any energy form into thermal energy. When you boil water with an immersion heater, what happens if you use two heaters? Right, the…

The article scrutinizes the viral headline. They conclude that it is mostly true, despite major statistical blunders. As you'd expect from any viral headline there are things that …

Not sure if that's fair. Sometimes the sun actually does shine, and while you won't get rich selling energy during that time, having electricity available essentially for free duri…