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The book title is a reference to The Great Gatsby: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their…

Would you say those badass engineers were/are managed by Careless People?

In that way I'm like a bacteria. "Ah beans, gotta undo all this work"

Necessary reading: "Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime" https://ir.law.utk.edu/utklaw_facpubs/468/

I remember reading about a personal CRM project called Monica years ago. Does anyone here still use it? Is there an actively maintained alternative?

With the right podcatcher* settings the back-catalogue issue goes away. It's still annoying when you want to share a particularly moving story with friends. *) Overcast user here: …

https://wnyc.org/story/bradbury-centennial-with-neil-gaiman Yetide Badaki's marvelous reading begins at 3:50

That's slick. I use papermodel+Blender for my models, but I haven't bit the UV mapping bullet yet!

I have both a stovetop cooker (Zwilling) and an electric (Instant Pot). The stovetop gets hotter faster, so it cooks a lot faster too. The trade off is I can't leave home while it'…

Plug-in pressure cookers like Instant Pots don't run at the same pressure/temperature as stovetop models. Electric models apparently run at ~12psi on high pressure mode, while stov…

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ I'm very jealous of everyone who gets to read this for the first time this weekend.

It may be hard to find in print, but it's not hard to find! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12328

Million, billion, and trillion sadly sound kind of the same when you talk about it.

You can spoof the wireless signal if you don't get coverage. There are surely more and better Android options, but I used Clock Wave to set a clock from Germany back in the US. htt…

We could write instructions like literature. Maybe we could call it "Literate Programming"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

Funny thing is "normal" for me is either a double minus (--) for TeX or the HTML –

It's agonizing because it's hard. It's captivating because it's possible.

Sounds like you'll appreciate my favorite related bit of typographic dash pedantry, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-... If you want to be official …

Bro. The Acropolis is a temple.

They saw Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, but didn't really get it.

Also about destroying the government's investigative/enforcement capacity. USAID's destruction was ideological, but protecting Tesla and SpaceX was existential.

They learned from Scoble's glasshole picture https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...

It's already hard to tell, because chunky sunglasses don't change in volume much when you add electronics and optics. You kind of have to know what you're looking for to clock even…

I've seen videos of flock cameras installed improperly (missing a breakaway device) right next to roads. The city must be able to remove unsafe devices! https://highways.dot.gov/sa…

I'm curious what those conversations in Meta sound like: A> People are calling our omnipresent surveillance technology "Pervert glasses" B> Are the people who wear them perverts? A…