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I’ve been considering using Odin and Raylib for this because of its similarities to Go, but using Go itself is appealing. Do you have any good resources for what you’ve learned, or…

Reminds me of NumberWang from Mitchell and Webb’s skits. https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?si=CA5NWDE6FVSSM5Ih

I have the same feeling on the back of my neck. I think it’s born from my crippling imposter syndrome, which is maybe a super power now.

It’s an interesting exercise to contrast Dune’s post-Butlerian Jihad world with the Hyperion pre-fall world’s reliance on AI. They could almost be in the same timeline.

I quite like https://smashrun.com/ , but, to be transparent, I pair it with Strava.

Those dates are almost always not arbitrary. They're usually due to licensing and distribution agreements. Not trying to dissuade your from torrenting, but it's disingenuous to cal…

Aristotle had this figured out thousands of year ago https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ > At the same time, Aristotle makes it clear that in order to be happy one…

As has been said in this thread many times, there is a middle ground here: geniuses exist, of course, but are not necessarily solely responsible for great leaps forward in progress…

Solaris is a beautiful book. It’s a short read, too. I highly recommend it.

The Lindy Effect[1] is a good answer to this question. In a sort of pseudo-evolutionary way, timeless ideas have a way of persisting because they are well-adapted for consumption n…

Very relevant on a day where people are parroting the “respect the dead” false truism when people criticize Rush Limbaugh in death.

As many have pointed out, this is an obviously oversimplified maxim. But I’d like to add two reasons why I think it is a useful heuristic despite that. 1. Great content can’t be co…

This is basically the Lindy effect in action.

I like the idea of a “yeoman” programmer/engineer movement. It’s like homesteading except for consumer appliances/software — sustenance coding. I was happy to see a step-by-step gu…

It really just depends if the costs of the physical version’s packaging and distribution was ever even costed into the product in the first place. And even if it was, there’s the o…

Legitimate question: is there a strong economic argument for this line of reasoning? How much of the price of a physical book is actually for the commodities and distribution, and …

Good start, but I’d like to add technical empathy and literacy to the list. I’m a PM and too many of my peers don’t know a lick about how the products in their portfolio even work …

I worked in the news industry for about 5 years, and, once I left the 24/7 cycle, I sort of instinctively understood the half-life of information and began to stop paying attention…

This is ones of those essays that pops up on Hacker News every so often, and I'm always happy to reread it. Regardless of how the technologies have changed or if the prognosticatio…

I was standing in Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando about a year ago and had a very similar thought: If alien archeologists ever came to a post-human Earth, they might disco…

I see a very common misunderstanding of Stoic thought in this thread. It doesn’t advocate passivity. As a matter of fact, the Roman Stoic school was a school of many doers and had …

No, thank you for reading my rambling. I’m glad you got something out of it!

Great recommendations! I would like to add Paul Tillich’s “The Courage to Be” to the list. Not only is it a good work on existentialism, it’s also a fascinating reminder that theol…

In my opinion, nihilism is a problem, not an solution. That is to say, it isn’t something that can be “believed in”. Embracing it is ultimately paradoxical.