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I don't think serious reader is a cringe term. Reading is a skill like any other and we use terms like "serious golfer" or "serious painter". The flip side of serious is causal. It…

I need something like this for when my AC unit, which can only be right next to the TV, cycles on for a bit. It's sort of the inverse problem. When total noise gets louder I need t…

Very nice! I solved them all in the backyard on a pleasant Sunday afternoon.

How can an animal even have a neck that long? Was it clear from the fossils that it is this long because I am skeptical.

This is where I got the link from.

I knew Flibbertigibbet from the sound of music: MARGARETTA: How do you find a word that means Maria? BERTHE: A flibberti gibbet! SOPHIA: A willo' the wisp! MARGARETTA: A clown!

When I was a child, I remember going to the nearby children's museum and seeing an exhibit with 1 million bread tags. It was supposed to help conceptualize the number.

Are you carrying a lot of stress when you were walking 10 min mid-day? I think the wandering, creative mind is the goal and walking often facilitates that, but if some stronger for…

Europeans are shocked by the portion sizes in America. But they feel normal in the US. Frogs often don't know they are being boiled.

The guiding analogy of the piece is that of planting a tree and waiting for it to mature. The reason we need to wait is that it takes time for some things to mature.

Which IIRC are all a consequence of Jensen's inequality.

Fantastic! Now I don't need to run it in a headless xorg session.

I'm still struggling to care about the "hit piece". It's an AI. Who cares what it says? Refusing AI commits is just like any other moderation decision people experience on the web …

The NSFW content is a big bummer for me. I can't let a kid go to Wikipedia unsupervised because of this.

I love it! I typed "hello". > Your thought's hash is: 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79 > Including you, 267 persons had that thought already! > Firs…

I think the response is a great comment. It really is insane that they felt the need to damn the flooded campsite. The comment actually does a great job of accentuating the point o…

Where do I get DRM-free ebooks to put on a Kobo? I don't support breaking DRM. So I'm using a Kindle because it has the best access to and integration with almost any book I want.

I would really like a tool to reliably get the title of PDF. It is not as easy as it seems. If the PDF exists online (say a paper or course notes) a bonus would be to find that or …

That's just controlled opposition.

The real nerds celebrate octal pi day on 3/11. The crowds are too big on 3/14 anyways. https://imgur.com/a/gczeqkz

You need a mortgage to buy most of their SDRs. Their cheapest IIRC is a B210 which is about $2,500.

7 n^3 +n (mod 2) = 1 n^3 + n = n + n = 2*n = 0*n = 0

> The accused doesn’t need to give their side of the story for people to know what happened. There is always a defense in court. This is not necessarily the defendant explicitly te…

There's martial law and there is civil law. Martial law applies to enemies and in wartime. In this case, killing enemies like Bin Laden is acceptable. However, in civil law, for th…