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Collective HN Wisdom, Currently I am spending 8-10 hours in or around my car as a UPS personal vehicle driver during peak holiday season. I would like to put this time to productiv…

Lego.

I think translation (or rather interpretation) is actually a wonderful use case. My experience with doing simultaneous interpretation for large conferences usually means that the c…

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Well, whose theory? If you wanna see some deep stuff, look no further than Al-Farabi. But if you want more tempered things that feed into the achievement culture, this thread is fu…

Famed anthropologist James Ferguson wrote a pretty thorough read that breaks down the arguments on both sides that was also reviewed by the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonp…

A small point to your otherwise interesting post. Santos Dumont was, in fact, not French, but rather a Brazilian living in France.

Is it to keep the cover from falling in the hole?

I noticed that too, as well as how darn well read Borges is. A true delight of an essay.

I think there's also a lot to be said about having a real score in front of you. I used to sight-read for a living (guitarist on cruise ships) and thought that the first grok of th…

I highly recommend watch Buster Keaton with Philip Glass on as the soundtrack. Fun times.

I currently work more with CSS so I find the debugging tools on both good enough for my purposes. I do know the chrome dev tools and find them to be good, just happen to prefer the…

Perhaps the most epic reply I have ever seen on SO.

Boy, I am with you on this one. Full-time FF user too. The whole CSS grid thing is very well done and useful.

A while ago I helped translate an investigative journal piece on the labor practices of this company's supply chain. It left me feeling ill for quite a while. Worth a look: https:/…