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Defend what? That reading and listening are two different skills?

There are many reasons why someone might want to improve their reading, and the only solution to that is to practice reading. Audiobooks are someone else's (i.e. not your) interpre…

> Look, it’s fine if audiobooks don’t work for you, and it’s fine to let your readers know why. Listening to an audiobook is not the same as reading a book. The whole point of the …

If your blog posts are one sentence or less, then they're not blog posts

Yes, many times. For the few months it was in my local arcade I practically lived in the seat of the Crazy Taxi machine and got to be decent at it.

> How to you estimate the 'time and skill' that went into the creation of a random piece of art? You don't. Unless that's the kind of thing you're into, I guess. > Is a portrait th…

Creating art, even via using something like Photoshop, is a skill that takes years of learning and practice to do well. Most people who appreciate art appreciate not only the art i…

> I dislike this dramatization in reporting of mundane facts. Okay, but this isn't a news article, it's an opinion piece on some guy's substack.

Text-based browsers are also great for just reading hypertext documents. I've been using a combination of a text-based rss reader and web browser to keep up with the sites I care a…

My house has a problem with little black ants that pest control services never could quite take care of. Spiders kept trying to set up shop near a window, but I would always knock …

His homepage says that he likes memorizing things. There is utility in doing something you enjoy for the sake of it.

> I disagree with a notion that a page needs to work without javascript. It is only design choice of author. Sure, I guess, but if a site that's primarily text doesn't work without…

> I miss making fun, small websites to share with friends. You can still do that right now. I highly recommend it.

> Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener. Okay, but I don't under…

There's a notice in the bottom-left corner on desktop that says: "This is a machine-learning-derived product. Errors may occur"

If I'm just jotting down personal notes, I use a pen and a notepad. If I need to transcribe anything into my long-term notes, then I can do that at the end of the day/week/whatever…

> Like it can't think or reason about something without writing it out first. LLM's neither think nor reason at all.

> I've made a ton of attempts to build my giant collection of subscriptions but always just burn out on maintaining it. RSS subscriptions aren't like Pokemon. You don't have to cat…

> over 100k emails to go through in one lifetime isn't worth the trouble Unless you're on a bunch of mailing lists, I can't even fathom having that much email, much less that much …

> I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees That must be fun any time you talk about Worcestershire (the sauce or the place).

I'm also glad I overbought RAM when I did my last PC upgrade in January, because who knows when I'll be able to do that again. The 96GB kit I bought (which was more than I needed) …

> You're doing the thing I described: assuming it's all ultimately about personal benefit when they're telling you directly that it's not. It doesn't matter how much astroturf I re…

> It's not about their careers. That's the thing, though, it is about their careers. It's not just that people are annoyed that someone who spends years to decades learning their c…

> Pronouncing every single letter. Now I want to know how you pronounce words like: through, bivouac, and queue.

I'm talking about managing two certificates so I can share a static site with a handful of friends. Each one takes about 10 minutes a year to update. Adding automation means I have…