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Dust can reduce capacity by 40% in the desert. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40807-017-0043-y

I wish philosophers—everyone, really—would provide a definition of their neologisms. I'd prefer a succinct, Aristotlian one but I'll settle for anything approximating it. This is p…

The guy who called the Federal Reserve the "penny in the fuse box" of the economy was not an "Ayn Rand disciple" by the time he took the chairmanship. Power as chair of the Council…

I didn't see that anyone had done it (and I think the commentary has died down entirely) but here's an Artifact that extracts Ries' responses plus the original question into a tabl…

100% this. People used to read newspapers and books on mas transit and Walkmans have been with us since the early 80s. I think it comes down to people not _wanting_ to interact wit…

It's normally been called a "white elephant" but this framing is a perfect completion to Torvalds' previously-two-part troika. Thank you for sharing it!

I thought this seemed significant at the time: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983

And it blames the sidelining of more than half of LA's fire trucks at production delays for new fire trucks? Well, I say "blames" generously—what it really does is "insinuates" sin…

Everyone talking about "biff" should be aware that it's actually "bttf" like "back to the future"

There was an effort to disinvite him as soon as it was announced that he was the speaker.[1] And then when that failed, activists passed out flyers encouraging students to boo Schm…

Have you met shovelglove? https://shovelglove.com

I've told everyone I hire that "I hired you for your mind so always use it." Push back on requirements, question my decisions, think about your approaches. I can''t imagine telling…

I use it both ways: 1) Day job 2) Side project It would be unprofessional to treat the first like the second.

AI is Augmenting (Actual) Intelligence.

Yes, underthinking is rampant. Glancing at "AI" output is not reviewing code: you have to grok it (in the Heinlein sense) in order to treat it as your own.

One thing that I _love_ with the browser is this extension: https://github.com/timkuijsten/BoundedBikeshed It lets me see the top-level comments with some indication of the thread …

Check out Wonderfalls, his first series.

And Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, two of my favorite shows ever.

If you like Lee Pace, watch Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.

Dig up Wonderfalls, his first series, and Pushing Daisies. They form the Lee Pace Triumvirate (with Halt and Catch Fire) as far as I'm concerned.

It's terrific. Just rewatched it for a third time.

Also, if you loved Patriot, the creator has two podcasts stemming from it: https://www.lgclaret.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-techniques-in-mode... (And he's also …

I'll second Patriot and add Perpetual Grace Ltd. from the same creator. I'd also add the two other legs of the Lee Pace Great Television stool: Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.

He's the Chuck Norris of StackOverflow, maybe.

I hate "vibe code" as a verb. May I suggest "prompt" instead? "I was able to prompt the React site…."