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They are! But it seems like most of the effort is from the founder, himself. They could use some more hands and cash...

Would you be willing to elaborate? I would be curious to hear more.

Sort of, but it generally goes more like: base/perineum, genitals, navel, heart, throat, forehead, and then one at the top of the head or just above. The Sefer Yetzirah, however, r…

American software engineer here, and I have only used LLM tools ~3 dozen times: tried at work a few times, and been unimpressed/actively frustrated; a few times to ask questions I …

Firefox Android can play audio even when the phone is locked, and I use it regularly.

Link to relevant patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11462985B2/en

To be fair, the description of the dragon incident is pretty mundane, and all he does is prove that the large reptile they had previously been feeding (& worshiping) could be kille…

We are told: >"It does not always give the best advice possible in a situation. It will not necessarily make its wearer King, or help her solve the miseries of the world. But its a…

I struggled on a few days' puzzles under the assumption that there _was_ a perfect solution possible -- It may be worth noting in the "help" that not all lettersets can be solved p…

Most people, past or present, have had to do whatever labor they can to (hopefully) simply survive at the contextual standard of living. Some kids may love a parent who lets them g…

I'd suggest looking in the direction of the Global Village Construction Set being worked on by Open Source Ecology: https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Const...

For ~$600, the Remarkable Paper Pro has a color, 12" diagonal display. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro/details/fe... I don't have one, but it's closer to what you…

>Why would a body motivated to survive at all costs waste resources creating comforting hallucinations with some kind of internal coherence during catastrophic failure? I am a reli…

Who do you mean by "his successor"? Surely not the new, 'acting' FBI director, as they have comparatively little power?

Very much an anecdote, but when I was younger, I knew someone who attributed the remission of their (expected to be terminal) brain cancer to eating lots of bananas that were so gr…

The Air Force was already publicly talking about such things in 2009: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_5YkQ9w3PJ4

Reminds me of this gag: https://youtu.be/IgUzHat9XIs?feature=shared

The Christian Scriptures actually include something of a counter-example to this, in Acts 19:35 and following, where an angry crowd is settled by being reminded that the statue in …

I am reminded of Paul Kingsnorth's _The Basilisk_: https://emergencemagazine.org/fiction/the-basilisk/ (Quick read, styled after the Screwtape Letters, but about the internet) Some…

I'm still on one of their prepaid "Connect" plans, and get unlimited talk & text, plus 12 gigs of data, for $35. Since I'm nearly always somewhere with wifi, I can't recall ever ha…

Wow, I've had this exact experience, as well! Two or three bad ones, with all the rest consisting of: - a slight odd taste (this is my "early warning sign"), - then the vision loss…

Couldn't one say that different isotopes of elements are exactly such "imperfect" replicas?

I think there's a direct comparison to be made with the choice to devote one's "prime years" to building a startup. It's a meaningful project that materially impacts the world in a…

And there are online tools like https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/1/1/t_conc_1001 which make it very easy to find verses by Hebrew or Greek word!

Using this translation as a reference: http://mountainman.com.au/tao_1_9.html , there are a few places that really stand out. Section 1 can be understood in terms of the incomprehe…