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Wow. That's beautiful. Have you found that your extended family generally follows the rule, or do some folks break it based on whether they immigrate to, say, western countries?

These rules are interesting. How did you arrive at them?

This is a take that I generally agree with. To be honest, I kinda feel the same way about breathless think-pieces talking about GPT-3.

One interesting thing I hear repeated from a lot of my friends is that having children somehow makes you very good at getting things done, which @pg alludes to in this post. You ge…

I admire this worldview. The recipe for a life well lived does not require complication.

Agreed with child sibling comment, I would love to hear more. I used to journal so much more in college, whereas nowadays I do not. It seemed like life just got so busy all of a su…

Shudder. That's horrifying enough to make me want to wall off that whole thing in a VPN which in and of itself has a stronger password, and expose access to it from a proxy.

Love this whole thread. I thought I'd add a bit more for those who ended up in the same position I ended up in a little while back: if you're ever stuck in a position where you're …

You are correct. Although, I think the idea of the universe simply "bouncing around for infinity amount of time" lends a lot of otherwise unintuitive epistemological intuitions aro…

It's a bit misleading to say this "says more about our times and the media we're subjected to than the virus itself", although it is no Ebola for sure. To me, it seems to be somewh…

That's pretty cool! Is there any material you'd recommend me reading that gives examples of these kinds of ergonomics with traits as they pertain to, say, vanilla web development?

This is pretty neat -- is there any way to extend this to tree transformations to make this a tool for refactoring?

I originally looked at Urwid for a side project I was working on, but it seemed a bit heavyweight for the kind of prototyping I wanted to do. I ended up settling on Visidata's vdtu…