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I'm also incredibly curious about this. I sent them an e-mail. Let's see if they respond.

In my church we still use the Genevan Psalter in our worship. It is not the same as Sacred Harp, but many of the same principles apply, and it makes for excellent communal singing.…

Having built serverless apps and "old-fashioned" apps, I seriously believe the old fashioned way is better. The best of both worlds is to host on AWS EC2 or a similar product from …

Am I reading that graph right? That confidence dropped in all the measured categories? That's wild.

A kettle uses ~1.5KW, a geyser ~2KW, an oven ~5KW, a stove about ~3KW. These are fairly high estimates I got from some quick googling. If you add these all up, and account for some…

I completely agree with you. My wife and I made many lifestyle "sacrifices" in order to have kids. I put "sacrifices" in quotes, because driving in a cheaper car than your professi…

Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?

It's ironic that my password manager also added to the noise. The one thing I do control makes it even worse.

I found the following 3 measures quite helpful to make my smartphone less intrusive in my daily life: 1: I don't bring my smartphone into my bedroom. My bedroom is a personal and i…

See my answer to your sibling comment by thorslilcuz. Kamq also makes a good point.

Huh, interesting that this is the hill I have to die on. If I google "are trampolines death traps" the results seem to be about 50/50 yes/no. Anyway, here are the benefits: 1) More…

My wife and I take the approach of allowing our kids take risks too. Even though it is not that socially acceptable. If people want to judge me for letting my 4yo boy help with bui…

I'm not saying that we don't learn from the mistakes of the past. There were many misplaced wars and crusades in the past, and we should learn from them. However, the author of the…

I don't know why HN is so anti-Peterson. He has been tremendously helpful to me, and 12 Rules for Life helped me a lot when I was going through self-inflicted tough times. The arti…

The South African situation is very nuanced. The ANC had a violent faction, and a more peaceful faction aimed at reconciliation. The well-known Nelson Mandela belonged to the latte…

Huh. I read the story more as an exploration on what the phrase "human life is sacred" really means. To me the whole AI thing was just a backdrop.

I worked for a bootstrapped startup where the opposite was true. While the company was in survival mode, employees were highly valued and the owners had a "we're in it together" ty…

Yes, that's a very apt description

Hi Lars Thank you very much for this write-up. I lost my 21 year old brother in law to leukemia a few years back. Even though I didn't experience the same severity of pain as my wi…

I used to not mind the Youtube ads, but it became a nuisance lately. I installed an adblocker for the first time somewhere mid-2023. If I knew that youtube would continue to show m…

>Homelessness >Hunger >Slavery >Genocide All are greatly reduced in the last 100-150 years. Globally. In large part thanks to "Western" contributions to science. The rest are some …

Something that wasn't really addressed in the article is that smooth operation of the economy also saves lives. To put in terms of the infinite trolley problem: The longer the trol…

I have to disagree on this one. Most jokes that I have heard or read weren't funny at all. And seeing that I'm a dad, most jokes that I tell aren't funny either.

I love the last paragraph, it's a great attitude to have. We should apply it in other areas of our lives too. It's like putting up Christmas lights, we rarely enjoy our own Christm…

The ASP.NET framework is nice. I had more struggles with Entity Framework, to the point where I regretted not just writing raw SQL for my data access needs. This was also back in 2…