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People like Zuck, Altman, Musk, and I'll throw Trump in there as well, are high-level hackers. But instead of computers or technological systems, they are hackers of our social cod…

I would also recommend The Arctic Grail as a good companion read. It covers the history of the British quests for the North Pole and the Northwest Passage, with the Franklin expedi…

If you're on MacOS, activate spotlight (Cmd+space) then type "134f to c" and it will show you the conversion. This also works in the search box on iOS. Other conversions work as we…

I generally have a negative opinion of Martin, but did we read the same discussion? Martin was very gracious in letting many points slide (points where he was correct!), and was ge…

When learning any complex skill, the key is figuring out what the fundamentals are, and practicing those, in isolation and small combinations (along with throwing everything all to…

You’re probably being too generous in your EDIT EDIT. They are bad. They don’t really make sense except in the very moment, and I think that’s why I can’t remember a single part of…

The 1996 movie Jack with Robin Williams had a joke playing off this. I don’t remember the joke exactly, but one of the boys asks Jack if he’s ever had an erection, and he says some…

Not to mention the hefty consulting fees he’s been getting for years from places like Google. IMO those probably dwarf his faculty salary and money from books.

I strongly agree with this, with one caveat: there are a few modules that are GPL and not LGPL. Definitely check the module licenses to make sure you're not going to need anything …

Now I’m wondering if I’m the only one who grew up calling a semi / tractor trailer a “Mack truck”.

Like many C++ devs I hacked around in cmake for years, but not really understanding what I was doing or how to structure cmake projects. This was made worse as newer ways of doing …

While nobody is surprised, still feels like the beginning of the end of an era. I guess the only question is how long Nadal will hang on. My wife and I joke that Djokovic will stil…

In my memory it was Batman Begins (2005) that had if bad and started the trend, but you’re right about the first Bourne movie (2002) being somewhere near the start (as far as tent …

I just read this and also really enjoyed it. Pépin heaps praise on Howard Johnson (the person), and has no kind words for his son, whom he blames for the restaurant’s decline. Main…

Private jet travel being a particularly big one. Many companies claim their CEOs (even ones you’ve never heard of) need to travel private for security reasons.

Animals as Leaders wakes up my brain like nothing else. I think my brain is vaguely aware that what I am listening to is some sort of complex puzzle, but I don't have the knowledge…

I think we are saying the same thing, but I am just elaborating on what "signal detection" means. The usual approaches at worst just don't work, and at best don't scale very well. …

I think this posts misses the most important piece, the real secret sauce, which is how do you sift through massive streams of data and separate the signals from the noise? And how…

I get what you're saying, and I would agree that the power of _most_ politicians is minimal compared to the absolute richest people in the world (so not just mere single-digit bill…

Maybe even more so then now, it was very common for studios to step in and "fix" a movie. I.e., re-edit it. So any footage that existed was fair game to end up in the final movie. …

I am not so confident that even in 8 years the outcome will be clear. Just like today Tesla is selling hot garbage and calling it "self driving", I am sure manufacturers will be se…

Probably my favorite, that you're missing on this list (mostly likely cause his channel only recently "blew up"), is Brian Lagerstrom, formerly called Weeds & Sardines. Another rec…

This is great! Thanks! I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come …

The method actually reminds me of a simple h-refinement scheme for FEM.

We downloaded this last night and my 4-year old has been having a lot of fun working through his 50 or so build options. We routinely get various lego build books from the library,…