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The popular version of the Dunning-Kruger effect says that stupid people overestimate their capabilities. This is true, but the effect is more general than that. It says if your ex…

Something similar can be said about "values". They help you make hard decisions. You don't need values if only make easy decisions. But values conflicts with each other. You can't …

Lol.. I am the same. My day job is Rust + car headunit development. My drugs of choice are tikz and openscad..

I use cheap android devices. My current one is a cheap Motorola and before samsung and Chinese vendors. I've never seen bugs like I have encountere since the last update (2 months …

Yup.. I only remeber three knots: 1. tie cows to a pole using a rope, tile show laces, third one is the most basic one which everyone knows. Sometimes, I learn a few occassinally w…

meta: isn't there a long history of such retrospective analysis where when a country does well economically, it's due to something in their culture?

My own experience during my PhD was that a few, if any, PI cared about your growth as a scientist. All they cared about was progress on their project which sometimes are the same. …

Interesting though ..

https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4483&mobile=1 couldn't resist. PS: Someone won't become a trillionaire with this attitude.

When I was in college, I posted a question on math.se about possibility of universal gates like NOR and NAND in multi-level logic. Someone found it interesting and posted it on the…

May not work with bluetooth keyboard (debian 13).

Once you get used to it, it's not so bad which is probably true for all functional UIs. I switch between gitlab and GitHub quite a lot and I can't say which one is objectively bett…

I was amused today when Morty was praising 7-eleven in s0901.

Never mind. I didn't read the article (paywalled) and someone in the comments below answered this exact point.

> and airfoils also benefit from micro-roughness for lowest friction. I thought this was known to some extent that smooth surfaces are not always the best e.g. golf balls have dimp…

> Support : I'm telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!! Tha…

Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

On the same boat here.. I am trying to leave notion for a couple of reasons. And falling Rupee also not helping. But nothing is as easy to use. I was a big todo.sh fan in college. …

This project started when I started my Ph.D.. I had a few interactions with the author when I added UI to some programs I wanted to showcase as TA. Every time I needed a GUI, I rea…

There is also https://pkgs.org ..

Not OP. Indian here. I find [1] to be a perfect example. [1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...

Fair point but unlike code, design (webpage), audio, video are seen by consumers. If Sora (AI video) didn't fly, how'd AI web-design fly? It is pretty good for internal apps and da…

I grew up in North India, close to Ramganga river (Jim Corbet park is on this river). We grew rice in addition to sugar cane. The smell of paddy (and also of large quantity of cook…