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I'm fairly sure there is a book about that exact thing, but I can't remember how it ends...

But more water, in a desert region?

I agree. I think there is a third thing: processed foods are more likely to contain additives like colorants, emulsifiers, preservatives and stabilisers that humans have been eatin…

It’s not just age. Martin Scorsese is still making exceptional films. So is Clint Eastwood.

I wonder if there are lessons to be drawn from other marine mammals which can diver way deeper and longer than assisted humans, although they all also metabolise oxygen. How for ex…

I’m a veteran SF reader but I only read The Culture books for the first time recently, and I agree with you, albeit you have to acknowledge their massive influence on contemporary …

How does Step Functions avoid the cold start problem? Isn’t it just executing on Lambda?

I think this is a different phenomenon - I forget the name, but basically, your brain produces more of the behaviour that you rehearse with it. In my youth I played a lot of Tetris…

In fact, I discovered Wilkie Collins through (and thoroughly enjoyed) Drood ; but now I find my Dickens is lacking and I need to explore beyond A Christmas Carol . But reading Dan …

I’d been off Windows since the early XP days, first Mac then Gentoo then running a hackintosh for several years, and got fed up with the maintenance. Since in the end I was mostly …

There’s probably no provider, paid or otherwise that you can be guaranteed to be safe with because they all rely on automated systems that can make mistakes. I would say you have m…

I loved this idea too, but I think we’ve come to realise it in a different way, more or less, purely by syncing everything to the cloud. I feel that the transition between my phone…

Is is using Mastodon?

Frankly, it’s a miracle how many of the original actors were able to reprise their roles given the unfortunate ratio of deaths in the cast after the show wrapped. I hope it’s great…

TIL a new law.

Java’s strength IMO is that the JVM is pretty reliable and performant even under heavy loads, and can be predictably tuned and optimised where that’s needed. That’s pretty compelli…

I posted this already on a similar thread. I’m very aware during deliberately not visiting Reddit these last two days, that I’m missing the ‘dopamine hits’ from the controversial p…

I’m sure I read something recently about there being a limited future for viewing the wreck of the Titanic before it degrades, and that’s under pretty deep water, over 2km down.

I switched to Reeder after Feedly started showing me ads. So far, so good.

> The health care system is more capable than ever before Not to take issue with your main point, but, I’d say that _medicine_ is more capable than ever before, but health care sys…

While I never used HyperCard, the ‘low floors and high ceilings’ makes me think of spreadsheets. Given that I code all day professionally, I have quite a high bar for using code to…

Do you tolerate a lot of grounds in your coffee, or use a really course grind? I like the result of a French press except for all the grounds.

I guess it depends on how you define competitors. I think they protected themselves from people playing against their strengths (ie photographic film), but failed to prepare agains…

I have three personal strategies: 1. Make a deal with myself to do some of the boring task (say an hours worth) before switching to something rewarding 2. Procrastinate until the c…

If you can excuse the overt sexuality of his work, Piers Anthony depicted an interesting alien race of beings with a biological ball-bearing method of propulsion in one of the Clus…