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Great. What I really want is mandatory opt-in to be able to contact me. Unknown numbers get to send a single standard length SMS, carrier embeds the full legal name and, for busine…

Grid-powered public transit replacing 80% of trips by personal vehicle.

Every year at Christmas, I get a card from a family member with a short, personal hand-written note and a 1-page, generic printed update on how their year has been, usually with so…

Thank you, kgr, for writing and posting this. I find this a much more digestible summary of the topic than the other recent posting on Statistical Process Control.

This article seems like a good reminder to know what your fundamentals are and to be deliberate about picking them. But I'm not convinced that this advice can be used to pick your …

Right, this is a values problem, not a technical problem. Who should get to see Taylor Swift? How much should they pay? How should profits be distributed? These are philosophical q…

Judging by the majority opinion in this thread, it seems pretty clear GitHub could have asked and gotten enough people to opt-in to have no problem training their model. They proba…

We have an even better example of mistaking the numbers for the whole picture. Becoming famous for winning obscene amounts of money greatly increases your chance of being harassed,…

Definitely this. I have been an Android user since my first smartphone. I've been a Gmail user much longer than that. I still to this day don't have the slightest idea what the dis…

Highly recommended book on this topic: https://www.retrievalpractice.org/make-it-stick

Site seems overloaded. Internet Archive has a capture. https://web.archive.org/web/20221028111744/http://simia.net/...

Idagio is a great alternative for classical.

Maybe I'm not the only one who resubscribes just for Great British Bake Off...

My understanding is yes, and honestly, this was my biggest sticking point with Obsidian. I'm happy to pay for software. I pay for Dynalist pro (same team for anyone who didn't know…

This seems really cool, but I don't understand the use cases. Someone help me out?

Read through the thread. Look how many stories there are of people losing years and years to something that they now regret. The realization is that this is the norm , not the exce…

Idagio is really good for classical. Much nicer browsing than Spotify. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical also has good weekly recommendations.

Are you worried that you're trying to solve a process/people/culture problem with a technology solution?

Is this right? Experts in software like Jest and Storybook think an hour of specialized consulting in the software is worth only $116? There's definitely a market opportunity if th…

It is, but I will accept this as a valid critique that I probably didn't make my original point as well as I could have.

Absolutely. Josh W Comeau has a fabulous article about hands-free coding that I think every developer should read: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/hands-free-coding/ Everyone has …

As someone who types quite fast, if you haven't watched someone who types 20-30 wpm, then you probably haven't seen what a hindrance it can be. Yes, thinking is more important than…

The point is that Cloudflare thinks due process, not DDoS, is the right way to bring down horrible websites. Thus they protect them until such due process happens.