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I can see it's a hard problem for lobste.rs to keep the level of discourse high if they let in everyone, but then, yeah, it generally sucks if you would like to add to a conversati…

I'm falling for a bit of forum bikeshedding here of commenting on something very important :) but...it's one thing to say "I imagined it was like this, but it was like that. And he…

To be fair, delusions about a magic sky monster are infantile.

I could be wrong because what do I know about guns, but when I see these I-made-a-gun stories, I'm really irritated because 1. it seems like the action of someone who began with "W…

Maybe the confusion here is that prices are sometimes spoken of as 'a [currency unit] a [item]' which can be understood as 'one [currency unit] per [item]'.

Stable/lego-brick phenotypes: Is this about coming up with something akin to 0 and 1 and then building from the ground up? Or is this about something that's closer to familiar biol…

I tried 10.0, and I had a few really irritating problems. My connection didn't stay up well with freebsd, and freebsd-update was not behaving robustly in the face of that. And pkg …

If it's a friendly lunch, I would advise to treat it mostly as a friendly lunch and not too much as an interview.

So his way to take care of the hen is to track its efficiency, give it a book telling it to be humble, and to fire it? Well, possibly that was the semi-subtle point of the article …

I've sometimes wondered what would happen if a very careful and serious look were taken at what biological systems do for homeostasis. We might still be at the point where we don't…

'"This is something that someone in their early 20s or late 20s or early 30s can go do with their friends," Ressel says.' I get that everyone still goes after the 'cool' demographi…

Thank you. The New Yorker and The Atlantic can be interesting, but with the rise of the web and not so much empty time to try to fill, one sees how they expand a little bit of info…

I don't know how widely accepted this interpretation of events is, but seeing how incredibly slow progress can be, progress that looks simple and 'obvious' from the far side, is al…

I don't know about "write like you talk", precisely, but I've noticed that some very good writing on technical subjects reads like you could give it as a talk, so there's something…

I'm going to have to see how close I can get to doing without youtube anymore. There's a lot of useless timesink to it, multiplied by so many of us humans who could be doing someth…