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This problem is so old and so common that people like Erasmus have commented on it. "Waste books" written by intellectuals throughout the ages still exist, one of the finest is Lic…

These are also good for those "Swedish logs" where you drill a hole in the top and the side, and then cut grooves with a hand saw in the top and make a fire right on top.

> There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking. I believe I'm saying the …

>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?) I have no idea what you're talki…

> Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end. Who said anything about a formula? It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves …

It seems worth thinking about it in the context of the evolution. To kill other members of our species limits the survival of our species, so we can encode it as “bad” in our liter…

Or if you really want it spelled out, Quantum Psychology

I agree, this was the peak experience of watching this video, and somehow the most "chef's kiss" summation of 2025.

Another live-coding environment that is quite nice (Haskell-based) is TidalCycles: https://tidalcycles.org I wrote a whole album of material about 10 years ago with it, just remast…

You want to know her party affiliation? My god we are so cooked.

Yes! and Shadowrun! I remember just binging William Gibson after that, until Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers (the movie), and Strange Days, came out. What a great decade.

I still have my faded paperback copy of this book, from 1986. I pulled it down off the shelf and got a jolt of nostalgia, thinking about reading it when I was kid and just being bl…

In the ultra running community, it's common to do a 1 mile "test" when you're feeling awful. You start your run, and if it still feels awful after 1 mile you walk on back home and …

rpastuszak's work is a consistent source of inspiration and fun. It's what I wanted the web to become.

This sentiment seems sort of sad. The medium is the message. If the medium is small, the message will be small. It may be succinct and you may think you "get it", but without evide…

Actually it’s quite literally a decimation, if you know the root of the word.

Like a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime. The co…

There are easier ways to do this from the beginning of your loan, like making sure you put 20% down and paying higher closing costs. If you tell your lenders that you refuse to pay…

The irony of reading this article surrounded by a cacophony of flashing and scrolling ads is not lost on me.

"Our findings provide evidence that loneliness is associated with deviations from the zeitgeist, specifically when it comes to perceptions of well-known celebrities" Soooooo... thi…

The Vital Question covers this topic and is in general a really great basic education in biological energy production.

At Irth Solutions we build software that improve resilience and reduce risk to critical infrastructure that millions of people and businesses rely on each day. Our systems handle m…

I read George Dyson’s “Analogia” with a bit of skepticism a few years ago, now all of the sudden it feels relevant (if you can make it past all of the chapters on kayak-building).

This is fantastic. In the span of 5 minutes I had my old record player calibrated. Really great work.

I’ve seen this happen. We call it having great cardiovascular fitness but not so great metabolic fitness. One of the reasons that zone 2 or maintaining aerobic fitness seems to hav…