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Try also wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab grep -xFf You can make whole English sentences out of ISO 639-3 language codes: woo yes, any fun…

Ask the waiter and have an actual conversation with a human, or at least do an image search[0], either way you'll learn something and become a more experienced and cultured[1] huma…

i read a school-assigned book during the loading portions of a certain computer game. the two stories are completely interlinked in my head.

ouf :( maybe original link should be changed to https://www.drcathicks.com/ ?

The author Cat Hicks also co-hosts https://www.changetechnically.fyi/ which has some interesting episodes, e.g. https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/17541876-... In h…

how much storage and how much do you pay Hetzner?

Now I'm trying to imagine a staircase with a non-integer number of steps

Quite a lot of my searches for practical advice (building, maintenance, event planning, shopping etc. etc) have the best hits from forums that on the face of it rarely seem relevan…

nah, the thlh stack (tailwind+htmx+lucid+haskell) is much more unpronouncable https://github.com/monadicsystems/haskell-htmx-examples

And Illich (where the term "tool" is quite broad, including anything from a knife to a highway system): Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by…

Good intentions, but these days there's an even bigger threat: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115840278905803451 https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116796122687129600 h…

> memory prices coming down Are they? I suspect AI labs are buying stuff not just for their own use, but to make local use too expensive to be an option :-( And they can always mak…

(It's mentioned as an idea in the bottom part of the htmx.org essay)

> I stress to them that I admire the heroism of their generation in resisting these temptations. > (I think older generations would do well to recognize this fact.) That is so, so …

> Today it is a ruin, but one that remains unmistakably alive. wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should no…

but not Haskell, guess they gave up on picking a string type =P

ddg says "BASB" could mean "building a second brain", so I guess it's about note-taking

In my experience, waiters tend to be quite good at splitting bills. I feel like many of them remember what people had, maybe they get good mental maps of seating or person meal typ…

Just like wolves selected for survival the humans who treated them well and eventually humans evolved to produce oxytocin on petting wolves =P

OTOH I now have a lot more sympathy for my cpu's, I should give them some slack

I think you'd get your point across better if you avoid consulting AI to improve your style, may lead to less distracting threads like this.

could've guessed staying away from xdisp.c was a good idea, cf. the "Buttery Smooth Emacs"[0] post: > Keep in mind that Emacs xdisp.c tries to support five different toolkits (incl…

Alternatively, I might have been even more sick if I didn't take vitamin D!

Yeah I took vitamin D all through my kids' nursery years, every morning, had strong belief in it. I still was sick all the time. That combination of not enough sleep (kids crying i…

Legally obtaining a book for reading it yourself is different from legally obtaining a book for copying and republishing/reselling. If I buy a book for $5 at a sale I can read it m…