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For what it's worth, I logged into AirBnb just now and it showed me an option to "Display total price: all fees before taxes"

Planetfall Enchanter Trilogy Starcross (took place inside a space station -- map was wrap-around) Suspended was harder but definitely very good

Reiner Knizia is my favorite game designer of all time. I love how he takes familiar games and "bends" [1] them into new games by applying the right incentives into other games. Fo…

Chinese saying: "the mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away" （山高帝遠）

for me, after obsessing over this for a few model releases, I realized that most years the new model doesn't add that much I really need. Usually it is a faster CPU, which matters …

When I was in high school I used to dream about sticking high speed ethernet ports into my skull (because reading on a screen was too slow, plus this was the 80s and we though Neur…

that was a fantastic book, and the Arguing On the Internet in it was both very descriptive of it's time and very prescient of ours. and the aliens (no spoilers) in it were very coo…

I just tried doing this myself JFZ: how do we know there are infinitely many primes ChatGPT: One way to show that there are infinitely many prime numbers is to use the fact that th…

this video where he explains Git's dag with tinkertoys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7BgIvC-uQ

> Just because some tech bros with sexist issues can make an app and a service without customer service does not mean jack shit. this is an ad hominem attack and not helpful -- Kal…

According to this article, the word "lox" hasn't changed in 8000 years https://nautil.us/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sou...

PBS Spacetime (physics) PBS Eons (paleontology) Cody's Lab and Nile Red (chemistry) 3blue1brown (mathematics)

One thing that gives me comfort is that there is a difference between what they say on a poll, and what they actually do. Plenty of people are willing to say "I am willing to commi…

The greatest ever. A true maestro

The book Curves for the Mathematically Curious ( https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180052/cu... ) has a whole chapter about the shape used instead of a circle, com…

for four players: Tigris and Euphrates for three players: Ra for two players: Quest for El Dorado or Azul for solitaire: Agricola Go is on my bucket list, I'll get "around to it" o…

and wouldn't it be great if the people on that committee acted in the consumers best interests?

I live in NYC so many of my friends and colleagues have had tech jobs in the well known banks. Here are some of the data points I've collected. Person 1 says there is a lot of poli…

I voted Mostly Good -- I feel valued at work, and employer puts an emphasis on work life balance, which lets me spend time with my family, deal with things like doctor appointments…

doubt it -- see my comment about how Chinese inputs are not using flags in Big Sur

In Big Sur Apple was using a mix of flags and other icons. The flags seem to be for countries that use the Latin alphabet. Playing around with the Keyboard Preferences, I've found:…