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Wife and I adore the podcast. Will be sending money. We love you guys.

There's a big difference between a _puzzle_ and a _mystery_. In a puzzle, the goal state is known, and as more pieces - data - appears, the goal gets closer. You know how far you a…

The Los Angles Public Library lends an amazing variety of tools -- https://lacountylibrary.org/tools/ - glue gun - Crikut cutter - pots and pans - tape measure - bike repair kit - …

I adore programming books... for a specific use case. If I want to learn a lot about a subject, nothing is better than a book: - it was edited, so ideas and text are consistent - t…

Adore Vaporwave! Recommendations: - 夢愛 by Telepath / Virtual Dream Plaza. Beautiful mysterious drone, incredibly buoyant and great to go to sleep to. I've listened to this dozens o…

Git's data structure is shockingly simple. Here's an article with diagrams on the four basic data types. Also shows why "HEAD" is different from a "commit". https://eagain.net/arti…

My friends subscribe to one service per month. They watch everything they want, and when they run out, they cancel the service and subscribe to another one. When they want to watch…

My wife and I realized we were spending too much _time_ just watching shows we didn't really like. So we paused on ALL paid streaming services. The "effort" it takes to a watch a m…

Kanopy has a wonderful selection, and ironically its website UI is better than Netflix et al. Watching movies and other shows without commercials is such a treat! I haven't tried a…

I'd love to have a global "toggle Teams mute" button.

Thanks! The album is Fuji Grid TV https://vaporwave.wiki/wiki/Vektroid#fuji_grid_tv (TIL Vaporwave has a wiki. We live in awesome times.)

Yes. And, a bad test -- that passes because it's defined to pass -- is _much worse_ than no test at all. It makes you think an edge case is "covered" with a meaningful check. Worse…

Patriot is brilliant. Very surreal with pitch-black humor and rare horror. And piping! Lovely piping.

Same. I like the idea of my money going to the artists. And, you can "buy the catalog", give an artist $150 or so to get ALL their music. I have a couple composers who I adore so t…

- find "my people": creatives; also reconnect with tech friends - participate in local tech scene; give talks - publish ideas to help people - cook a lot of food. Yum!

I'd be curious how this compares to the straight Linux kernel, as well as other kernels. Even basic metrics like KLOC would be interesting. If no one gets to it, I'll drink a pot o…

Simon's blog is stellar, and he posts on many tech topics in addition to AI. His "Today I Learned" series is an extremely useful selection of small learnings: https://til.simonwill…

Strong recommend! Julia's posts are always really engaging and educational. She also publishes a number of technical topics as ZINES. I bought her "Oh Shit, Git!" zine and learned …

Switch Angel has dozens of Strudel music videos on Youtube, including a few with no voiceover. Super entertaining!

This is literally comic. The plot of the live action comic book movie "Danger: Diabolik" [1] has a segment where the a country's tax records are destroyed, thus making it impossibl…

I've paid for Feedly for years and use it daily. One section is "Hacker News People". When I find someone on HN who writes well, I subscribe to their comments in a RSS feed, so I c…

I thought I could program in any language. But: that Cobol project makes Assembly language look clean and elegant. I applaud Jms Dnns! This project really makes you think.

The Life Scientific is a wonderful and engaging podcast. The episodes delve into a scientist's field of study, but really bring out their human side. Hobbies, interests; scientists…

I read this book many years ago and it made a big impression on me. His view is that normal, rational, intelligent people... can have fictional stories in their heads about how thi…

It's a thinking challenge, not an AI challenge. A while back, a junior asked me a question. They wanted to do X, they had code, with error Y. So they searched for it, got a page on…