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Regrettably, we humans just don’t have a good sense of scale.

See Slaughterbots [0] for a dramatization of this scenario. [0]: https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

And a fourth time on a per-article basis if you, as an individual, non-academic taxpayer, would like you read the very research your taxes have funded.

When you say historic buildings, I suppose (hope) you don’t mean listed ones, since they’d be breaking the law? Regardless, it’s a crying shame what people have ripped out of even …

You might like to try Write yourself a Git [0] (discussed here previously [1]). YMMV, but I find the best way to learn something deeply is to get hands on. Less of a chance of conv…

Even though the full-size filter would surely work with a phone camera, if you could scale it down to a form factor that clips onto the phone, I can see this selling like hot cakes…

Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree with the article’s main assertion, that startups need product engineers who think about more than just code. Engineers who can make deci…

From the Twitter thread linked by yoquan: > Explosives were used to deploy the parachute, so care had to be taken that there were no late detonations. [0] Precisely what you guesse…

Absolutely. I think that’s why it’s so vital to combine both qualitative and quantitative data. I doubt there are too many people in tech making this mistake, but without numbers t…

That’s what qualitative data is for. At the very least, talking to customers and reading their feedback. Preferably followed by organizing that data somehow, and using it to better…

Rather than building dedicated integrations (which can always come later), a relatively quick win that’s tool-agnostic would be to implement webhooks. I’ve used Typeform’s webhook …

Except I think there’s convincing argument to make that engagement will go down over time, if the algorithm makes no attempt to prioritize or suggest novel content. The rare occasi…

To add to that list: abstract syntax trees. It would take a pretty monumental effort to build, but I think a huge step forward could be made with a VCS that has knowledge of code s…

I realized in the last year or two that I was never really bad with names, I just didn’t give myself the chance to be good with them. For someone I’ve just met, it takes a little e…

I fully agree that the default porcelain has poor UX for managing the staging area, but doesn’t a porcelain without it encourage overly large commits? All sorts of workflows become…

Just to bring to levity to this discussion, your quote very much brings to mind the hilarious and ever-relevant Four Yorkshiremen[0] sketch from Monty Python. Right. I had to get u…

I can assure you 130km/h is treated as merely advisory. That is, you are advised to go at least 130.

I highly recommend the browser extension Session Buddy [0], if you, like me, regularly find you’ve opened tens to hundreds of tabs. It’s quite cathartic to save out my tabs into to…

You say this was your first time outside India. May I ask, what was your path to setting up a company in the US and moving there? Was this via an L1 intra-company transfer, an E2 i…

I couldn’t get this to work, but setting back my clock to October 20th did the trick (along with deleting the modal’s element via dev tools as jonahx mentions).

GMBN has a couple of great videos on buying a mountain bike [0][1], but I can really recommend a direct to consumer brand such as Canyon or YT — especially if you’re not sure wheth…

A lesson from history shows this not to be the case: hand-wrought nails were such a precious and militarily significant commodity in Roman England, that when the legion left, they …

Turning off viewing history and search history puts the recommendations much more under your own control — they’re then (AFAICT) only based on likes and subscriptions, and you stil…

I’m not sure I would call it quitting tech, but after studying computer science at university and dabbling in some start-ups that went nowhere, I was a property developer for a whi…