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On the past being a ghost, the best treatment of it I've encountered is the short story Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling [1]. It's so worth the complete read, so I hate to reduce it…

I don't follow. In a secretary problem, you have multiple offers, but can consider only one at a time, and cannot revisit past offers. If there only one company can unlock, then it…

You're not alone. I've even tried to dream up ways to "humanely" vaporize them so they wouldn't suffer being at the bottom of a trash heap with old food and what not dripping on th…

I too have benefited recently (since 3 months) from rowing, and started by simply emulating Dark Horse rowing on a laptop set to the front/side of the machine. I really like Rowalo…

Yes I am. Though I'm not sure it's quite as bad as the countless Wordle headlines from a couple years ago.

> The most interesting result from this study was the change in the spread for HRV. Did your HRV increase, indicating better health? How are you measuring it? > I was able to break…

What's the make/model of your hearing protection?

I'm interested in this bit: > ...lets me write codeblocks in my notes and turns my note taking system into a literate programming environment. So I have for example a self-written …

Related: https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...

This is very relatable :) A workmate and I have fun making variations of "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors!" and sarcastically suggest the other tries OCaml…

- How type theory can prove mathematical theorems. I can limp through the first exercises of Software Foundations, but eventually realize I'm just "making it work" instead of knowi…

Amen.

Reveddit is great, thank you!

Thank you. I'm also looking for a tool which will find when one file contains a scaled image in another file, or is a crop of another.

> I've found that the greatest benefit of cloud storage is not as a backup, but as our primary place to keep and look at photos. We started uploading and organizing everything in F…

Every time our phones reach capacity, I download all pics/video to my laptop. Then I plug in a portable SSD and copy them there in folder name "media until ". When I get to work ne…

I use graphviz probably weekly and it's actually become a bit of a productivity hack. If there's something I don't want to do, I can often convince myself to just DRAW it instead, …

This has worked for me too, especially when combined with some leisure activity. "I won't do X now, but I will stop browsing and walk around the block while thinking of X." "I won'…

> Throughout the day I have reminders set to step back and examine what I am doing at that moment. How does it work? Does an alarm sound and you've resolved to stop whatever you're…

I've been pleased with dreamhost, both as a host and registrar.

4,9,11,12 No tablets or phones. A PC in the living room with a loose ask before use policy. The older two got PC's in their rooms during pandemic remote schooling. Switches on week…

I use a python script that shells out to adb for what I want. Photos for example starts with a an "adb shell find /sdcard/DCIM/Camera -name .jpg -o -name .mp4" to collect a list, t…

They are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416. The first action concerns a syntactic property of …

When you accuse someone of being wrong, it's helpful to provide justification, not insults. Y: How do I strip unnecessary symbols after a decimal point? X: How do I round a number …

Thanks for articulating this. I call them XY inquisitors. We had a couple at work a few years ago and any question directed at them was met with a somewhat derisive "What are you t…