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Similar to this, I created an android wallpaper that shows what percentage of your life is already past. This helps me ensure that I'm spending my limited time in the most valuable…

Try searching the play store for "Life Perspective Wallpaper"

I think it's exceedingly important to recognize that life is finite, and to reflect upon this regularly. I think its so important that I created an android wallpaper that shows wha…

Memento Mori is a surprisingly popular topic on HN. This Wikipedia page or some other blog post on the topic gets posted here fairly often. It's kinda interesting because when I br…

Perhaps a bit morbid, but very realistic. Death comes for us all, even if you ignore it. By consciously forcing yourself to confront it you can reduce the chance that you'll wind u…

Time is fleeting. I made this android wallpaper so I would be reminded of that fact. Every time I look at my phone I think "am I doing what I really want to be doing? am I making t…

related to Nixery: Improved Layering Design https://storage.googleapis.com/nixdoc/nixery-layers.html

Yeah, mars is getting pretty crowded at this point! I guess the voyager probes might be lonelier, if you count them as robots.

It's mentioned in the article, but doesn't go into detail about why it hasn't caught on > Continued problems with vinasse-dumping marred the sugar-ethanol industry’s environmental …

gclown is the only thing that keeps me going these days. #!/bin/sh cat

https://codeberg.org/ is managed gitea.

You could hack that together with huginn pretty easily https://github.com/huginn/huginn

That's all fine and well, I'm not saying you should give away all your money. I'm just saying that there are lots of things to invest in that aren't fossil fuels! Your money isn't …

I just don't understand how people can believe in climate change and also believe that "ROI for me and my shareholders" is still a good way to make decisions. Buffett certainly isn…

Yep, ESG investing causes distasteful companies to be underpriced, which creates a sort of morality arbitrage. If you're okay with funding climate change, you can make a quick buck…

From dinosaurs it came, to dinosaurs it will return. Buffett buys up oil companies for cheap and gets to pretend he's Rockefeller. It doesn't matter that they're bad investments, o…

I'm not sure I agree with "it doesn't scale". It scales just as well as writing code by hand does! PlantUML/mermaidjs do hit a sweet spot IMO, of having the chart defined as plaint…

check out pushover, I use it for this exact case https://pushover.net/

"Why would anyone do drugs, when they could just mow a lawn?" - Hank Hill

You're correct, it's not as simple as "systemic oppression or racism". There are absolutely lots of factors, both historical and ongoing. I think I misunderstood the original comme…

The data for asian americans isn't shown on that graph because the underlying data used for the graph groups people into white, black, hispanic, and other. I apologize for saying "…

Yes, it's actually pretty simple. Non-white groups lag in almost all economic categories. The fed publishes a lot of this data[1], you can see for yourself. There are also lots of …