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I dislike this story and it’s because I can believe it.

I don’t seem to be able to stop the boat by sailing straight into the wind.

One thing I don't get about the concept of capability traps is why is it expected that a company which is good at one thing would be capable at the new thing? What exactly makes a …

He actually said much more. One of his most radical statements was to love your enemy. Even your enemies love their neighbors so why feel good about yourself for doing that. Even s…

I’m speaking of reality. How is a country having an army for defense a bad thing in the existence we currently find ourselves?

How is a country having an army for defense bad?

Some of the options make no sense at all.

That catastrophe is entirely on Bonin the bonehead.

Thats projection.

I pretty much always read the first sentence of an article, then the last paragraph, and then the full first paragraph, then the beginning sentences of middle paragraphs, until fin…

Humans going around the moon will be amazing every single time for the next 10,000 years it happens for anyone who isn't already a miserable person. Going for a swim in the ocean i…

> AI generated videos are indistinguishable from reality.

Is it educational to do this on a VM or should I break out my old thinkpad?

A: There's the right way, the wrong way, and THEN THE MAX POWER WAY! B: Isn't that just the wrong way? A: Yes! But faster!

Great website also.

I know something is worth reading when I see a wall of people being defensive of whatever the author presented.

We could also talk about lb•AU (pound Astronomical Units), but generally it's best to stick to what's standard so readers don't need to do conversions. Watt hours is great.

My dad recently told me a funny story about something that happened to him. Except it actually had happened to me and I had told him about it years before.

The idea of needing to provide extremely personal information that’s somehow tailored for me just to use a service is so incredibly dystopian to me. I’d much rather use a password.…

It defies explanation. This is followed up by an explantation.

The way text resizes on that website is so strange. It's actually amazing how awful it is. Like they went out of their way to ensure it resizes in the most ridiculous possible mann…

If there is something nice that one has and one does not have. zsh is the one that has it.