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It's somewhat niche, but nursing homes would benefit from low-friction facial recognition of residents. At least where I've worked, there's a constant churn of care staff — with so…

I answered above, but answering here as well in case it's buried. > But is there a tangible risk vector to European consumers of open source, commercial American software. Yes. If …

Here's one case from August 2025: ---- Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the International Criminal Court, discusses in an interview with Le Monde the consequences of US sanctions…

> but there are already many great graphics books out there Would you mind listing your personal top n books?

The beans chapter stuck with me too. Just fished out my copy: > The best instruction I've read for how long to cook beans comes from a collection of recipes called "The Best in Ame…

If the extemporaneous style of cooking from the article sounds interesting to you, the book "An Everlasting Meal" by Tamar Adler teaches it. (She quotes M. F. K. Fisher often, who …

> It got killed because Apple stopped supporting it. That's how it happened in my orbit anyway. Steve Jobs published an open letter entitled "Thoughts on Flash", in which he said t…

Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF? I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't kn…

> I frankly love my life now. What's it like?

> pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga Not Zen, but there's "kasina" meditation that sounds similar to this. You might stare at a light source or a colored disc, then close …

> The implicit definition of "fair" as "equal suffering" is always a bit concerning to me. For family peace, it may be the best thing. My personal anecdote: I'm from city A. My spo…

The author isn't defending debunked "learning styles", which were popular in the 90s and 00s. "Learning styles" usually refers to one of a handful of specific ways of dividing up p…

> and largely funds the same club of favored people Without taking a side, I have an anecdote that might be able to shed some light on why that's the case. While living in Canada, …

> These are all fake made up jobs that add very little value to our national progress. Sitting in a small country, another argument for these types of programs is to promote the co…

Not really. I mostly hang out to try to keep folks from going way off the rails (I hope). I don't know if further details will be helpful or applicable to you, but here's my experi…

Thanks. I've been hanging out in some meditation forums for the past few years. It seems to me that there's a clear "story-driven" dark pattern that goes like this: A person ... * …

> Which would attract story-lovers. And might lead them to approach it from the story-end first (rather than seeking some more solid to work with). Which could be a problem. Can yo…

> I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people. Maybe both? It makes some: It can be genuinely destabilizing to …

I think the closest I come to a "yes" would be a sort of underlying feeling of nihilism. The universe is big; life is short. That kind of thing. But if I had a kid and e.g., watche…

> reexamine how the media/doomscrolling have affected your thought process. No need. Except for Hacker News and local news, I don't read the news. I don't use other social networks…

> Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents? No. But it's not really relevant to me. My grandparents' generation was largely motivated by religious faith (and…

For me, the question isn't "Will humanity overcome?" I don't have a doubt about that. Instead it's "What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, …

Some random resource recommendations: I got started a few years ago when I saw the book "The Mind Illuminated" recommended here. There's a subreddit for it. (Fwiw, the author had a…