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Or: 4. Learn how to use the power setting of the microwave to ensure even heating.

That's pretty much the space Wordpress thrives in, isn't it? How shit the product is for Wordpress is a matter of debate, but the documentation and ecosystem around it is robust en…

I often think of markets in pseudo-evolutionary terms. The types and sizes of companies that survive are those that fit the environmental pressures. One common trend in evolution i…

"Art that doesn't sell is just a storage problem." Had an artist tell me this once and it stuck with me ever since. He was referring to paintings, but has generally held for every …

As many of these companies base their projections on a relatively small number of outside sources, it often strikes me as a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Big business and fina…

If you enter a place it will provide a list of fossils potentially nearby. It seems limited and not quite as cool as as say, showing a field guide of dinos in your area during a ti…

I've started hearing from non-tech people complaining about the spammy results in google results. Feels like "trust" that they're actually seeing the best results are going down. T…

You joke about nukes, but since they're such an "unthinkable" weapon they've become almost useless for most people who have them. You need them so that others with fewer compunctio…

Humans are regularly surprised to discover that the preponderance of evidence strongly suggests the universe was not created exclusively for themselves.

> The hurdles for starting up in the US market are astronomical, and there's only one contract manufacturer Perrigo Nutritionals which not surprisingly has a large minimum order si…

A great example is sunrise at the peak in Haleakala National park on Maui. So many people were crowding the top that they started parking on critically endangered species and makin…

Analytics measures what you want. If you want sales, then you're also gonna want to evaluate the sales funnel to see where friction in the online sales process can be reduced, and …

I suspect the result shown here is part of the broader tendency for people to only adopt the parts of things that make them "feel better". Zen comes to America and it's adopted by …

Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want. It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegeta…

The interesting part of simulation genres is finding out what you need to change to make it fun. What makes a simulation game fun varies per game. Stardew Valley could be described…

I think the challenge here is that efficiency is always relative to the position the observer is measuring it from. In the case of Gloria, she should have some amount of slack to f…

Baked clay is likely superior. Ceramics have fewer impurities that stone has that would cause data loss from standard things like erosion. Much of the oldest preserved writing is p…

If you ever make it to Hawai'i, check out our Minit Stops - shockingly good food.

I think it's one of those nature/nurture things. Lizards brain conditioned to infinite scroll crave it more. If you grew up without it and have avoided training that part of the mi…

Russia didn't hide their military buildup, they just lied and gaslit the world via their various disinformation channels into believing that Putin would have to be insane to actual…

"Move fast and break things" with a healthy does of deep disrespect for the user mixed into a young and mostly self taught discipline (UI/UX) based on nice sounding pseudo-science …

The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook. Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us …

That would take a lawsuit or a powerful battery manufacturing consortium to create a standard and convince DeWalt, Ryobi, Makita, etc. of the value. Right now vendor lock in to bat…

An additional and worthwhile addition: Black Lives Matter. The movement was never ONLY Black Lives Matter, or Cops Lives Don't Matter, or any of the other ways various opponents ha…

"Routinely run their own servers" That's doing a lot of work. Sure, it happens, but that vast majority of humans (including programmers) will not be in that category.