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But being able to maintain an old car IS the expectation. Not being able to repair and prolong the lifetime of a car, find parts, not allowing third party equipment and mechanics t…

> can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images.…

Sorry for being pedantic but they are using an en dash (–) not an em dash (—) which is a little strange because the latter is usually the one meant for adding information in second…

Isn't that the definition of the rule of law? When operating a society under the rule of law, morality is meant to define the framework of rules and regulations by which we live ou…

> Musk has achieved great, incredible things. That’s just indisputable fact. > We should celebrate the good and debate the bad. This is the kind of statements that are not a helpfu…

Any potential integration with Latex ? not sure exactly how that would work; it would be nice to either embed d2 code in a block and make the rendering part of the latex compilatio…

This is pretty cool! You can even add a birthday reminder; or even a name-day reminder if you're greek and my father who's kinda obsessive with these things.

Kentucky Route Zero has been the most intellectual of journeys I went through in 2020-2021. This game almost requires that I put it down every now and then to ponder and think. It …

He doesn't seem to ever provide any evidence for his claims other than a repeated "I work in the display industry"..

As a Greek who's lived abroad and has taken a jab at a bunch of different languages, I always talked to my friends about how easy it is to understand most Greek words even if I've …

If you speak Japanese. I have heard that it is fairly hard for foreigners who don't speak the language. I am still considering moving there but more so due to neo-orientalist tende…

Hahaha, I love the fact that someone made a Captcha solver. Proof that if Google truly wanted to test for "humanity" they would design something different.

That is definitely a factor. More complex social systems provide a degree of distance between you and the rest of the community (how can anyone keep up with having a sort of relati…

Wholeheartedly agree. In parts of society where our distorted ideas of "productivity" and "success" are absent, people share more freely. The island where my family is from comes t…

To me, it seems as less of a sociological anomaly and more of an example of the quality of production outside the established competitive norms of capitalism. There are multiple su…

You are right, life in New York isn't exactly close to that in other US cities

What made my post-college mental state so much better (as well as my friends' quality of life) was that I forced my flatmates to cook with me all the time and we would have people …

We had a similar course at Columbia (half semester, 1 credit). The professor was good and the information pretty useful; very similar material to this one. The paradox was that for…

yeap it's all his doing :) HN just helped make that work visible which isn't that easy (even within the HN community)

Drinking or not drinking beer during the times you should be productive is a matter of self-discipline and I doubt it has any direct relation to productivity. Disclaimer: I work in…

Me too. Discrete math was mainly combinatorics w/ an intro to probability. Then, probability theory was a separate requirement and, in addition to a Linear Algebra/ODE combo class,…