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Have you seen this 1-acre Vermont farm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6O-4zbP6E I'm not a farmer so I can't speak to how much of this is unreproducible, but it does seem very i…

Can I ask how you gained preview access to Fable 5?

I didn't realize whistleblowers could recover part of fraud settlements: > The civil settlement includes the resolution of claims brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisi…

Is there actually a shortage of usable farmland? (If anything, I think the world would be better off if farmers used their land more efficiently and sustainably.) If the cost of en…

I'm finding it a little hard to believe that GPT 5.5 is in 11th place for webdev, outranked by models like Kimi, Qwen, and Z.ai. I'm not saying it's not true (I have noticed GPT be…

$2bn is their entire marketing spend, so it includes media buying, creative, in-store displays, PR, research, and anything else involved in the marketing mix. FTA: > The confection…

For a more informed deep dive into data center water usage (albeit many months old): https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...

"Leave them alone" is easy to type into a comment textbox but is much more difficult when it's a neighbor, or a family member, or someone else you have to interact with at a regula…

Out of curiosity, what colors (or text treatments) do you personally prefer to confer "gain" and "loss"?

In some cultures, you signal respecting someone's time by not bothering them. In other cultures, you signal respecting someone's time by making small-talk with them. Advice about m…

I personally don't want to trawl through Twitter to find the current state-of-the-art, so I read Zvi Mowshowitz's newsletter: https://thezvi.substack.com/ His newsletter put me ont…

I think this is a distinction between comedy and non-comedy genres. There are many examples of protags in American comedies who never get their way -- Party Down, Seinfeld, Always …

I really miss gallo pinto. I went to Costa Rica in 2009, and since then, nothing has been the same (in NYC). It's mind-boggling that such a simple recipe can be so good in CR but s…

Ah, I knew I recognized the friendship between Jeff and Sanjay -- they were the subject of a New Yorker article in 2018: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendshi…

One number is not going to work for everyone. The only way to be sure is to get a blood test for Vitamin D levels. I get tested with my yearly physical, but if someone really cares…

Privy just got purchased by Stripe: https://privy.io/blog/announcing-our-acquisition-by-stripe

By the way, if you liked this post, this taking-silly-things-way-to-seriously is the comedic wheelhouse of Nathan Fielder.

But the point still stands: if it's so straightforward, why give this person this treatment, instead of millions of other people?

I wonder how hard it is to change a game engine to render images like this, and if the effect would be preserved while panning.

I don't know why you've been downvoted so much. I'd expect a company to issue replacements, not refunds, when they're not the end retailer.

I was under the impression that Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks, but I could be wrong. Community Notes have been used at Twitter for a long time. Are…

Some comedy works have endured, like Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (though it is helped by its huge influence on To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis).

It's moving to schedule III, though the new company it's in really highlights how it should be descheduled instead: > It moves pot to Schedule III, alongside ketamine and some anab…

I don't read "it exists because it has to exist" in the parent's statement. They're saying that there's an advantage one way and a disadvantage another, and evolution favors advant…

I've played Textorcist! It's a solid game, and it's fun insofar as it's challenging and makes you want to play it more. (It's been a couple years since I've played it, hence the va…