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> minimize the wandering of your mind To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind …

Exactly, Nolan's use of CGI is perfect. Elegant and purposeful, and incredibly well executed.

WE. JUST. WANT. GOOD. STORIES. WELL. TOLD.

First Om, now Dvorak. Such a loss, the prototypical cranky geek. Loved his takes with Curry and Leporte

The "640k should be enough for anyone" quote (even if Gates didn't exactly say it) is making the point is that _right now_ we have no idea about what our future needs and capabilit…

There were hippo bones found under Trafalgar Square, and once-upon-a-time (10kya) elephants, lions, and rhinos were once endedmic to Britain

Love that they're getting gender-affirming care

It's designed by committee, with n stakeholders with n+1 opinions and motivations and pressures from other business units over 17 workshops and governance decisions

This is a good opportunity to shill for Immich https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944 With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement

that's inconsequential to keeping my family cool on the third 43c degree day in a week

Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens

As an Australian, the lack of anxiety and guilt you get when you're using 10-12 hours of air conditioning in the middle of summer and not paying for a cent of it because your solar…

Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

> Microsoft go the same route There's a reason Game Pass and the Series S exist, they just hadn't had the courage to say the quiet part loud yet.

PlayStation saw Microsoft's recent news and decided to take out the trash this week. The entire console gaming industry has been decimated in the last few weeks.

To be fair, if any org deserves a vanity TLD it's CERN

This is the modern version of Trap Streets - hiding fake streets in maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

I'm finding that too, investing in the process and the work is more satisfying than the outcomes

This one of my most favourite youtube documentaries i've seen in a while

> I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this Never underestimate the audacity of a software engineer with a new toy > It's like …

Brave of you to assume they had anyone running infosec by the sounds of it

and I wonder why I can get flights to the US from Australia at historically low prices?

"Glad I wasn't just a weird, overly sensitive kid." Oh we are, just we have neurological reasons for it :D

> At some point you just have to move to Ebooks. This is a parallel story for me to vinyl / streaming for music There are some books and albums I want as physical artefacts, their …

It's a very strange cultural thing too, Australians (and I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen Paracetemol has always been…