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"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

I think they basically agree with your point here -- they mention Descartes and Kant to say roughly "I hold basically these ideas, but I don't mention the philosophers' names when …

Strongly disagree with this: > I think the variety in barista coffee is different from the variety in, say, fashion or wine because with fashion and wine there is social signalling…

Just fyi (perhaps @dang) this jumps to the Postscript of the blog post due to the anchor/hash in the URL. I was a bit confused initially.

This is SO cool I love it. Feels like I'm reading snippets from a million people's diaries one after another. Humbling!

Can you recommend any command-line pdf tools? As a student I have to look at lots of pdfs and the gui tools for manipulation are very lacking.

I agree that a smart, ambitious person can become expert in more than one field in their life — but jumping to a new area of mathematics is on an entirely lower level than jumping …

Oh, also, two other things: First, CuriosityStream has a bundle deal with Nebula where you can get both at once: [1]. You have to find an appropriate promo link from one of the par…

Worth mentioning Nebula [0], which is $10/month to support a large roster of educational (or education-adjacent) creators. The site is "creator-built and creator-owned", according …

those first four are things that i didn't even realize bother me but i feel like it'll be a massive QoL improvement to have them turned off. thank you!

Any chance you can say where you work? Because that sounds kind of like a dream job to me, haha.

This is a reasonable argument, but it implies that FORTRAN is in fact not a good language for beginners; almost all beginners care about IO / text processing, and almost none care …

woah that is cool

Fossil is a version control system — it's what SQLite uses and it includes a static site/documentation generator, which is (AIUI) what generates sqlite.org. See https://sqlite.org/…

This is clever, but I wouldn't call it a variation on this style of proof — the OP was an example of a somewhat-subtle logic error, while this is just two instances of wordplay (fo…

This is so cool, brightened my day - thanks for sharing :)

that was a very interesting article; thanks for posting it :)