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I love Sean Carroll (Something Deeply Hidden and From Eternity to Here are the root of my fascination with physics and endless pondering of the nature of time) but I have to disagr…

I've seen big yellow buses driving through every neighborhood I've ever lived in picking up and dropping people off on a fixed schedule... Seems like the concept works just fine wh…

Please elaborate on how US law isn't "autistic".

Every time I read about Orcas, I find out something new that leaves me even more in awe of them.

> You can chat with the LLM while simultaneously being able to destroy it slowly. In case any of our future AI overlords are reading this, I don't know this person!

Go visit Harris County where Houston is, they are definitely active and more are getting deployed constantly. More commercial businesses are also installing them in their parking l…

I think all the people who perished or the ones that lost loved ones would disagree with that assessment not to mention it's just shitty to talk about a tragedy that devastated so …

Tragically it already happened once 20 years ago so it appears they predicted correctly.

I did a summer working with a traveling survey crew for pipeline work on the East Coast back in the 2010's. We started up north in Maryland and followed the pipeline south down to …

Access to nature was something I sort of subconsciously selected for when I moved a few years back to be closer to the kids. It got me curious how close my situation was to the ide…

> Or were you only asking about digital tools? I haven't really made any of those. Making physical tools feels much more satisfying these days. I made that realization last year an…

> Is it just that there's a direct personal benefit with those devices, and people view the trade-off as being worth it? I think that's mostly it. Basically since Flocks only use i…

Sadly, judging by the info I read on the website now, it seems to be focused on using AI assistance. Not going to lie, it deeply worries me how quickly society is just accepting of…

Hopefully mine, have a pair of glasses that look like those that I can't wear because of how uncomfortable people look when they see them on my face.

While not "fully" Netflix original (having been picked up by Netflix from Fox I think after season 2 or 3), Lucifer was a great series and without Netflix we would have never gotte…

Throwing out my recommendation for History of the Universe as well as its sibling channels. Honestly, the people behind these channels produce higher quality documentaries, both in…

> The youtube channels are nowhere near the style and depth of documentaries like the ones above... My friend, if you enjoy long format, deep diving documentaries written, produced…

> The source txtfile has since either been dos'd or deleted (at least it was when I tried to access) > Someone dumped the content into a google doc on reddit[1] if anyone's interes…

Did exactly this with the Sennheiser BTD-700 Bluetooth dongle. Found someone had done the work to create a little C library for controlling the dongle and with that Claude had crea…

> > So you're one of those "I can't see it so therefore they're making it up" people. > You said it, not me No shit, can't believe we're wasting electricity on this kind of bot out…

> ADHD, not so much So you're one of those "I can't see it so therefore they're making it up" people. No point in continuing the discussion with you then

> I think that reality is basically made of habit. This statement is not self explanatory and reeks of performative profoundness, care to elaborate? > Habit is a bigger deal than y…

> I think this has nothing to do with commonality and more to do with the fact everyone I know who is autistic (I work in tech) has been obsessively getting themselves diagnosed wi…

I was keeping a Windows install around solely to play Fortnite with my kids but they've finally found other games. Rocket League performance on Linux used to be the other big reaso…

As someone in their mid 30's who followed Ron Paul back in the early 2000's, I have a hard time understanding this sentiment when, at least back then, "Your rights end where mine b…