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In the west we tend to think of meditation as just the specific type of mindfulness practice that happened to catch on here, but there's really a whole plethora of meditative pract…

Fun game though I wish it left more time for the longer words, also wish we could have the letters in one line and shuffle them

I think this capture’s the essence better than anything else, “try and” simply behaving as “try and see if I can” (or whatever fits instead of “I” here)

Language is definitely a significant part of thinking, but when I remember how cold it was outside yesterday to figure out if it was colder than today, I'm not bringing words to mi…

Evolution created intelligence without even being intelligent itself

This all makes sense given "for the contexts I care about (small web applications largely written by solo devs)". Unfortunately for you most software (and therefore what most devel…

This makes a lot more sense than anything I've read about this in the past, thanks for the explanation!

This seems like a more restrictive version where the "Actors" must also be entirely deterministic and single threaded without really blocking in the middle of processing something.…