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Scared the shit out of me!!!!! Lmfao

Fuckkkk yes to Fishmans long season!!!

Haha well there is an exciting movie about concrete coming out, “The History of Concrete” by John Wilson. Surely the superfans are studying up

Hey friend, if it helps, every “song” you make will eventually become a symbol and memory of a time in your life. It doesn’t have to be good. Sometimes these sounds have even more …

Part of my training for doing "engine room checks" on a boat involved checking for any unusual smells, e.g. fuel leak, burning oil (from generator/engine), burning coolant (from ge…

Ha! I just had a debate about this with my friend. A certain ferry company uses a big Google Sheet to track where all of its vessels are currently docked in their home port, as wel…

You can also find a lot of this information on NOAA's nautical charts. https://devgis.charttools.noaa.gov/pod . These charts (along with radar) are what ships actually use to navig…

I wonder what you'd think about this video from Gary's Economics about the housing crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlUyS-T-_4 It feels to me like a good faith counterargum…

Oh wow thanks for writing out that summary of Sockwell's talk. I had a sort of similar line of thought a few years ago which I haven't followed since, but this just brought me back…

That quote about conjecture reminds me of a big point from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author suggests that 'science' / 'the scientific method' don't actually ac…

Hm, the author explicitly pointed out the same: > What confuses me is that other people can form images in their minds. Are all those with character amnesia also aphantasic? That c…

Lollll ‘dd’ with autocorrect will be a hoot

You should take a listen to Tomita as well then! There is so much beautiful music in the world

I was expecting something snobby but this was actually a very interesting view into the mind of a self-actualized person. I guess this is what happens if you keep working hard and …

Holy crap this was my operating systems professor!!! I was not expecting to see this here... big smile on my face. He was a great teacher :).

Archive.org has a PHP Software Engineer position they posted recently, may come in handy once you have a more stable setup with your computer https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/de…

Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare), The Next 700 Programming Languages (Landin), As We May Think (Bush), Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style (Backus) An…

You’re on the right path my friend, hang on to the feeling that drove you to write this. Not everyone has it, and you may even find yourself having woken up with it missing one day…

YES I FOUND IT, article on the same topic, not in the context of computers: https://thehealthygp.com/2021/04/28/why-i-stopped-using-the-... Why I stopped using the word “just” and …

Random tip... I noticed the volume sliders only take effect when you stop dragging the knob. You can use the 'oninput' event for the slider to set its value as the user moves it ar…

I sometimes wonder if statistics are like a pane of glass that allow the light of god (the true nature of things) to pass through, while logic/rationalism is the hubris of man play…

This is an interesting avenue to add to my search of “where the experts hang out”. I tried to reflect on it here: https://josh8.com/blog/mailing_lists.html (As you can infer from t…

You can use the US embargo on Cuba as a case study -- see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJETjgJM-Q4 . The conclusion is roughly that the sanctions did not work, they …