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Just to be clear -- this story is fictional, it did not happen in real life. It has become a bit of an urban legend because of a video game but does not have a basis in fact.

My parents moved from Texas to Chicago this year to be near my sister instead of me (their son) because in their very traditional minds they need to be taken care of by a daughter …

The idea that any results of AI productivity enhancements that include data from 2024 are valid is bananas. I’m not even a programmer — but the step change since late fall 2025 is …

Completely different style and purpose of resting. The long hot rest is for fat and collagen rendering. Nothing like this kind of rest after high temperature grilling or roasting.

Does this at a minimum set a market value for the attempt to move to for profit? IIRC the new for profit will have to buy the assets of the not for profit at fair market value?

Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

I think the point being made is that it seems plausible that a term used in Britain to refer to literal boys was repurposed later in a different context to be a demeaning way to re…

> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes; they happen after the fact. We have the illusion of being in the driver seat but really we are ju…

Girls don’t like boys girls like beards and money?

My school got one (in Malaysia). It was the first computer I ever used. Typing BASIC programs in from magazines and saving them out to cassette tape. Good times. It felt magical.

Unless you have a way to drip feed chlorine into your pool it absolutely will not have the same chlorine level, unless you are running your sag incorrectly.

I own these. The experience using them is substantially better than using grocery store clippers. The cutting edges meet very precisely and firmly so I get a very clean cut with re…

Happy to see this, I will be buying a couple of pairs if the sound quality is anything close to the prior generation. I love my current pair and have considered paying over retail …

Most companies have explicit and firm salary ranges for positions already -- I would bet MS is one of them. They just didn't put them in the job postings until now.

The confidence is for the slope of the regression line. Are you objecting to something the interval is not trying to accomplish or am I missing something (entirely possible)?

Ah! Contronyms! Words that can mean a thing... and it's opposite (or nearly so). Dust, cleave, overlook... many others. One of those enjoyable corners of the language.

I suspect they are talking about this: https://radiodns.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Guidelines-o... Essentially small images sent OTA that allow stations to "Brand" themselves o…

The Munro guys have talked about how rapidly Tesla quality has advanced— going from amateur on early model s to impressive of later model 3s. I wonder how much of this is that earl…

Ah, thanks for letting me know. It was an amazing visit.

RaMell Ross shipped himself from Rhode Island to Alabama in 2021. He has created an installation called Return to Origin currently on display at the Museum of Southern Art in New O…

But it seems to me that the people that are most focused on being productive and optimal in this weirdly obsessive way are pretty high income -- they are not just scraping by to pa…

I was thinking about this recently watching a conversation between Lex Fridman and Bryan Johnson and it struck me that there is a huge difference in optimizing lifestyle choices fo…

That is a really interesting approach -- if you remove the words with any of the letters in SLATE, what is the highest ranked word? (If you have it to hand)

I have found it very useful to frame things in terms of my future self. This works for both things I want to do, and things I want to stop doing. For example — get home from work, …