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Sounds like ultrafinism or actualism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actualism

For some related ideas: - Bike-shedding [0] - the Law of Triviality [1] - "Hammock-Driven Design" - a 2010 talk by Rich Hickey [2] [0] https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikesheddin…

For woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/

Very interesting! Thanks!

Makes sense! Thanks!

I was looking at the archived version [0], and I had a question. Regarding their PCB design (visible on the bottom of the page, with additional details here [1], could someone expl…

The plural of "sphinx" is "sphinges".

The Mnemonic (which I heard from Merlin Mann's podcast) is to approximate the pronounciation of "Csikszentmihalyi" as "Chick sent me, hi"

The probably won't be relevant to most people here, but one book that changed how I approach my work (as a physician) was "Sapira's Art & Science of Bedside Diagnosis". It goes bey…

Hopefully we might see a new Stargate show being developed!

Could you recommend any open source projects which demonstrate good code UX as you describe? I would like to read through some such source code.

How do you catalogue and organize your physical home library? Do you have any recommendations for tools and/or techniques for managing and organizing a personal library at home (ph…

Thanks for your comment! It was a very enjoyable read, and in its style is reminiscent of some older mystery novel authors.

I wanted to say thanks for your game! I loved it when it first came out!

Wow, that was amazing! And the complex combination of tricks and glitches, along with the math to understand them, was very artfully done!

I agree. If the stranger says something along the lines of, "The number of blue dots is greater than 50." on one day, and on some subsequent day says, "The number of blue dots is n…

Thanks for the link! The story really helps to show how some future people might regard such a site and all the warnings we might place on/in it.

when I'm coding, I like listening to classical, although I've also been liking swinghouse recently.