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'For Lisa' - If we're not in pain, we're not alive (Blindsight, Peter Watts)

small talk with your neighbour

I've started 'The One Thing' by Gary Keller and it's serving as a helpful reminder to keep my focus undiluted.

You have to trick your mind into believing it's not a drastic change, otherwise the fomo will step in and you'll eventually get doubled down relapse episodes. 1. I uninstalled the …

Given the current public opinion on AI adoption, especially around art, it's too early. I'm personally not a fan but for different reasons. AI-voiced (story-critical) characters wo…

I do three categories in my gmail: - Primary: mail from knowns, important starred mail - Updates: OTP/accounts related, good newsletters that post less frequently - Promotions: eve…

I always see Merchant of Record payment processors get recommended in every thread like this on twitter, while it's bad for beginners. MoR processors, since their per-state thresho…

I found the last chapter of Griffiths Electrodynamics a good beginner resource for special relativity.

Playing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

'Build in public' communities on twitter have good volume of discussions like these.

Did you try the UnTrap extension for Youtube? It can block shorts, infinite feed, related videos, even comments if you wanna go extreme.

The 3-body problem trilogy (Rememberance of the Earth's past). My first sci-fi novels ever - the Netflix show sold me and these novels compelled me on a whole new hard sci-fi rabbi…

- Reading on mobile: ReadEra, Document Viewer (by SufficientlySecure, no longer maintained) - Music: Windows Media Player, Spotify - File Management: Syncthing, TreeSize - Code: Vs…

The Prestige

I just create shortcuts for resolving any potential ambiguities. My backups in other devices are organized by monthly folders.

Good stories that trigger introspection, characters you can relate to or sympathize with, fun gameplay with no consequences, ultra-realistic graphics, immersive environments, or ju…

Just saw a horror story on r/startups. Dev guy worked for two years with no pay while the project went nowhere. Now reluctant to "give away" his work as he feels cheated. https://o…

r/Piracy mods are compromised[1], one was recently caught accepting payments in exchange for hosting malicious sites on the megathread Victims' posts get downvoted to invisiblity b…

Every year I move a couple thousand bookmarks to my obsidian to make them easily searchable, then gradually move them to appropriate note. Eventually it got so overwhelming that I …

Lmao glad I could help. Sedated myself with this for six months straight.

Scrolling through top AskHN posts of all time scratched this itch for me, but it's too deep of a rabbit hole, right next to TV Tropes. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&…

Likewise:) But the more I watch it, the more I understand why it was labelled as 'pretentious' by first-time watchers.

The Winter Soldier is probably the most rewatchable movie I've ever watched. You know exactly what's gonna happen, but you're hyped up regardless.

Woah! I knew it was improv, but didn't know it took just 5 days! I'm convinced Coherence trivia is as interesting as the movie.