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Don’t you have to be confident the clocks are sufficiently synced across the system?

And its inspiration is still great but could use a refresh: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Absolutely amazing. American TV was a desolate landscape with occasional stuff so good you couldn’t believe the oasis wasn’t a mirage. Max Headroom was in that category. And of cou…

you have to actually remap your world to one where this person doesn't exist--that's a difficult neuro process and grief is part of it

I found The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor really helpful. It gave me a frame for why grief is a necessary part of our brain processing the loss. It made it much easier to…

I think it’s important to remember (and buttresses the upthread points)—the volatility isn’t a coincidence—it’s a direct result of the discovery of the oil and the crucial role it …

This seems super cool but is this like battery breakthroughs? Don’t get excited until we are much closer to it being manufactured at scale/appearing in clinical settings? This is a…

And the driver can actually crash. Pilots have strict work rules for a reason. People die when pilots are too tired. Is there variance in how long people can work without degraded …

While not that cheap, you could go to Space Camp for adults (over a weekend). Among other things, you get to run simulated missions—both from Mission Control and in a “space ship.”…

As were Marx and Engels, 175 years ago in the Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertai…

This is horrific. I immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where women were forcibly sterilized for decades (until the 1970s), often after giving birth. (This is part of the importanc…

Pairs nicely with this great book about all kinds of electronic components -- https://nostarch.com/open-circuits

My favorite Easter egg is the title as anagram for “NSA reeks”

Quartz crystal explanation and cutaway picture with fine tuning marks was all I needed. Preordered. Looks like a fun read.

I've found this repo https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions to be useful as well.

I've found this repo to have a lot of useful questions, obviously you have to tailor based on what you value most. https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions

Lovely quote, attribution likely apocryphal (and I don't think it was a poem). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/ is a nice writeup (assuming you trust its citations).

Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies no…

They could give back $21m of their carry.

This is a fantastic talk. Well worth the time spent watching it.