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Disclosure: I'm one of the hosts. This was one of EmDash's first podcast interviews since launch. A few things that came up that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere: - Kane confirme…

Unfortunately (and unbelievably!), Massachusetts still burns trash. > There are more than 100 municipal waste combustion facilities in operation across the United States. Five of t…

Great write-up! I was sorry to see there wasn’t a reward for you reporting this to them. At least you didn’t find that the bathroom rating tablets had audio as well!

Very cool to see this! It turns out my wife and I bought Andy Barto’s (and his wife’s) house. During the process, there was a bidding war. They said “make your prime offer” so, kno…

Strange: the New York Times wrote about this on July 26, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/health/cancer-self-destru...

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> The metal concentrations varied by where the tampons were purchased (US vs. EU/UK), organic vs. non-organic, and store- vs. name-brand. However, they found that metals were prese…

Playing this game on my 27” iMac was the first time I experienced nausea from motion sickness. I felt ill for two days. Player beware!

Agreed. This article makes it sound like this is a perpetual motion machine.

Wow, this is intense! Think twice before sampling it if you have any sensitivity to flashing lights. Might seem obvious, but apparently needs saying!

I had nocturnal childhood epilepsy and, thankfully, I grew out of it. I would have an “aura” before going to bed that I would be having a seizure that night. Thankfully, I never ha…

The article doesn’t address the question of how the cup truly works. It relies on capillary action but, based on the article, I’m not sure how. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capi…

Same in the west slope of Colorado. So much water is used to grow alfalfa, in part because there is a “use it or lose it” water rights policy: > Failure to apply a water right to b…

Mine was stuck until I toggled the "Auto-pan skybox" setting and it appeared.

I gave it this prompt, which I didn't spend any time refining, and it came up with a world that does a pretty good job of matching it. > A world made of very strong rock that has l…

This article doesn’t really address statistics for younger people. I feel like the headline should be: should elderly people be given CPR? For me the answer is a strong no. Why on …

a) These features are truly moving. I didn’t expect to get emotional from a press release. b) It’s gonna be a bonkers keynote if they’re releasing this before WWDC.

Headline: Innovative company reinvents company town. Visionary leaders hope to drive employees into debt and eventually forced servitude.

You can just say “15 minutes” and it has a higher success rate for me.

The PNGs aren't optimized—I crunched them losslessly and saved 8%–10%.

Hi Arpit! That’s wonderful news, thank you! I’m running Appsmith Cloud.

I would love to use Appsmith and pay-by-usage, but I’m blocked by not being able to SSH tunnel into MySQL. Anyone with this same issue, please upvote! https://github.com/appsmithor…

Here are the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/s...