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by kej 3y ago
Another fun take on this is How To Invent Everything by Ryan North. The premise is that it's a handbook for stranded time travelers, but it covers the same ideas of building from one technology to the next. https://www.howto
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by kej 3y ago
>it's considered unwise to use a non-unix compliant shell as your login shell I'll bite, why is this?
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by kej 3y ago
I recently finished reading Chesterton's "The Club of Queer Trades", and one of the jobs in there was a paid dinner guest who even set up the conversation so the client could make witty remarks.
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by kej 3y ago
This sounds great and I'd love to help test. Kevin at silent planet dot com. Thanks!
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by kej 3y ago
There's a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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by kej 3y ago
I'd speculate it's similar to the Collatz conjecture, where the problem can be explained simply even to non-mathematicians, but trying to prove it or fully understand it requires a much deeper understanding.
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by kej 3y ago
Literally on the linked page, it's a picture of Ray Bradbury holding a cat: https://http.cat/status/451
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by kej 3y ago
> in need of a rebinding Rebinding this particular book reminded me of an old coworker at Scout camp who did something neat where he completely unbound it, laminated each page, and then stuck it all in a 3-ring binder. It made it so the
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by kej 3y ago
This is clever but it feels like a situation where Goodhart's Law (when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure) will apply. Once this becomes a known test, AI text generators can optimize for it and then it won&#x27
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by kej 3y ago
You don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons.
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by kej 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I've gotten better results from iNaturalist than from the built in camera search on my phone, especially for insects.
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by kej 3y ago
The continuous movie was the source of one of my dad's favorite movie experiences. He and his friends arrived late to The Manchurian Candidate and missed an important scene, so they spent the rest of the time trying to piece together w
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by kej 3y ago
Authy solves this by putting all the TOTP keys behind a master password and then backing it up online, so you can get up and running on a different device quickly. It's the same trade-off as a password manager, where your eggs are all
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by kej 3y ago
I feel like I've read some variation of "new thing will make tooth brushing obsolete" every few years for the last two decades at least, but they never seem to come to fruition.
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by kej 3y ago
If you remove Le Guin from the search, you'll find attributions for this quote going back to Socrates. She may very well have had such a sign, but it's strange to attach it to her when she had so much wonderful writing that she di
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by kej 3y ago
I like justwatch.com for this. You get cross-service watchlists and it tells you when a show or movie becomes available on a service you have.
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by kej 3y ago
A checkbox in settings would be better, but you can turn off the original tabs with a user style file, just in case anyone reading is unaware.
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by kej 3y ago
Is this just checking for matching usernames, or is there something more clever happening (not that username matching isn't useful)? Also any chance of a Firefox version?
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by kej 3y ago
Not the book you're asking for, but I want to plug Grant's autobiography. It has a sort of "I've already been a general and president so now I can tell you about embarrassing things I did as a kid" charm that is an
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by kej 3y ago
Also interesting is the machine they used for the random selections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleroterion
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by kej 3y ago
There was no first-party currency purchase at the time, and they weren't hurting for attention back then, either, so I'm inclined to go with Hanlon's razor on this one.
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by kej 3y ago
It had its own moderation problems, but I liked the Slashdot rule that funny upvotes didn't count for karma with the explanation that "you have to be smart, not just a smartass". It made it so that people could still post jok
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by kej 3y ago
I guess I remember interpreting it more as a way of looking at the opportunity cost instead of ignoring it, kind of like "If you don't go to college for the next 4 years, what would you be doing instead?"
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by kej 3y ago
There was one Dear Abby column that has stuck with me decades later. An older person was debating going back to college, and the letter was something like "If I go back to school for four years, I'll be 60 when I'm done. Is t
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by kej 3y ago
There is also nandgame.com, which is heavily inspired by the first few sections of nand2tetris but presents it as a drag and drop web page instead of needing to download and edit the local text files, so it's easier to jump in.
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by kej 3y ago
Taking this tangent even further, the successor of those games is the Jackbox series, which make great party games. You put the game on a screen everyone can see and then each player uses their own web browser (on whatever kind of device th
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by kej 3y ago
Having been homeschooled for high school myself, there are definitely people who won't accept anything that isn't official, but there are also people who just need to check a "received transcript" box on some form.
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by kej 3y ago
Using slashes for a short/small/abbreviated list is relatively common. For example, the top post on the hiring thread right now is for a "Full-stack/frontend/product engineer". There's another one describi
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by kej 3y ago
I think many/most people use slashes more often than they use asterisks, however.
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by kej 3y ago
> Or maybe it's a chicken and egg problem. Maybe Chicken Scheme is the solution, then? http://www.call-cc.org/

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