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by lordleft 2y ago
Years ago I read an introduction to a collection of Chekhov's letters that provided an illuminating context to the intellectual & aesthetic climate of Russia in the 19th century. It explained that authors like Chernyshevsky asserte
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Dementia in the Ancient Greco-Roman World Was Minimally Mentioned(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use – AT&T Archives Film [video](youtube.com)
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by lordleft 2y ago
I think this is an overall good move, and very much support it, but many countries with better work-life balance and robust support for new parents still see declining birth rates....I can't help but think that a decline in fertility r
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The Palmer Method of Business Writing – Drills and Worksheets(github.com)
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A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy(oneletterwords.com)
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by lordleft 2y ago
If GLP-1 manages to mitigate global obesity, I would say that it would earn a spot against all these other drugs (and maybe even outrank stuff like SSRIs).
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Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions(blogs.loc.gov)
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by lordleft 2y ago
thank you, I'll check this out!
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys(pepysdiary.com)
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What's the status of the game porting kit? The last time I used it to get a game running, it proved to be a bit of a miserable slog (to be fair, I was trying to run UnityModManager for a CRPG).
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What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment(theatlantic.com)
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I think happiness is actually a pretty complicated idea and people mean many different things by it. Is happiness pleasure? Fulfillment? Purpose? Is it a transitory psychological state or a deeper orientation? Or both? If we say money makes
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by lordleft 2y ago
I am a Christian. Something I have found within my faith tradition (and something I find is lacking in the culture around me) is a sense that I am in possession of an infinitely durable source of dignity and worthiness that is not tethered
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Demystifying Spring Internals [video](youtube.com)
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I've enjoyed Krazam's other videos, but at the risk of having the joke explained (and thus spoiled), what exactly is this lampooning? Not asking from a critical place, I legitimately am curious about dysfunctional business process
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Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?(stephenfry.substack.com)
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Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)(engineering.fb.com)
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Ask HN: Good Histories of the DotCom Bubble?
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by lordleft 2y ago
Have been a long time fan of Pevear & Volokhonsky but I've recently purchased the Katz's translation of TBK and like what I see!
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Exploring JavaScript (ES2024 Edition)(exploringjs.com)
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There's a peril in translating the Greek word that is often used by Aristotle and the other Virtue Ethicists -- eudaimonia -- into happiness. Happiness in English often maps to a transient & discrete emotional state, whereas eudaim
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by lordleft 2y ago
It seems like the splendor and comfort of student life varied wildly depending on class and wealth (see: the depiction of Oxford in Brideshead Revisited).
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Here is the book on Infinity DFW penned: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-More-Compact-History-Infin...
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Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)(lareviewofbooks.org)
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I adore James Baldwin...I think he is an intrepid sojourner of what being an American means, of our fraught and compromised inheritance...when Baldwin bounces against a boundary, a prejudice, an assumption, in Europe or America, it is alway
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by lordleft 2y ago
I really disliked my Chromecast...despite being able to output 4k, the OS was sluggish and it barely had storage to hold the streaming apps I was interested in using. I ditched it for the Apple4K.
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How good is AWS at a) communicating impending deprecations and b) providing lead time to migrate off deprecated services?
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My favorite play is the Herakles of Euripides, which ends on these lines: The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends is diseased of soul
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I can see his point. That being said, part of what is fun about reading Elizabethan literature in a relatively original style (with helpful annotations) is that I can see configurations of English I’ve never encountered before, configuratio

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