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Four Day Work Week - 4DWW is amazing! Thank you so much for being the pioneers of the future <3
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WWI & WWII related: the Dazzle Camouflage for ships! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
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I created Video Hub App and sell about 100 copies at $5 each (originally for $3.50 four years ago at launch). Had no audience, just shared it on Reddit a bit, on some forums, AlternativeTo, and a few random places (never paid). Sold over
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I think you're right. Though a solution to this problem seems simple. Just like we ought to have timeouts from the moment you want to buy a firearm to the moment you can have it in your possession, we could have a procedure "fill
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A must-read book on this topic is The Precipice by Toby Ord https://theprecipice.com/ I also happen to think this is the most important book that has been written this century.
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Before we get to those as an explanation, we need to see less evidence of shit design you can spot instantly without having any experience in the field. If a user can instantly recommend an improvement to the design that most would agree is
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> humans are pretty bad at creating intuitive designs I've always assumed that is because so few people care about design who are in power of affecting design. This is partially because it takes effort to think about a problem, and
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My favorite is the Media Player Classic Black Edition (MPC-BE) https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/ & https://github.com/Aleksoid1978/MPC-BE I love the (optionally) minimal UI it has
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A college professor for "Theater Appreciation" class stressed that "the only reason to become an actor, is if you feel you can't live your life doing anything else". It's such a saturated field, you need a sup
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Found a short video of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GKMkN_GTgY
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This change is meant to reduce chances of the tool colliding with other tools developers use.
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Confirming: just upgraded to Vite 3 with a one line change in package.json - no other changes were needed :)
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Reminds me of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work - where the author repairs broken motorcycles, and sometimes ends up spending more time than expected (without charging extra to the client) because he cared. A love
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Somewhat related: The 100 Thing Challenge https://zenhabits.net/minimalist-fun-the-100-things-challeng... I think it's worth reflecting on the amount of possessions one owns and considering whether having fewer would
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I came to the US from Russia at the age of 11; it probably helped me recognize how fortunate I was. Later, learning about the extreme poverty that exists in the world (far surpassing what I saw in Russia) I realized how much more fortunat
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The most meaningful thing I've found in the world is to help others. But I think good intentions are not enough - it is important to care about how effectively you help others. So I recommend Effective Altruism - a community of peopl
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A great book to realize that the reasons people give for what they do are not the real reasons is Elephant in the Brain https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda... A great book to realize that the reas
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Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/unclebens/ r/unclebens is a beginner-friendly community to share the "Ready Rice" technique, a simple and beginner-friendly method for cultivating mushrooms without
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Even if you're right, just because we might not have the ability to curb all harms doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent the most egregious harms. There are benefits, for example, to making the use of mines and chemical at
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Excellent point. Here's an important PSA: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
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I've been using Digitally Imported (aka DI.fm) for years. Tons of (electronic music) channels and playlists to choose from: https://di.fm/
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Just use JPEG XL (aka .jxl) - https://jpegxl.info/ You can re-save a JXL image a thousand times without deterioration :)
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PSA: Stop Killer Robots https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
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Mildly related: dum - https://github.com/egoist/dum dum replaces npm run and npx. Instead of waiting 200ms for your npm client to start, it will start immediately.
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My favorite paper calendar shows the whole year in one sheet: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ It has wide margin on the right for notes; gives you long-term-planning potential ;)
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Not for streaming, but for browsing your local videos, I created an MIT Open Source app Video Hub App -- shows screenshots from videos (as you hover over each video). May be useful if you have lots of videos on your computer (or externa
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The best resource to track the world: https://ourworldindata.org/monkeypox
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I've been at Forbes for 5 years now. 2 years ago we went 100% remote; we're still committed to 100% remote. Many job listings still showing: https://boards.greenhouse.io/forbes/ Unsure how it is out there - I
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Same here - just came back from EYEO Festival (which was amazing!) and was impressed with the bike-friendliness of the city. I drove around to explore the city by car and there were bike lanes in most places I drove.
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We are currently living in a very important time in humanity's history that the philosopher Toby Ord calls The Precipice . We likely have a 1 out of 6 chance over the next century to end humanity (all human life is destroyed), so this

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