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Laziness Death Spirals

lesswrong.com

I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to...
I’ve claimed that Willpower compounds and that small wins in the present make it easier to get bigger wins in the future. Unfortunately, procrastination and laziness compound, too.You’re stressed out for some reason, so you take the evening off for a YouTube binge. You end up staying awake a little later than usual ...
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Emit

factorcode.org
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Show HN: MusicAny – I Build an AI Music Generator with Music Genre Knowledge

musicany.com
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Memory: the forgotten history

substack.com

In my 2023 article on the evolution of the calculator, I griped about the way we...
In my 2023 article on the evolution of the calculator, I griped about the way we teach the history of computers: I felt that we’re giving far too much credit to Charles Babbage. We have known how to make mechanical calculators at least since the 17th century; the concept of programmable machinery predated the Englis...
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The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends

substack.com

Religious and spiritual people say that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance....
Religious and spiritual people say that everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance. I’m beginning to think they might be on to something. On May 15, 2024, I posted on X a reply to Naomi Wolf’s posted image of the famed Shroud of Turin—believed by many people to be the burial cloth of Jesus—noting ...
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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

blog.google

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Ask HN: Why is there not more concern about the physical security of Cloudflare?

ycombinator.com
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A protocol for reliable notifications over a 1 bit fallible connection

paper.wf
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Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural frequency for emoji

unicode.org

Last Update: 2024-04-01 The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for...
Last Update: 2024-04-01 The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for submitting a proposal for new emoji; including how to submit a proposal, the selection factors that need to be addressed in each proposal, and guidelines on presenting evidence of frequency. Follow these guidelines and suppo...
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Makerfaire Ottawa: Rule 110 (2015)

tahnok.me

Wooohoo! I can now officially cross something off my bucket list: run marathon present project at...
Wooohoo! I can now officially cross something off my bucket list: run marathon present project at Makerfaire world domination? So, what was my project? Here’s a pic of it What do you mean you don’t know what is from that? WELL. What I built was basically part art, part math and part eletronics. I hooked up an RGB LE...
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Rethinking School Design

architizer.com

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How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA

mcejp.github.io

Today I am releasing my raycasting tech demo for the GameBoy Advance. Although it falls short...
Today I am releasing my raycasting tech demo for the GameBoy Advance. Although it falls short of the goals I set out in the beginning – which included releasing a playable game –, I think there are some lessons worth sharing with the world. This project started essentially as a challenge: inspired by the impressive ...
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Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for you web browser

savaos.com
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The Kew Herbarium (2019)

toa.st

Matt Collins, Head Gardener at the Garden Museum and regular writer for TOAST, goes behind the...
Matt Collins, Head Gardener at the Garden Museum and regular writer for TOAST, goes behind the scenes at Kew Herbarium. I'm standing in the centre of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, surrounded by grand Victorian architecture. Three-storey staircases spiral beside tall columns of iron, and vast wooden cup...
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Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body

nature.com
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Industrious Dice

wordpress.com

I’m a professional mathematician. That means somebody pays me to do math. I’m also a recreational...
I’m a professional mathematician. That means somebody pays me to do math. I’m also a recreational mathematician. That means you might have to pay me to get me to stop. Wearing my recreational mathematician hat – quite literally, as you’ll see – I gave a talk earlier this year on some newfangled dice that do the same...
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Unit Tests as Documentation

thecoder.cafe

Hello! Let’s continue our series on unit tests by discussing their relation with documentation.When we think...
Hello! Let’s continue our series on unit tests by discussing their relation with documentation.When we think about documentation, we think about comments, README files, or tools like Notion or Confluence. Yet, we often forget about one form of documentation that exists within the code itself: unit tests. Indeed, uni...
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Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders

jeffgeerling.com

This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows:...
This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows: Dear Valued Customer, Please see this important message from Qualcomm: ”At Qualcomm, we are dedicated to pioneering leading technology and delivering premium experiences to our valued customers. The launch o...
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Crokinole

pudding.cool
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Alpine's first 6-cylinder hydrogen engine

alpinecars.com

Revealed in 2022 as a concept car designed as a blueprint for the brand's future direction...
Revealed in 2022 as a concept car designed as a blueprint for the brand's future direction in design and sustainable innovation, Alpenglow already showcased the high-performance potential of the hydrogen combustion engine, a realistic solution for offering sports models with high carbon reduction targets. In this wa...
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RoRvsWild Ruby Documentation Theme

rorvswild.com

So we started to investigate the RDoc template generator, which powers the Ruby documentation, to see...
So we started to investigate the RDoc template generator, which powers the Ruby documentation, to see how it worked and what we could do with it. We finally made quite a few changes. Layout and navigation We updated the layout and structure of the page to make it easier to navigate the documentation. We added a fixe...
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Not remotely cool: The science of "Zoom fatigue"

bigthink.com

Sign up for the Big Think Business newsletter Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Excerpted...
Sign up for the Big Think Business newsletter Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Excerpted from Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload by Richard E. Cytowic, which is published on October 1, 2024 by the MIT Press. Reproduced with permission from the...
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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

ycombinator.com
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Teeth

thepointmag.com

Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral...
Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral in nature, teeth show us at our most mollusk-like. The fact that we can grow them, lose them and grow them again (if only once) seems to ally us with reptiles and the largest of the cartilaginous fish. Yet few things mar...
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