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For some reason the floor price is $5 a month when given the complexity of the app and the benefit to my life, the price should be between a few cents and a dollar at the high end.

This is why land use and nuisance laws exist in municipalities. People clamor for deregulation when it prevents them from shooting off fireworks or guns or burning trash and move to unincorporated areas.

Then, a datacenter comes along, effectively a bigger, louder, richer neighbor playing by the same lack of rules and outdoes them at their own game. It's only oppression when a bigger dog shows up?

Costco's gimmick is relieving you of choice and price shopping. They find the best stuff and don't mark it up. If Consumer is your identity yet you fear executing its labors, let Costco step in and become your denomination of consumerism, complete with tithe, proscribed usury, and communion hot dog.

Mom brain is also a thing. Large scale, consistent, structural changes in the postpartum brain that is uncorrelated with PPD. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab463

I suspect the "alpine divorce" phenomenon is the same desire to test influence dangerously attempted in a higher stakes environment. "No, let's go to this restaurant" becomes "Let's take this path" or "Let's take a break" and refusal to entertain tests of influence to alter the plan are recast as attempted murder.

https://twitter.com/JamesLNuzzo/status/2037859859585179746

I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two or three actual sentences of content with intense repetition, obnoxious signposting, and disjoint "what the fatcats don't want you to know" framing throughout. "Nobody in a position of power is saying this. The reason is simple: They sold you the condition. Now they sell you the treatment." The single worst thing I've read on Hacker News this year.

Two Kickstarters, one with the "Projects We Love" badge from the platform itself, have raised $1M+ by promising a clamshell PC with mechanical keyboard while demo videos show a known AliExpress headless keyboard/touchscreen (no internals) running benchmarks while never showing the rear I/O suggesting hidden cabling.

When it flags something as high confidence, 3.1 is very reliable. Human-authored text I saw scoring ~70 with 3.0 now scores ~15. With scores above 90, the false positive rate looks to be about zero. https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-3-0-technical

Turns out my blog is actually a newsletter? Seems like a distinction without a difference.

https://www.pangram.com/history/89da46c7-113e-4a27-8f3f-dbc8...

It's easy to be a text maximalist now we're in the LLM era, but I disagree that ideas are a separate, nonphysical realm that cannot otherwise be described. https://lucent.substack.com/p/one-map-hypothesis

Rather than "hurting America," Crossfire was the highest form of political debate America could suffer before retreating into info bubbles.

I chose the Sony 1000XM4 because the RTINGS graph showed the strongest cancellation in the 60Hz range. All my tormentors are in the AC-powered machine noise range.

https://www.rtings.com/discussions/adsg5oN7w-9Dgb3O/treadmil...

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-8/graph/25566/noise-isol...:

I don't doubt these bring awful externalities, but children requiring cochlear implants due to hearing loss from a nearby datacenter?

Regret-centric advice always follows the implicit model of: had I taken Action, best case I add Good Result to this timeline, worst case I revert to this timeline. No, failure can have a cost that wipes out this timeline completely, leaving you unimaginably worse off.

https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO

Shows the highest occupied atomic orbital in full 3D you can rotate. Select any slot in the Hund diagram to see that orbital instead.

This is an incredible relief and should be the final nail in the coffin for safety/alignment/shoggoth arguments. It turns out features are completely scrutable, and when modified, we don't see chaotic, schizo non-sequiturs, but a coherent, predictable, globally-consistent shift proving models are operating in a fundamentally understandable way.

This is how I now see biology, and more so with each reframing. Cells being squishy, floppy bags no longer counts as a point against them being "tech" or "robotic." That's deliberate engineering—a complex scaffold of nanotech ladders that continuously reform to emulate "squish" as a feature.

Really went downhill when I spun off.

This is backwards. ccTLDs are much higher risk than gTLDs operated by commercial entities because those entities are governed by ICANN which has pricing requirements and a plan in place to transfer them if the entity goes under.

Ptable renders them with WebGL from the quantum numbers using the Schrodinger equation, wrapping a threshold density of the generated point cloud with a surface.

https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO

Kind of the opposite algorithm behind CT/MRI, if every string required nails at the edge.

Curious if these old email addresses that became a tech embarrassment will see a rebound in cachet. "Ooh, a résumé with @compuserve.com. This guy was there at the beginning."

How does it compare to https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut?

Mathematical universe is obviously true yet uselessly ahead of its time in the same way as Schrodinger asserting heredity was controlled by an "aperiodic crystal" a decade before DNA was discovered.

"Keep your username" already sold me. Exhausted with every new namespace landrush. Lemon8 made a terrible mistake not piggybacking off TikTok's, alienating everyone who didn't want to battle anew, and no one is happy with Discord's disastrous rollout.

How has this not yet been deployed by a startup to unseat three-quarter billion market cap Matterport?

Looking forward to seeing "Wolfram|Alpha Can't" tweets attempted under this new plugin.

https://twitter.com/wacnt

There are a lot of fictions that are valuable to society. Might this one be important to hold up for the sake of "incels"? In the end, you'll get the girl and the jerk will be lonely, so until then don't get too angry and continue being a productive member of society.

Another point for my favorite minority quantum mechanics interpretation, two-state vector formalism (TSVF).