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minimize the wandering of your mind

To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind of clarity and simplicity that people expect from meditation.

It's not about emptying your mind, that's impossible, it's about learning to be fully present in the moment. Anchor in your breath, in your senses, in the right now and think "Breathing in, I know my mind is wandering"

I like to imagine it as a clear afternoon day. Some thoughts, some clouds will appear, but my presence is the sky behind them.

https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/key-books

Exactly, Nolan's use of CGI is perfect. Elegant and purposeful, and incredibly well executed.

WE. JUST. WANT. GOOD. STORIES. WELL. TOLD.

First Om, now Dvorak.

Such a loss, the prototypical cranky geek. Loved his takes with Curry and Leporte

The "640k should be enough for anyone" quote (even if Gates didn't exactly say it) is making the point is that _right now_ we have no idea about what our future needs and capabilities will be, we can't imagine what "should be enough" will be

640k was enough ... in 1981 ... almost fifty years later is 50,000 lower than a standard off the shelf PC now

There were hippo bones found under Trafalgar Square, and once-upon-a-time (10kya) elephants, lions, and rhinos were once endedmic to Britain

Love that they're getting gender-affirming care

It's designed by committee, with n stakeholders with n+1 opinions and motivations and pressures from other business units over 17 workshops and governance decisions

This is a good opportunity to shill for Immich

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944

With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement

that's inconsequential to keeping my family cool on the third 43c degree day in a week

Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens

As an Australian, the lack of anxiety and guilt you get when you're using 10-12 hours of air conditioning in the middle of summer and not paying for a cent of it because your solar panels are covering is worth more than anything

Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

Microsoft go the same route

There's a reason Game Pass and the Series S exist, they just hadn't had the courage to say the quiet part loud yet.

PlayStation saw Microsoft's recent news and decided to take out the trash this week.

The entire console gaming industry has been decimated in the last few weeks.

To be fair, if any org deserves a vanity TLD it's CERN

This is the modern version of Trap Streets - hiding fake streets in maps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

I'm finding that too, investing in the process and the work is more satisfying than the outcomes

This one of my most favourite youtube documentaries i've seen in a while

I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this

Never underestimate the audacity of a software engineer with a new toy

It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowling and was going to revolutionize the sport, then rolled a gutter ball.

Well, if you replace LeBron with Jordan, and Bowling with Baseball ..

Brave of you to assume they had anyone running infosec by the sounds of it

and I wonder why I can get flights to the US from Australia at historically low prices?

"Glad I wasn't just a weird, overly sensitive kid."

Oh we are, just we have neurological reasons for it :D

At some point you just have to move to Ebooks.

This is a parallel story for me to vinyl / streaming for music

There are some books and albums I want as physical artefacts, their aesthetic and tactile presence in my world means something more than just the content, you're right, the smell, the art, their feel

Then there are some that are _just_ content, they get streamed and bought as ebooks for just convienence and consumption

It's a very strange cultural thing too, Australians (and I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen

Paracetemol has always been seen as first thing you'd take for pain relief, and you'd "step up" ibuprofen as an escalation, but that might more to do with marketing of Panadol (paracetemol) vs Nurofen (ibuprofen).

We'd look on at the US where you were taking Advil like candy in confusion.

One great thing you learn as a parent, you can alternate acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Both of them are recommended every four hours, but you can stagger one by two hours to maintain consistency of pain-relief taking ibuprofen then paracetemol two hours later

Cursor ($60b) being valued the same as Twitter ($51b inflation adjusted) is _willlld_

I get the want to define architectural relationships as a node & edge structure rather than just purely diagrams, which is an argument for D2 over Mermaid

but why not just use https://github.com/jsongraph?

Yeah, this seems more like a copyright issue than a "spoilers" issue

But then that furthers the argument that Figma is dead-in-the-water

These are a design communication tools, in the same way FrontPage and Dreamweaver back in the day - they enable a designer to communicate intent to create solutions to UX design problems in a way that can be understood by downstream production.

Using Figma doesn't immediately make something aesthetic or useful, its just a tool. Claude Design enables the same thing, it enables someone to communicate design intent, with a much lower bar.

These AI tools like Loveable just do more of the groundwork than Figma does

From the article

Replacement batteries for any model will have to remain available to users for at least five years after the last unit of the product is placed on the market, the regulation also states.