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Whether or not you should trust your gut depends on what’s in your head. People that have built up a lifetime of wisdom, muscle memory, well-honed instincts, and institutional knowledge should absolut…

> Puzzles have a single, usually somewhat tortured solution Potential spoiler alert… the forklift elevator puzzle in Grim Fandango springs to mind. It’s so unintuitive and a disappointing part of w…

The rationale for podcasts isn’t that they have content that can’t be found elsewhere (though there is some of that). It’s that it’s content optimized for people on the go.

Music, podcasts, audiobooks, calling a friend… there are plenty of activities that can keep you entertained while running. I like to download comedy specials and rip the audio for my runs.

No one actually “unfit” can run (not walk) 10km

Word of mouth, Spotify algo, Pitchfork Media, Turntable Lab, Metacritic, NME, WXPN (local college radio)

> My general theory about life is that “things usually work out.” Mine is “hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”

They included some good clips, but they missed one of my favorite scenes: Navigating by Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM …

https://archive.ph/MMR4P

I’m no spring chicken either and I don’t have a million dollar setup, but with a pair of $100 Shure SE215, I can just barely make out which are lossy (usually). But it’s not a big enough difference to…

You can take a blind test and see for yourself if you can detect lossless audio from compressed: http://abx.digitalfeed.net …

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

If you are wondering, as I was, why a chimney would need to be so tall: > The Superstack was built to disperse sulphur gases and other byproducts of the smelting process away from the city of Sudbu…

The high rate of lost luggage by airlines is AirTag’s killer app. It’s becoming standard practice to track your own luggage.

I take your point, but I think the distinction is that some drugs can make you feel euphoric, but psychedelics affect you on a deeper, psychological level. You're not just feeling an absence of p…

I usually just cut her off and cuss at her. I'm hoping Amazon is tracking how frequently people verbally assault Alexa to optimize the UX, but that's probably wishful thinking.

From personal experience, I think one of the reasons psychedelics can help with depression is that when you are severely depressed, it feels permanent, like nothing will ever get better or even meanin…

Amazon, which owns IMBD, is pushing this thing hard. I have turned off every single setting in Alexa related to hunches, promotions, suggestions, etc. I loathe when I ask for the weather and she concl…

Knowing the meaning of life sounds nice, but I don't want another subscription. I'll wait til it's cracked and I can torrent it.

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

He gets some flack because his style looks like common, over the top, yt clickbait. But despite the occasional antics there’s a lot of substance behind his content. Other yt celebs are buying Lamborgh…

I collect documentary films. “Hammer & Tickle” (2007) is one of my white whales. Been trying to track it down for years without success. Anyone know where a copy can be bought or downloaded?

I sorta agree, but I also think one of the reasons that the first part is stronger has something to do with the protagonist’s age. When she’s just an innocent little girl, you feel incredible tension …

See also: Sturgeon's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

LTT got a TotalPhase cable tester and ran tests on a whole bunch of video cables. Lots of cables from major suppliers like Monoprice failed their tests. Here’s the video for DisplayPort: https:/…

Beautiful examples... but does anyone else dislike infinite scrolling websites? It feels like a dark pattern intended to maximize time spent on the site.

> There’s a lot of this in Miyazaki’s movies: the drama and delight of work Unsurprising given Miyazaki's famously fierce work ethic: > "...he is an intense workaholic, and resents any…

That's changing, though. Advertising is a growing share of Apple's revenue, and they are adding ads to a number of their default iOS apps: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/…

> The future will include humans claiming AI art as their own… That one has already started. Seeing lots of text-to-image generated art on Reddit lately and about 10% of the time the poster claims …

Anyone else try to figure out what the reflection texture is? I think it's Apple Park.