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A macguffin is something the audience and characters are fixated on that may or may not hold the importance to the story it portends to. A red herring herring is a macguffin that never turns out to be…

Tesla does have good fundamentals and a good trajectory as a car company. They make a product that people want, that sells well even with large margins, for which demand is expected to continue to gro…

They are real and common and good, but I don’t consider the sound they make all that calming. I use an insta hot dispenser to make tea. Virtually silent hot water on demand. That seems calmer to me.

Wonder if this has anything to do with Charlie Munger’s windowless dorm experiment: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/business/ucsb-munger-hall/ind... …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdaitcha#Bone_pointing

I was a lowly undergrad polisci major at the time. I never demonstrated but it was clear as day to me that the preemptive invasion of Iraq would not be the cut and dry operation it was sold as -- and …

1. Excellent thermal management (i.e. temps under 90C at max load and fans that don’t sound like a turboprop) 2. Backlit keyboard with more than a bare minimum of key travel 3. IPS display with at lea…

Don’t know if this works for others, but for Apple Touch ID you can solve the wet finger issue by adding another set of prints while the finger is wet.

> A wholesale migration to a modern architecture is risky and costly. I have no doubt that your company and all the other big automakers are running the numbers and trying to weigh those risks and …

> “…there are two kinds of authors: those who like to write and those who like to have written.” I’m a writer and a runner, and that’s exactly how I feel about both. I rarely like starting, it’s so…

As someone with a box of DVD-Rs filled with terabytes of carefully tagged MP3s that is collecting dust and probably slowly dying of disc rot, I’m much happier just paying my Spotify subscription.

Pareto principle. 80% of people are decent human beings, but the 20% that aren’t cause 80% of the problems.

Still alive and useful for tracking "meme" news, which sadly I do need to be aware of.

I work in content, so I need to know what’s going on at all times. I read the following news sites and aggregators every single day: Forekast, trends24, Google Trends, Google Finance, Drudge, Slashdot…

I think “Fluxxed” would have been a better term. Really captures the spirit of the thing.

Yes, but a lot also rarely changes. I wonder if they ever considered a hybrid approach that uses some of the more stable map data as a default which can be overridden by the computer vision system.

I’ve been shopping at B&H for decades. The similarity goes beyond clothes. The Hassids and the Amish basically decided that their society should, as much as possible, try to replicate their existe…

The urban Amish

The key word is ‘specifically.’

My first vertical mouse was by Evolulent. Cost like $90 and it was great, but the slip feet wore away, the company made it very difficult to contact them, were sorta rude on the phone, and then said n…

My computer-related RSI prevention tips: Get separate mouse and keyboard wrist rests. Use a vertical mouse instead of a traditional one. Use more than one type of mousing device and switch up from tim…

There’s some truth to that, but call me cynical, when asked to guess whether a nation’s actions are primarily motivated by power seeking or philosophical principles, I usually assume power was the dom…

They want a big, powerful, capable tech industry... that will never even think of challenging the supremacy of the government. This is their way of reminding the tech sector of that latter part.

You’re forgetting that it’s easier to get a FAANG job once you’ve already had one. They love to poach each other’s people.

The original commenter said: "Search has been coopted, making the prime thing (past general connectivity) that made the internet so useful now all but worthless." I agree that Google search …

I take your point, but don’t you think you’re overstating things a bit? The internet is still incredibly useful and so is Google search (granted, it takes more effort and sophistication to avoid the s…

No, I mean afterwards. They saw his vid, and must have thought, let’s try and fix our previous work using a similar method… and discovered even that isn’t so easy.

Hah!