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Your argument makes no sense to me. Article: “We don’t know much about this woman because she was overshadowed by her famous brother.” You: “How do we know she was a great scientist? We don’t even kno…

Missed opportunity to title this article: “The Twisted World of Degenerate Spirals.”

What's interesting to me about the music scene of today is how closely it now hews to a "long tail" model. The publishers have so much data about what streams, so the most popular stuff…

Also reminds me of the "The Priest's Tale" from Dan Simmons' "Hyperion," i.e. the jungle tribe worshipping and making scarifies to an alien artifact part.

Yeah, I have mine cranked all the way to the most amber. And when reading in bed at night, I'll also have the brightness at the absolute minimum. Sometimes even that's not enough and I'…

I’d still take it!

So they had two full years with a 99% reduction in mosquitos? Shit, even if it doesn’t last, sign me up for that!

write drunk, edit sober

I wouldn’t call myself a tech expert. I’m more of what is sometimes called a prosumer. But I know enough that friends and family often rely on me for light tech support. As any experienced tech would,…

> So, unless Apple simultaneously was trying to honor pro users while also laying plans to abandon them... You say that like Apple doesn’t do stuff like that all the time.

You also need GPUs for rendering video, which people do use Macs for.

All very impressive, but here's my question: what are they going to do about graphics cards? Will they find a way to connect existing graphics cards to their CPU? Will they make their own ARM-bas…

You have to understand that the average reader doesn’t read the whole article. Most just skim and take in the headlines, subheadings, pull quotes, and pictures. But, that’s not the stated rationale fo…

My attitude has been that a global pandemic was an unavoidable event bound to happen on an overpopulated world that is connected by robust air travel networks. And it won’t be our last, so we had bett…

It sounds crazy, but they really can’t. Seriously, have you ever been over a non tech person’s shoulder while they are googling? They click the first thing they see with zero scrutiny.

I guess the prospect of literally a hundred billion dollars each made them reconsider.

The M1 also means that Apple regains full stack control of its desktops and laptops. Their phones and tablets prove that when they develop both the main chips and operating systems themselves, they ar…

There was one NPR broadcaster who used to read the news on weekend mornings for my local station (WHYY), I forget her name, and I haven't heard her in a while thankfully, but she literally whispe…

TIL Chrome doesn't natively play MIDI files

I was fully remote for several years before the pandemic. It’s the only way I ever want to work again. I’m a copywriter, so sometimes I need time to marinate on an idea. If I left the office to take a…

Matt Taibbi said something during the 2008 financial crisis that has always stuck with me, paraphrasing: “Look at the figure a corporation pays in a fine to a regulator, multiply it by 10, and you’ll …

What’s going on with that website? Is it supposed to parallax (or whatever is happening there) like that?

I’m sure some companies are doing actual science with the data they collect from employees. I’m sure some (but a smaller amount) are converting their analysis into “actionable insights.” And an even s…

> We seem to have an entire generation of people who think "stonks can only go up" I'm not denying the existence of bubbles, busts, and crashes, but historically and on average, the …

> And it is not all bad. While the community is less genuine, it is also more productive, if anything, just from the sheer numbers. And it’s basically just a natural and recurring cycle: Phase 1: N…

I went from a seated desk to a standing desk to a sit/stand situation that I switch back and forth between throughout the day. Been with it for about five years now. I came to realize that it’s n…

Copywriter here. Sometimes the client gives me the barest thread of a topic, some minor, new product or service or partnership for them, something that could be covered comprehensively in 300 words...…

Exercise might not be a “cure” for depression, but it’s definitely an excellent treatment for it, potentially on par with pharmaceuticals: https://www.psychcongress.com/article/ev…