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I wrote this following a similar line of thought, but with the root problem being a collective action problem around community rather than an internal psychological tradeoff between short and long ter…

Yes, I wish we could serve static content more like bittorent, where your uri has an associate hash, and any intermediate router or cache could be an equivalent source of truth, with the final server …

Notable how this is only possible because the website is a good "web citizen." It has urls that maintain their state over a decade. They contain a whole conversation. You don't have to …

I love that book. It's an all time favorite, and an inspiration.

I just wrote a novel at 41, and am starting the process of trying to get it published. Almost everything about aging in the article hit home, but something that struck me very differently about writin…

I love Charley Harper's depiction of all the colors in a winter bird feeder. https://charleyharperprints.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/W... Red winged blackb…

Yes, it's possible that some of the diversification within those clades happened before the impact, but the start of the radiation is so close to the impact that I think it's unlikely that i…

Huh. Here they only sing in the morning. Are you sure it was a mockingbird? I've heard people have that reaction to whippoorwills and other nightjars that sing loudly and repetitively all night.

It's leftover from when all mammals were nocturnal. Color vision is useless at night, there aren't enough photons to care about their frequency, so mammals lost it almost entirely and only p…

Is there a way to import your Goodreads library after profile creation? I skipped it because I couldn't get it to download on mobile, but will probably only use the site if I can import it later …

Yes.

Clever!

Magic eye pictures are viewed by diverging your eyes, so the "parallel view" versions at the bottom work correctly with that method. "Cross view" pictures require converging your e…

Great! I wrote this in the hopes that more people would start making them, because I love them.

Yes, the ones at the bottom, in the "Parallel View" section are designed to be viewed the other way.

Yes, making them smaller certainly helps.

As long as you don't regret the click, I don't regret baiting the click. :)

If they look inverted you are probably diverging your eyes instead of crossing them. In that case the images in this section should look correct. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025&#x…

I just went back and doubled checked, and they're all correct. If they look inverted, you are probably diverging your eyes ("parallel view") instead of crossing them. If that's mor…