It's somewhat niche, but nursing homes would benefit from low-friction facial recognition of residents. At least where I've worked, there's a constant churn of care staff — with some workers bridging a gap for only a…
I answered above, but answering here as well in case it's buried. > But is there a tangible risk vector to European consumers of open source, commercial American software. Yes. If you're a European sanctioned by the US,…
Here's one case from August 2025: ---- Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the International Criminal Court, discusses in an interview with Le Monde the consequences of US sanctions imposed on him and eight other judges…
> but there are already many great graphics books out there Would you mind listing your personal top n books?
The beans chapter stuck with me too. Just fished out my copy: > The best instruction I've read for how long to cook beans comes from a collection of recipes called "The Best in American Cooking" by Clementine…
If the extemporaneous style of cooking from the article sounds interesting to you, the book "An Everlasting Meal" by Tamar Adler teaches it. (She quotes M. F. K. Fisher often, who was edited by Judith Jones.)…
> It got killed because Apple stopped supporting it. That's how it happened in my orbit anyway. Steve Jobs published an open letter entitled "Thoughts on Flash", in which he said that iOS would never support Flash. We…
Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF? I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.
> I frankly love my life now. What's it like?
> pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga Not Zen, but there's "kasina" meditation that sounds similar to this. You might stare at a light source or a colored disc, then close your eyes and watch the afterimage.…
> The implicit definition of "fair" as "equal suffering" is always a bit concerning to me. For family peace, it may be the best thing. My personal anecdote: I'm from city A. My spouse is from city B. We lived in city C.…
The author isn't defending debunked "learning styles", which were popular in the 90s and 00s. "Learning styles" usually refers to one of a handful of specific ways of dividing up people. E.g., as preferring visual,…
> and largely funds the same club of favored people Without taking a side, I have an anecdote that might be able to shed some light on why that's the case. While living in Canada, I met a woman in charge of…
> These are all fake made up jobs that add very little value to our national progress. Sitting in a small country, another argument for these types of programs is to promote the country/culture abroad. In the same way,…
Not really. I mostly hang out to try to keep folks from going way off the rails (I hope). I don't know if further details will be helpful or applicable to you, but here's my experience: I'm not religious. I was…
Thanks. I've been hanging out in some meditation forums for the past few years. It seems to me that there's a clear "story-driven" dark pattern that goes like this: A person ... * has a distressing meditative…
> Which would attract story-lovers. And might lead them to approach it from the story-end first (rather than seeking some more solid to work with). Which could be a problem. Can you elaborate on this? Thanks!
> I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people. Maybe both? It makes some: It can be genuinely destabilizing to realize that e.g., the mind creates its…
I think the closest I come to a "yes" would be a sort of underlying feeling of nihilism. The universe is big; life is short. That kind of thing. But if I had a kid and e.g., watched that kid become a climate refugee, I…
> reexamine how the media/doomscrolling have affected your thought process. No need. Except for Hacker News and local news, I don't read the news. I don't use other social networks except for a few small non-news…
> Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents? No. But it's not really relevant to me. My grandparents' generation was largely motivated by religious faith (and lack of birth control) to have a bunch…
For me, the question isn't "Will humanity overcome?" I don't have a doubt about that. Instead it's "What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, fulfilling life for the next 70-90…
Some random resource recommendations: I got started a few years ago when I saw the book "The Mind Illuminated" recommended here. There's a subreddit for it. (Fwiw, the author had a mini-scandal/non-scandal near the end…
With the caveat that any discussion of meditation is fraught with "no true Scotsmans" and hypotheticals ... Something that the American Theravadin Thanissaro Bhikkhu says is that meditation is "for my own benefit and…
> We can all prompt ChatGPT. I'm largely blind to this. If they're not wordy and overly polite, pasted ChatGPT answers just don't appear on my radar. Can someone help me out? What points to this answer in particular…
It's somewhat niche, but nursing homes would benefit from low-friction facial recognition of residents. At least where I've worked, there's a constant churn of care staff — with some workers bridging a gap for only a…
I answered above, but answering here as well in case it's buried. > But is there a tangible risk vector to European consumers of open source, commercial American software. Yes. If you're a European sanctioned by the US,…
Here's one case from August 2025: ---- Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the International Criminal Court, discusses in an interview with Le Monde the consequences of US sanctions imposed on him and eight other judges…
> but there are already many great graphics books out there Would you mind listing your personal top n books?
The beans chapter stuck with me too. Just fished out my copy: > The best instruction I've read for how long to cook beans comes from a collection of recipes called "The Best in American Cooking" by Clementine…
If the extemporaneous style of cooking from the article sounds interesting to you, the book "An Everlasting Meal" by Tamar Adler teaches it. (She quotes M. F. K. Fisher often, who was edited by Judith Jones.)…
> It got killed because Apple stopped supporting it. That's how it happened in my orbit anyway. Steve Jobs published an open letter entitled "Thoughts on Flash", in which he said that iOS would never support Flash. We…
Would you mind saying what you would like to do but can't with FF? I don't think I'm part of a cult, but I've used FF as my default browser for over a decade and I guess I don't know what else people want from a browser.
> I frankly love my life now. What's it like?
> pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga Not Zen, but there's "kasina" meditation that sounds similar to this. You might stare at a light source or a colored disc, then close your eyes and watch the afterimage.…
> The implicit definition of "fair" as "equal suffering" is always a bit concerning to me. For family peace, it may be the best thing. My personal anecdote: I'm from city A. My spouse is from city B. We lived in city C.…
The author isn't defending debunked "learning styles", which were popular in the 90s and 00s. "Learning styles" usually refers to one of a handful of specific ways of dividing up people. E.g., as preferring visual,…
> and largely funds the same club of favored people Without taking a side, I have an anecdote that might be able to shed some light on why that's the case. While living in Canada, I met a woman in charge of…
> These are all fake made up jobs that add very little value to our national progress. Sitting in a small country, another argument for these types of programs is to promote the country/culture abroad. In the same way,…
Not really. I mostly hang out to try to keep folks from going way off the rails (I hope). I don't know if further details will be helpful or applicable to you, but here's my experience: I'm not religious. I was…
Thanks. I've been hanging out in some meditation forums for the past few years. It seems to me that there's a clear "story-driven" dark pattern that goes like this: A person ... * has a distressing meditative…
> Which would attract story-lovers. And might lead them to approach it from the story-end first (rather than seeking some more solid to work with). Which could be a problem. Can you elaborate on this? Thanks!
> I'm still wondering if meditation makes you a gullible crystal buying idiot, or does it just attract such people. Maybe both? It makes some: It can be genuinely destabilizing to realize that e.g., the mind creates its…
I think the closest I come to a "yes" would be a sort of underlying feeling of nihilism. The universe is big; life is short. That kind of thing. But if I had a kid and e.g., watched that kid become a climate refugee, I…
> reexamine how the media/doomscrolling have affected your thought process. No need. Except for Hacker News and local news, I don't read the news. I don't use other social networks except for a few small non-news…
> Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents? No. But it's not really relevant to me. My grandparents' generation was largely motivated by religious faith (and lack of birth control) to have a bunch…
For me, the question isn't "Will humanity overcome?" I don't have a doubt about that. Instead it's "What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, fulfilling life for the next 70-90…
Some random resource recommendations: I got started a few years ago when I saw the book "The Mind Illuminated" recommended here. There's a subreddit for it. (Fwiw, the author had a mini-scandal/non-scandal near the end…
With the caveat that any discussion of meditation is fraught with "no true Scotsmans" and hypotheticals ... Something that the American Theravadin Thanissaro Bhikkhu says is that meditation is "for my own benefit and…
> We can all prompt ChatGPT. I'm largely blind to this. If they're not wordy and overly polite, pasted ChatGPT answers just don't appear on my radar. Can someone help me out? What points to this answer in particular…