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I've gradually come to see that the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is an abstraction even though it refers (with good reason) just to newspapers. I've become hyper skeptical (always wait for more evidence, get the other side…

I'm on the technical side and naturally lean towards the true source of data being tables in a database. Day to day I also have to deal with non-trivial data whose source of truth is stored in Google Sheets instead. I…

Apologies if the title is unclear. I often feel a disconnect between the freedom I have to interact with laptop versus the barriers put up between me and my phone - often due to the app-centered relationship. Examples…

I've been playing around with hardware, IOT, and microcontrollers for the past year, and always wondered why there isn't the equivalent of a smart phone IOT device or microcontroller in the space. Even the cheapest…

The current pandemic and this post[1] made me more attuned to commercial supply chains. I'm collecting a list of ones that would be useful even after a return to normalcy (home delivery preferred). So far I have: Amazon…

Like the sentiment expressed in this [thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20189664) I'm seeking to leverage my technical skills to help scientific research. [Sci-TEM](https://github.com/teul-io/sci-tem) is an…

I've been working on a project to write a wrapper around a python command line repl application, and there seems to be a dearth of (understandable) resources on the proper scaffolding. Dropping down a level to try to…

I'm working on a curiosity project where I want to split different pptx slideshows into single slides and then rearrange them. The splitting part was easy enough with [officer](https://github.com/davidgohel/officer) but…

"The Coming Software Apocalypse" [0] is the article that most affected my view of what I want to work on. This quote sums it up: "In a recent essay, Victor implored professional software developers to stop pouring their…