you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber i'm into it because

During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard

can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office increased my IQ by 5 pts the vibe of working late completely changes erudite, scholarly, sophisticated

At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research" Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat

if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not decided to get to the bottom of it probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history

Built this record cabinet Sapele mahogany + white maple accents

I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast But it’s just soooo convenient Hope Bezos doesn’t wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked

worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm" made me want italian food every time i touched that repo

honestly we’re so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3 allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc

There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music Spanish and Chinese come to mind It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it

the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is

One of my favorite geography trick questions: You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific What direction are you traveling? People say West, but it's actually East Panama is more squiggly than people think

An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isn’t growing much So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi

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wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me

As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema

This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma

Me: So what's your specialty Astronomy prof: I study galactic collisions Me: Sounds exciting Prof: Not really since they take about a billion years

when you teach a kid the rules of chess, they'll start by making legal but basically random moves junior engineers are like this if they ever read a book about "design patterns" too early they'll just apply them randomly — singleton here, factory builder there, etc

New post! Bureaulogy, a new field on the study of bureaucracy grantslatton.com/bureaulogy

i've practiced meditation for probably ~100 hours and gotten nowhere either i'm very dumb or already enlightened

Humanoid robot butlers will be the thing that actually fixes the fertility crisis Raising kids would be way less stressful if you had zero housework to do

friend is a medical illustrator few years ago, we were wondering when AI could do her job — getting the details right is important in this use case since then, she's been noticing more and more news articles and such using AI generated medical images note the 3rd forearm bone

in my experience the best technique for being good at public speaking is to simply know the subject you are talking about extremely well it's only when you aren't confident in your mastery that you need the other techniques

trialing: this is amazing erroring: wtf this sucks

i get a tube of cinnamon rolls at the grocery store and put it right at the front of the refrigerator wifey next morning: "hey honey i have a surprise for you waiting in the kitchen"

Most small businesses really aren't very well run, tons of low-hanging fruit Local diner got bought and taken over by a shrewd immigrant family They tightened the menu, installed streamlined ipad & mobile ordering, fixed the drink carbonation, etc Consistently 50% more customers now

It's kind of funny that doctors still test reflexes by just hitting your knee with a little hammer We have all our fancy MRI machines and pulse oximeters But testing reflexes? Just give it a whack

Having some basic tools is such a life upgrade My wife spends a lot of time on the sofa these days nursing our newborn, and wanted a tray table to hold a drink and plate Few cuts on the table saw with some scrap wood, 20 minutes later voila Not fine furniture, but functional

I’ve learned the secret to making coffee 10x more enjoyable is to have kids

have you considered that birth rates are falling because reincarnation is true, there are a finite number of souls, and we are exhausting the soul supply??

when you spot one of these old models you know the flow is gonna be thick and ice cold

could china dig a secret tunnel? only 2x longer than the current world record longest tunnel irl nydus worm

A motivation for school uniforms is to reduce distractions and flatten social class divisions related to fashion Always thought this was kinda dumb But having switched to a uniformed private school during highschool and I gotta say it was actually 100% effective at those goals

people in elevators can be modeled as a gas when one person gets off, the others redistribute to uniformly fill the space

Way too many things in the healthcare system are like: Doctor: we’re going to do X Patient: that sounds painful Doctor: we can do Y instead, it has the same result but less painful Patient: wtf why not do that all the time??? Doctor: not standard protocol

Extremely common failure mode: Bob and Joe are close friends Bob leaves their hometown for the big city Later, Joe moves to the city, gets a house a short 10 miles away from Bob 10 miles in a big city is basically infinity distance, so they only see each other twice a year

After visiting Taipei, I've become a road-width extremist I used to be fully anti-car, but now I think if you simply make most roads barely 1 car wide and get rid of on-street parking, it gets you 95% of what you want

beep beep, coming through

Overheard cultural harmony British guy: What's your favorite kind of mango? Indian: You can't just assume all Indians like mangoes — that's like me assuming all Brits like tea British: I do like tea Indian: Okay, yeah, I like mangoes

you use global variables? i'm using intergalactic variables get on my level

Changing a newborn's diapers has a lot of skill transfer with BJJ Both basically involve controlling & manipulating the arms and legs of an unwilling person

ok so I put a chicken coop lamp under my desk to blast my feet this winter and it's actually amazing you need to be chicken lamp maxxing

Why are stoplight control boxes so huge? Do they have like a whole server rack in here or something??

howling is probably sooooo satisfying for dogs awooooooooo

The elites don’t want you to know this, but you can make your own bootleg Topo Chico Just look up your local tapwater report, the Topo Chico report, and buy the appropriate minerals to compensate Carbonate and enjoy

we could increase Gross Domestic Aesthetics by at least 30% if we had everyone just take a 1 week photography class in 8th grade stop cutting off people’s feet at the bottom of the frame!!

kind of founder who gives each employee a piece of paper with a checkbox for each week remaining in their expected lifespan starts each weekly meeting by having everyone check off a box “what did you get done last week?”

There’s a ton of money to be had if someone makes a camera that has these attach-anywhere legs + a vision language model that can interpret simple instructions Eg I attach to my porch, push a button, say “notify me when a squirrel is on the bird feeder” and it just works

As a kid I pathologically saved all money I received After a few years my stash was up to $200 or so, never spent much Now that I have adult money I realize I actually should have spent it, the value of money decreases pretty rapidly at a young age