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things to make you feel better about your own codebase

Coming back as someone different after a traumatic brain injury, and overcoming symptoms.

On the wonderful thing that is the www, and his introduction to it (I didn't notice who the author was until the end!).
I sometimes forget how shielded I am for the ad-covered dumpster fire that is many pages; either from blocking them or not visiting them. Enjoyed the upsides he mentioned: easy to contact the author of something, cross-referencing without stacks of books, and the ability to pulish things yourself.

Try to verify things you read (lies are rampant online, fact-checking is easier than ever!), write and contribute things, stay out the political trench fights.

Changing norms of intimacy and love over time, and the modern shift to people who are in love want to have sex.

Archived version

Excellent review and discussion of Couples Therapy.

One rare instance where it's better to knock it down and rebuild than try to repair/remodel.

The dataset used to build krea.ai.
Also discussion of Lexica.
Finding and learning prompts continues to be a whole thing.

So many smallish bits it seems hard to make a dent in this. Also troublesome is the difficuly of measuring.

Still curious of how to estimate or measure the impact of things like switching to EVs - what is increase on existing residential power use, determining emissions from that. There are other benefits of it, like improving neighbourhood air quality, but there isn't a zero-cost switch. Land use for different energy types is another one.
Also interested in some macro estimates of energy requirements per day (i.e. 9MJ of food, production and travel costs of that alone).

Excellent Ezra episode with Jesse Jenkins touched on a lot of the questions I had about this.

Great point that inputs and prompts are actually more like search queries, and great explainer of mapping tagged images to dimensions.

Is searching a boundless space creativity? If all images are represented as numbers, and you are basically picking a number, are you creating or finding? Common twitter sentiment I have seen recently is that it isn't creative work, that feeding/refining prompts is really just more like search. Or that it's like gambling.

Where and with whom you have sex a bigger determinate on income than education or career.

Key things are it being repairable, with materials that can be sourced locally, and techniques that can be taught/learned.

avoid reading the short little articles and threads on improving things. Instead, do the thing.

Good thread, too.

don't need to hyper optimize every moment all of the time

Studies all seem pretty loose. Lot of self-reported, correlational studies with the unsurprising result that people with happier dogs punish them less.
A UK study that used dog trainers and didn't self-report, but they didn't measure baseline recall!

Long enough checklist that I don't think I need to read the book.

the things people write when you tell them they can write about anything

Great wiki for hosting setup instructions

On effective environmentalism. I wonder if carbon is an oversimlified metric and we are ignoring too many other factors, like ground/water pollution, or animal welfare in farming operations optimizing for high-efficiency.

When map and terrain disagree, believe terrain

Actual practical accessibility solutions to people's actual issues.

what do I practice that is analagous to scales? Writing, maybe?

asker is 23!

With a bookmarklet!

interesting for the stats of current waste/usage stats alone

As they all move to suggested posts and farther away from being networks people use for social.

What should we call the replacements?

Visual-first programming for visual effects

no projects, not side hustles, not reading to learn.
just sitting

does knowing the risk help, or cause added worry

cheating, poisoning, and other hijinks at the marathon

great write up of working through some prompts and backgrounds used for some drawings. For some reason I particularly liked how they added birds

Stats on insane writing habits

Can search queries be considered creative input?

Treating high prices as reasons not to do a thing.. Though it wasn't the only reason; I have no idea of the impact of desal plants on marine life/ecosystem.

Looking inside the black box

On affordances in conversations, giving some direction and options and places to hold onto