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interesting things written by other people

therapy isn’t about gleaning advice; it’s about developing the capacity to seriously consider the advice you’ve already received

Impressive survival rate for so many ships

The Story of J Dilla ‘Donuts’Edit

mostly recorded from hospital!

Underground aquaducts

Clip of Johnny Lee’s Wiimote hack to create VR displays (from 2007!)

on the slowest part of making cars

Theories on plant intelligence

Essay about slime molds

The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)Edit

The REAPER render dialog supports negative start times!

, that treating loneliness simply by telling lonely people to go out and socialize more (the way you can treat a phobia of snakes with exposure) will often not work because it fails to address the root cause of the loneliness. In fact, a recent meta-analysis confirmed that simply providing lonely people with easier access to potential friends has no effect on subjective loneliness.

four out of five animals on land are roundworms

ummmm

Things get more complicated as they get more complex

How to talk to aliens (other people, who are very different)
Ask Butler

Rigorous Systems Design - Joseph Sifakus
The Design of Design - Fred Brooks

The “premature sheen” that happens when using computers, if stuff sounds ok enough too early, then you are reluctant to make big necessary changes later.

lot of useful UI tips packed into a few minutes. Different menus to find the switcher in, and different ways to toggle it.

Went with adding button + custom icon to toolbar to toggle for active track

one of the greatest playlists of all time

what does any of this mean

Wild on-device makeup/face-shape filters on TikTok

At dinner with two friends yesterday, it came up that all three of us feel
that we can’t meaningfully show ourselves at our (STEM) jobs; at work lunches,
oftentimes silence reigns,
& there’s never a heartfelt conversation. We despaired at the prospect of living this for 40 years.

really really good explanation

False shrines reduce littering

another image input tool