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

Another good reminder of the math of hours adding up

Key ones: develop a system, don’t say yes to everything, have fun.

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

great tutorial idea. Very manual way to understand the setup steps required.

Sensible change - instead of showing 50% and 25% amounts to 75% and 25%.

I assume them getting in-band about half the time will make people claim they are “wrong” about rain predictionss less.

Deeply unsettling

Not everything needs to be part of your 2-party political melodrama

High prices and shaping before, even long after it’s over. Remember reading some story of someone’s parents washing/reusing plastic wrap and foil and things after a war.

The continuing value of the little solar system model.

Little planets are easier to comprehend than a probalistic cloud of electrons

Subjective well-being improves with car shedding, if it’s not done for financial reasons.

please fewer underground car tubes

Rate-limit everything, absolutely everything.

On optimizing for ranking causing an overall decline in information.

Cool having googlers just pop in to the comments to explain/counter people’s observations. Most of my useful google search tricks were from some article I read a decade or more ago with some inurl: and file format tricks

don’t get famous, this sounds horrendous

Still mixed feelings on DALL-E, the book is good though. Useful some well-explained concepts.

from hn.

cabinsitting in a national forest

some interesting extra ideas, on top of those from the DALL-E prompt book - tricks like “in a circle” to get something logo-style that is sufficiently centred.

Also smart:

Finally, I did a bunch of Google reverse image searches for it. You know, just to be sure.

On wanting to be wanted, and the mismatch between “ideal mate” checklists vs actual selections

Apparently probably not

more awesome web apps

clean electricity vs animal welfare tradeoffs

report found that breaching lower Snake River dams is “essential” to helping protect and recover threatened_ salmon populations."

• Gifts increase in value when given away
• Most platforms now don’t sell music, either subscriptions or ads

How I started letting go of my anxiety: slowly and reluctantly. I relaxed more when I noticed that I felt better. And then I kept letting go, more and more and more

The most useful skill you can acquire as a human is the ability to help other people feel safe.
If you don’t feel safe, your anxiety will bleed through.

The Pyramid of Giza needed a lot of copper, for picks and chisels for working stone.

Will ectoplasmic green skies be alarming enough to make people take climate more seriously? Undecided.
Some interesting overviews on how eyes work though.