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The story of trying to track down your instagram double.

via HN

This was where it lost me:

But at the most simple level, NFTs have given me, for the first time, a visceral understanding of the most basic innovation of crypto: What it means to digitally own a unique digital object.

Maintain a music collection long enough and you’ll own some pretty unique digital assets.

Too much trash and sponsored noisy content

Found via lightnote

Related: VR Exercise Equivalent ratings. Apparently modded Audioshield is the highest intensity

Markdown archive of the OP Forums tips and tricks megathread

Porn Sex versus Real Sex - but based on data already nearly 10 years out of date!

This reply spoke to me. I did it a few years ago and it has helped a lot.

I’ve silenced my phone 8 or 9 years ago and it’s been like that since then. (With unmuting it very occasionally. Like a few times a year, maybe.) The notification frequency must have grown a lot since then.

I have no idea how people can deal with their phone beeping and vibrating constantly. Actually, I get annoyed pretty quickly when e.g. my partner leaves her phone in the room.

Reply to “don’t contribute to web forums”. Linkrot is real, but a lot of the information sticks around

We’ve been in it so long that probably over 90% of our outbound links are at best broken or at worst lead to malware or pornography (of course I clean it up when I find it – by removing the links and adding a note). And yet, stuff that people have been directly contributing to our site since 1998 is still available, still open, and freely available without creating an account

Interesting explanations of some normal aspects of estate handling and ownership (especially partial, or having interests in).

The physics and background of curling. Some fascinating bits in there. I thought it was just about pushing a stone across some ice.

In those days, my head was full of reggae. Even when I was trying to come up with a rock beat, I think it just naturally came out as something that would work in reggae as well.”

From the rare HN discussion filled with music recommendations!

Some interesting comments on the novelty aspect, routine, familiarity, perception of time

Awesome diagrams of the inside of undersea cables, and the boats and bots used to lay them.

lot of the typical “a computer made it so it can’t be art” takes in there that I really can’t get behind. Let them help make things!

THe daily work capacity estimate for different tasks is a great idea. Should do that.

Advice gathered by someone smarter than me. My top three of their picks:

• minor barriers aren’t minor
• remember what used to work, then do it again
• when choosing a life path, think about what contexts it puts you in

First two from Chris Sparks, third from Devon Zuegel

Perfectionism is more often about being afraid to be bad at things

I have watched this scores of times

Pretty damn hard to make things that last

Except the batteries on that rover are long dead. Many, if not all, of the plastic and paper insulators exposed to vacuum are now brittle and broken. All labels or painted surfaces are likely bleached white. Differential expansion during lunar daylight cycles has likely snapped a few things here and there too. Fifty years of exposure to static electric charges on the moon has put lunar dust in all sorts of places it doesn’t belong.

From CWT with Stewart Brand

A long writeup of a long show. Has convinced me to give it a look

More depressing covid takes. The final paragraph:

The countries that have stopped the virus, that is, cannot keep stopping the virus, because the experts say there is already too much of the virus circulating. China is a pandemic waiting to happen because the United States is wholeheartedly committed to being a pandemic. The American program, they say, will be the program for the entire world.

Not letting tools get in the way. And splitting up writing and editing.

1. Capture the idea.
2. Skeleton.
3. Draft.
4. Revise and ship.
5. Plus: avoiding a false sense of productivity.

Stick to simple processes and tools, don’t waste time overthinking.

So the typical writer today ends up with a pen and paper and a very narrow range of expressions: nothing beyond what can be stated with short sentences and short words and short, crisp thoughts. This is the ethos of the contemporary writing seminar, or most communication classes, even though any template that promises to induce good prose will also shove away any potential for expansive or artful prose—it is the realm of instructions, manuals, blueprints, and checklists. Where all sentences are trapped between guardrails. Where the purpose of writing instruction is to prevent errors. Where the writer begins every sentence with nothing more than thoughts of what to avoid.

Good writing isn’t static. Nor is it planned with precision. A sentence that vibrates just right is, instead, taking you along for a journey: these are the moments when you have temporary access to a writer’s mind. Good writing reveals all the muck, contradictions, and back-steps of actual thought