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The thing about a forum for a "debatebro" streamer is that everything kind of leaks out from the format. There are no more people in front of you, only interlocutors.It took 20 minutes to agree with someone because any slight ambiguity...
Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI agents daily because delegation (to another human) is a learned skill. Using AI agents is actually a lot like doing natural language...
During the morning walks along Da Nang beach I find peak creativity moments. Actually nothing extraordinary happens. Just the opposite: very daily things. And those normal scenes are full of magnificent details.Also it’s a powerful...
I did a list of the coffee shops I’ve visiting these weeks. A lot, usually one or two per day.Da Nang is a great place for writing in cafes. However there is a culture of smoke while taking coffee. Terraces are not usable for that, which...
There's a higher chance that Scotland becomes independent, and joins the EU and Schengen, than the Caledonian Sleeper is extended through the Channel Tunnel under the current political framework.Really.I am not joking.Whatever the SNP...
Bring your own network Most of us have heard of bring your own device. We expect our laptops, phones and tablets to work wherever we are. But what if, instead of trusting somebody else’s network, you could simply take your own with you?...
There’s something incredibly sweet about praying for another person, and it’s a sweetness that cannot be found in praying only for ourselves. It’s as though we empty ourselves of our own needs and desires, if only for a moment, and allow...
Me and lots of people I work or interact with are using AI to build things. The kind of things they are building vary a lot so I figured I would write down a few of the archetypes and some brief observations on each.Type 1 : A long...
“Company destroys two million books” is not a headline that generates sympathy. – ISBNdb Welcome to the Future (#1351) Minority Report meets 1984: The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an...
Editor’s note: Our Mind Upon Mind series is a nod to a 1937 Chips from the Chisel column (also featured in “Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years”), in which Hayward wrote, “The influence of mind upon mind is extraordinary.” The...
I believe everyone should try a Linux distro and see what you think. Unlike Microsoft Windows Linux provides multiple versions to try. Think of it like an adventure. You may want to run it from a DVD to see if the distro fits your style....
It is deeply uncomfortable to admit, but there is truth in the old claim that one becomes more conservative with age. This isn’t a ‘bit’, burnishing my credentials for an application to become Director of one of the new Centres for...
the sky's not supposed to be that color the air's not supposed to make you sick and the cold wind that blows through the fraser river valley is supposed to be a godsend not a curse i am listening to the click-click of the filter in my...
The default way of sharing data between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is mounting Windows directories inside WSL. This works, but is rather slow. There is a different way: Mount a WSL file system under windows. You can even mount a...
You say you want to be a doctor. Have you ever been a doctor? No, you haven’t. So you don’t want to be a doctor. You think you want to be a doctor. Detach. Don’t go through medical school as if it’s your one and only possibility. You may...