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Re:Ordinary Abundance on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:53PM (#49293920)
"Everything around me was someone's lifework" - Gordon Brander
Re:"Comedy is search" – theory on how jokes work on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @08:03PM (#41715803)
Once of my favorite visual breakdowns of comedy structure is the interactive site The Pudding did for an Ali Wong standup show a couple years back: https://pudding.cool/2018/02/stand-up/
Re:The year of the RSS reader (really) on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:50AM (#34107906)
I was looking for solutions to get RSS feeds of twitter and YouTube profiles and came across this useful tool: https://rssbox.fly.dev/
You can! And there’s software on GitHub to allow you to transfer it to your computer (I’ve tested it successfully on my Mac)
Re:How bad is my gas stove? on Saturday January 15, 2022 @04:02PM (#29950226)
Is a gas powered heater a source of nitrogen dioxide?
Re:Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009) on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:51AM (#29308501)
Bret Victor's 'Brief rant on the future of interaction design' is a worthwhile read on the same subject: http://worrydream.com/#!/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionD...

> Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.

Re:Why Tokyo Works on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:30PM (#29143220)
I’ve heard this too. Tokyo is my favorite place in the world that I’ve visited, but that’s as a gaijin — and I’m sure it’d be a different more repressive experience as a native.
Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:20PM (#29143120)
Might be totally off base and unrelated, but I’m curious how often people are power cycling and if that provides any benefit
Re:“User engagement” is code for “addiction” on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:05PM (#26348301)
Humane tech has an informative page detailing how to “take control”: https://www.humanetech.com/take-control
Re:Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:06AM (#26181521)
I can't live without oh my zsh's git aliases: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Cheatsheet#git
Re:Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression on Saturday November 10, 2018 @09:29AM (#18421433)
Have you tried hckrnews.com? You can filter by top 10, 20, 50% of articles.