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Re:South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots on Saturday March 28, 2026 @08:12PM (#47559231)
A mandate for renewable energy is authoritarian now? What? This is a great initiative.
This is something that I think about quite a bit and am grateful for this write-up. The amount of friction to get privacy today is astounding.
Re:Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:56PM (#44790009)
I don't understand: the translation is not good because he omitted the author's name? He stated it plainly in his article:

> As it happens, I recently translated a short story by Kir Bulychev — a Soviet science-fiction icon virtually unknown in the West.

I for one enjoyed reading it! As for the article, it's on point. There will be fewer historians and translators, but I suspect those that stick around will be greatly amplified.

Re:Shrooms: What You Need to Know on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:10PM (#29686523)
I love this. This was me in 2017 and following the white rabbit led to a most spectacular year. It really is a birth right, and people chosing ‘no’ are really missing out on a fundamental aspect of being alive.

On another note, I always love psych threads on HN. High quality posts all around.

You sound very much like me. Totally happy with my usage, and a chronic user that smokes 2-3 times per day reaching about a gram. It helps with empathy, it helps with creative flow, it helps with many things, but there are downsides of course. From August to December I took a break and it was immensely useful for perspective and for resetting my brain. My dreams were extremely vivid and rich, and going back to smoking was like rediscovering pot when I was 16. T breaks are indeed the key as GP pointed out.
Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:42AM (#24504490)
I don't understand the appeal of using a cli to manage commits, branches, remotes, merges with conflicts, and so on. To me all these things are so much better internalized and understood when presented visually. Git GUIs are aplenty (Sublime Merge being my latest discovery, SourceTree before that) and generally really good. Combined with the already amazing GitHub web GUI, it's a wonder what use case is better served by sticking to the cli, other than this misplaced notion that it's what the cool kids are doing.