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I knew the Mitchell and Webb duo from _The Peep Show_ and one day (long before the pandemic) I saw a comment on Slashdot about working from home linking to this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk

Then I watched that show and learned about Numberwang.

And here's the history of Numberwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofnDdi-vfw

I tried your site and here's what I'd do:

- Stop paying for ads immediately.

- Give away full access to other devs to get their opinion

- Dog food. When you run it on its own page, do the results make sense? I did and I believe some don't.

- PDF results are preferred for the devs? Show me a sample.

- What's the most appropriate format for results to feed to my LLM to improve my site? Is the answer PDF?

I'd do some of these and give it another 3 months and then decide.

> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?

For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.

Baudrillard shaming McLuhan on Slack. :chef-kiss:

Good that folks kept going and it's all documented here. Please fix the typography of this wonderful directory.

Github[1] page says it's intended to "feel" like Ghostty:

> A native macOS note-taking app that feels like Ghostty — GPU-accelerated, keyboard-first, monospace, zero-config.

[1]: https://github.com/mimoo/ghostmd

Love it. No Infinite Cavapoo Theorem needed. Give Momo a week and she'll have DOOM running on her treat dispenser.

I've been using Kagi for the past few years, but I try to use a brand-agnostic language talking about web search; e.g. "I'm gonna search [the web] for it"; "Use your favorite search engine to look it up".

Jon Gjengset—among other things, the author of Rust for Rustaceans—works for this company and talks about them occasionally answering questions during his recurring Q&As; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw88-0ofBs0&t=10616s

> One thing I am curious about is whether there is a different kind of science fiction out there.

One recommendation: Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora: We went there. It didn't work. We came back. We did good and bad things to each other along the way. It was beautiful and painful.

All these "have died"[1] and yet Claude the alligator "passed away". RIP.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died

But if you'd like to see a sample of _Old_ Farmer's Almanac, their 2026 issue could be accessed here: https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/TheOldFarmersAlmanac/issu...

I always enjoy reading through those tabulated stuff; see pp. 280-281.

> At a 2017 conference, MBS illustrated his vision for Neom by comparing two phones. [...] a Nokia 215 phone next to a traditional city layout and an iPhone next to The Line’s vertical layout.

I think there is a lot to be learned just from this single vignette.

Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.

Harper's Index [1]:

> Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 : 2,052

> Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0

[1]: https://harpers.org/harpers-index/

```It's just a feeling I get when I think about it.<｜beginofsentence｜>```

Definitely not human; the bug is though.

Ditto about the quality of intro. One way to show that "meat" without sharing some arbitrary number of chapters could have been to also include some of the back matter of the book (index, bibliography, etc.) in the sample. For example, I'm reading this:

> If coding really is like sorcery, what does this mean for how we think about computers?

and wondering whether Abelson/Sussman sort of wizardry makes an appearance or not.

On desktop on 133% at the moment. Can tolerate 120%, but the default is too small of a text size for me.

Thanks for your volunteer work for Standard Ebooks!

Tangential:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Memory_Systems

- https://i.imgur.com/vNQURE3.jpeg

Not quite in agreement about using this quotation in this context, but for those who care about attribution and credit and such, this is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

Great. Noted. Moving on...

Great. Good job doing your research, but your input and cross-link were not relevant to this thread focusing on that earlier comment.

I'm just pointing out that my comment was about the list provided by the commenter above and "most" was about that list rather than all of PKD's work. What you refer to as "pedantic", I consider precision and talking about what's being discussed; someone asks "are these his titles", the answer was "yes. most of these are". Nothing more, nothing less.

> Most of the above are his titles

Back to original list from the parent comment that is the "above" in my comment. X denotes PKD title, O denotes otherwise:

X Time Out of Joint

X The Man in the High Castle

O Martian Time-Slip

X The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

X Clans of the Alphane Moon

X The Simulacra

X Now Wait for Last Year

O Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)/Blade Runner (1982)

O Ubik

O We Can Build You

X Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

X A Scanner Darkly

O The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

O Radio Free Albemuth

So..."most" of what exactly?

I think my definition of "most" (11 of 14) and your definition of "most" (4 of 14) differs here...which is fine. We live in the "days of Perky Pat" anyway.

Most of the above are his titles. Some which were published in serialized form before being published in a single volume (Martian Time-Slip and We Can Build You) had different titles. Letters, manuscripts, and publication notes are helpful to shed some light on this matter; e.g. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer was regularly referred to as the "Archer novel" or "Bishop Timothy Archer".

Aladdin Sane persona, to be precise: https://david-bowie.fandom.com/wiki/Aladdin_Sane_(persona)

Let me just say that any day in my professional and intellectual life that I interact with someone showing "innate interest" in topics at hand and a healthy amount of "refusal to give up", is a good day for me.

If you're looking for some honest, profound, and witty reading in terms of intellectual self-doubt and brilliance, skim through _I've Been Thinking_, the excellent biography of the recently deceased philosopher, Daniel C Dennett.