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These people write so well, it’s an absolute joy and I love everything they do.

> if they can even read ;)

No need, they have videos.

Appreciate the writeup, thanks.

Thanks!

Can you translate the American for me? “Wide variance”, does that they’re being assholes?

I googled Aumann Agreement and it’s all about agreeing about whether things are true/false/likely/unlikely.

I don’t understand your point at all in this context. What’s “Aumann Agreement” in the context of a discussion about values?

For years my youngest kid (10yo) showed no interest in reading. He would very sometimes try, but give up after a few pages.

But then he read a book that opened with the sentence “I thought I was being followed.”, and that was his gateway drug.

I fully credit the author, Maren Stoffels, for getting my boy into reading. Every book by her is exciting from the first page. If you’re Dutch and have kids, I warmly recommend “De Wisselaar”.

Same for the SGP, the Dutch fundamentalist Christian party: https://sgp.nl/

I share few of their values but I quite appreciate this one.

“Whelming” is an excellent way to describe the Vaalserberg. Aachen has a lot more to it and somehow most Dutchmen never take a peek across the border.

I'd love to understand better how they can afford a 10+ person team working on this and then give it all away for free. After paying the original Audacity creators a fair chunk of money to buy it, even. Is that audio.com sign in screen really bringing in that much money?

I mean I love it, to be fair when it got acquired I didn't have high hopes given how these things usually go, but Muse has so far been a spectacular steward and this huge redesign+refactor effort is a clear testament to that.

I usually hate product announce videos but this one is so concise and fast and to the point, I'm very impressed. Also wow the new UI looks delicious!

The Dutch are pretty direct but not to Donald Trump, who has a famously thin skin and can cause a huge European crisis with a single tweet.

You have to see all European diplomacy through that lens. Everybody’s tiptoeing around the orange idiot’s feelings and meanwhile working hard to make sure we’re never again so dependent on a country that’s so untrustworthy. This gold move is one of the many little steps taken in that direction.

Points for “Salads are closed under addition”

Soo was it more or less than that? Don’t leave us hanging like that!

Decades before leetcode, we already had leetspeak! This is that.

Feels a bit like a waste that the lovely diskmag interface doesn't seem to have a play button for this mixtape. Hope they add that in future issues.

None of these require a domain to work. There’s plenty precedent of things taking off without having a domain, eg Wordle, all Neal.fun sites, Hacker News, and I’m probably forgetting a few obvious ones.

I know that “mystupidvibecodedidea.com” is all the rage but nobody cares if that’s instead on yourname.com/mystupidvibecoded idea except you.

Sidenote "Kallax enjoyer" is a great thing to from an identity around and I'm updating my Twitter bio as we speak

> I mean, come on. We all look like a bunch of wankers. Please, remember the old times, like the 2000s.

I mean this in the least dismissive way possible, cause I quite like it, but this isn't good enough prose for the average LLM.

Fwiw that article isn't really the creme-de-la-creme of Wikipedia now is it? It suggests that a two-party system is typical of liberal democracies whereas in fact only a small number of democracies have systems like that, and even there many have recently turned into multi-party systems (eg France and the UK).

You're reading way too much into this. This is just a journalist geeking out on philosophy for a bit. Read it the way you would an HN comment about psychology or nuclear physics.

Umm, either I'm misunderstanding or this holds for nearly every UI everywhere, no? Like if I click "reply" on HN I'm moved to the screen I now type this comment in. That means my current state depends on history, too, no?

I'm the opposite of an Apple fanboy (typing this on a Windows box), but this is some grade A nonsense.

Sure, MS launched PDAs and phone-ish devices long ago, running Windows CE and whatnot but they were awful. It's absolute bollocks that the iPhone was a splashing success because of Apple marketing. It was a splashing success because it worked spectacularly well. Random non-tech people would randomly pull out their newest purchase to show their friends. "And now it's a notepad!" "Look and now suddenly it's a calculator!" Sure, your awful HP Tablet had all that, and a call function, well before. But it sucked. It felt like using a computer while squinting, and not like a magic calculator that can turn into a notepad and then into a phone and then into an iPod.

The iPhone was a success because it worked so well. And it worked so well because the technology was there - in part because they invented it and in part because they had the taste to not bring out a shit product but wait a bit instead.

Because it was made/vibed by the Shopify CEO who has a pretty good twitter game

My favourite is MAC³PARK Stadium, the home of FC Zwolle in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

It is named after MAC³PARK, a collection of extremely boring business parks (ie office buildings in an industrial zone). The business parks in question are in nowhere near Zwolle (for Dutch standards).

Gah, damn I read over that, I'd only seen the "But he will not receive a royal allowance" part. Sorry & thanks.

Wealth gain? How?

It got cancelled halfway

A friend of mine did a PhD in computer science solely and specifically so he could prove to himself that he could do a sustained, multi-year solo project and complete it. He then got a job he totally would've gotten 4 years earlier as well, with just the MSc. When asked (eg by recruiters/interviewers), he always said "because I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it" and personally I find that a very satisfying answer.

All I'm saying is, not everyone doing a PhD and then leaving academia was accidentally climbing up the wrong ladder. Some did it on purpose, just to admire the view.

Hey random offtopic note, I saw on your site that you are fully bedridden with ME / Long COVID and I hope you'll recover eventually, to whatever extent is worth imagining. ME is a bitch.