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You read a headline about it on a website less than an hour after it happened?

I really appreciate Hurst's honesty here about the frustration involved in building a company. It's easy to focus on the flashy success stories of startups whose "simple" idea goes straight to the moon. But discovering new science and using it to invent new products, not to mention finding markets for those things, is often an absolute slog. Taking this piece at face value, I admire Hurst's resilience and determination in the face of that slog.

Lot of haters in this chat but I think this is delightful and I'll definitely try it! We typically sit out on our steps and greet Trick or Treaters in person; I think a talking pumpkin will be a real hit with the kids, and I am quite sure no one will steal it while we are sitting right there!

This exact dynamic happened in the American west and is still happening in Brazil

These are so sick. As a 34 year old whose first computers were already Windows 98, it's so weird to imagine a past where this is what the future of computing looked like, as opposed to what we actually got.

Possible bug: Went scrolling way East on the map for kicks and was surprised to find 14 courses on Guam, but also that the data don't repopulate as you make it back around the globe a second time. This seems to happen in both directions—eg Guam doesn't populate at all if you scroll West.

Editing my fantasy novel. Made a mindset change recently that helped me get past a months-long block.

Sounds like the perfect setting for a souls-like game.

A friend and I were at the WW2 museum in New Orleans a couple years ago and he said something that really stuck with me. Amazed at an exhibit on wartime manufacturing, he turned to me and said, "This is so unbelievable to me. To think what we accomplished when everyone in the country was pulling in the same direction. There's no way that could happen anymore." I hardly want to glorify warfare, but he has a point. As a young person in our chaotic and ambiguous present day looking back into the haze of the past, there really is something incredibly romantic about the era of war mobilization. Ordinary people had a purpose simply assigned to them, and if nothing else I think it's still the case that people in all eras crave purpose.

This is pretty amazing. I clicked on a Luganda-language channel in Uganda and it was a concerned-looking woman being interviewed for a news segment about a "for men" testosterone supplement. Kind of heartening to see that people everywhere are the same, for better and for worse.

Tangential question: Is housing activist your occupation? And if so how did you get into that line of work?

This is miraculous. I randomly flipped to Air Bud and it's just... playing the whole movie! How on Earth was it possible for one person to make this???

> All of the people who lived in the country of the Tigris and Euphrates were white. We don’t know how nor when nor where colored people first lived, though it is interesting to guess.

I guess you can read this as a funny, outdated text but I personally would not give it to my kid.

93/100 here, wonder if there’s a difference between mobile and desktop? I played on mobile and being able to bring my phone right up close to my eyes seemed to make it easier to judge the spacing than if I’d done it at my desk.

I’m a fellow ADHD sufferer and you’re 100% right that it is disabling in many contexts where “normal” function is optimal. But I want to encourage you not to despair entirely—-there are legitimate ways in which the ADHD mind has an edge. Mainly in recognizing lateral connections that neurotypical people might not see—-in essence, creativity, innovation. Not that neurotypical people can’t be creative, they obviously can be. But the ADHD mind has been shown to have this unusual quality. It’s why people with ADHD are often especially good conversationalists and jokers, even if they are terrible at getting their taxes done on time.