unfolding

they don't want your money - they want your attention

1 billion years is a long time. would a metallic alloy last a billion years? maybe we are better carving it into stone

I am always happy to see so much music theory content here. I have a bachelor of music for my undergrad, and working on my mscs at the moment. There must be a lot of people like me who discovered their love / interest in computation through music theory.

In principle I am against nuclear weapons. In practice I believe a deterrent state (at least two adversarial countries maintaining an active nuclear stockpile) is probably better than just one country maintaining an active stockpile.

I always wonder what would have happened if it had taken the Soviets longer to develop atomic weapons (or never did). Would a hawkish US president be more likely to use nuclear weapons to assert foreign policy than they are now?

Wordle reminds of a more complex version of Mastermind[0]. Donald Knuth proved you could always solve the game in five guesses or fewer![1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)#Best_s...

I really like the Astral Codex blog[1]. It is rationalist blog that features a variety of long-form posts, book reviews, discussions, etc. I don't really know if I consider myself a rationalist or not but I find the posts, discussions, and community to be very stimulating.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

This was hugged to death, is there a mirror?

what makes you think that?

There is a twitch streamer (kitboga) who role-plays as an elderly lady. He baits scammers into calling him and messes with them for a few hours.

His setup is quite elaborate. Fake bank accounts, google play store, etc. One of the more subtle parts is a chrome extension he wrote that adds a random delay to the load time for web elements to better simulate an ancient home desktop and poor internet connection.