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"People everywhere have always had a sweet tooth for the unreal, enthralled by what should be taken as too good to be true."

"If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean!"

"Storage is the most difficult problem in information technology. Why? Because entropy is always working to destroy our data. There's only one strategy that works."

Interesting read from a few years back on access to healthcare in modern America vs. medieval Europe. Medicine is much better now, but even peasants had better access.

Realistic visible-light depictions of roughly what Earth would have looked like in the distant past with previous continental arrangements.

On Linux command-line tools' documentation.

Cross-lamintated timber

"257 small steps for our human cousins, one giant leap for paleoanthropology."

"Deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something."
(Previously the original DarkPatterns website)