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Orfeas60

TWRP - Pale Blue Dot 

This is a song about cooperation from a super-skilled rock band that makes me want to dance and save the world.

Orfeas20

Thank you for your insightful comment. The concept of a screw is new to me, so I'll have good look at the article you shared and I will try to think carefully about how physical units relate to types, as well as what constitutes true geometric meaning.

Answer by Orfeas180

Problem: Binge-watching youtube videos.

Solution: A browser extension that removes the recommended videos sidebar.

This has easily saved me tens of hours of wasted time.

2brambleboy
I can second this. I recommend the chrome extension Unhook, which allows you to disable individual parts of YouTube, and Youtube-shorts block, which makes YouTube shorts play like normal videos.
Orfeas30

I relate very much to your old roommate who commented on your studying Go and attributing it to your intelligence. While I have always imagined myself living in a small wooden cottage with plenty of time to pursue my interests, I find it very difficult to evaluate a freedom/success trade-off while still in university. Even though I could make the case that I will most likely live more-than-comfortably as a data-scientist no matter how well I perform at the next examination, I still can't shake the feeling that I should be pushing myself to the limit. I fee... (read more)

Orfeas00

I find the remark about the exponential increase in scope inducing a linear increase in willingness-to-pay perhaps being due to the number of zeroes quite amusing, and it leads me to speculate how a different base numbering system would change the willingness-to-pay. 

I predict that given identical proficiency in any base b numbering system, a base-2 numbering system would decrease willingness-to-pay for an identical exponential increase in scope, and a base-16 numbering system would increase it, as a result of the shorter length representations!

I imme... (read more)