"what is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness. You don't want most of it, you want all of it" - Churchill
Readit Newsapengwin commented on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf] andrewoswald.com/docs/Adv... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
One of the most under-appreciated lines from a TV show was from Fleabag season 2
"Priests CAN have sex, you know. You won't just burst into flames. I've Googled it!"
apengwin commented on A Supermarket in California (1955) poetryfoundation.org/poem... · Posted by u/squircle
Go Bears
apengwin commented on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/... · Posted by u/arkj
Thanks! Do you know if the course is taught online? I couldn't find any lecture recordings on OpenCourseWare. I did find this YouTube playlist about xv6[1], which looks very good, but it's not from MIT.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...
The lectures are here https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2020/schedule.html
apengwin commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl
apengwin commented on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana apnews.com/article/mariju... · Posted by u/JacobHenner
Feels like they were keeping this card in their sleeves for when they needed a popularity boost.
It is a good thing for democratically accountable governments to do good things that the people want!