Misuse of the Word ‘Irony’
Irony is one word that has been getting massacred more and more lately–mostly because it’s become in-fashion to use it to appear intelligent. The way…
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Abstract/Distant Future Bias | Daniel Miessler
All of these bring each other more to mind: here, now, me, us; trend-deviating likely real local events; concrete, context-dependent, unstructured, detailed, goal-irrelevant incidental features;…
A Bookmarklet That Displays HTTP Headers
I was looking for a Google Chrome extension that did something like Firefox’s Live HTTP Headers recently and tripped over this neat bookmarklet. It’s not…
Another Data Point in the iPhone vs. Android Debate: Re-sale Values
It’s pretty well accepted that one way to gauge something’s value is to see how it retains said value. One example would be, say, a…
Flattr, and Why It’s Brilliant
Flattr is an exciting new social networking / micro-payment service that allows you to set a donation amount that gets divided among all the different…
On Average, Mean, Median, and Mode
If you’re reading this you’re probably a bit geeky (like me), and you’ve no doubt been in at least 42 conversations about average vs. mean,…
Finding more vulnerabilities in vibe coded apps
Vibe coding is the latest trend sweeping through developer communities. It’s the art of describing a concept, feeding it to an AI, and letting the…
Options as the Main Cause of Unhappiness
I’m reading a Bertrand Russell book right now that talks about happiness and how to achieve it in the modern world. One of his main…
No, Jesus Did Not Soften the Old Testament–In Fact He Did the Opposite, and Here’s What That Means
Moderate Christians love to talk about how Jesus fixed the Old Testament, or, in other words, obsoleted the horribly offensive parts about slavery, keeping women…
Nothing In, Nothing Out
High quality intellectual output comes from high-quality intellectual input. People who don’t consume ideas tend not to have any. And if they do have some,…
You Made it to the Belly Button
Anyone who wishes to make advances in a particular intellectual area have essentially two options: Be an uber-deathgod-genius like Newton or Einstein, or: Learn everything…
Pimping Linode | Daniel Miessler
I don’t like salesishness, so let’s be clear about two things: I’m trying to get this site to where it can support itself by referral…