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Audible and most audiobook player apps let you control the speed. I usually listen at 1.25 to 1.5

That to me, feels opposite the the article's advice.

And I too, often watch youtube at 1.5x or 2x speed, and dislike audiobooks because I read so much faster that I can possibly listen to them, and there's always an ever growing list/pile of books I want to read after this one. I wonder if that's why a certain type of movie works so well for me - I think of them as "movies made from short stories, not novels", and now I'm wondering if it's something similar to the OP's idea - and that spending 2 hours watching a short story I'd expect to read in 15/20mins is what I'm enjoying, in a different way to, say, the new Dune movies - which so far have been 4-5 hours watching a couple of big novel's worth of story that'd take me a week or so to read? Just writing that out now, I realised theres a two orders of magnitude difference in speed there going from 1/10th of reading speed to 10x reading speed - from a 15 minute read to 2 hour watch, to a week long read to 4-5 hour watch. Hardly surprising they hit my brain differently.


What last name do your kids use?

Last name of father and mother, respectively.

  let motherLastName = "Carter Hughes"
  let fatherLastName = "Miller Thompson"
  let childLastName  = "Miller Carter"
  let childFullName  = "Jean Paul Miller Carter"
Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.

You might ask, —“Why does the father’s last name go first and the mother’s second?”— That’s an old tradition, and it can change whenever enough people in our society agree. As it stands, the father’s family name tends to persist down the family tree, while the mother’s family name often disappears in each generation.

Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.


You should have given a more complete example, where the parents themselves have long names to demonstrate that something does have to get dropped when you have children.

Hughes and Thompson were both dropped in their example.

My bad, I misread the parents' names as their full names.

> What last name do your kids use?

In the country where he lives (Belgium), the parents get to decide which family name the kids get.


I use AWS to register the domain and AWS supports up to 8 different MFA factors. I have totp and 4 different passkeys registered

Realizing this is why I bought my own domain name and pointed the mx records at Gmail. This way I can change it to different mails servers if needed, even self hosted. One useful thing you can do is configure Gmail to forward mail to unknown address to a known one. So I can create addresses like Facebook@ultrasane.com or Amazon@ultrasane.com, etc

Save a picture of the TOTP QR code and print it out.

The average human driver is much worse than waymo.

His behavior after buying Twitter really is stupid though.

Is it? Chaotic, certainly. But if you proposed in 2021 that there was a way to:

* make white nationalism acceptable on Twitter

* while increasing the US government's dependence on it

* at the same time that the US president owns a competing social media app

I think nearly anyone would have told you that's impossible. Strategic chaos in service of a bad goal just looks stupid from a distance.


I really think his entire Twitter purchase was a way to get political leverage

Musk is thinking far down the line


He did try to get out of buying it which everyone seems to have memoryholed. I doubt anything other than way too much ketamine is behind a lot of the chaotic decision making.

I meant the way he fired AND INSULTED all the smart people whore created the Twitter back end

Maybe the point of buying Twitter was to help elect Trump and get his fingers into the administration

His net worth figure certainly seems to indicate that it wasn’t stupid


Musk didn't build PayPal or spacex

Musk is uniquely stupid and arrogant for refusing to understand very complex systems before making radical changes to them. This behavior directly led to outages at Twitter after he bought it.

If only that truly was a unique trait…

That is just pathetic.

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