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Fermi Question of the Day: 5 August 2025

"How many iPhones has Apple ever sold?"

I won using 2 out of 6 guesses. Can you beat me?

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What is Google Search Linux?

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

The elites don't want you to know this but you can just play old windows games in your browser: retroonline.net

I just played Worms 2 on the train with my niece and it was awesome.

holy crap edgar wright is on bluesky

Shoutout to @tutaprivacy.bsky.social for providing binaries for all app versions so I can downgrade whenever something breaks

what about crunchy jazz?

Importance Hacker News www.spencergreenberg.com/2022/12/impo...

Screenshot of a conversation with Claude 4.0 Sonnet (part 1 of 2). Me: How do you think the unthinkable? Claude: You approach the unthinkable by deliberately breaking out of your usual thought patterns and assumptions. Here are some ways to do it: Question your fundamental assumptions. Start with what you consider absolutely certain and ask "What if this weren't true?" Most breakthroughs come from challenging ideas we never thought to question. Use extreme scenarios. Push ideas to their logical extremes or imagine impossible situations. Science fiction writers do this constantly - they ask "What if gravity reversed?" or "What if time flowed backward?" These thought experiments often reveal new possibilities. Cross-pollinate between unrelated fields. The history of innovation is full of people who combined ideas from completely different domains. Darwin's theory of evolution was influenced by Malthus's essay on population growth. Velcro was inspired by burr seeds. Embrace paradox and contradiction. Instead of resolving contradictions immediately, sit with them. Sometimes the "impossible" coexistence of opposing ideas points toward a deeper truth or novel solution. Change your perspective radically. Think from the viewpoint of your worst enemy, a child, an alien, or someone from a completely different culture or time period. Each perspective reveals blind spots in your thinking. Use systematic creativity techniques. Methods like random word association, reverse thinking (how would you make this problem worse?), or asking "How would nature solve this?" can jolt you out of conventional patterns. The key is recognizing that "unthinkable" usually just means "outside our current mental frameworks." Once you realize those frameworks are choices rather than absolutes, you can start thinking beyond them.

Screenshot of a conversation with Claude 4.0 Sonnet (part 2 of 2). Me: With an itheberg Claude: Ah, you're talking about using an iceberg as a thinking tool! The iceberg metaphor is brilliant for approaching the unthinkable because it forces you to look beneath the surface. The visible tip represents the obvious, conventional thoughts - what everyone can see and what we normally focus on. But the real mass, the unthinkable possibilities, lie hidden beneath the waterline. To think the unthinkable with an iceberg approach: Identify what's above the surface - the accepted facts, common solutions, obvious interpretations. Write them down. Then dive deeper systematically. Ask what assumptions are holding up those surface thoughts. What historical, cultural, or personal biases might be shaping what seems "obvious"? Go to the hidden 90%. What factors are invisible but might be more important than what's visible? What would change if you flipped the iceberg upside down - made the hidden part visible and questioned the "obvious" part? Follow the underwater currents. Icebergs move in ways that seem mysterious from the surface, but they're following deep ocean currents. What deeper forces or patterns might be moving your problem in ways you can't see? Consider the whole ecosystem. Real icebergs exist in relationship with water temperature, currents, marine life, climate patterns. Your "unthinkable" insights might come from understanding the larger system rather than focusing on the isolated problem. The iceberg reminds us that breakthrough thinking happens when we stop looking at just the tip and start exploring the vast, hidden territory underneath.

i just don't know how i can be friends with this claude guy

Skyrdle 2 5/6

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every emoji just has a monocle?

Manifold Markets profit chart of my profile showing that I am finally in the positives after almost a year in the negatives

Finally broke even thanks to one of those markets :')

Photo of a screen showing a github pull request page, zoomed in close to the part that shows 1,057 lines added and 19,456 lines removed

crushing it on github today btw

americans explaining consciousness: imagine a kia sorento

Meanwhile in Svelte:

<div class={['class1', condition && 'class2']}>

or

<div class={['class1', { class2: condition }}>

Sucks that you couldn't fit in an SS tier but I get that making an entire tier just for my avatar is too much effort

Sidekickicons Fanmade icons to complement Heroicons

I created a complementary iconset to heroicons that includes the save icon 😄 sidekickicons.com

I think ADHD is only called ATH in Estonian :D

Turns out there are more chairs than tables!

manifold.markets/100Anonymous...

Eurovision but each country presents an open source project

"Chronologically Lost" is a thing and it's amazing

Here's my solution:

<p a><p><p b><div><style>*{background:#5A9F48;height:80}p{width:80;border:10vh solid;border-radius:5em;margin:-275 auto 0}[a]{margin:80 auto;width:140}[b]{margin:-30 auto 0}div{margin:-180 auto;width:50}

Lookd like a lot of people got under 200 though. The record is 135. 😵

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{⚔️} Day 1 of #CSSBattleDaily streak: May 16 — 657.78 score / 203 chars cssbattle.dev/play/EtLIlg5... #CSSBattleChallenge via @cssbattle.dev

The best thing on youtube is to turn off your watch history, so you get no suggestions or shorts - only your subscriptions page.

Created a Svelte package for Heroicons and Sidekickicons!

github.com/ndri/sidekic...

I've seen it described so many different ways that I have no idea what it is anymore

So it turns out upgrading to macOS Sequoia can drain your battery much quicker. Sometimes my laziness to upgrade software really pays off.

Probably my weirdest last.fm month

Is this really an LLM detector or rather an indicator that some Apple ChatGPT feature was used to write the message?

Might need to become less silly on the internet