Ben Weinstein-Raun @benwr@schelling.pt

@rntz

Establish a replacement deadline; poof, no more guilt:

1. Notify whoever it is that I'm submitting to (or, to the audience waiting on it) that the thing is overdue
2. Either set my own new deadline in that notice message (if appropriate), or ask for an extension (if appropriate)
3. Your work is no longer overdue.

Someday I'd like to understand this physics stackexchange question: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/668248/energy-extraction-from-universe-expansion

new favorite crackpot evopsych theory:

https://meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human-evolution/

Pretty great video rundown of (what I think is, recently?) the most promising-looking rust web framework:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnb_n5YktO8

Links for understanding type theory notation:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12532552/what-part-of-hindley-milner-do-you-not-understand

https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/2692/how-should-i-read-type-system-notation

https://github.com/ankitpokhrel/jira-cli CLI that might make JIRA almost tolerable to use?

this sounds like a really fun game: https://www.facebook.com/paulfchristiano/posts/pfbid0jnSvyfDe6DCWCEDp6W1AdahSy9X92jeYH628B75ALXv9rSFv2Vx4ZcEyTwk9jWuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle TIL maybe rotating frames are the same as non-rotating ones

awesome-looking nondestructive graphics editor: https://graphite.rs/

Very cool, very web 1.0, chemical of the month web site:

https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm?mc_cid=80df1f38d2&mc_eid=c4d7f512e4

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havelock_Ellis

Always interesting to find people from 100 years ago who probably wouldn't seem that out of place at a modern rationalist party (for better or worse)

```
> cat 10-million-password-list-top-1000000.txt | awk '{print length}' | sort -h | uniq -c
851 3
26830 4
51446 5
248824 6
183917 7
305082 8
69687 9
46716 10
22495 11
15892 12
12725 13
5786 14
3811 15
2765 16
969 17
707 18
475 19
396 20
192 21
145 22
71 23
72 24
33 25
41 26
16 27
24 28
9 29
8 30
4 31
1 32
3 33
1 35
1 36
2 37
1 39
```

(I might start using mastodon partly as a linkblog; I like the idea of having a permanent-ish record of neat links that I might otherwise lose, since after 25 years I still don't have a good way of organizing bookmarks)

"Concept creep" is a pretty cool concept: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41127358/levari_dissertation_june2018_revision3.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Some cool distributed systems ideas collected in the Shelter Protocol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0GQz-UF0Lk

A bit too blockchainy for my taste, but neat.

The shepherds of the Landes region of France traditionally used stilts ~constantly: https://mashable.com/feature/stilt-shepherds-landes

Cool gwern page with tips for finding stuff on the internet: https://gwern.net/search

Basic guide to glycogen as a correction to naive models of weight gain/loss: https://dynomight.net/weight/