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.io is especially popular because it resembles the computer term “input-output.” It is huge with start-ups and IT companies.

Well, those companies should also have the technical chops to know better.

I still think that most of opening up the TLD space was a mistake, not just the two-character stuff. Very few new TLDs have actually provided a lot of use, but they have created a "brand tax" on companies that don't want confusing use of similar registrations and who then go register the equivalent domains.

.biz vs .com is a great example.

I don't know about favorite, but high on the mess-with-the-head factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion

Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor.[a] It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873–1950), the French psychiatrist who first described the disorder.

In a 1990 paper published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, psychologists Hadyn Ellis and Andy Young hypothesized that patients with Capgras delusion may have a "mirror image" or double dissociation of prosopagnosia, in that their conscious ability to recognize faces was intact, but they might have damage to the system which produces the automatic emotional arousal to familiar faces.[21] This might lead to the experience of recognizing someone while feeling something was not "quite right" about them. In 1997, Ellis and his colleagues published a study of five patients with Capgras delusion (all diagnosed with schizophrenia) and confirmed that although they could consciously recognize the faces, they did not show the normal automatic emotional arousal response.[22] The same low level of autonomic response was shown in the presence of strangers. Young (2008) has theorized that this means that patients with the disease experience a "loss" of familiarity, not a "lack" of it.[23] Further evidence for this explanation comes from other studies measuring galvanic skin responses (GSR) to faces. A patient with Capgras delusion showed reduced GSRs to faces in spite of normal face recognition.[24] This theory for the causes of Capgras delusion was summarised in Trends in Cognitive Sciences in 2001.[2]

“My dream from the start was to open a museum in Japan: it’s the only developed country that doesn’t have its own national design museum,” he says.

Huh. That kind of surprises me.

Might be able to Tineye some of them.

Where did you get them? Like, was there some sort of analogous subreddit or forum or something?

Another replied: “The real lesson to be learned here is that a lot of people would clearly attend a Halloween parade and Dublin City Council should organise one next year.”

It's going to be kind of funny if a hoax announcement winds up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

you don’t directly vote for the president,

Well, okay, so, the US does have the electoral college, and strictly-speaking, you're choosing electors that choose the President, but the election is and has for a long time functionally been a direct one. That is, you know the person that you are voting for in voting for the elector. Some states don't even constitutionally let electors vote for anyone other than the person they have pledged to vote for, and in any case, the electors are chosen by the parties, who have no incentive to choose someone likely to vote for anyone other than the candidate that they've pledged to vote for, so it's not really an aspect of the electoral system in the normal case. While false electors exist, normally as a protest vote if they know that their candidate can't win, they're rare and have never altered the outcome of an election.

This came up this year in some discussion in the context of what happens if a President drops out after being placed on the ballot but prior to becoming President, which I assume is what you're thinking about, so that the electors cannot vote for the person on the ballot, and in that situation, yeah, they'd have to find some kind of fallback.

But that's a pretty limited corner case. That is, they don't just have a blank check to go out and build coalitions and select someone.

Melatonin (20mg)

That's a lot of melatonin for one dose.

kagis

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/melatonin/melatonin-dosage-how-much-should-you-take

Melatonin Dosage: How Much Should You Take

Key Takeaways

• Most people take 1 to 5 milligrams of melatonin 30 minutes before bed.
• Experts recommend taking no more than 10 milligrams at a time.
• Melatonin overdose is on the rise. Consult a doctor before giving melatonin to children.

I've fasted -- like, just water and vitamins -- for a week before.

I found that I was hungry, especially for about the first two or three days, but that I mostly ignored it after that, though I did find myself paying more attention to food ads and stuff like that than normal.

I was significantly cooler. I assume that the metabolism cranks down. I needed to wear heavier clothing than normal to feel comfortable.

I felt like I had less energy to effortlessly run around. Like, I could get up and go somewhere, wasn't weak, just felt more like something you'd think about doing before doing.

Don't need to hit the toilet much. That's neat. Do need to stay hydrated, which I found to be surprisingly easy to forget about without sitting down for a meal.

I wasn't trying to push myself physically while doing that, though.

I've also tried running a long-run calorie deficit where I wasn't fasting, but also wasn't eating much -- something like 500 calories a day or less -- for a longer period of time, for months, and then did a ten mile bike ride a day -- there are calories coming in, but they're considerably less than what you're burning just living. I found the biking to be kinda rough. It just yanked all of the sugar out of my blood. Had a couple times doing that when I had my vision start to gray out at the end of my ride, needed to stop and get my head down. Was kinda like a zombie after my ride for a bit. Also was colder, just as when fasting. While it's doable -- I lost a bunch of weight doing it -- I have to say that I think that it was rather harder than just outright fasting and not doing the exercise. Every time I ate, I felt like it kicked me back into "being hungry mode", and it was only really physically a strain during the bike ride.

I had a harder time mentally concentrating on things when I'm doing that. Haven't tried quantifying it, but I'd say that I was less-productive while doing that.

Kagi has an AI search option which IIRC is on by default -- or at least was at one point -- where it'll try to also synthesize an answer and stick it in a box with the results, but you can just turn it off in your preferences. I have it off.

There may be a day when we have AI assistants that are so good that their summaries are better than looking at the original source, but I'd put a high bar on that, and think that we've got a way to go.

I try to go easy on those, as I vaguely recall reading that frequently taking melatonin for long periods of time can have some unpleasant effects, but yeah, I finally picked some up, and I've used them on rare occasions when I absolutely cannot get to sleep or when my sleep cycle is way out of whack, and they definitely do have an impact.

I try to keep the room dark. Don't drink caffine near bedtime. I have one of those blackout masks to really get rid of any light if necessary. Avoid thinking about anything interesting or with emotional impact. Get some exercise prior to going to sleep. I've rarely had problems with sounds keeping me awake, but I have some silicone ear plugs for the very rare times that that comes up.

This is a remake of an image that I submitted about a year ago here, this time higher-resolution, in 16:9 aspect ratio, photographic and done with the Flux-derived Newreality model.

To repeat my comment then:

Some years back, I gathered up all the scary images I could find, and looked for commonalities, tried to figure out what was “frightening” to people. One pretty consistent element was a wide, toothed smile.

While I think that the earlier image is tough competition for this one in terms of visual impact, when I created the earlier image, I was much more lax in terms of what I was willing to accept from the generator -- I just wanted it to look scary, and to have a wide, toothed mouth. That is, a lot of getting the image was a dice roll; I had to generate a bunch of images, take the best.

But this time around, I have enough control from the model's ability to take natural-language description to be able to intentionally try to specifically target something like the original image, which is a stupendous improvement. Was just like an arrow to a very specific image that I wanted, just took a few minutes and iterations. Fantastic.