CJKerr

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by CJKerr 7y ago
For a much better treatment of the same general idea, read "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by K. Anders Ericsson.
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by CJKerr 7y ago
> I seem to suffer from aphantasia I'm interested for the same reasons - I can't hold much of an image in my head for very long, and being able to persist what I can imagine so I can examine it in detail with my actual eyes wou
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by CJKerr 7y ago
You modulate your rate of acceleration with your right foot. If you want a car that accelerates from 25-55 over 4 seconds, drive that way...
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by CJKerr 8y ago
For younger readers, or those who prefer a lighter reader, Dawkins "The Greatest Show On Earth" covers similar material in a more accessible (if less rigorous) manner. I forgot to mention it in my own recommendations, but it is on
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by CJKerr 8y ago
* Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson Much of our upbringing and education is underpinned by the assumption that "talent" is a real thing. Peak dismantles that assumption pretty thoroughly. The im
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by CJKerr 8y ago
I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar. For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest I don't have a great solution, so I
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by CJKerr 8y ago
School libraries working to support an established curriculum? This was totally normal in my high school - the texts that would be studied by a particular grade were stable for several years at a time, so they would acquire enough copies fo
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by CJKerr 8y ago
The first computer I used had Windows 3.1, so I'm not sure if I "grew up with" XP.... but no, it looks super dated to me. The icons are OK, the rest of Luna is fairly ugly. There might be something to your theory, though - I
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by CJKerr 8y ago
Unfortunately, I work on a million-line codebase. Grep might be fine 99% of the time, but there's no reason to not drop a ripgrep binary on every machine I use regularly. Ripgrep is faster across the board and has better defaults for w
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by CJKerr 8y ago
It's been mentioned previous, but you should check out ripgrep - it's even faster than Silver Searcher a lot of the time https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
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by CJKerr 8y ago
And to round out the set, xsv ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/ ) is a powerful toolkit for CSV.
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by CJKerr 9y ago
There's no consensus, but this provides a reasonable argument for "not really": https://startingstrength.com/article/heavy-lifting-and-heart... (both authors are lifters, one is an MD. Take that as you w
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by CJKerr 9y ago
The VB6 IDE is distressingly easy to get running on modern versions of Windows - this is fortunate, since we still need to support it, but upsetting, since it diminishes the incentive for killing it off.
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by CJKerr 9y ago
Cost is still a big factor - you need fairly decent hardware (minimum GTX 970 / RX 480) for an acceptable experience on Vive/Rift, and we're still a generation away from that performance hitting mainstream price points (gener