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Wow, that's a bit scary to hear about. Maybe have 3 and test them monthly on a rotating basis.
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I'm going to try this. It may be exactly what I've been looking for. The "subtract" feature is killer because, like another commenter here, I tend to get distracted and need to subtract from a time allocation, but other
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My own experience is different. \Years ago I would wait at least 6 months or more before doing a mac upgrade because of the inevitable problems. With Ventura I didn't even wait for the first point release, and had no problems whatsoeve
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Man, I forgot Think Tank. I used that before MORE, but that was too friggin' long ago for me to remember without being reminded!!
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Dave was really a pioneer. In the early days of the Mac, he created an outliner called MORE which was a very innovative product for the time, which I immediately loved and used as the center of all my information-keeping. He sold it to Syma
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Musk and Twitter Bootstrap
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Yes
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An 1800 Lichess rating maps to 1420 FIDE or 1270 USCF. Not sure what standard is used by Noctie. ( https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/ )
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The spam filter stuff used Paul Graham's word probabilities described in his seminal article A Plan For Spam. It changed those probabilities a bit, to better account for the number of emails a word appeared in. But in the main, my arti
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A statistical technique I developed was incorporated into a number of award-winning spam filters, including SpamAssassin.[1] I'm also apparently the original inventor of the tracking cookie, which had the implication that no one was ab
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There is a lot of research about how sitting for long periods each day has negative health consequences. It's much better to take a break every 30 minutes or so and walk around. The negative effects of not doing so aren't fixed ev
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This is very much like a project I made for myself and have been thinking about commercializing! "create nudges that repeatedly nag you (with something like an escalation policy) until you acknowledge them" but that has absolutely
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My high-school GPA was mediocre because I simply was unable to pay attention in class, or to study at home, or to turn in homework that wasn't dinged over and over for "careless errors". I was born in 1956. Given today's
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Hey, back in the day, I used a Pascal compiler on CP/M that worked with 64K.
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[Replaced the comment I had here earlier after thinking about it a bit more. I initially responded too reflexively.] The comment you are criticizing above was not meant for you. It was to give a counterpoint to your dismissal so that other
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by garyrob 4y ago
I see a lot of reflexive negativity here. It reminds me of the kind of negativity I received on my blog when I said that eventually, music streaming would overtake music sales—including in a comment from Steve Jobs himself while Apple was s
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Couldn't disagree more. I'm not going to argue about it here though. I do suggest that anyone interested in the subject read the paper and judge for themselves. (I have zero connection to the Ethereum project other than running a
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No, it's the real thing. Go to the paper. But somehow, copy-paste added typos which I am going to try and fix.
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Hmm. Yeah. Let me look through and try to fix that. Very weird. But thanks for point it out!! [Update: I fixed the ones I could find.]
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I would like to mention the concept of "Soulbound Tokens" as a way of attacking this problem. This is the subject of a paper this year by Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum), E. Glen Weyl (economist/researcher at Microsoft
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Buried deep in this thread, ksec quoted Jobs: "When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know
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by garyrob 4y ago
For me, the examples simply don't work in Safari, such as at https://qwik.builder.io/examples/introduction/hello-world/ . All I get is the spinner spinning forever.
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"After 25 years of experience writing software I can honestly say I have encountered many people that agree with this, and perhaps all of them (every single one) have not actually experienced writing an application without a framework.
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Just eat well and exercise! Exercise is hugely important for maintaining cognitive health. As is eating well. Beyond those things you don't have to do much else!
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Thanks for mentioning in this, which I hadn't seen before. I collect stories of successful aging because I am now 66 and hope to keep creating software, and ideas that can be implemented in it, for some time to come!
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When I was 9 my Dad took me to see "Those Magnificent Young Men In Their Flying Machines," an entertaining movie for a 9-year-old. (Which I was in 1965 when it came out.) I knew the theme song by heart, music and lyrics, after onl
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One of the aspects of Orwell's 1984 that makes it a dystopia is that popular music for the proles is composed by machines...
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Taichi vs. Numba: As its name indicates, Numba is tailored for Numpy. Numba is recommended if your functions involve vectorization of Numpy arrays. Compared with Numba, Taichi enjoys the following advantages: Taichi supports multiple data t
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2001: A Space Odyssey. I first read it when I was 12, in 1968, the year that both the movie and book came out. I was already a fan of Arthur C. Clarke by that point. I somehow knew that the book and movie were both coming, and was really ex
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I read it in my late teens/early 20's and was planning to reread it when I'd forgotten enough of the plot that I could fully enjoy it again. Then, unfortunately, the movies came out! Maybe read it again anyway? Not sure.

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