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A narrower, niche focus helps, because easier to get a higher concentration on fewer things. Then you want a natural way to expand the focus. It was easier for reddit and HN, without reddit and HN to compete with.
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Kinda what happened in the first ever use of cfd to predict weather (which predated digital computers - all calculations were done by hand). Spoiler : there were no calculation errors, but the method was unstable (a kind of positive feedba
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> similar balloons passed over U.S. territory on four occasions during the Trump and Biden administrations from linked article https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government...
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You don't have to feel like doing something to do it. You can just decide to do it. This was freeing for me, because I didn't even realize I somehow believed I had to feel motivated. But obviously you need wisdom in your choice of
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\tangent on "system-two counteracting system-one": visualization (imagining a desired outcome as having already happened) engages system-one. It brings a far-future gratification into the present, so you can be motivated far beyon
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I've found the supplementary notes and worked exercises (sometimes introducing material) are a key part. Herb describes the textbook as the heart/building block of the course. Unfortunately, with the textbook out of print (4ed), a
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syntax < semantics
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I've been using this style, in TFA as ((a % b) + b) % b It feels like there should be a nicer way (apart from the conditional one), but I can't think of it. Can you prove there isn't one?
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More like a backed-up abstraction, simpler on the inside. Though that's only true of the core, with tags being additional decorations and renames inferred. The simple core delegates complexity. I think designing a nicer git UX is not e
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This might not be appropriate for your case, but piracy can be considered a form of differential pricing. Student movie tickets are cheaper, even though the seat taken is the same. This is done so students will spend some money instead of n
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observe selflessly, act selfishly