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by ibiza 4y ago
The programs described in "Peak" required a coach. Coaches play an integral role in the subject's road to mastery. Yet more evidence we cannot lift easy ideas like "mastery in just 10K hours" from psych research.
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Trick That Solves Rubik’s Cubes and Breaks Ciphers (Meet in the Middle) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ibiza 4y ago|0 comments
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by ibiza 4y ago
The thing that kills Perl for me is its weak typing. Automatic variable coercions lead to data-dependent bugs. JavaScript has the same problem. For scripting anything longer than a command line, I'll take Python.
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by ibiza 4y ago
I had no issues using YouTrack from JetBrains. It's fairly lightweight w/ a focus on ticketing (MarkDown + images), good search, and Kanban views, if that's your thing. https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
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by ibiza 4y ago
4.3BSD Unix. Arguably, the first modern operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Softwa...
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by ibiza 5y ago
I use a variation of this approach. Make all windows exactly the same size (I'm using Hammerspoon). Hide applications (Cmd-H) instead of minimizing windows. Cmd-Tab to whatever app you want. Cmd-` to whatever window you want. Sometimes
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by ibiza 5y ago
Did you miss the wires strung above the tracks? They're working on it: https://www.caltrain.com/about/MediaRelations/news/Caltrain_...
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by ibiza 5y ago
Agree on ISPF being a great editor. It was trivial for new users to pick up, but at the same time had a rich feature set. My favorite part was its support for folds, or what it called "excluded" lines. You could issue an initial c
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by ibiza 5y ago
Two brands that deserve a shoutout in this vein are Filson and Freitag. I have an Alaskan Guide shirt from Filson that's still in rotation after 25+ years. My Freitag bag will no doubt outlast me. It's made from repurposed truck t
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by ibiza 5y ago
Conveniences. Will Valhalla or Loom ever drop?
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by ibiza 5y ago
A fair point, although wasn't there a thread on text-only news sites just today? Perhaps they wouldn't look like garbage. I realize I'm arguing from a semantic-html world, now long lost. However, we _are_ left w/ a situa
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by ibiza 5y ago
I wish CSS was client-side only — a means for a user to decide what fonts, colors, and spacing to use. I do this, with great care, for terminal apps. Is it too much to ask for web apps? Why does every site need to guess my preferences for t
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by ibiza 5y ago
Was the mini-assembler moved on the //e? On our school's ][+ it was: call -151
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by ibiza 5y ago
Conor Hoekstra's code_report[0] YouTube channel is a great way to learn about APL. The "1 problem N languages" series of videos are especially good. [0] https://www.youtube.com/c/codereport/featured
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Pascal and the P-Machine (2012)(filfre.net)
2 points by ibiza 5y ago|0 comments
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by ibiza 5y ago
I feel compelled to link to the SO answer: Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/867757 You cannot create a "language for manipulating text" in a modele
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by ibiza 5y ago
COBOL is extremely good at what it does. I know of no other language that even approaches it. * It has a data division which lets you describe nested, repeating, and overlapping data at the byte level with a clear, unambiguous notation. * N
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by ibiza 5y ago
Isn't the corollary then, that if we didn't upgrade our computers, the web would get faster, or at least not get any slower?
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by ibiza 5y ago
Very good points. I should have made a top-level comment as I was refuting the article's rather strong assertion, not yours.
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by ibiza 5y ago
> So DEC's PDP-8 and OS-8 directly inspired the entire PC-compatible industry, the whole x86 computer industry. I disagree w/ the claim that the PDP-8 directly inspired x86. At the operating system level, maybe: OS/8 ->
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by ibiza 5y ago
Seconded. I like how simple and light they are. The chair uses your body weight as a counter-lever to reclining. It's a well-designed piece.
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by ibiza 6y ago
Cut & paste is Copy followed by Option-Paste: Cmd-C, nav to destination, Opt-Cmd-V
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by ibiza 6y ago
What you describe is essentially the original CoreOS fleet[0] project. It's distributed systemd init files. [0] https://github.com/coreos/fleet#fleet---a-distributed-init-s... I find it ironic half of k8s mojo, et
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Eliminating nicotine from tobacco products could help millions of smokers quit(theatlantic.com)
31 points by ibiza 6y ago|56 comments
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by ibiza 6y ago
Actually, had 386BSD happened just a bit earlier, we would all be using FreeBSD. > If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.
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by ibiza 6y ago
Of course, every ten years you have to replace the battery, which you can do yourself, w/ an easy-to-find part. I wonder where today's Apple Watches will be in 10 years.
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by ibiza 6y ago
How well are the keyboard mappings handled? Can I map any key sequence to any command? Can I easily see the current set of mappings? That would make me want to use a GUI calculator as opposed to a command-line one.
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by ibiza 6y ago
> jazz was 'pummelled' by fanatics of rhythm and noise, which even discredited the sax Sadly, I find this to be the case. I'm in the odd position of having grown up playing sax, and yet unable to enjoy it in the context of
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by ibiza 6y ago
> So with switching, the overall probability is 2/3. Without, its the original 1/3. Thank you for spelling this out so clearly. If explained in terms of strategies (always switch v. always stick), the probabilities should be cr
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by ibiza 6y ago
Motorola jumped from their 8-bit 6809 to a full 32-bit (internal) processor in 1979. Intel delivered a 32-bit processor 6 years later in 1985. Intel Motorola 1974 8080 8-bit 1974 6800 8-bit 1976

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