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The preface left a deep impression on me because Hardy says only exceptionally talented and intelligent students will be able to finish and understand this book. It was a revelation because I grew up in schools that claimed anyone can learn
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We don’t know if the pilots were aware of emergency yet. It’s plausible they erroneously thought landing gear was down and attempted a fatal go-around once the airframe hit the runway. The SOP for broken landing gear is to land on the runwa
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It's become popular because Reddit requires double new lines to create a new paragraph. Reddit is such a popular website that this habit has proliferated across the textual web. It has the side effect of making your point take up more
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I improved the most when I would copy a particular author's style. I had a phase where I wrote like Hemingway, a phase where I wrote like Tao Lin, a phase where I wrote like the monks translating the King James Bible. If it seems deriv
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Yes, and if you look back on the history of the tech industry, each time programmers were supposedly on the verge of replacement was an excellent time to start programming.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen was my favorite. I lost some sleep. But we should be aware as citizens of states with nuclear weapons that their misuse is feasible, imminently practical, and would result in irreversible apocalyp
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If inconsistency is the hobgoblin of foolish minds, then this sheriff might be a genius.
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The stark transition from employment to unemployment can be very painful in our industry, because it is a boom-bust industry, and it's not uncommon to go from making half a million dollars a year to having the most expensive cities in
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The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List: The 99 Best Business Books(personalmba.com)
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A lot of this legislation is written by boomers who are assuming the Web works in the same way that they use it. They sign up at socialmedia.com using their email address firstname.lastname@bigtech.com. The Walled Garden model of the web ha
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The results here suggest it does not.
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Military victory has been a precondition to military punishment for all of human history. You had to disable the enemy’s forces before you used the threat of further violence to enact your political will. In fact for all of recorded warfare
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Adtech is kind of like the fungal domain of the web, in that it allows life to technically exist where it shouldn’t, because death is actively in progress. It recycles deathly content back to the top of the food chain to Big N, wherein it i
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Best Non-Fiction of 2024(marginalrevolution.com)
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It’s absurd to claim being 6 grades ahead in mathematics doesn’t make your kid better than others in many dimensions. Having the mathematical ability to grok a cutting edge paper, or not grok it, can make or break an entire career. It’s det
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The movie asks what is the point of JSDF if Japan isn’t under any threat … then somebody in an F-16 fires a TV guided missile into the Yokohama Bay Bridge. It’s a good movie, you should watch it.
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I just watched Patlabor 2 last night, about a civil war in post-Cold War Japan. The main theme is the following: The thing about one-in-a-million events is that they are eventually going to happen once the other 999,999 occur. Thus a govern
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Similarly the main calculator used in the US to calculate 10-year risk of cardiovascular incident literally cannot compute scores for people under 40.[0] There are two consequences to this. The first is that if you are under 40 you will nev
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The quality of app drivers in LA is wanting. I’ve been proselytized, informed of imminent apocalyptic civil wars, asked if I know any guys who want to buy copper in bulk. And how can I forget the driver asleep at the wheel of a Tesla with r
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Is there a simpler approach than dictionary attack?
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One of the strongest hire signals is being good at hard video games, in my opinion. Perhaps it goes without saying Elon Musk would be a strong hire …
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I love hearing stories like this, well done.
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Hacker Fab(docs.hackerfab.org)
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Yes, the Berlin-centered, foreigner-dependent tech industry is one of the few growing sectors. It seems a little myopic to me to extrapolate a few thriving communities into a vibrant national economy.
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Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing It Harder (2012)(lethain.com)
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Mass availability of LLMs has made it much easier to adopt EMACS and Org Mode because you no longer need to read the docs to be a power user. I can ask an LLM how to do literally anything in EMACS and it will either tell me an existing func
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Corporations are really good at paying people just enough money to fix problems in a suboptimal way. Actually I think that’s what they optimize for. Past a certain size they minimize costs for the “just barely good enough” solution in a mic
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Yes I always think of this stat I read where the average successful business owner is currently working on their 7th business venture. The implication is then if you want a successful company you should speedrun 6 duds.
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The bull case described by EY sounds more like AI is enhancing worker productivity rather than replacing workers.
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This would be so much better at selling my favorite editor if the sections were reversed. Who is impressed by rendering Unicode in the current year? I want to know how to migrate from Vim, how to avoid footguns, these things.

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