jamesgill

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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   A side note: I love this website. It makes me nostalgic for the early-mid 90s when web pages were basic, personal, and mostly text.
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   To me, further proof of how useless ‘coding interviews’ like these really are.
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   I'd love to hear practical examples of how I can accomplish this long-wavelength exposure myself.
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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   Likely familiar to this crowd, but Carl Sagan's explanation on Cosmos of Eratosthenes' discovery is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cbIWMv0rI&ab_channel=carls...
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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   Same. It was hard for me, but eventually I adapted.
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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   Thanks. That's a very good question. Lots to say, but the most practical change was: switching from carbs to fat for energy makes me far less hungry. This is common, because the rollercoaster ride of insulin levels/blood sugar on
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   How I Lost 76 Pounds at Age 59 and Changed My Life(twitter.com)

   32 points by jamesgill 4y ago|19 comments
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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   > highly productive developer I will never understand the specious metric that we call 'productivity'. Outside of a production line, what the hell is a 'productive' developer? Yes, I know you can choose many options
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   by jamesgill 4y ago

   Thanks for this. Metabolic/stress/lifestyle problems were exactly my story. I had hypertension, anxiety, and was prediabetic. Using low carb and intermittent fasting, I lost 91 pounds, was no longer prediabetic, and went completel
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    No. The point is not to focus on time, or calculating how much of it you have; the point is to live in the present and step out of time. Forget it. The past is only in your mind. The future does not exist. The only real thing is right no
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    Back in the 80s, when I was early in college and still thought I wanted to be an EE, we did this for a project. It sounds trivial, but it was one of the most educational things I ever did.
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    The best 'obesity drug' I've found is low-carb + intermittent fasting. 90 pounds later, I'm not hungry and every aspect of my health has improved dramatically.
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    I tried everything--Emacs, word processing software, custom conversion scripts, you name it. A few years ago, I more or less adopted Derek Sivers' method: I keep topical plain text files (markdown, really). He described the topical fil
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    Thomas Pynchon: Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite?(archive.nytimes.com)

    7 points by jamesgill 4y ago|3 comments
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    The supreme irony, of course, being that Socrates never wrote anything down and we only know of him because his student Plato (and others) did write things down. And Socrates’ views on writing weren’t unique to him; many of that era felt th
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    How to Keep a Commonplace Book(youtube.com)

    9 points by jamesgill 4y ago|1 comments
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    "...Intense aerobic exercise increases the glucose (sugar) consumption of internal organs, thereby reducing the availability of energy to the tumor." Interestingly, this is a key part of the medical argument for low-carbohydrate
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    Perhaps I’m being naive, but—is ‘scaling’ the point, or even necessary?
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    Bjork Teardown of a Sony Trinitron TV & PCB (1988)(youtube.com)

    9 points by jamesgill 4y ago|1 comments
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    The silliness of GDP is one of the worst-kept secrets in politics and economics. It's like measuring the quality of a car by how fast it's going.
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    This reminds me a lot of Daniel Vassallo's 'Small Bets' ideas, especially this one: 'Treat ideas like cattle, not pets': https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1583480276134809606
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    How to use a watch as a compass(citizenwatch-global.com)

    491 points by jamesgill 4y ago|146 comments
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    I get the urge to quantify everything, but please: just relax, enjoy your children, and stop worrying about calculating life like this.
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    by jamesgill 4y ago

    To find North in the Northern Hemisphere, all you need is 10 seconds and a wristwatch.
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    The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job(adamwathan.me)

    1 points by jamesgill 4y ago|0 comments