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by jmcphers 9y ago
Indeed, it's almost the opposite! > > Boundless Mind’s business model is to develop new versions of the same persuasive tools, combined with machine learning, that big tech firms already use–and then to sell them to nonprofits an
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> If you use a password manager with all the benefits this entails (long, random passwords, each only used for a single site), the only benefit 2FA really gives you is if your password manager is compromised somehow. I don't think t
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by jmcphers 9y ago
If you're wondering how we got into this mess: it's mostly Mickey Mouse's fault. https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...
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For programming, I've found that my time spent navigating the code dominates the time I spend editing it. Bram's recommendation is to generate a tags file right away for every project to keep this time down, and it's excellen
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It's worth keeping in mind that riding a bike isn't necessarily better for climate change. Presuming that you aren't actively losing weight, you're eating extra calories in the form of food to power your bike. And the ec
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I take a 3 tier approach: 1. Bike to work, every day. Where I live the traffic is so miserable that it's comparable to driving in terms of time. It's the single thing that makes the biggest difference in how I feel. 2. Every other
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RStudio 1.1 Release(blog.rstudio.com)
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Neovim does, and it will be a first class scripting citizen in 0.3. https://neovim.io/roadmap/
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If you're into plain-text file managers, and vim, you might like Ranger[0]. Like Roamer, it's written in Python. [0] http://ranger.nongnu.org/
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This is exactly what I've done for years. The only difference is that I'm so paranoid about losing my keyfile (and with it all my passwords) that I also put it on the cloud -- just not on the same cloud provider as the keepass dat
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Seattleite here. One of the reasons it's hard to "just build more" here is that the city of Seattle is bounded on two sides by water (Lake Washington to the east and Puget Sound to the west). This means that there are far few
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by jmcphers 9y ago
You might dig Daytum: https://daytum.com/
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If you like this, try SvgBobRus[0], which also converts plain-text diagrams into graphics (and has a larger vocabulary). There's also Spongedown[1], which makes it possible to embed these diagrams in your Markdown files and render the
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One thing the article doesn't mention is how long the bicycle trips are. Surely the relative compactness of their cities are a major contributing factor! I live in America and commute on my bicycle almost every day. For me the bigges
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Tried Standard Notes? Not a user myself but I know people who are fans and it sounds right up your alley. https://standardnotes.org/
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+1 for vimwiki. No embedded images does kind of suck, but it has an excellent side effect: even if you use the wiki a lot, it never consumes a lot of space. That means it's perfectly reasonable to store years and years of data and have
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by jmcphers 9y ago
They've never done a manned flight[0]. Presumably they expect 300km with typical load, but they haven't actually demonstrated it yet. [0] https://lilium.com/mission/
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If you're interested in the implications of this view, Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) has a book called A New Kind of Science[0] that explores how the complexity of the universe can arise from simple machines following simple ru
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by jmcphers 10y ago
The Department of Education has stats on the average salary after graduation at many institutions (realize this is only a weak proxy for the signals you want, but is at least correlated). You can play with, and download, their data here: h
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For several years, I used index cards extensively to track my to-do list and capture notes on the go, inspired by Merlin Mann's "Hipster PDA"[0]. The flaw in my system turned out to be that there was just no convenient way to
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In the same way that turning up the volume helps people who are hard of hearing to hear. Colorblindness is a spectrum, not a switch; many people who suffer from it simply have reduced sensitivity to a color. I'm mildly colorblind mysel
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You can set :make to execute your own build script instead of make, and you can also tell vim how to interpret the output. See e.g.: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/6679/terminal-setup-w...
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> it makes it look like the conclusion was drawn before the study even began. From the paper, page 9: > The Haskell prototype was written by the second author of this paper, with minor help from the first Seems like they definitely h
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I use KeePass. It's not too hard to make KeePass into a fairly secure, distributed password manager. I have a writeup on how I did this here: https://jmcphers.github.io/security/2016/05/08/passwords.
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Currently we have two candidates, who are each more or less reviled by at least 50% of the population. Would it really be better to have three candidates, each of which was more or less reviled by 66% of the population? The truth is that Am
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by jmcphers 10y ago
It's no problem to use GPL software to develop commercial software. If it were the vast majority of software would be open source as some of the most popular compiler toolchains are primarily or wholly open source. What you cannot do,
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R notebooks keep all that HTML and Javascript in a separate file. You can choose to check that file into git if you want to version the output, but if all you care about is versioning the code, it's just a plain text R Markdown file.
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Instapaper actually does this. You can have it e-mail everything you've added to Instapaper to your Kindle as a kind of personally curated newspaper. It's not well publicized but is relatively easy to configure in your Instapaper
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How often do you need to write down exactly what was said? Studies[0] show that when students use laptops to take notes, they remember less than when they use a pen and paper. The suggested mechanism by the latter improves retention is th
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2, 4, 4, 6. The second vector is recycled along the first one: 1 + 1, 2 + 2, 3 + 1, 4 + 2.

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