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by jurasource 7y ago
I wish I'd discovered writing "Morning Pages" a lot earlier. I've been doing it for the last year, and it's helped me figure out much better solutions to so many issues in my life, than I would have without the calm
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by jurasource 7y ago
I've been running ultras for a number of years now, and have suffered from many injuries, the worst being a stress fracture in my hip. The last time I saw a sports doctor, he gave me the best advice to date: "Run, but not every da
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by jurasource 7y ago
Agreed. I hardly ever see my daughter in the morning but make sure that 99% of the time I'm home in time to put her to bed and read a story (she's 8), often it's at bedtime that any worries come out, and I'm so glad I&#x
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by jurasource 7y ago
It’s not a city, but I’ve just spent 10 days working remotely from the Isle of Jura, population 200, off the west coast of Scotland. I work in finance as a programmer, and whilst often need to spend time with traders and quants, this time a
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Why Are the Military’s Fighter Pilots Getting Sick?(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by jurasource 8y ago|0 comments
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by jurasource 9y ago
Reminds me of the fire starting birds in Vernor Vinges "Marooned in Realtime", awesome book.
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by jurasource 9y ago
What a great idea. I really struggle to plan sprints and projects just using lists. Also MS Project etc are just far too complicated for my small projects. I actually resorted to drawing dependency and flow diagrams by hand, then translat
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by jurasource 9y ago
Now I think about it, we started when she was about 2, leaving a marmite rice cake in a bowl outside her door, with a bottle of water (with a sports cap), that was just enough to delay her slightly. As she got older, I'd put some greek
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by jurasource 9y ago
I "automated" (trained?) my kid to make her own breakfast at the weekends so I can sleep longer. Started when she was around 4, it's easier now she's 7. Lots of parallels with hacking code: * Specific rules (if there
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by jurasource 9y ago
I found this series on the New York Review of Books website gives an understandable, and readable history of the main threads of discussion on this, http://www.nybooks.com/topics/on-consciousness/
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by jurasource 9y ago
I'm a bit sceptical about the explanation for base10, especially in Europe. The UK changed from a base 12 money system in my lifetime, and the history of the metric system doesn't go back all that far: https://en.wikip
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by jurasource 10y ago
I'm a ultra distance runner and fairly regularly run for over 12 hours. One of the first things people normally ask is "don't you get bored", but honestly the concentration needed to maintain good form, eat, drink, not g
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Should we trust predictive policing software to cut crime?(aeon.co)
1 points by jurasource 10y ago|0 comments
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The dark tales of the worlds most epic sleep talker(bbc.com)
2 points by jurasource 11y ago|0 comments
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by jurasource 11y ago
...which is what happened to most geeks I know who've tried, in fact this sums up their exploits rather well: https://m.xkcd.com/1570/
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by jurasource 11y ago
My first thought was "um, isn't that a window?" :)