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by jyriand 5y ago
You can try listening to podcasts by Frank Delaney called Re:Joyce. He goes through the book sentence by sentence. Sadly, Frank Delaney died before he could complete the podcast series.
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by jyriand 5y ago
I remember seeing either Mythbusters or TopGear episode where they tested this.
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List of Humorous Units of Measurement(en.wikipedia.org)
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For me brainstorming has nothing to do with generating ideas or solutions. I see it as an activation tool. You prime up your brain before doing the actual thinking.
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by jyriand 5y ago
What's even more confusing is that https://bolt.eu is an Uber-like service in Europe. Too many bolts.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Not related to this Bolt, but I remember that in early 2000s bolt.com[0] was a pretty active social network. Probably the first one I ever signed on to. - https://web.archive.org/web/20000520042715/http://
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by jyriand 5y ago
There are set of authors/artist who rely heavily on their "visions" and use these as a source materials. Philip K. Dick is one of these visionaries(Exegesis, VALIS). Also some other that come to mind are William Blake, Carl G
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by jyriand 5y ago
I'm using X-Road services every day. Mainly for signing documents/contracts and doing bank transactions. But you don't have to use ID-card for that. Instead, you can use Mobile-ID and Smart-ID. Also, if I'm not mistaken
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by jyriand 5y ago
I would go with Art of Problem Solving series. Especially volume 1.
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Why are there so many new component libraries with the same ideas and syntax? I thought the example was from chakra-ui but it was from Braid.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Isn't there any Airbnb for renting cars?
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by jyriand 5y ago
I wonder if this kind of logging follows the law of diminishing returns. The most of the value comes from the actual process of writing down what you have been doing and having an overview of the past days and weeks, but the stats of what y
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by jyriand 5y ago
I might be wrong but in EU any app that is going to give you advice about health improvement etc is considered a medical device and regulated accordingly. As long it just tracks and shows you data, it's not a medical device.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Not about Peng Shuai case, but you might find it interesting:"I was a body guard for Chinese Serial Rapist" -- https://youtu.be/gZEPTCQUEI0 Edit: reworded
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by jyriand 5y ago
Would it make a difference if it were renamed "doomscroll" with undercase D. Just wondering where the DOOM begins and doom ends. Edit: typo
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Rubber Duck Debugging(rubberduckdebugging.com)
1 points by jyriand 5y ago|1 comments
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X.com(x.com)
5 points by jyriand 5y ago|1 comments
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by jyriand 5y ago
Or while cutting a text in browser and typing ctrl+w, thereby closing the tab.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Sorry, what is ESC?
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Portacle:A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment(portacle.github.io)
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Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
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It's also called a "flag" in some places.
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by jyriand 5y ago
There are also books written in an E-Prime english. In E-Prime you can't use any form of "to be"(is, are etc.). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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10x developers exist, but often they leave mess for others to clean up.
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by jyriand 5y ago
The heuristic that market crashes every ~9 years seems to work well. 2020 had a pretty steep correction, so I will wait another 7 years and start worrying. That might not be optimal, but 70% of the time you can predict the weather by saying
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by jyriand 5y ago
I have a Hugo blog running on Netlify. All I need is to know if someone has visited it or not. I'm using Google analytics currently but would gladly use something much simpler. Any alternatives?
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by jyriand 5y ago
Why not write on medium and have a Hugo blog? You can publish the same post on both places and link Medium readers to your blog.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Substack is great if you already have followers. Medium is great when you are starting out and looking for readers.
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by jyriand 5y ago
Writer shorter, yes. Write like a robot, no.
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by jyriand 5y ago
I have outsourced my memory to zettelkasten/(second brain) type of notetaking. I'm focusing on trying to understand the fundamentals and core ideas instead of just memorizing stuff. Went back to school after 10 years, let's s

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