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by stakkur 6y ago
The Razor's Edge.
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Walk.
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Today over 224,000 cases worldwide were reported as recovered since yesterday, the second largest single day rise. Data is good.
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by stakkur 6y ago
This is a big question that doesn't have a single answer, and might be the wrong question to ask. I recommend Bogleheads or buy an hour with a fee-based financial advisor.
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Simplest approach to mailing list management for a blog?
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Children don't need to 'learn to code'.
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Unix. Linux. Python. Emacs. Vim. Databases. SQL. Bash. Now for the losers: Web browsers will be gone. Windows will be gone. JavaScript will be either a painful legacy language or have been transformed into something entirely different. JS f
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It looks nice, but--am I and my friends the only ones that never read a long-form book in a web browser?
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Two things: breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR). Breathing: Breathe in deeply for about a 4 count, out for about twice as long. Focus your mind on your breathing: "I'm just focusing on my breath". Andrew Weil a
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I just discovered you can invert the headline and the leader and they still say the same thing: 'Office work is not necessarily a good thing for the worker' "Why are we always assuming an office-based workforce is a good thin
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News is stimulus. All you're describing is a habit you've formed, and a stimulus you respond to. When we're 'addicted' to anything, it's just us abusing our individual coping mechanisms. The answer, like in all
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Father here. Mom and I agree on two things: 1. Avoid the 'What to Expect' series at all costs. It's popular, but it's utter bullshit. We can name a half dozen parent friends who threw theirs away too. 2. Read Penelope Le
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I would ruminate less and act more, instead of driving myself into anxiety and depression through overthinking how to 'optimize' life. I would focus on the guitar, start the band, and give it my all, in stead of talking myself int
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Python data structure manipulation/comprehensions. I realize there's some overlap with other languages, but this to me is Python's 'killer' feature.
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The root problem isn't the interviews themselves, but the belief that--despite a stunning lack of evidence--interviews are somehow useful measures of future job performance. And I believe this applies to most job interviews, not just
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Microsoft Windows. Followed closely by Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and...god help me...SharePoint.
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It's a qualitative thing. Quantitative/technical measures of 'best OS' are silly. For me, Linux represents freedom and control. Freedom from the oppressive corporate nonsense and general grey hat fuckery of Microsoft; fr
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Third-party HR applications. And it's not too broad a statement to say HR is the pain point. I've avoided many interesting jobs when I see an HR Gauntlet of Despair requirement.
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My cross-platform, time-proof, open source 'personal knowledge management' system: 1. A folder of markdown and org files 2. Emacs, gEdit 3. A notebook I get the urge to 'optimize' this sort of thing, but the results seem
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There are five sources that have changed my life in the past several years: 1. Stoicism. 2. Atomic Habits, by James Clear. 3. One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Rovert Maurer 4. How to Fail and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams (don't
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Psoas stretches. A game changer for me. It's counterintuitive if you're not familiar at all with how the back/hip area is connected. Also recommend the Yoga 'pigeon' pose.
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As someone who's used some form of version control for a long time (PVCS, SourceSafe, and several things during and after), I'd say these are the salad days, man. It's easier than it's ever been to do version control. An
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The answer always depends on clients. Can you find and keep them? Are they adequate? Does the work amount to 'part time'? And many 'full time' freelancers (I've been one) find themselves repeatedly being 'part
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Here's a brief and somewhat interesting explanation for why it exists, from Arno, the tech lead at the time (2006): https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
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Hey charges $349/yr for three-letter user names; $999/yr for two letters. Four letters and up: $99yr. I watched a video walkthrough. I noticed four things: 1. The cost for potential benefit seems disproportionately high. 2. I can
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I think what's overlooked is the desire to give away personal data. Facebook exists because millions of people don't care (enough) about privacy, for example. And if we created a body of laws to put personal data entirely in the
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by stakkur 6y ago
Revised title: 'How to skim a nonfiction book'. I like useful 'hacks', but...there is so much more to reading than speed and efficiency. Reading is not a quantitative game of accretion. And the author gets a lot wrong ab
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European startup tech companies with valuations >= $1 Billion: * Klarna (Sweden)(online payments) * N26 (Germany) (mobile banking) * BlaBlaCar (France) (Ride sharing) * Vinted (Lithuania) (ecommerce) * Acronis (Switzerland) (backup/
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But it's well-established that this has always been the case, from almost the beginning. And it's also common in any party-based system.
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I've been waiting for this.

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