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Akira Kurosawa’s Record of a Living Being
One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as I Live in F…
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The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads
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Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…
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Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
This article is part of a series: This article How I moved my setup from a Mac to a Linux laptop Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop. The grass is not greener on the other side The M1 Macbook Air, one year
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Do I need to go to university?
Instead of asking “Is university good?”, ask “Do I have something more compelling to do?”. Instead of “Should I do a PhD?”, ask “Where can I find the best environment to grow as a researcher?”.
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Pinebook Pro, First Impressions
After seeing it in action at FOSDEM (from afar, as the crowd was too large), I decided to buy a Pinebook Pro for personal use. From the beginning, the intention was to use it for pkgsrc development, with NetBSD as the main OS. It was finally delivered on Thursday, one day earlier than promised, so I thought I would…
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The Hard Part of Learning a Language
I want to do $THING. Normally I do my hacking in Python, which is okay but has lots of frustrations. My friends tell me $LANGUAGE is better for doing $THING. After going through the online tutorial, I can see why. Maybe I’ll try $LANGUAGE for this project! Just a few things I need to figure out first: How do I install…
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Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
Remarkable relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
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Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third
So far we’ve been discussing chord transformations that didn’t change the chord’s function. We’ve been essentially dealing with just one major chord and its transpositions. …
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Stop Watching the News (2019)
Want someone else to think for you? Watch the news. Want to be distracted? Watch the news. Want something to get mad about? Watch the news. A recent passage in The Daily Stoic discussed the negative impact of hearing bad news – something like a tsunami destroying a village, or a terroris
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How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
Before, I was a train wreck that ate too many cinnamon rolls and watched Netflix while laying in sweats on the couch. Today, I ran 3 miles, did 40 minutes of yoga, meditated, ate steel cut oats with berries for breakfast, then turned on my favorite business podcast while I showered, all before work.
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I bought netflix.soy
An exploration into top level domains. How I ended up buying netflix.soy and domains from facebook, microsoft and google.
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A day using money in Cuba
Cuba is a puzzling country, especially when it comes to money. It is the only country in the world with a dual currency system.
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Beyond Remote
On Monday, Twitter and Square announced they were going remote-first as a company. Three days later Facebook and Shopify had similar announcements. Since then, Twitter and every one of my group chats have been lit up with discussions on what the implications of these changes will be on the future of work. I've been…
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet in another month or six weeks.
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My 2020 desk setup
I generally enjoy reading the uses this blog, and recently people have been talking about desk setups in my bubble (and on my Twitch stream), so I figured I’d write a post about my current setup!
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How to write a programming book
Aquiles Carattino helps technical founders and scientists transition from academia to entrepreneurship. Actionable advice on deep tech strategy, product management, and commercializing science.
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My New FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390
A few months ago, after my System76 Galago Pro had its second experience with a dead/swelling batery, I decided that it was time to replace it. On February 15th, I ordered a Dell Latitude 7390.
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Surviving Depression
Profound sadness is what I have experienced for most part of the last decade...
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Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
*Please see the associated Hacker News comments for some interesting discussion related to this article.*
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Tiny websites are great
Why building your own tiny website is a really great project that every coder should do.
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I trick my well-developed procrastination skills
It took me 10 years to finish my PhD, so I would assume my procrastination skills are not that bad ;) … fortunately, nowadays, I use some basic rules to fight procrastination and have become quite efficient with it. The following three basic rules helped me a lot to organize myself.
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The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days
Discuss this study on my forum or see discussion on Hacker News (>400 points, >350 comments). Abstract I slept 4 hours a night for 14 days and didn’t find any effects on cognition (assessed via Psychomotor Vigilance Task, a custom first-person shooter scenario, and SAT). I’m a 22-year-old male and normally I sleep 7-8…
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No One Goes There Anymore
There's a famous Yogi Berra quote that goes: Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. I have a serious medical condition. I don't us...
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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their thoughts and experiences, telling their stories, posting pictures and th…