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On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,742 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient
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iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally
I’m a huge fan of the Dvorak keyboard layout, but if there’s one thing I love more than “Evolved vs Engineered” solution debates, is that nothing wins the ”standardized” debate.
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Know Your Carrying Capacity
Mac's Tech Blog
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Take a break
I need to hit the emergency break.
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I wrote a short story about von Neumann probes
"They would have eaten our whole house and probably the whole cul-de-sac if we didn't find those jelly beans."
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School vs. Wikipedia
Edit: Oh! Hello, there, HN . For context, we're talking about elementary school here. More importantly, I'm not arguing that students should get quick answers from encyclopedias instead of reading books and other primary sources. I'm arguing that Wikipedia is better than "a Google search," which is a position I will…
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How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
Here's how to download all of Wikipedia (6M+ articles) onto a USB flash drive for offline access. After hours of trying and failing, here's what worked for me
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Leonardo Syndrome
Ever heard of Leonardo Syndrome? If you’ve read Peter Burke’s excellent book, The Polymath,[^1] then you will have done, but if not: Leonardo Syndrome is...
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Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
And what it tells us about his creativity
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The Schizoid Difference
something not often talked about is the barrier that seemingly exists between the self and other people. that almost impermeable barrier, where you try to co...
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Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
A software aesthetic for hackers with depression.
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Impoverished Emotional Lives
Is this anything?
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Too Much Internet
I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok…
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Why read Dostoevsky? A programmer's perspective
fhur's blog
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Taking a Break
My year at Figma.
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Dating Other Task Managers
I've a confession… I've been seeing other todo lists
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On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days
culture by algorithm in the 21st century
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It’s a Unix system I know this
I think the average person knows that programming isn’t quite the same as it is in the movies. But, sometimes, it is.
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Someone is pretending to be me
One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.
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Not as famous as they should be (2021)
Some people in computing are famous, some are not. Sometimes the fame is proportional to their contributions to computing, sometimes it's not. That's how life and the world works: the winners write the history. Financial success and personal charisma are often deemed more interesting than quietly doing your work…