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I lost my data trying to back it up
This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
Recover from depersonalization and derealization2019102 points99 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
Can a new interactive movie shed some light on a strange disorder?
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Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.
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How to Be Successful
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up...
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BSI-001: The Perfect Wall
The perfect wall is an environmental separator—it has to keep the outside out and the inside in. In order to do this the wall assembly has to control rain, air, vapor and heat. In the old days we had one material to do this: rocks. We would pile a bunch or rocks up and have the rocks do it all. But over time rocks…
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What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
The average overweight American looking to lose weight will set a goal of losing 30 lbs. Most people will never come close. Does anything actually work?
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On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
Self-experiment on whether changes in bedroom CO₂ levels affect sleep quality
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Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
During me being at my parents over the holidays (Christmas 2017) I had the usual IT-support stuff to do, that always happens to tech sa...
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My Parents Are Flat Earthers
For decades, my parents have been working up to Flat-Earther beliefs. From Egyptology to Jehovah's Witnesses to theories that human built the Moon billions of years in the future. Surprisingly, it doesn't affect their successful lives very much. For me, it's a fun family pastime.
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How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too
First published Jan. 17, 2019; updated Nov. 15, 2019 Let me briefly tell my Linux story. If you're thinking about moving to Linux, and wondering how you'd do so, it might give you some pointers and inspiration. The back story My first introduction to the command line was in the 80s when I f
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I Nearly Lost All of My Data
My home server completely shit the best recently and I thought I'd lost all my data.
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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
I've come to a conclusion that I have nothing to show for my 25 years of coding. I am ready to begin and I have a plan.
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How I use my Raspberry Pis to help me work on with my side projects
Undeniably, Raspberry Pi has revolutionised the way we use computing technology in our lives. In addition to being energy efficient, a Raspberry Pi is a single board computer that does not take up …
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Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
In November 2017, I deactivated my account on Facebook. I didn’t leave Facebook for moral reasons back then but more because it was starting to feel like a waste of time and valuable brain cy…
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Preparing for Prison (2016)
I’ve written previously about various aspects of imprisonment, including practical preparations such as packing your personal possessions (r...
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No more XS4ALL is unthinkable
They are the example of how it should be, the Dutch ISP called XS4ALL. They were bought in '98 by the former state-owned KPN, but continued to operate independently. Born from a group of hackers and the first ISP in the Netherlands, today they are still the example that we measure other ISPs by.
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A three-page paper that shook philosophy, with lessons for software engineers
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon: to know something is to have a…
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Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics
By Michael Nielsen, January 2019
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Tracking Blood Sugar
Fasting glucose and A1C tests done over the past few years show me at low risk for diabetes. But these tests don’t necessarily capture how much blood sugar “spikes” after meals–something that may be a better predictor of disease risk . Such blood sugar spikes can be minimized with a suitable diet, but what that diet…
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Ode to the 767
An Oldie but Goodie From Boeing.
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So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux
Did you do something with your hair? It looks nice.
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