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One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9
This post is about experimenting with imitating and extending the window management concepts from the venerable Plan9, Rio. The backstory and motivation is simply that I’ve had the need for a…
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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What alcohol does to your body, brain and health [video]
Learn how alcohol impacts the brain and body over time. Discover tips for making informed health decisions - science-based tools from the Huberman Lab podcast.
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Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5
In part 5 of the series, which asks "Why has Film not been disrupted yet?" we look at how the film industry assimilates and neutralizes its best and brightest.
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Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing
At a time when usage of smartwatches and rings has become more common, a West Virginia University human performance researcher points out heart rate variability — the time between heartbeats — the devices report is different from what would be recorded in a clinical setting.
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Can the knees go over the toes? (2016)
Just last week, I was guest lecturing to a class of physical therapy students at the University of Missouri. I asked a simple question, “How many people here think we should never have our knees go…
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How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.
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Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel
When artist Robert Sikoryak put the iTunes Terms and Conditions into graphic novel format, he tapped a familiar problem. Most of us don’t read the terms
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The Joy of Dumping
These are 80's-era erasable programmable read-only memories, or EPROMs. They were an immensely popular way to store firmware for embedded systems when the
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Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code
You can now sign up for ‘How to Solve It with Code’, which is a course in how to solve problems (including coding, writing, sysadmin, and research) using fast short iterations, and also provides a platform that makes this approach easier and more effective.
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Making a Living Collecting Cans
Why is San Francisco, one of the most liberal, environmentally conscious cities in the country, systematically shutting down recycling centers that have been so important to reducing litter and offering low income individuals a safety net?
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Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics
For generations their people had collected the seeds of tall grasses, which they cooked and ate to supplement their diet of foraged fruits, vegetables, and leaves, and hunted game, fish, and seafood.
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A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
The Besenval Palace in Solothurn opened the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst.
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Heating Water with Fire (2019)
Cook your food, warm your home AND heat your hot water?? Learn all about how thermosyphoning works, in a passive and continuous cycle. The ins-and-outs of pressure systems, water jackets, and all associated systems - including solar, radiators and underfloor heating!
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This Thing for Which We Have No Name (2014)
It's not my job to be a behavioral economist; my job is to actually popularize behavioral economics. The interesting thing to me—as someone who has a brother who's an academic—is that academics, however brilliant, are the worst marketers in the world. And there's a reason for this, which is they, of course, possibly…
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How to build a 747 – A WorldFlight Story
How far would you go for realism? The world of flight simulation has come a long way over the past […]
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Typography on Pencils (2023)
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here. Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.
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Consider applying for grad school
9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to.