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Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)
Want to improve your knife skills? Take a look at this list of Japanese vegetable cutting techniques. Start from the basics, and work your way up to master.
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How To Crash A Party
In college I would crash expensive parties (even got to hang with Elton John & Lance Armstrong) with a few tricks I developed. I demonstrate them inside:
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Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards
Look, here's the thing, I don't like mysteries that involve technology. I think I hate them because I know that some other human created the...
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We Can Achieve Anything If We Stop Trying To Do Everything
All good thing take time to achieve. But if you rely on the power of compounding, you don't have to force things.
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Technical Writing: Learning from Kernighan
I have in front of me two books that immediately struck me with their similarity: The c Programming Language 1 1 The c Programming Language ; Kernighan & Ritchie; Prentice Hall; 1988. and The awk Programming Language 2 2 The awk Programming Language ; Aho, Kernighan & Weinberger; Addison-Wesley; 1988. Available…
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Alcoholism in Antarctica
This is a post over two months in the making as it’s pulled together some hard times from Pole. I hope it helps someone. While I stand by what I’ve done and my justifications, I can’t say they give me great comfort. Today is Midwinter in Antarctica. It is one of the most important dates … Continue reading "Alcoholism…
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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure. It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents. It represents solely the perspective and opinions of myself, in my more lucid moments. It is in no way intended to represent th
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I decided to move away from big tech for my children and myself
I have two children, 7 and 9, and they have friends who have phones. I've read 'digital vegan' and I'm convinced social media has a net negative effect (even if you disregard the terrible effect of being monitored). So they are starting to ask for a phone, and while we won't give it to them anytime soon, they are at…
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The ü/ü Conundrum
I implemented search and filtering for entities on our product at epilot. The users were heavily using the feature, however, a unique issue surfaced: difficulties in filtering file names containing diacritical marks like umlauts (Äpfel, über, schön, etc.).
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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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Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science
Starting this fall, I'll be pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Here's how I think Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through the program.
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Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox
I began my descent to Chrome two years ago. At first, I only used Chrome while waiting for Firefox to load. Later I found Chrome made pages like Gmail and Grooveshark usable, and eventually stopped loading Firefox altogether.
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Solving My Email Problem
Email is not a messaging protocol. It’s a TODO list. Or at least my inbox is a TODO list and email is the protocol for putting stuff on it. Here’s the problem. It is a s**tty TODO list. Any one of you can put something on my TODO list. And I don’t want that.
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A primer on the current state of longevity research
4k words, 19 minutes reading time
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Social Anxiety
I will leave you hanging, because it never occurs to me to wonder why you have your hand raised.
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If Only I Knew This Shit in College
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Calendar types in watches
Mechanical watches that can show a date correctly are pretty rare, and the ones that do are very expensive (starting at $10k). But why? Let me explain.
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This is why I sell beer.
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