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You Need More Lumens
Most SAD light therapy lamps are not bright enough. How to get brighter light than any you can buy!
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Amusing ourselves to death
This is perhaps one of the most striking passages I have read for a while. It describes the modern world with startling accuracy. In our fear of an increasingly authoritarian rule, we have allowed …
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Worst Case
Suppose you’re running your organization’s crucial apps in the cloud. Specifically, suppose you’re running them them on AWS, and in particular in the “us-east-1” region? Could us-east-1 go away? What might you do about it? Let’s catastrophize!
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Keep a Log
One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for…
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I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)
I say to you the same things I say to everyone, but it's good.
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Internet search tips
A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.
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Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
Learn how to achieve flow state and defeat digital distractions through environment design, mindful breaks, and deep work practices for a more focused life.
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Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time
This simulation shows the heat transfer throughout various kinds of meat. In the first section, you can input the starting values for the meat. The default is a 3cm piece of steak at room temperature (73°F or 23°C). The maximum meat thickness is 30 cm since we are assuming you're not trying to cook a whole cow. The…
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Commit that changed my life
Votre quotidien décrypté avec intelligence et curiosité
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Have you ever printed a boarding pass?
Bill III's Blog -
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How my e-reader lost its stripes
I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny device in my pocket has made reading both easier and more vulnerable to…
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How to read a mathematics textbook (2016)
Reading maths textbooks linearly doesn't work; here's what to do instead.
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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels Apple’s quality is degrading. I spend 10 hours a day on my laptop and would spend any amount of money within reason for a better one. However, everything comes with tradeoffs.
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Tmux is worse-is-better
tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to…
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GPT makes learning fun again
What will GPT unlock for the nerdy kid sitting in a 7th-grade classroom today?
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Nobody knows what's going on
A major online publication once reported in a profile on me that I had retired at 33. A few old friends and acquaintances reached out to congratulate me on my financial ind...
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Capsaicin is a psychoactive substance
Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons
You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two. That's exactly my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and cups. I got tired of trying to find something food-safe, without chemical smells and that doesn't take ages to cure. So I…
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