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Intravenous Caffeine
If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 669 posts.
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Elitism as the mid-career growth engine
Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust
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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all
The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, a new study from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests.
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Dandelion Root Recipes
Dandelion root recipes offer a variety of uses, from herbal teas to hearty dishes. Discover how to incorporate this nutritious root into your meals and remedies.
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Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)
I like to write, and occasionally I idly consider the possibility that I should do it for a living. Then I remind myself: writing is a…
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Make Your Car Electric for 5K in Less Than a Day
Make your car electric for 5k in less than a day. A new motor and a new approach to convering cars to hybrid electric.
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Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain’ in humans and mice
Researchers found that damage to the brain's white matter after COVID-19 resembles that seen after cancer chemotherapy, raising hope for treatments to help both conditions.
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Chinchilla’s death
“With more careful calculations, one can win; with less, one cannot” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War .
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I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code. A few weeks ago, I built a Slack Bot that uses Google LLMs to provide daily channel summaries. You can fork the template or get started with 100 Days of Code. None of this was possible without Replit. Let me explain why: Getting started with no setup
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What is Social Status?
Understanding dominance, prestige, and power
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Stop making every conversation about yourself
agree/disagree in a conversation
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Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
When parents praise their children's effort instead of natural ability, students learn that the work they put
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Ampersand (2015)
This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
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Gen Z Netiquettes
Lessons learned with (no) blood and (all) tears
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The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
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Remembering things that haven't happened yet
How will I know what I need to hear in a future I can't anticipate? Who will I be, and what will she want?
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I got paid to live in Antarctica
Sharing how I got paid to live in Antarctica, how to get a job on the ice, and everything you need to know about life at McMurdo Station.
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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Fixing Classical Cats: How I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
Every now and then, when working on ScummVM’s Director engine, I run across a disc that charms me so much I just have to get it working right away....
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Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
I just published the 41st revision of my self-published book Ansible for DevOps, which has sold 87,234 copies as of this writing across LeanPub, Amazon (Kindle and paperback), and iBooks. There are multiples of that number of eBooks downloaded, as I've never DMCA'ed the sites that re-host the book illegally. I just…
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My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
Making glulam of the tree of knowledge.
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I wish Asciidoc was more popular
I've been using Markdown for a long time, and have grown accustomed to it. It has various quirks, features, and oddities, but what doesn't…
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Sunken Greenhouse
All about the Wallapini Sunken Greenhouse with sunken greenhouse benefits, what to plant in an earth shelter greenhouse, steps to build a Wallapini, and more.
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Why are online recipes so long-winded?
A chilly recipe for boredom
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It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
Drugs cause addiction*. It is a rhetoric deeply ingrained into the American psyche based on a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles--one containing cocaine or heroin, the other just water. The rat chose the cocaine- or heroin-laced water every time until it died. The…
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