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For a much better treatment of the same general idea, read "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by K. Anders Ericsson.

> I seem to suffer from aphantasia I'm interested for the same reasons - I can't hold much of an image in my head for very long, and being able to persist what I can imagine so I c…

You modulate your rate of acceleration with your right foot. If you want a car that accelerates from 25-55 over 4 seconds, drive that way...

For younger readers, or those who prefer a lighter reader, Dawkins "The Greatest Show On Earth" covers similar material in a more accessible (if less rigorous) manner. I forgot to …

* Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson Much of our upbringing and education is underpinned by the assumption that "talent" is a real thing. Peak di…

I like Listary - I haven't used Everything to compare, but I'm aware that they're similar. For text file contents I'm a huge advocate for ripgrep , and for metadata...to be honest …

School libraries working to support an established curriculum? This was totally normal in my high school - the texts that would be studied by a particular grade were stable for sev…

The first computer I used had Windows 3.1, so I'm not sure if I "grew up with" XP.... but no, it looks super dated to me. The icons are OK, the rest of Luna is fairly ugly. There m…

Unfortunately, I work on a million-line codebase. Grep might be fine 99% of the time, but there's no reason to not drop a ripgrep binary on every machine I use regularly. Ripgrep i…

It's been mentioned previous, but you should check out ripgrep - it's even faster than Silver Searcher a lot of the time https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

And to round out the set, xsv ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/ ) is a powerful toolkit for CSV.

There's no consensus, but this provides a reasonable argument for "not really": https://startingstrength.com/article/heavy-lifting-and-heart... (both authors are lifters, one is an…

The VB6 IDE is distressingly easy to get running on modern versions of Windows - this is fortunate, since we still need to support it, but upsetting, since it diminishes the incent…

Cost is still a big factor - you need fairly decent hardware (minimum GTX 970 / RX 480) for an acceptable experience on Vive/Rift, and we're still a generation away from that perfo…