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That’s what kept me from going iPad. At the price of a 1000 setup you can buy about 25 Moleskins with, 280 pages each, + pens. If you fill 10 pages a day, that’s two years of high …

Classic explore versus exploit. When I was a young researcher I was given a lot of impossible opportunities. Tried 10 and did two pieces of disruptive work. That work has accrued h…

It's a beauty. We can easily detect the issues with Youtubers that generate scripts from this tool. I've noticed these tropes, after 30 seconds, remove, block, and do not recommend…

It will take time but yes. There are already numerous case studies. Libre office is already running on more than 500k gov computers. Anecdotical story, as a researcher I worked wit…

I love the idea of hourglass! Thanks for sharing I’ve ordered mine on Amazon today. It’s about a foot tall. This is also a great way to signal to other people in the office that I’…

As a recent Clojure convert of 3 years or so, I love reading how amazing Clojure is. As a solo Dec there is simply no alternative. It’s so nice to return to a project 2 or 3 years …

That might be true but at the level of understanding that the Greeks had of things - making fire does give you a lot. Flint, dry grass, fuel source wet versus dry wood, wind and so…

True, and the author also said that they are working with a 20 person team. But looking at those growth projections they will likely double in a few years.

What I took away from this story is that I forget that there are ecosystems outside the Apple App Store. I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of releasing on Apple first that I di…

The company behind the minimalist writer is writer had a presenter app called iA Presenter. https://ia.net/presenter I’ve had it for a while and it’s awesome to write all the notes…

On Google I find that this is already used to treat diabetes: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/semaglutide-sub... here are the side effects; Side Effects Along with its…

Totally it’s all about the kind games, trying to frame every paragraph, sentence or even word as a first draft. Don’t need to wipe an entire document imho.

I’m a researcher and honestly not worried. 1. Developing the right question has always been the largest barrier to great research. Not sure OpenAI can develop the right question wi…

ADHD and PHD here. Somehow I survived and thrived. I think for us it’s important to know that we are extremely slow on one aspect which is reading/acquiring knowledge/editing draft…

This is the best article I've read on programming in a while. When I code all I do is work on one object or one function at a time. Working usually on the end result. The key here …

Honestly there is so much more to North America than just Maya for decennia's. You can review the indigenous people territories back centuries ago. There are some really good organ…

Getting thrown into the deep end is awesome. This is a great opportunity to apply things you can learn. Keep studying and reading, ultimately solving problems even not perfectly yo…

After clicking on the surprise me button 20 times or so, a few things popped out to me. 1) I remember this time, we had delightfully nerdy hobbies back then. Little side projects a…

Caffeine is the most used drug in academia.

In the article they said that there goal is to raise it from $20 to $44 so there’s your number. Honestly, I can’t use it for work because of the privacy and confidentiality concern…

There is also the fact it’s much easier to write something when you know where you are going. When you start you often just make lots of items general in nature to improve later on…

Honestly SQLite is just a great option. Stored locally, so you have that fast disk access. Does great for small medium and even larger databases. And you just have a file.