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I'm genuinely interested in examples of these reliable abstractions, or at least in some keywords I can look up.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sort to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups: Paper, plastic, and cans are sorted for recycling. s…

I think one good reason is connecting with the youth. My kids are too young for Tik Tok but old enough to come home with 6-7 (btw, best antidote to that is the 7-8-9 joke ;) ) and …

From the second paragraph in the article: > You might even say “Aha!” This kind of sudden realization is known as insight, and a research team recently uncovered how the brain prod…

Keep an anxiety log for a few months. In my experience, this feeling of correctness is a retrospective impression that relies heavily on confirmation bias, and in reality is nowher…

Thank you very much, this is exactly the starting point I needed. I'll keep following the citations trail into more recent years, but your second link from 2007 reinforces my feeli…

> The working memory and episodic memory papers in the last few years have isolated the correlates, we a have a fairly empirical neurobiological description of memory function and …

The complement of a set consists of everything that is not in the set. Having your complement commoditized is a good thing, it refers to everything your users need that is not part…

When compared to the "plumbing" commands. If you want to know more about git's plumbing vs porcelain metaphor, this is a good quick overview: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39848551

Attention. It's really all you need [1] 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

The full term is "mise en place" and your analogy with the IDE is not far off, but there's an interesting nuance that's very useful to adopt when programming too. Mise en place is …

Never too early to prepare for Y10K compliance: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

You could simply encode the json to base64 and put it in the url fragment (hash). Then you can save by bookmarking the url and share by copy/pasting it, all without a server. I've …

It is a lot harder to take the black out of the cat than it is to take the mat out from under it.

The minimum viable product concept comes to mind. You don't have a product until you invest the effort required to pass the minimum threshold. Another example I can think of is esc…

Several comments here advise getting a good mushroom identification book instead of relying on plant id apps for foraging. Do you have any recommendations? And more generally, how …

dtt will stop just before the first t character, dft will delete the t as well.

That's interesting, as a québécois I don't agree with any of this. The only thing that raised an eyebrow was "est à même de", but if turns out it's just another way of saying "capa…

Do you want Python? Because this is how you get Python. Joke aside, this is why I never understood this problem. With proper indentation it looks essentially like Python with a gen…

"Reduction in force", similar to a layoff. A layoff happens when the company can no longer afford an employee they'd otherwise like to keep, a RIF happens when the role no longer m…

This is correct, I wasn't paying attention.

But in JavaScript, these two awaits will not happen in parallel, you really need to await Promise.all() for that.

You really end up creating promises manually, the vast majority are downstream from an IO call like fetch() or a database query.

Quick tip, you could replace the ifs with mkdir -p Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym

It seems the term is in fact "signifiers". From your link: > Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place. We need bot…