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How are you going to infer what's harmful if you're only going to research healthy people?

Just compare this with actual scientific findings and see for yourself: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03570-5

Check out Proxmox + https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ + lxc container snapshots on the NAS and set up Proxmox backup server on the Pi. I find such a setup to be "all benefit, no giv…

http://pikchr.org/ is great

Here's [1] how well the references check out for Taube's previous book. Is there any reason I should believe his newer books are any better? Here's a study funded by Taubes himself…

A new programming language based on "mutable value semantics" has been renamed from Val to Hylo. It was a frequent complaint that the former name was too similar to other existing …

Oh, interesting. Is v3 just a new API or a new algorithm altogether?

There’s a Bayesian stats approach to spaced repetition: https://fasiha.github.io/ebisu/ AFAIU, SM2 computes the datetime of a next review, whereas Ebisu models a probability of rem…

There was a point when this was joke poking fun at emacs users. With time, it makes more and more sense. Foot pedals offload some strain from your hands to your feet which in theor…

This article goes into a little more detail which may be useful: https://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2019/05/debugging-in-vim/

It's astounding how much quality material and tools exist for learning Japanese, compared to eg Chinese. JPDB looks fantastic.

There's also Falcon[1] Chrome extension which does full text indexing on your browser history so if you read something and can't either Google it or find it in the browser's histor…

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327 followed by http://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html have completely transformed how I view and architect software. I basicall…

Me too! Any other resources you can share?

> One of the major reasons behind the superior performance of async/await futures relative to threads/goroutines/etc. is that async/await compiles to a state machine in the manner …

For my ideal work desktop, I want to have tools assigned per task that I can easily assemble until that task is achieved. As a spitball idea: Cmd-space, type in "research open sour…

What mental models have you learned from it?

I wish there was one too, but programmer-oriented types are not the same thing as machine-oriented types. Compiling to fast code requires the latter one: types like u32, not Dict[S…

Tomas Vondra goes over this in the talk. There's a rationale for that behavior: pulling out a USB stick out of the USB socket may have been what's triggered the fsync() failure. In…