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Check out The Morning Paper. https://blog.acolyer.org/ Near daily reviews and write ups of technical white papers.

Here! Always fun seeing Clear Lake mentioned on HN!

Here's the article from 1946: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

I recently read Atomic Habits and there was a great chapter in there about people with a strong ability to self discipline. It raised the question: are people who have a strong sen…

I think the book you're talking about is Atomic Habits by James Clear. I just finished it this month and it's terrific. The story of Japanese Train Conductors stuck out to me as we…

Pedro Domingos https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612233-the-master-algo...

I went to Clear Lake from 2001-2004. Lot's of friends with relations to NASA and supporting industries. Sad I can't remember the soccer ball being on display. Any other Falcons out…

Lately, I've been using https://playnoise.com/ with the following settings: Brown noise > More Options > Auto volume osc, slow, small. Also, My "Code it and Load it" Playlist on Sp…

If we don't hear back from you in 2 days, we'll send help!

At least some of that $10 went towards a good cause!

Which Samsung model do you have?

Wireshark is a fantastic tool. If you do any web development also be sure to check out Charles Proxy, it's like Wireshark for HTTP.

How are you liking Tools of Titans ? Any good take-aways?

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The 4-Hour Body - Tim Ferriss - Lot's of anecdotes from Ferriss' own experiments. S. - by J.J. Abrams - Layers upon layers. Unlike anything I'…

I've just recently become fascinated with Stoicism after reading the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck! I've since read through Meditations, Letters from a Stoic and The Art of Livin…

SkunkWorks was a fantastic read! The aviation history was great and I also really liked seeing how they accomplished so much with a small team.

I started Bullet Journaling this Monday, so far so good! I've already managed to knock out some tasks I've been sitting on for a few years, that I just never wanted to do. Feels go…

I recently started keeping a Bullet Journal, and one of the pages I have implemented is the Habit Grid. Sounds like an analog of the app you're using. I have about 20 things I'm in…

You'll most likely find that you need them. Look at it as an opportunity to learn a new programming technique.

Creativity requires constraints. The constraints that surround the challenges we face force us to come up with creative solutions.

I'm a huge fan of nvalt. I recently discovered Quiver for Mac and love it even more.

Huge fan of nvAlt. I made a theme to make the markdown rendering closer to github and added some extra features. https://github.com/bwiggs/nvalt-prime

I watched the end of this video and had to do a double take (watch?). Said out loud 'wat'!, came here and found out that I still have never had an original thought. Thanks!

I too was having paywall issues as well. Contacted customer support, and they said i didn't have the web access enabled for whatever reason. Enabled and problem solved. Might be wo…

I have both a tablet and a kindle paperwhite. I like using the tablet for technical references which are commonly in PDF format. For everything else I use the Paperwhite. The backl…