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I love the palette feature, which allows me to create shortcuts exactly two keystrokes long: https://www.notesfromandy.com/2014/08/01/double-hotkeys-with... This feature is just a …

Related: on Macs, holding the Shift key makes the scroll wheel (and two-finger touchpad scrolling) scroll horizontally instead of vertically.

I haven't seen a specific study but I have read assertions along the same lines: either low-fat or low-carb can work. I believe the insulin-centric explanation (I'm a low carb eate…

One of the preinstalled apps on macOS is /Applications/Chess.app. Turns out it uses an open-source chess engine called sjeng, the binary for which is inside the app bundle. Chess.a…

I'm not quite that bad at chess, but bad enough that I wrote a chess game that plays random moves so I could always beat it: http://www.notesfromandy.com/2016/09/27/chessfidget/ Th…

Of all the engineers you've worked with, if you can think of eleven such that you'd rather hire one rather than the other ten, then that person is a 10x engineer.

> So far I have seen no data whatsoever to back up this idea that Asian people prefer gold more than other people in the world. I too would like to see data that supports the theor…

Is "Asians love gold" a common racial stereotype? Serious question. Is it common for racist non-Asians to think, "Them Asians, they sure do love cat chow mein, blonde women, and go…