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Off the top of my head, all PKMs make trade-offs on discoverability, portability, maintainability, and ease of recall. Broadly, "discoverability" is how likely you are to stumble o…

I wish I knew more interesting games that could be played with a standard deck. My wife and I travel a lot and there's something I find deeply appealing about being able to walk in…

That's interesting! My wife and I both pictured him as masculine. In my case, as a cis, bi man who's honestly evaluated how I play my gender, it was because a lot of the way Murder…

Contra to a lot of what's being said in this thread, I think a lot of smart people get stuck in the trap of overvaluing quality of input relative to quantity of input. Put another …

People aren't angry/worried because they don't have a competitive advantage any more--people are angry/worried because they sense (I think correctly!) that AI will eliminate the pa…

I'm really impressed with the strides Emacs has made recently: native compilation, project.el, eglot, and now tree-sitter? As a user who hadn't kept up with development news until …

I adopted GTD right before I left college, and I sometimes wonder how I ever would have managed to adapt to the explosion of tiny, attention-grabbing tasks that adult life supplies…

" The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it ma…

Think of the distinction between "over the board" and "online" as kind of like the distinction between "NBA game" and "pickup game". Even that might be understating it. The levels …

I can second the comments that a solid E ink device makes reading pdf/epub stuff a lot more enjoyable, and I greatly prefer it to reading on a traditional screen. That said, for ex…

I used Corpspeak pretty much exclusively for the year I spent as an entry-level analyst at a consulting firm, because--as a consequence of all the points mentioned in this article-…

I'm not sure how you read my previous comment and concluded my objection was to people having fun in a way I don't like. To be super reductive: I think it's better to not play D&D …

The specific person I'm talking about was telling their players that the stakes were real: they were calling for rolls (not attack rolls or saving throws, mind: those are too compl…

I've heard people accusing Suckless of gatekeeping, which is fair--when you consider their decidedly /documentation-lite/ approach, it'd be a stretch to call them accessible. Howev…

Coming up with algorithms on the spot isn't a viable strategy for technical interviews any more, even if you're a super-genius. Here's a question that the page author claims took D…

I've had a background interest in getting involved in CTFs for a while now, but haven't yet made it a point to overcome the activation energy to do anything beyond Overthewire's Ba…

I commented on the last post about Google hiring slowdowns, hoping that it wouldn't hit technical workers as hard, but it looks like that's not the case. I've got an L3 interview l…

Oof, I've got an L3 interview with Google in a little over a week. Hearing about hiring slowdowns like this is making me wish I'd been more aggressive with my interview timeline, b…

I see the view you express here pretty frequently--that older generations have /always/ viewed any new cultural development as a sign of moral/intellectual degradation, and--surpri…

I also had to adapt my handwriting - halfway through my math degree, my inability to tell symbols apart genuinely started to become a problem. I ended up having to use a horizontal…

This is something I've thought about a lot; I ended up compiling tips on learning from a variety of different sources into a master document that I go back to every once in a while…

Every time this topic crops up I'm struck with the seemingly-impossible challenge of people comparing qualia (especially through a text medium!). I've had conversations with friend…