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See also Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

It is very interesting data and looks good. Thank you for posting it.

Go a bit further and use pencil or charcoal so you can smell the wood and lead and feel the texture of the drawing surface, helping your brain make more connections. It also allows…

Try circles instead of a square. Not 1 and 0, but infinity. You matter more than you think. Very good book: https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com/

Ditto! Love reading and writing on paper, but do read and write quite a bit on computer screens, too. Phone screens are too small and uncomfortable for me. No TV at home, either. A…

Making a strict hour and a half of no-interruption a day has worked well for me. Learned this from John Cleese (feel free to ignore the word “management” in the title of the video)…

Ditto. I use Macs for work and PC for games, and this little box seems a good opportunity to play The Legend of Linux on a desktop or a couch, and make it true.

> These tests blew me away. Made me laugh : )

Guitars certainly have a more intimate connection between the touch of fingers and the sound, including the bending of the tone, one of Hendrix’s virtuosities. Keyboards can approa…

Hmmm, I disagree, having played electric and acoustic guitars for over two decades and begun learning piano and synths for the first time in 2025. For one, you can’t easily play tw…

This brings to mind this question: Should HN allow links to sites that break the back button, like all Meta sites (Ig, Fb, etc)?

My favorite part of the video is when Stéphane “makes a mistake” and shows it, like enlightened people, such as Cliff Stoll — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk — do :)

Potentially unrelated tangent thought: The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening …

The F-15C (and the F-16), yes. The F-15E was a different story, which I remember from flamewars at flightsim forums over how slow of a climber it was :)

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Yes, but Wacom recently discontinued macOS driver support for older versions of the Intuos, and I had to downgrade to an older driver to make it work. When it doesn’t anymore I’ll …