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> Smells like invasion. No, it doesn't. What country is using what army to invade USA?

> We now know they're from a select group (of Norwegians in this case) with certain tastes no more noteworthy or transcendent than any of ours. Only the nobel peace prize is handed…

I made flash cards when I read atomic habits as an exercise as I wanted to put some of the ideas from Andy Matuschak to the test. I remember and have internalized more from this bo…

On the flip side, the code that he originally wrote would never scale to a billion dollars. It was wildly inefficient. Someone with a bit more experience as a game developer, someo…

Talk to people and be curious why they don't value code reviews.

How would you go about proving such a thing?

Kagi gave me the same

What paper was that?

I think dict(name=name, age=age) can be definitely be more readable and ergonomical to write than {"name": name, "age": age}.

Can you elaborate on point 3. Did you fix the deficiencies using supplements or a changed diet? On what time scale did you see improvements?

I think this is an expectation thing. People expect to be able to figure it out in time x. They expect they'd have to use y time to find the solution in the docs. And people will m…

You can set the location for your search, but I find it a bit tedious. You either have to push two buttons (advanced search+change location) or do the search+change location. This …

Competitive RTS, programming and being able to stand on my hands for minutes at the time left me with wrists that hurt all the time. After I started climbing all wrist and back pai…

This sounds like spiritual bypass, which is a failure mode of mindfulness a lot of people can fall into. You say it drives your wife crazy, so it seems that being in this state doe…

> The writing style of this article makes me think about the periods when a lot of impulses are happening erratically on in my mind, and I can't seem to get the thoughts to align. …

If this is a description of your own experience then I would very much recommend reading No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz, if you haven't done so already. It will probably reson…

How can I effectively approach extending Python with Rust? I encountered some challenges while attempting to translate Python objects to Rust. My intuition suggests that it's more …

I had all sorts of random pains throughout my back/arms. After I started climbing almost everything disappeared. Being forced to stretch your hands above your body a few days a wee…

This was my immediate thought as well! Can someone more mathematical say if this is an unreasonable thought?

If you missed it, I think a lot of the discussion in this thread will be interesting for you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272834

I've found having a device (I use a remarkable) where you can erase writing without making a huge mess makes it easier to improve as well. I tend to speed up which ruins my handwri…

What do you inspect on your recordings?

> - customer3.jpg: I didn't notice anything significant, but it just looks like an image taken straight off TPDNE. Do "vibes" count? Look at the background, does it make sense? Tel…

> If you are coffee afficianado, luwak is a must. No, it is not. If we disregard the ethical issues surrounding the coffee, this is what a renowned roaster has to say about the cof…

You probably don't want to test 1 day vs 2 weeks. At day 1 the beans have not degassed enough to release all their flavor unless you take special care during the brewing process. A…