26- I learned that my body is not as "unbreakable" as it was ten years ago
39. I feel the same way as you!
A forty year old body takes twice as long to heal as a 20 year old body :( I learned this quite some time ago but it still seems surprising.
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#15439. Recently, I've read Dune again after having read it for the first time some 25 years ago. One notion I came across this time (probably did so back then, too but didn't attach much importance to it) and that particularly resonated with me was this - I'm paraphrasing here: Life is its own tool for ever more efficiently making use of the energy available within a system.
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#15533. Most guitar tabs for The Beatles' Norwegian Wood are wrong -- they have the intro accurate, but it's not the same as the part played under the lyrics. And it's not just that the song is played on a sitar -- even the sitar isn't mirroring the intro to the song through the lyrics. Look at, for example, this tab ( https://www.guitartabsexplorer.com/beatles-Tabs/norwegian-wo... ), which explicitly says "Use same guit…
Many (and possibly most) guitar (and bass) tabs for songs are (unfortunately) wrong. Likewise very many chord boxes and often the chord names themselves are wrong. There are notable exceptions (eg "Standing in the shadows of Motown" - the transcription of James Jamerson's basslines is genuinely superb). There's really no substitute for listening really closely to music you really like and figuring it out for yourself…
That's hard to get started! It does sound powerful, but it also seems like a daunting task for your average chord strummer, like me.
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#156Over 50. Just read Judith Shklar's The Liberalism of Fear https://philpapers.org/archive/SHKTLO.pdf , which argues that minimizing fear is a valid political principle: "Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult." Further, "Apart from prohibiting interference with the freedom…
What if people’s fears are generated or exaggerated by a unaccountable minority leveraging unregulated tools, mining illegal data mixed with psychology for profit, power or both?
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#15736 I’m way more distracted than I thought
I finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work and even though I thought I could focus when I really needed to I realized that I’m kidding myself and I go to my phone habitually.
I’ve also stopped using slack/hipchat during a lot of the work day. When I get to the end of the day and see the hundreds of message counts it’s quite shocking.
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#15826, I learned to swim effectively and effortlessly few weeks ago and still learning and practicing. And learned Android Architecture Components, Dependency Injection and Firebase as my profession is android developer.
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#16025. How to deploy a docker based lambda function to compile latex on fly. Currently it compiles tufte class pretty well.
I did the very same thing 2 weeks ago! Out of curiosity, were you using the lambci image as a starting point?
No, this one. https://github.com/samoconnor/lambdalatex