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Amazing writeup.

1. install all updates
2. use a password manager
3. Turn on disk encryption. Replacing a laptop is preferable than leaking data
4. SSH keys in secure enclaces. Private key never leaves device. Public keys on github
5. Block ads. "when third-party ad platforms started becoming attack vectors, I got religion on this."
6. Use MFA, prefer physical keys

If you wouldn't let someone pull up a folding chair in your bathroom to Learn and Be Curious while watching you poop, don't let them have access to your email.

I don't know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone

huh, weird that I already had a tag for smoking

Importantly, it helped me overcome my fear that if I quit smoking, I wouldn’t be able to write anymore, since I’d always done the two activities together (today I tell writing students not to smoke at all, but if they must, not to smoke while writing, lest they prolong their addiction to protect their artistic production).

But what really helped me kick was Alan’s advice about motivations: “You’re 33 years old. You might smoke for 40 more years before you get sick. Not getting sick in forty years won’t be much of a motivation next week when you’re craving a cigarette. You need a motive for next week, not forty years from now.”

The next-week reason he came up with was "I spend two laptops per year on smokes". So he now buys a laptop each year.

I love how this ends up at "I won't be needing a dome"

I think some people have lost the point of my question, just wanted some advise on how to lower road noise whole not spending $20,000. I don't expect to block out all the noise and won't be needing a dome.

If your hourly rate gets too high, how to justify doing anything that isn't billable?

Some good work/life balance suggestions and options in the comments

Another text-to-image model. This stuff is getting crazy

Generate 3d fern models in browser

A history of plastic recycling, mostly on economics of it, and the symbol being put on plastics.

sidenote: the excerpt and title from Medium was better than for this link.

Some good advice on finding ways of enjoying work or life or both, and being wary of taking advice from entrepreneurs - they've gambled and won.

a "streaming replication tool" for SQLite databases. Copies the log file continuously

A love story in music lessons

Couple of test searches gave lots from early 2000s. Will be interesting to see how bitrotten it is

More crypto bullshit from people trying to sell something that they have heavily invested in.

For such an intelligent and successful firm, they really seem to be struggling with the basic task of presenting logically-coherent evidence to support their claims.

In online discourse, a lot of people recommend job hopping frequently specifically to learn a lot and avoid stagnation, but I think that's generally the opposite of correct.

ongoing scary stuff. Read the same day as "the gut makes your serotonin"

Now that years have passed since I stopped, I don’t mind telling people that I trained to be an opera singer. I used to be ashamed of it, though I’m not sure what exactly felt shameful – the admission that I’d once wanted to be part of that world or the fact that I’d failed.

At the highest level, DALL-E 2's works very simply:

This was followed by three statements that made no sense and didn't sound simple at all.

The approach of "explain everything with different shaped boxes" is sometimes helpful, sometimes not.

Overall it did help me understand some though. The wow one for me was the GLIDE model - generate a new image that keeps salient features from the original image.

Hacking coral sex to accelerate reef regrowth

Some interesting discussion in hn comments on sabbaticals and breaks from work.

When your commonplace book is a public database. The strategy of doing all your writing in public and as you learn about things, building up a knowledge database over time.

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Saved for if Google kills Scholar

Incredible post, featuring detailed interactive and color-coded animations of the inner workings of mechanical watches

The Brontë family were a LOT, so buckle up

Scan your LAN for loose samba shares

really handy, a specific but detailed walkthrough of someone's master workflow.

unsurprisingly, issues facing twitter:
a) have been considered by people who spend years working on it
b) are more complicated to solve than a pithy phrase would have you believe

Maybe this is what Flavortown is all about.

Why, I wondered, does flavor have such a hold over us? And why do so many scientists carry on as though nutrition starts from the neck down, that what truly matters in food is carbs, protein and fat, and flavor is just some meaningless and frivolous indulgence?

Our flavor sensing equipment—the nose and mouth—takes up more DNA than any other bodily system. Why is there so much DNA devoted to a sense we tend to think of as superfluous?

Filed under "moderately concerning". Still waiting on those variant-based boosters.

A study funded by #Pfizer shows that, within months, third shot of their vaccine now only cuts your risk of being hospitalized for Covid-19 by about half.

https://thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00101-1/fulltext

Cool comparison - make the same song on the two devices to compare workflow and sound

pitfalls with early retirement; planning for 7 decades of financial independence is a bigger challenge than some claim

Bottom line up front - begin message with the key information.

found via hn comment in reply to a longer and less interesting thing on writing

retrofitting buildings to improve energy and thermal efficancy faster

years worth of book recommendations in an hour

Or apple podcast link.

the highlights of Brand Twitter history, 2009-2019