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Using an external harddrive interferes with wireless keyboard and mouse

DRY code is not always better code. Duplication is often better than shitty abstractions

I was hoping for a way to minimize margin left/right overrides, but sadly not. Bunch of other issues that come up with Arabic text - underlines, letter-spacing, opacity, font-weight, and others

watching/waiting for node deps to install almost causes me physical pain

You don’t have to be a genius to write fast programs. There’s no magic trick. The only thing required is not building on top of a huge pile of crap that modern toolchain is

We need solutions that are less terrible for the environment, but ‘living in harmony with nature’ is basically a fallacy; seeking that is longing for an age that never existed.

Excellent tips. Reading this makes me feel like my security is atrocious

I had this exact same paper day schedule! Not exactly a groundbreaking discovery, but the half-hour blocks and height of the page are both great limitations

Users: Please complain more about slow programs. Its 2016. We carry supercomputers in our pockets. Its simply not ok for apps to be sluggish.

It is no longer 2016, but nothing else in this piece has changed :(

Good place to look for things to read. Going to try scheduled redirect from Twitter to this page and see if I end up wasting more or less time

Dammit snap where are my files

This is less drastic than I thought. With more block editing, themes will be used for styling, but no longer for layout

Honestly, skip all of the courses. Pick a problem to solve, start googling for common models that are used to solve the problem, then go on github, find code that solves that problem or a similar one

There is mixed consensus on this. But copy-pasting snippets to solve my problems is how I’ve learned to program so far; why should ML be any different.

Interesting activity to try. I feel like I would google may more than this

This made me feel better both for the suggestions, and because I had nowhere near as many. TLDR just delete most stuff as it doesn’t actually matter

I particularly like the interlude:

no, you can’t randomly cite 2,000-page-long books and hope nobody will read them

Keep pages simple and self-contained

Effect of the spread of information from fringe to broad adoption to “everyone knows this”

Amazing thread

Paper from 1989(!) looking at different methods people use to find information. There are six main categories, most online search continues to only use one or two

Fantastic explanation

More local example of homogenous diversity. At larger scale all cities start to look the same as well

This is SO helpful. Have had this page open as a reference for writing and fixing scripts, and started using Bash Boilerplate a bit as well

Love this. Doesn’t need to be stored as JSON either, can convert from whatever and generate