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"Another nice thing: the node_modules folder for this Hello World Svelte app totals only 29MB and 242 packages. Compare that to 204MB and 1017 packages for a fresh Create React App project."
“They’re generalists,” Tomberlin says, and eat just about anything. Pig manure? Check. Human waste? Check. Food scraps? Check. The only organic materials they haven’t had luck with are bones, hair and pineapple rinds, he says.
Just recently I listened to a podcast with Josh Waitzkin (learning expert, chess prodigy and subject of the film 'Searching for Bobby Fischer'), where he is now learning to surf with the aid of something called an eFoil:
"What’s been interesting is opposed to having two to four minutes of wave time a session surfing, I’ll have 54 minutes or so of wave time at faster speeds. What’s interesting is it also opens up the ability to do deliberate practice in surfing. Similar to investing, you have to be really creative in how you create deliberate practice in the surf world because the ocean is so unpredictable. It’s really difficult to replicate sections, to hit the same thing 10, 15, 20 times. In martial arts, you can just say, “I’m going to drill this thing 30 times today,” or 100 times or 200 times. Whether it’s a throw, or a technique, a submission. And then you can try that in training."
It seems to me as a web developer that our deliberate practice is the todo app, or whipping up a server, or integrating a new technology into a small project that can be completed in a day or 2, then repeating with nuance until it becomes automatic. The key seems to be to focus on a skill and then build, review, repeat - not many people learn to play a sport just by reading about it.
He goes on to make the point that he use procrastination as a filter for his writing - if he feels strong resistance to writing a certain section he leaves it out as a service to his readers - why should they read something that he himself didn't particularly want to write? Instead of fighting procrastination as though it is an illness, maybe we should learn to understand it's utility:
"Psychologists and economists who study ‘irrationality’ do not realize that humans may have an instinct to procrastinate only when no life is in danger. I do not procrastinate when I see a lion in my bedroom or fire in my neighbor’s library. I do not procrastinate after a severe injury. I do so with unnatural duties and procedures."
Human social groups have a purported manageable upper limit of around 150 people, so super mass networks like insta, facebook, twitter etc also get to 'broadcast' level interactions rather than intimate discussions - it seems as though private group chats are a way to have a digital campfire, with less pressure & more shared experience.
There's so much behind building a social network that it takes a perfect mix of luck, timing, skill & marketing. But they will continue to come, won't they.
* Just checked and apparently there's a WP integration with Evernote called 'CoSchedule' for publishing posts from notes.
It might be a better policy to show visitors the top e.g. 5 - 10 trending articles on readup to get them 1.) to get a taste of what's shared and 2.) see if that's any better / different to what they'd find on hacker news (which can be read freely).
Anyway, good luck!
I've found https://outline.com/ to be great for reading content on the net regardless of the original layout, as it basically extracts the text and places it in a centered page with really legible line-height, letter-spacing, font-size & family. Evernote used to have a similar extension but it was sunsetted a couple of years ago.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/02/black-... https://interestingengineering.com/will-we-actually-see-a-bl... http://www.newser.com/story/273418/no-ones-ever-seen-a-black... https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann19018/?lang https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Dr20f19czeE (live stream)
Could be an elaborate joke but from what I understand it is a set of images from the Event Horizon Telescope https://eventhorizontelescope.org/ capturing Sagittarius A (the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way)
I thought it was pretty well established already that there were both physical & behavioral 'adornments' that had no pragmatic use but signaled that the advertiser is so well-endowed they have energy to spare. And as far as beauty goes symmetry is hard to manufacture so also signals genetic fitness.
Lastly, don't mutations sometimes come along for the ride even if their benefit is negligible or even detrimental, as long as they don't tip the balance & prevent the genes being passed along?
Replicated twice running 64-bit on a windows machine.
Once the bugs are ironed out this could be really useful, good luck!
My Hacker News style is a user stylesheet "Hacker News Dark" and 1 line of additional CSS I added to reduce the lane width of the text:
.comment-tree { max-width: 600px; }
Of course you can go to town and add comic sans, etc.