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Yes, yes, you have a large vocabulary and a lawn to chase them kids off of, good on you. In the meanwhile, I hang out on Reddit, Thingiverse, a diversity of wikis, and learn lots of interesting and curious things from YouTube videos. The internet is, and has always been, what you make of it.

For bigger projects, yes. We were able to put all the bags of small projects into one box.

This bit is unfortunate, I hope it improves: "You might want to avoid io_uring [if] you want to use features with a good security track record."

At least he's clear about it.

Good system! Clear plastic boxes and labels are essential.

For projects in progress, I have started using ziplock bags that I label, so I don't have small collections of stuff constituting a project lying all over.

YES!!! You need auth to prevent employees from looking up sensitive user data without a good reason, or it'll be a stalker's haven. And to prevent possible intruders from gaining more data/access. Defense in depth. And for preventing an experiment from wiping use data. And for so many other reasons!

The "Flat is better than nested" ones, particularly the second there.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<breath>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

I was wondering wtf he was talking about. Why did they do that?!?

As an avid grepper, I disagree with most of these specific recommendations. Use a tool that actual understands references. Don't make the code harder to read for humans just to please grep.

As for identifiers, use 'foo.?bar' case-insensitively.

That can also work, unfortunately my most productive time tends to be at the end of the day. I find that what you start the day with sets the theme for the day.

The real question is why do toothbrushes need apps in the first place?

"Donates"? A code base is a maintenance burden.

A trick from my PhD days: start the day with one to two hours of concentrated work. Don't look at your email or news or anything until you've done that.

This worked fabulously for me because it allowed me to "swap in" my work enough that I could avoid distractions.

And yes, I have ADHD.

I disagree. Motivation will keep you reading the material, but that alone will not make you remember it that much better.

When you're motivated about something you can practice, you may remember more by doing it (which also acts a spaced repetition). But good luck trying that with, say, astrophysics or macroeconomics.

When motivated, you're also more likely to pick up other books on the subject, which is another form of spaced repetition.

Does this win the HN prize for Most Often Reposted Article? It's been posted on average twice a year for 17 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

This is a really nice idea! I played it a little bit and found one thing that can be confusing (at least for experienced Bash users): The use of <> as quotes. For instance:

   You can use the < head -n 1 > spell to take a peek at what a file holds

How about using a not-easily-typeable character pair like the guillemots?

There are pretty important reasons to have this distinction. You want to be able to reason about what code actually gets executed and where. Supply-chain attacks will only get easier if this line gets blurred, and build systems work better when the compile stage is well-defined.

I remember the bags. What I don't remember is hearing the sound of anyone using them, and I have crossed the Atlantic at least 50 times. And I would also say the flights have gotten quite a lot smoother since the DC-3 I flew on in the 70ies.

It differs from language to language. Java was designed for "write once, run anywhere" - which includes in the future. They have been very careful -- too careful, some would argue -- to keep backwards compatibility. Other languages don't care about that so much, preferring evolving rapidly. Unfortunately, it's not something you can predict. Also, compilers change, sometimes introducing bugs of their own, sometimes fixing bugs that the software relied on. A program doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Too bad the next person doing your job will probably be you.

"It is a unique ability that we have as humans, which no other animal shares."

Dogs at least can learn that, too. Probably also cats. Using buttons to express themselves has proven that. Hell, even our dog, who never figured out the buttons, understood that "bed" meant "soft thing next to human's bed", not "the particular bed I usually sleep in".

Humans are merely a lot better at communicating this, having a more complex speech apparatus.

Language's roots are in survival, as in being able to talk to others of your tribe. I'm sure manipulation has always been part of language, but it's a tool for communication foremost. "Og, watch out for that sabretooth tiger!" is hardly manipulation.

I feel sorry for you that you consider manipulation to be so central.

The early versions (before it was called Starlark) was indeed just run with a Python interpreter. But in order to have a deterministic and reproducible build, they needed to put some limits on what you can do, and especially what you can accidentally do. Starlark's raison d'etre is to allow a build graph that you can reason about and have a shared cache for.

I (Bazel SWE at Google) agree with the too much flexibility being a problem. It's difficult for tools to work on complex Starlark code, so we encourage more copy and paste especially in BUILD files. But I don't think Blaze could have scaled to Google's needs without some amount of programmability. It's not just that it "looks tighter with a macro", when you have a rule that gets used to create millions of targets, you can't just copy and paste. You need to be able to systematically change it.

I always have the title and my name and organisation on the first slide, which is just shown while everybody comes in. That lets everyone know if they're in the right place.

Friends of mine lived for a while in Rennes in one of the only buildings to survive a fire in the 18th century. It was from 15-something and had nary a right angle to it. A bit scary to go up the stairs, but quite cool.

I very much agree that the moon is a better target. Being able to send help in a few days instead of months is a big deal.

What I believe the moon is especially good for is as a launch pad for further exploration. Build mostly-automated factories in low but non-zero gravity and launch with a much smaller escape velocity. Lots of raw materials right there, easy energy from the sun (with solar panels in space for the night).

Unfortunately, the moon is "old hat" now that we've walked on it, and people want exciting new goals, not just a space factory.

Have done regular exercise to improve my Long COVID state for 6 months now. It has helped, but it has its limits too. If I overdo it, I get worse, but I can't always tell until later. And other health issues are limiting what forms of exercise I can do.

Hard problems rarely have one simple solution, or they wouldn't be hard, would they?

Me too! This small study suggests so: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00598585

Cognitive Long COVID sufferer here. All the of those help indeed, but why not this, too? With a shot.