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This book is a gem for all writers, fiction, papers, etc.

So many advice.

I like the one: write from start to finish then let it rest for 6 weeks and edit out 10% of everything you wrote.

Classic book. Read it twice already.

Start doing the projects by Rex Krueger (YT), then some of foundations by Paul Sellers (blogs, YT), I'll leave here some manual woodworkers for your delight: - James Wright, Wood by Wright

- Mike Siemsen

- Rob Cosman

- Frank Klausz

- Shawn L. Graham, Worth The Effort

- Roy Underhill

- Joshua Farnsworth, Wood and Shop

- James Hamilton, aka Stumpy Nubs

- Matthew Cremona

- Jay Bates

- Shannon Rogers

- Simon James

I'm not a lawyer, but I guess a committee (don't ask me who or how many) should evaluate the 'justifiability' of a crime: Let's suppose:

- random kill, no reason at all, psycopathy: 20 years in jail

- justified kill: 5 to 20 years in jail

I remember the dad that killed the Karate's instructor of his son, who was raping him during 'classes'. The dad killed the guy. For many people, it was a kill and he should be in jail. However, put yourself in his shoes, wouldn't you do the same (or near the same)?

In this case, you couldn't say: "oh, that's ok, just go home, we'll sort things out", because a crime was committed.

Maybe, and I'm being extremely naïve here, maybe, that could act as a deterrent when people are thinking on committing unjustified violence against others.

Again, I don't know nothing, I'm no lawyer.

There is also a considerable body of work on so called Software Rejuvenation, to mitigate software aging phenomena, lead by Prof Kishor Trivedi, from Duke U

Interesting report on Computer Science history and (now) famous researchers such as Dijkstra, Hoare, and so on. Compiled by the distinguished professor Brian Randell.

> My boss did his PhD at Stanford. The story goes that one day he walked straight into Knuth's office, while he had the door open. Knuth says "Oh dear, I seem to have made a mistake. Could you close the door please?". Boss closes the door. Knuth says "No, from the other side". Source: reddit

Which client does he use?

My kid would just turn off the extension and keep his business going... :'(

Couldn't you create a microcommunity in WhatsApp?

It's called "infrastructure" in Brazil. I read 30y deforestation effort. (I'm Brazilian, and quite ashamed right now)

Why? There's a lot of synchronising apps saving your bookmarks already - this wagon has passed...

> with only about 10% gaining faculty positions themselves after many years of postdoctoral training

There are no (steady) places for everyone, sadly. That's the way things are, where they demand postdocs to be extra productive, promising a permanent position somewhere (or a letter of recommendation, whatever).

Currently, the postdoc 'experience' has multiple names: research associate, research fellow, research engineer like it is a 'career' to pursue, with minimal benefits, salary attached to research projects (so it could stop at the end), etc.

Unfortunately, the actual answer is "there is not enough information on the question to provide a response". It's an exercise as to the limits of problem formulation, from what I understood.

"If a ship has 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?"

oh boy

Pull/Push is a nightmare for Portuguese (Portugal,Brazil) because 'puxar' (read push-ah-r) means pull................

That's interesting. I saw once Timothy Feriss interviewing Neil Gaiman, and it was about focus and whatnot, and Gaiman said: "whenever I'm blocked, I stop, and start doing nothing. I can't watch a movie, read a book, I do nothing. I have only two options: I work or I do nothing - I cannot do anything else. After a little while, things get really boring, and I think 'might as well go back to work' - and that works as a charm.".

I guess that's a very good way of setting your focus straight, to obey your commands, instead of the other way around.

Paul Sellers dimensioned his filming studio to mimic a small garage for a common UK woodworker.

I saw someone commenting on YouTube that there is a lot of people from software looking into woodworking.

I guess it calms you down after a stressful day.

Nothing relax you more than hand planning a crooked board and making a simple dovetailed box.

Several resources for manual woodworking, now, if you're thinking about power tool woodworking, then, I agree, you'll have to spend money... there's no way around it, at least not with nice and quality tools.

Now, if you want to venture on manual woodworking, several resources from the following masters:

- James Krenov (in memoriam)

- Paul Sellers, a Lifestyle Woodwoker

- James Wright, Wood by Wright

- Mike Siemsen

- Rob Cosman

- Frank Klausz

- Shawn L. Graham, Worth The Effort

- Roy Underhill

- Joshua Farnsworth, Wood and Shop

- James Hamilton, aka Stumpy Nubs

- Matthew Cremona

- Jay Bates

- Shannon Rogers

- Simon James

- Rex Krueger

I know! That's exactly my point! I didn't like it when it landed somewhere in my drive. I'm not saying proprietary is good, I'm saying it's better (these days), despite this little things that they do for high-level users. In a nutshell: they don't know who their users are: beginners, intermediate, advanced. They have to appease a lot of users, so they do these things and usually get away scot free.

Proprietary sw: easy to use/maintain, fun, works most of the time, professional developers behind it, profit.

Open source sw these days: several versions, constant tweaking, works so-so (depends on the software), semi-professional developers working on it (I am not saying they're not good) or amateurs (with amateur designs), not for profit, of course. EDIT: remove double 'multiple versions'.

It's kinda relevant: I imagine sending kids an assignment 3 years old and make them run with current software versions... A lot of them would be disgusted by this back-and-forth installing, tweaking, re-installing, virtual envs, all of that, and will only uses windows let's say, which hides almost everything from the user these days. I typed "python" on windows the other day and it open the MS-Store, asked me to install Python3.8.3. I said OK. Then: where did it put it? The folder is like a crazy sequence of numbers somewhere in the structure. Is this right? For users, maybe, for developers, a nightmare.

I will probably get downvoted a lot, and this is more or less pertinent to this, so here's a rant: I am quite sick to make software work these days: someone coded something using Python3.6 and numpy1.18.5 then three years pass. Now, it's Python3.8.9 and the software is incompatible with it, so now I have to download Python3.6.5 (not Python 3.6.1) e try to make things work. But then TLS/SSL was discontinued and I'm getting weird messages. Download the source files, ./configure, make, make install multiple times adding different parameters, add new repositories to apt, try to download the right packages, end up installing the latest Python3.8.9, and other things I don't want. And the software still not works.

Oh boy. Something is got to change in making software.

So far, goodbye:

pinterest.com

forbes.com

amazon.co.uk

amazon.com

pinterest.co.uk

ebay.com.au

ebay.ca

pinterest.at

ebay.fr

pickclick.co.uk

pickclick.fr

etsy.com

Steps:

1. remove your Picasa pictures at picasa.google.com

2. since the GDrive search will not help you searching for file sizes, you'll need to install a third-party tool, I suggest WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net/)

2.1. discover the files in GDrive folder with the most size and delete the ones you'll never actually going to need (be truthful to yourself here - if you never open a 1GB in the past 5 years, why do you think you'll open it in the next 5 years?

3. Empty trash on GDrive online web application

4. search in GMail for messages larger than 1MB: "larger:1m" and delete the ones you think don't deserve staying in your folder

5. Go to GMail's trash bin and exclude them as well

6. Remove Google Chrome and install another browser, Firefox for instance, with all the needed plugins (uBlock, privacy stuff, etc)

7. Throw your Google Nest in a drawer away from you (now you won't be continuously surveilled)

8. End your Google Play subscriptions (specially GDrive)

9. Throw away your Android phone or wrap it with aluminium foil

10. Use DuckDuckGo as your main search engine (or any other web search you feel like it)

(oh, I just saw how dependent I WAS on Google!)

> Firefox is Google

Then we're doomed...

This year, my resolution was to start reducing my dependency on Google products. I installed Firefox and deleted Chrome. Then I downloaded a file size manager and remove all files I haven't open in past 5 years, deleting from GDrive. THe same with GDocs. All emails larger than 1Mb were checked if they needed to persist. I end up unsubscribing from the 100Gb service from Google, my inbox has 6Gb, I deleted the Picasa stuff (I was not using), and the GDrive was reduced to 3Gb (the limit is 15Gb altogether). I am quite happy with this. PS: I started considering doing this, despite being a Gmail user since 2006 because of their removal of clause "stop being evil" and the huge amount of tracking being done in Chrome, which frankly, annoyed me very much.

I understand you. All the long ours in preparation, planning, interacting, evaluating, and for me, the compensation for all that was quite ridiculous to tell you the truth. Students only interested in the course's diploma, asking questions like 'why am I seeing this?', 'how to apply this in the real world', 'give me a practical example in your practice' (knowing that I was only a lecturer, not a practitioner in the field, the list goes on and on. I don't miss being on classes - what I miss is interacting with good smart students, to tell you the truth. They were the ones I target my efforts. Your reason may be other, mine was this.

Have you read the article in its entirety? It takes them the full text to convey the major idea.

Have you read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman? They gave him a Nobel for tackling decision problems. I guess that's one important problem to humanity in general.