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insights from the Nix thesis in short form

I collect interesting problems and learn the math that can solve them. I do best by directly connecting fun and learning.

I'd suggest looking up succinct data structures, cache oblivious data structures, and probabilistic data structures.

Get the book! It's packed with great content.

Also bonus feature is the LEDs that light up for the same command in the same directory are also the same LEDs.

That means I can tell exactly which processes are in which status.

Yes, that's exactly what it does!

I'd worry about ransomware, but otherwise this is a great idea.

I use a board with 32 RGB LEDs to show process status: https://github.com/shapr/bloohm

If you ever have multiple hour long builds and/or test suites running, this is is a big help.

Because we haven't taught them yet.

Allocate time to teach others around you.

I certainly do care about old books, but copyright prevents me from easily getting a copy of the things I want to read.

I bought the cheapest steam deck and a 512GB SD card.

Turns out I use my steam deck for watching movies and as a portable linux handheld. I do play some games, but it's such a great form factor for a small beefy, uh, pocketop?

What's smaller than a laptop, larger than a handheld? Is that a pocket-top?

This is why you need more mass transit where you live.

This tool saved me weeks of work once. You gotta try it.

I like buying physical discs and then bringing the media I'm bored of watching to a friend swap. I get rid of movies/music I won't watch again soon, and I get movies/music I want to try!

You can't get funding for studies that disagree with existing research.

The BBC SFX collection is larger, and freely available for download

I thought this was visualizing people getting fired, oops.

Any recommended music subreddits? I'm especially interested in finding links to good stuff on bandcamp.

I find new music I love on bandcamp, perhaps that's outside the data used for this analysis?

Anyway, I spend thousands of dollars on amazing music on bandcamp, and the artists get a higher percentage from bandcamp than a studio, so I'm making the best choice for me and the future of my music.

I pick small projects I can do in a day, and sometimes come back and improve those projects. I have to do fun things in small chunks that can be completed in just a few hours or I get distracted. I have learned that I can build momentum that way! The more I get done in a project, the more I'm able to do later in that project. Perhaps that would work for you too?

at least `ls` works!

Misinformation is free, real research is expensive, even if funded by your tax dollars.

Not all the medications are amphetamines. The most popular medication, Ritalin, is not an amphetamine.

Even the ADHD prescribed amphetamine medication is dextroamphetamine, not the scary methamphetamine.

There are also several medications that are not stimulants. While I do believe that children should be prescribed the minimum medications during their formative years, I've talked to several teachers whose students now have a prescription because the children were doing school at home and finally followed the teacher's recommendation.

Don't be too broad, hiring managers won't know what to do with you. I have too many differing specialisations and interviews start with "what would you say you actually do?" People want to know which box you fit into.

There's a lobbying group in DC specific to ice cream flavors! They also do the real milk slogan.

One of my favorites is https://bluebird.sh/ check out all that amazing command line software! a drawing program, a multiplayer crossword solver, and the amazing visidata program (my visidata review is https://recurse.social/@shapr/105984740425426440 )

I'm a fan, this is really cool!

I expected to see IRC communities as well.

Is there a collection of communities that aren't hosted by corporations?

I never wrote part 2 of this blog post, but there's a $300 open source hearing aid that can do way more than most hearing aids: https://shapr.github.io/posts/2019-08-03-tympan.html

Here's the organization building this thing: https://shop.tympan.org/

I'm kinda excited about the four microphone board, where you can subtract the ambient noise behind the listener from the noise in the direction they're facing.

I have a friend who is the perfect candidate for a cochlear implant, but refuses to have closed source inside his head.

He does not wish to have his body hostage to any company, and I can understand that.