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Looks like an interesting project!

However: when I clicked for the “simple explanation”[1] as a starting point, I found a site that is almost impossible to use on mobile.

1. https://www.lisandrokaunitz.com/index.php/en/beat-the-bookie...

I’m also curious whether this is legal in the Netherlands. Certainly strange that it’s encouraging me to check on my neighbors to see what they’ve downloaded.

I don’t think Lucian has needed to moderate yet, it’s been a small and positive community afaik.

I’m building a platform to host my book club online due to covid, and I think that I can generalize my solution to reinvent MOOC’s and possibly further areas of communication.

Thanks very much for submitting this and to the commenters offering advice. I’m also trying to come back after a gap and finding it very discouraging. The positive comments here are really helpful to change my mindset and get back a positive energy to discuss the meaningful things that I’ve done, even if they weren’t paid full-time jobs.

[sorry for the dupe - got a 500 error and didn’t check /new]

Thank you for sharing this.

I had a vague recollection of some controversy about the author, and ended up finding this piece: https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/chris_arnade_journalism_phot...

> Arnade’s work has raised the ire of a variety of people: photographers, journalists, advocates and community members. People have called his work exploitative, and much worse. Arnade tends to photograph mostly women; he has photographed them when they’re high and given them money they’ve used to buy drugs. He claims he’s built a relationship of trust with them. Critics, including some prominent photojournalists, say he exploits that trust to distribute photos of his subjects at their most vulnerable to a fan base of online lurkers.

Funny, I just took the night jet to get to my Christmas destination. We decided that the hassle of getting a toddler on a plane was much more work, and even driving requires frequent breaks. The train was pleasant, although the quality of sleep is like camping.

> I don’t remember the last time I was sold something I didn’t want from it

That’s kind of the point of this type of misdirection: they use less than honest tactics to make you feel good about your choice. You’ll never know what alternatives you may have otherwise chosen and how happy you would have been.

If I could broaden the question - what have you found useful of the well-known data structures that a self-taught dev may not be fully aware of?

I experienced an extremely simple (and IMO effective) version of this.

For a dba-adjacent job, I sat down with a dba and was shown how to connect to a sql server instance and change some particular setting. At the end of our hour of discussing other technical matters and my resume, he asked me to demonstrate recall of this simple command.

I agree with these, although I do still struggle implementing them.

I haven't, and can't say for certain whether or not I've come across it yet.

Downloading the audiobook as I type this.

The great thing about books is that they not only provide knowledge, but can provide some course of action.

The book is both - an intro of "look how awesome you can be without the tech", a detox plan, and a plan to deliberately reintroduce helpful technology.

I am as guilty as anyone in that I have partly read the book, implemented a few of the suggestions, but haven't fully embraced. I think the holidays will be a great time to finish reading it and start my 30 day declutter.

Depending on your current habits, starting with Digital Minimalism will help get through the others in one year.

This looks great! I'm looking forward to going through it to look for next steps for some Twitter scraping I've been doing.

If the author happens to see this, one tiny feedback: it would be very helpful to add the chapter titles to the sidebar links for easier reference.

Can anyone vouch for the stats books? I took stats in undergrad but I do need a refresher if I want to do any real data science.

15 books is a big commitment, but I’ve really been enjoying Fluent Python as I’m trying to go from beginner to intermediate knowledge.

I’d love to hear your opinion on Three Body Problem.

A criminal is a person who has been convicted of a crime, not a cartoon “bad guy” who demonstrates his criminal tendencies on social media.

I don’t think it’s rational to compare to overall highway vehicle fires. Wouldn’t you want to compare against similar luxury vehicles of a similar age?

Patrick (Patio11) wrote (still writes occasionally) extensively about his experience running his business from Japan.

To be fair to Atwood, there was a lot of junk sci fi over the years that she would want to distance her work from.

Yes that’s the book, although I got it very cheap through the Humble Python bundle which I think recurs periodically.

This is definitely on my list.

I think that Bloomberg is a better url. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-04/lone-bitc...

What’s the best explanation as to why Apple is not supporting Nvidia GPUs?

I never felt the impetus to switch back. A few years ago I used Chrome for performance, add-ons, and syncing, then I moved to OSX and use primarily Safari. When I tried firefox here the performance seemed poor so I didn't try it for long.

There are plenty of problems that aren't solved, I'd be interested if you would like to point out some?

Our kraamzorg experience is one of the reasons I will likely never return to the US from Holland. The amount of care that society here puts into practically solving problems, while maybe not sufficient for every societal ill, is incredible here.