I’ve been leaning into audiobooks for the past two years and it’s completely revitalized my intellectual life. I feel alive in ways I’d forgotten. And it extends beyond audiobooks too. I started carrying a paperback…
I got a lot of questions about the names of root level linux directories, which while good knowledge doesn't seem to fit under the title description.
There's a download button at the bottom of the player.
True, and penalizing misbehavior is a big part of the solution here, but it's also true that there are practical social limits on behavior (including competitive behavior), and these can wax and wane culturally, giving…
The standard scored against was mostly good, although his preferred column width was pretty arbitrary, and the best line-height can depend on the context of a piece of text and its use.
Plato's procedural/dialogical approach to learning is also vastly superior to the Kantian/illuminist 'one and done' understanding of proof and discovery. Kant was a funny sort of progressive, who also believed that his…
His Master's Voice is the most philosophically rigorous and profound piece of Sci-Fi I've read. Yes, it's hard to get through. It doesn't really have a plot. But wow, Lem really thought through the difficulties and…
What made me concerned was the discovery that, on an old iPad mini I rarely use (without touch id / face id), entering the standard four digit unlock code is enough to get access to the full list of logins/passwords…
Keychain doesn't prompt for your user password on iOS. Just your unlock code. That's what bothers me.
The most disturbing thing about iCloud Keychain is that you can get access to all of your stored passwords just by unlocking a device linked to your Apple ID. Not just the ability to log in with them, the actual…
I've often enjoyed smalin's visualizations, which I find a little easier to follow visually than andy filebrown's. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
It's a 2017 MBP with touchbar (and a Radeon GPU).
I came for the filesystem bugs, I stayed for the absurd root exploit, but its the little crashes, rendering glitches, and feeling of general instability that made me fall in love with High Sierra...
APFS. That's the big addition. I've had a few horrific problems with High Sierra, two of them leading me to do full disk wipes. My current problem is this odd occasional screen scrambling bug, that happens for a split…
Until this past summer I was doing all of my (design heavy) workload on a 2013 15-inch retina MBP, without any problems. I would still be using it, except that the display died on me and it made more sense to buy a new…
The bit about error reporting was the best part. > Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
I agree with this approach. My experience has been that having a primitive mental framework in place really helps with retention (and interest) when you're doing in-depth reading on a topic (which you probably are if…
I've been in a non-tech work environment (specifically, publishing) where management followed this philosophy. In that case it yielded a disgruntled workforce with terrible leadership who were variously ignored and…
It's really nice. It makes me think she would have been a great person to know and be around.
Right. While I actually believe society (and students) would benefit by converting a large fraction of our "liberal arts" colleges into more practical trade schools, your point stands—the problem with the "choose your…
Ugh, same here. That killed it for me.
I’ve been leaning into audiobooks for the past two years and it’s completely revitalized my intellectual life. I feel alive in ways I’d forgotten. And it extends beyond audiobooks too. I started carrying a paperback…
I got a lot of questions about the names of root level linux directories, which while good knowledge doesn't seem to fit under the title description.
There's a download button at the bottom of the player.
True, and penalizing misbehavior is a big part of the solution here, but it's also true that there are practical social limits on behavior (including competitive behavior), and these can wax and wane culturally, giving…
The standard scored against was mostly good, although his preferred column width was pretty arbitrary, and the best line-height can depend on the context of a piece of text and its use.
Plato's procedural/dialogical approach to learning is also vastly superior to the Kantian/illuminist 'one and done' understanding of proof and discovery. Kant was a funny sort of progressive, who also believed that his…
His Master's Voice is the most philosophically rigorous and profound piece of Sci-Fi I've read. Yes, it's hard to get through. It doesn't really have a plot. But wow, Lem really thought through the difficulties and…
What made me concerned was the discovery that, on an old iPad mini I rarely use (without touch id / face id), entering the standard four digit unlock code is enough to get access to the full list of logins/passwords…
Keychain doesn't prompt for your user password on iOS. Just your unlock code. That's what bothers me.
The most disturbing thing about iCloud Keychain is that you can get access to all of your stored passwords just by unlocking a device linked to your Apple ID. Not just the ability to log in with them, the actual…
I've often enjoyed smalin's visualizations, which I find a little easier to follow visually than andy filebrown's. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
It's a 2017 MBP with touchbar (and a Radeon GPU).
I came for the filesystem bugs, I stayed for the absurd root exploit, but its the little crashes, rendering glitches, and feeling of general instability that made me fall in love with High Sierra...
APFS. That's the big addition. I've had a few horrific problems with High Sierra, two of them leading me to do full disk wipes. My current problem is this odd occasional screen scrambling bug, that happens for a split…
Until this past summer I was doing all of my (design heavy) workload on a 2013 15-inch retina MBP, without any problems. I would still be using it, except that the display died on me and it made more sense to buy a new…
The bit about error reporting was the best part. > Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
I agree with this approach. My experience has been that having a primitive mental framework in place really helps with retention (and interest) when you're doing in-depth reading on a topic (which you probably are if…
I've been in a non-tech work environment (specifically, publishing) where management followed this philosophy. In that case it yielded a disgruntled workforce with terrible leadership who were variously ignored and…
It's really nice. It makes me think she would have been a great person to know and be around.
Right. While I actually believe society (and students) would benefit by converting a large fraction of our "liberal arts" colleges into more practical trade schools, your point stands—the problem with the "choose your…
Ugh, same here. That killed it for me.