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Occasionally I ask stupid questions (it’s a feature, not a bug).
The funny thing about the point about similarity between Russian and Ukrainian languages is that linguists will tell you that Ukrainian has more similarities (shared words, and syntactic constructs) with Polish and Belarussian than with Russian.
Your version wins :-) Thanks for the chuckle!
No, EndeavourOS is a nice, easy installer for Arch. You use Calamares and either select packages, or groups of packages in GUI, or/and provide a list of packages in a text file for Calamares to pick up during the install. You can even ignore Calamares altogether and just use Live OS to install Arch kind of the usual way, but from a comfort of a graphical environment; i.e., multiple pseudo TTYs, no need to configure WiFi, with a full-fledged GUI browser (Firefox), etc.
Manjaro Live OS can't be used to install vanilla Arch. Manjaro uses its own package repositories that differ significantly from the Arch repos, in terms of versions (which are held back for at least a couple of weeks) and in terms of which packages are available (quite a few AUR packages are present in the Manjaro's repositories).
They are not so much pro-Biden as anti-Trump.
Well, maybe try org-drill: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
The repository: https://gitlab.com/phillord/org-drill/
Memories are very personal; something that works for you won't work for your friend, even if you're learning the same thing in a class.
bash/emacs+orgmode/emacs+tramp/emacs+? You wanted to say "Magit" in the last one :-)
Why do you say you're limited to text-only things? Org supports links, images, code blocks, spreadsheet-like tables and such. For me the experience of migrating to Emacs+Org was more of a liberating type.
Oh, and you if you need a little more persuading or motivation you might want to check up on books by Sam Harris [1] and Michael A. Singer [2]. The first one is also a neuroscientist and a famous sceptic, and the second is a former programmer and a successful businessman. Personally, when I was in a similar place as you are now, I found that simply reading Singer’s book was a form of therapy.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religi... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourse...
Several people in the thread have already recommended meditation. I’m going to join them.
If you’re already doing therapy, consider complementing it with meditation. Meditation, if done right, can be equivalent to years of therapy.
The benefits are great, and for your situation the most relevant are reduced/eliminated anxiety, more willpower, energy, clarity (to see through depression for example); but there many others.
However, there’s a catch: meditation is hard. It requires consistent effort and dedication, just like any practice involving a complex skill (e.g., going to the gym or swimming pool).
For a completely secular practice, I’d recommend “The Mind Illuminated” by John Yates [1], a neuroscientist and a master meditator, whose aim with the book was to create a modern manual for meditation by making old Buddhist teachings accessible to an average westerner. The book is a synthesis of those teachings complemented with both his experience as a master meditator /and/ as a neuroscience Ph.D. This means that along with detailed instructions on how to actually meditate the book contains theoretic chapters explaining in popular scientific terms how your brain works and what meditation has to do with it, by first introducing a simple model, and then gradually building upon it as you progress through the book and develop your skill.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Illuminated-Meditation-Integrati...
You might find Wim Hof method useful then. https://www.wimhofmethod.com/
If you don't care for maximum POSIX compatibility, i.e. your script is bash-specific, it's better to use "hash", which is going to ignore aliases (but not functions) and also has the benefit of caching the command for further use.
hash foo &>/dev/null || { echo "foo command not found blabla..." >&2; exit 1; }
This post is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874718
It has been already mentioned in comments, Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book is the book for you. It treats reading as learning and the authors’ goal is to teach you how to read expository works with the aim of understanding by actively /and/ skillfully engaging with the material.
You’ll learn how to discover, interpret and judge books, and how to not waste time on poorly written books or those that don’t contain much substance. The core of the book is part 2: the rules of analytical reading, which are general rules applicable to expository works. Part 3 then discusses their modifications for particular types of literature: practical books, history, philosophy, science, social science, fiction.
Highly recommend it. You don’t want to miss it if you’re serious about reading, that is thinking, growing, educating and enriching yourself.
Consider pre-reading it first. If a book is hard, if it’s over you head, try going through the whole book w/o stopping on things you don’t understand (don’t fixate). In this way you’ll grasp the major points, ideas and themes. Only then read it carefully — you’ll understand better and get more out of the book.
It’s similar to progressive JPEG rendering. Your first pass is pre-processing resulting in fuzzy understanding of the whole that you then refine in the subsequent pass(es). Progressive way is more natural and effective.
I highly recommend reading Adler’s “How to Read a Book” [1]. This exactly the guide you want to read if you want to know how to learn well from books.
1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...
"Not to think about it" on conscious level. The point is to let your subconscious process the information instead.
Relevant article: How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear [1] and HN discussion [2].
[1] https://www.senteltechsecurity.com/blog/post/how-to-find-hid... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926264
Have you tried Syncthing? [1] An open source alternative to Dropbox.
Yep, it's great unless the uphill is actually on the way to the job, then it becomes not so great :-)
So, extending your thought about common thread, one needs to develop self-awareness. Hacks won't help much with this. But there is a systematic way of cultivating it, called meditation.
How do you actually read math, physics and programming books? Reading them the same way as you'd read a novel doesn't seem right.
Indeed it doesn’t.
As the author of the book in this post points out on his blog [1] in math you focus on learning the syntax first, just like in programming.
Off the top of my head I can recommend pre-reading a chapter before reading it: go through theorems, bold/italic text, graphs, tables, conclusions, exercises. Also, try proving theorems yourself before reading proofs in a textbook.
My general advice for you is to check out a book “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. It’s a great manual for reading, which contains both general advice (in the form of 15 rules) applied to any reading material, and specific advices for math, philosophy, history, social science, etc.
I try to go chapter after chapter and make notes
Notes are good, but only if they “active” notes. If you are able to formulate something in your own words it means you’ve done the work towards understanding, if you’re only able to express a thing in author’s words — you have not, and if you leave it at that the chances are you’ve wasted your time.
In math you also have to do problems. Your ability to solve problems w/o the help of the textbook is the ultimate test of whether you’ve learned what you’ve read.
Interleave: in your practice session work simultaneously on problems from different (usually sequential) chapters. IOW: don’t practice one topic during several study sessions until you’ve exhausted all exercises for that topic in a book — go read the next chapter (or chapters), and include its exerices in your next practice.
Interleaving is harder, but more efficient. The reasons being that (1) our brain is bi-modal processing system, it needs time to process things both consciously and unconsciously, it does the latter while your attention is busy with other things; (2) it also needs time to consolidate memories, grow and strengthen new synaptic connections (which it primarily does in sleep) — so spreading a topic/exercises over time is generally a good idea.
but I often get bored because I don't see the usage in my real life coding Also after few chapters it often turns into a "job" of finishing the book. I don't have the pleasure of learning new stuff anymore.
This is about psychology of study.
Don’t turn it into a job, it’s not a competition, there are no bosses, no deadlines. Don’t push too hard, allow yourself time to integrate new knowledge by keeping yourself busy with other things and studying several subjects/books simultaneously — when you are tired of one thing, switch to another. It’s more efficient way of learning (as explained above), despite increase in absolute time for mastering a single subject.
And work on your motivation. You can start by read what Paul Graham has to say on why study math [2]. Remember, math is hard; our brains are not wired for it.
[1] http://jeremykun.com/2013/02/08/why-there-is-no-hitchhikers-...
how emphasized the bullet lists need to be
Exactly. For me, the indented list emphasizes the distinct structural entity, contrasting it against the bulk of the text. This makes lists easier to recognize (especially the short ones in narrow columns, like in your example) while previewing and skimming the reading material. You mention pattern recognition at the start of the article, and this is exactly the thing that makes pattern recognition easier, for me at least. And I would prefer “practically useful” over “typographically correct” every time :-).
I use z [1], it builds up a list of folders you visit based on frequency and lets you quickly jump into them by fuzzy-searching it. Z also has tab completion allowing you to cycle through the matches. See project's home for examples of its work at the link below.
Many thanks for sharing this. One usability nitpick though: please consider fixing links so that they could be opened in new tabs/windows.
“Mad” is a relative term. Is it sane to obsess over constantly staying productive? Is it normal to feel guilt when doing some silly, pointless things that bring you joy? In my vocabulary, “mad” are people who take life too seriously.
Earplugs is the way to go. Get good foam earplugs, I use these [1]. If you experience discomfort or even pain during the night maybe you are shoving them too deep into the ear canal.
[1] http://www.britishsnoring.co.uk/shop/snore_calm_foam_ear_plu...
Also next chapter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455681
560 milliseconds, 48-year-old... really? Care for a friendly match of Quake Live? :-)
update: when you actually know what will happen it skews in other direction. I got 312 ms (20-year-old) after several tries.
The title implies that there is the other, “unreal” problem. What is it?
Some people continue to write JavaScript in such a way: https://github.com/greensock/GreenSock-JS/blob/1.18.0/src/un...
You are taking the article too seriously. The guy googled a bit, came up with some half-digested ideas and burped them with a clickbait title. Here’s a recent overview of Ukrainian IT market on the largest Ukrainian IT community hub. Look at the last two pictures. http://dou.ua/lenta/columns/jobs-and-trends-2015/