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  1. Mar 2023
    1. the same physical register

      What is the physical instantiation of a register?

  2. Oct 2022
    1. When someone asked Agesilaus how far the bounds of Sparta extended, he responded showing his spear, "As far as this can reach."

      This is why the US has an aircraft carrier off the coast of Iran.

    1. Since you want others to be able to download and run your code without problems, you need to ensure repeatable builds. That’s what freezing is for. It outputs roughly the same set of dependencies with their sub-dependencies in a special format:

      freeze makes the requirements.txt like a package.json.

    1. Finally, note a relationship is defined, using ForeignKey. That tells Django each Choice is related to a single Question. Django supports all the common database relationships: many-to-one, many-to-many, and one-to-one.

      Study this more

    1. KENT Royal Lear, Whom I have ever honour'd as my king, Loved as my father, as my master follow'd, As my great patron thought on in my prayers,-- KING LEAR The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.

      You see this all the time. People complimenting to prepare for their criticism.

  3. Jul 2022
    1. But later, when he asks me to go back to his place, this nice guy, this good friend who is not an asshole, who cares about me, and I say I’m sorry, I just don’t see you that way—then I think maybe he understands Venn diagrams fine.

      Big yike

    2. “Well, that must be my problem,” I say. “I walk to work.” 

      This made me laugh out loud

  4. Jun 2022
    1. The impulse to list is allied with collection, a desire to record, to archive, to remember, to preserve experience and the aesthetic feeling of films one might not otherwise recall.

      Funny—this is sort of what I'm doing by making these highlights and annotations.

    2. very list is by necessity impossible, and must remain unwritten, a private reckoning.

      Why impossible?

  5. Dec 2021
    1. Not pain, exactly. Recognition; awakening, even. There were places in me no one had touched.

      This rides the line between beauty and suffering, combining medical vivisection with spiritual discovery. Love this so much. There's an eerie intimacy to procedures like this.

    1. Montaigne described this as part of his motivation for writing, and I relate

      Yes, always glad to see my favorite 16th century French essayist get a shoutout.

  6. May 2020
    1. George Washington, Walt Whitman, Frederick the Great, Eugène Delacroix, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Jefferson, Matthew Arnold, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Roosevelt, William Alexander Percy, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

      I'm glad to see my main man Emerson gets a mention, though I'm surprised this list is missing Montaigne. There are also several more modern US military men who drew valuable knowledge from the stoics. Mattis, I believe, is one of them.

    1. "serious" literature

      Glad to see that she also takes this idea with a grain of salt.

    1. For as science fiction writer William Gibsonacutely observes, the future does not arrive all at onceeverywhere

      He also added that the future is already here, but only for a small number of us.

    1. note by selecting some text and clicking

      First annotation