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I can vouch for this having recently suffered from Kidney stone and the "treatment".

Sometimes I wish we only had one version of the web. I know I may be luddite when it comes to web browsing but I love web browsing on the desktop. Progressive web app have made more optimization of ads than content. By trying to optimize it for the mobile web they have made it into "baby internet" (I heard it first when Steve Jobs introduced iPhone). I miss how he was able to zoom on the New York Times website without optimized website for mobile.

I scored 8 out of 10! Was fun

Are you looking for open source only option? If not and willing to pay then JMP is probably the best. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMP_(statistical_software)

Orange is another one which is based on Python instead of R and free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(software)

Personally, I find it best to use R with VS code for all my statistical need.

Reminds me of mg editor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(text_editor) It is a very small subset of EMacs and barely any features compare to micro.

Recently read this book: "The 5 elements of the Effective Thinking" by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird. It was published in year 2012 so not very "modern".

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691156668/th...

Overall very short book and kind of repeats but is very clearly written. Leans towards academic thinking but I think it is pretty good. 5 elements refers to earth, fire, air, water, and the 5th element is the one which will hopefully "change" your thinking.

Nice to see software for such usage. Also reminds me to use this Visidata which is not GUI like modernCSV but TUI https://www.visidata.org

Used to like notebooks but it becomes messy if not checked. I think they are good for some use cases such as short analysis. Switched back to file and folder organization along with Make file. Tedious yes but prevents me from messing my analysis from ad-hoc variables or calculation. Having said that, notebooks are good way to experiment.

I will admit that I use it rarely. However, many of my friends use it often to read books as compare to something like Kindle. I am more of iOS (20%) and MacOS (80%) person so not much use in my day to day screen use.

I saw this video few days ago which describes some of the alternative to Git and of course Fossil is one of them. I have used Fossil in some projects and found to be ok. I found Pijul https://pijul.org/ described in this talk to be very interesting. It was discussed on HN before. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KktA_jbOE

I tried Acme a while ago but gave up. I remember using a MacOS app that simulated middle click.

Not much to show but some of the posts can be found at mostly related to programming and other tid bits for data analysis. https://www.ashish.zip https://123ash.wordpress.com/

Always nice to see accessibility features. I would love to see a way to share settings. There are so many hidden features and iOS settings is getting crowded and is very difficult to use. A "simplified" mode where only few selected apps are available like they have shown in the press release would be nice even for not so challenged people.

Their Freeform app is nowhere near good as Notability or OneNote. I doubt this journaling app will be too bad for other developers. May be it will create more interest in that category.

I just use Flickr for keeping images that can be shared within close friends/family. Very old school but I love the annotation/note aspect of the Flickr. May be not very secure but good enough for my purposes.

Usually R tidyverse with GGplot2 does it for me. You could create shiny app and explore with "No code".

I would say wait for sometime to get it better. May be the cost per user will come down as it gets more "efficient".

I use TimeSnapper for taking screenshot of the active screen area every 5 seconds. It has helped me on some occasions for notes that I missed during the online meeting.

May be brain in the sleep state is more similar to the sleep state in the past as compare to the awake state.

I would also consider Dell Precision laptops.

Did not read that many books this year but this two books makes my list:

1)The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Tasting_Tea This book is about the history of Statistics which is weaved through the some remarkable personal stories behind the history of Statistics. If you have ever used statistics, some of the words will sound familiar and will help to understand the history behind it.

2)The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Song-of-the-Cell/... I am still reading this book but I have read his previous book, "The Emperor of All Maladies" so knew his style. Again I enjoy historical perspective and this one tells about how we thought of the cell. It almost reads like textbook but is much interesting read than textbook. Brought some of the memories from my cell biology class. Always fascinating on how we take some things for granted such as blood transfusion came along in first place. He also narrates some his personal experience in between to make it even more readable.

In short, I love tech and biology sparkled with history.

Automation always reminds of this quote from Jurassic Park:

" John Hammond: You're right. You're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation. I can see that now. Now, the next time, everything is correctible... "

Another vote for FT (Financial Times). It has good insights not just on economics and politics but also has decent coverage of topics on AI, Travel, and Science.

One of the "fast" slim note taking software. Love the modeless operations. https://notational.net/ Still works on MacOS 12.6

Have used Rstudio IDE extensively for past 3 years but recently switched to VScode.

VScode feels more refreshing as compared to RStudio. I love the extensions within VScode that allows it more flexibility as compared to RStudio. Also ability to view hex code as colors in the editor itself. Plus the ability to sync settings using GitHub is so convenient when using multiple computers. On the flip side, Rstudio is more convenient for beginners and being very R focused helps to focus on the "Statistics and data munging".

As for the Rstudio as a company, they have supported Python in the past but with the Quarto they went to extend beyond that. I feel Quarto is still work in progress and has more ambitious outlook as compared to RMarkdown. RStudio cloud is a good option when one have to use specific version of R and alleviates the "Reproducibility" issue to some extent. Especially, when someone does not want to deal with Docker or similar platform. I think RStudio cloud is one of my favorite offering from the company.

From 2010 but very well written.

There will be times when it all feels mundane but just hang on. You have so much time ahead of you. Everyone will have their challenges in their own way.

Visidata - Helpful to view excel/delimited text file to glance the data on TUI

Vscode - I was very skeptical of this text editor but it won me over. There are some rough edges but overall very good.

MacOS - Overall a stable operating system.

R Programming Language - Has flaws but works generally good to explore and clean data. Special thanks to Ggplot2 to make it bearable to make plots.

Folder Peek - Allowing me to switch different projects/folder from Menu bar.

It would be nice to get email of random paragraphs from the ebooks you own. This can be a good reminder of what we don't know or were interested at one point.

Very similar to the core concept of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow