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by D13Fd 4y ago
If only you could, with Word docs. Sadly you can't in any meaningful way.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
So you can save something like $10 of gas per day off sitting in the sun? Sounds pretty good for the intended use. That giant battery could potentially power your climate control and appliances etc when off grid. And if you run down the bat
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Sounds like the Unreal engine is living the Quake engine film dream: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/solutions/film-television Of course, it’s professionals using it rather than amateurs. I expect generative AI
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It depends if you are willing to lie about it. I won't lie. But the huge, unavoidable disruption that comes from a positive test result certainly doesn't encourage frequent at-home testing. I think at this point most daycare paren
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I agree, and it irks me. When there is clear online source material, like in an article about a court case or viral video, the newspaper should link that material. I think many of these outlets must have a no-external-linking policy. But it
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It's not just the phones themselves, it's the modern social media apps (TikTok etc.). But I agree it seems to be twisting things up. I think a closely related issue is how everyone, everywhere, all the time seems to be arguing abo
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by D13Fd 4y ago
You're right about daycare/school closings. Even now, essentially post-covid, if our two-year-old gets COVID, that's a 10-day quarantine from daycare. That's 10 days where one of the parents has to work from home and b
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I used Solarized for a long time, but now I’ve moved on to newer themes. For some reason Solarized just looks outdated to me.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Exactly my first thought. “The core symptom of depression is said to be anhedonia, which refers to loss of interest or a loss of feeling of pleasure in certain activities that usually bring joy to people.” https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I was trying to say that yes, the design is bad, but the problems are not exactly unsolvable either.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I think “smart quotes” is fine as a name, since most people who type them still do it automatically via a context-based logic (whether it’s a word processor or text box input on an iPhone). And it works better than “curly quotes” since they
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by D13Fd 4y ago
The real answer for all of those things is obvious - don’t put important stuff in the glove box. But they still show just how dumb this design is, because it doesn’t fit how people use glove boxes.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I think touch screens are ok right now for two things: settings menus that you set once and never touch again, and Apple CarPlay. I recently moved backwards from a CarPlay car to a non-CarPlay car. Even with a very convenient MagSafe phone
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Let's imagine a counterfactual. Absent lawyers, who helps legislators write the laws? Who helps a software developer write a contract, and how does the developer get their money if the other side decides they don't want to pay? If
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by D13Fd 4y ago
That's not a scientific statement. He's broadly characterizing a type of person he sees in the field who lacks empathy. His use of "on the spectrum" could be considered offensive (similar to "retarded"), depend
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I still disagree. Sure, you can get your main point across and then offer extra detail. But the extra detail is often detrimental in that your reader probably isn’t comfortable stopping before they read it. To be clear, I’m talking about bu
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by D13Fd 4y ago
What were they before? This post assumes a level of YouTube knowledge that I lack.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
This is a great article with nice examples, and I like the "high resolution" vs. "low resolution" concept. But it leaves off the other side of the equation: know your audience. If your audience wants to read a long, deta
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by D13Fd 4y ago
There are lawyers on both sides, fighting each other. That's how the system works. The winner is largely determined by the laws. The laws are set by legislators, and those legislators are heavily influenced by corporations. The lawyers
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by D13Fd 4y ago
This post is absolutely right. I've been keeping my personal notes as a folder of text files formatted with Markdown for 10+ years. I honestly really don't like it in some ways. My work involves a ton of characters that trip up Ma
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Probably because org-mode has a horrible name.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I agree about Obsidian. But Ulysses in my experience isn't WYSIWYG, it's mostly syntax highlighting.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I agree completely. But don't blame the lawyers -- that's like blaming guns for the war in Ukraine. Blame the companies that lobby for the laws and treaties that set these kinds of IP protection, and then use those laws to come af
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by D13Fd 4y ago
That's a good outlook. If it's any consolation, we invested in the market in a big way for the first time in October 2021. We just got the "Congratulations on your first year of investing!" e-mail from the service with a
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by D13Fd 4y ago
My main thought on reading this is -- why do they need a whole helicopter to take that video? Shouldn't it just be a drone at a small fraction of the size and expense?
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I strongly disagree. When humans alter the natural environment, it’s inherently destructive. Even if a new environment arises in its place, we have destroyed what was there before. That said, the environmental destruction is worth it when i
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by D13Fd 4y ago
The constitution is perfectly easy to amend when we have consensus. The problem is achieving consensus. I don’t think making the constitution easier to amend would make it any easier to achieve national consensus.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Yeah, that one caught my eye. If this is focused on U.S. readers, that advice is extremely suspect.
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It's not just learning two things vs. one. It's learning a text-, command-, and script-based interface vs. a mostly visual one. You could likewise say "a huge amount of file operations should be performed with rsync" and
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It all depends on the audience. If the reader is reading for fun, more complex sentences can be fine. They're like spicy food. If the reader is reading for work, you're much better off writing something that is short, clear, and e

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