I_complete_me

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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Wait, what are you doing in a store at Christmas? :-)
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I think it was this book where I first saw the puzzle: Does New Year's Day fall more often on a Saturday or a Sunday? Such a simple puzzle with to (then) me such depth of knowledge to uncover the answer.
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I have no idea what you're doing here but I am impressed enough to have got to the end. (No meta here, I assure you.)
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I too use vim.
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Just yesterday I came across this site [1] with lots of articles around ToM. Very well written IMHO. [1] https://neurolaunch.com/theory-of-mind-and-empathy/
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I use dirjump [1] for this. I use zoxide alongside it. [1] https://github.com/imambungo/dirjump
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
These threads often end up, with everyone trying to prove they are literary scholars. Demonstrably untrue - for some definition of often. This thread shows people with genuine interests in books that are sometimes labelled literar
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Check this one: "Now I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics"
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
6/10 = 5/10 + 1/10 or in words: divide by two and add a tenth!
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
What's the liar's dividend? I mean, is it used in common parlance?; it's new to me.
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Ah, so this is where the line "We murder to disect" comes from. Ta.
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
"When you hear hoofbeats in the night, look for horses — not zebras."
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Thanks. I appreciate your civility. The lack of clarity is my fault. I felt Julia was describing a problem that she was having for 15 years to do with editing on the CLI. Then she said "even though I’m a vim user I didn’t really like u
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
"even though entering some text and editing it is a very “basic” task, it took me maybe 15 years of using the terminal every single day to get used to using Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of the line (or Ctrl+E for the end)." This
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I have great respect for Julia Evans and love her contributions that get shown here. But... > "I’ve always thought that vi mode seems really cool, but for some reason even though I’m a vim user I didn’t really like using it when I t
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Well done. Nice idea. I came up with three random words: intrepid, impetigo, orwellian. I got definitions for the first two but not for the third. Where is the boundary? I can see that you can't have _every_ English word.
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
Right now my brain is scrambled...
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by I_complete_me 2y ago
I use the acronym for when I am leaving the house: Keys, phone, money, glasses.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Reminds me of The Internet from Rocks at https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/ .
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
mausoleum - "magnificent tomb," early 15c., from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb adorned with sculpture built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian sat
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Thank you so much for that. It is wonderful. So therefore you must be. I am from Ireland and the whole sense of it resonates with me; the soft humour, the self-confidence, the sheer loveliness of his outlook, the different times. And the b
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Scheveningen - huh? I recently read Robert Harris's book V2 based on this town. Good book. Also, there is a chess opening variation named after this place. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence,_Schev
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Ok, git_noobie here. What is git http-backend [1] for then? [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend I discovered this by tabbing git ?TAB in a zsh shell and going through the alphabet. FYI - no commands starting
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
> How do you load your games into a chess engine? > Where do you play that allows you to export games? > And then are you loading into another site or using a local application on your laptop as the "chess engine?" I assu
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Save the $10 and look at the selection of online virtual slide rules at https://www.sliderules.org/ .
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
frost is the answer. It's one of a number of numb-ers of fingers as you suggest. Another clue I have come across in a similar vein is "A flower of Paris (5)" to which the answer is Seine. These clues may or may not be to your
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
For me the epitome of a cryptic clue is: A number of fingers (5). Short, precise, tricky, delightful.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
Did you forget ann ar?dic - for Antarctic. What is that ?d sound? WHY is that sound? Oh and eeeand. The word and used to be monosyllabic. I bet there are a list of words where the loss of each of the 26 letters can be lamented. For example
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I guess he went for attractive alliteration.
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by I_complete_me 3y ago
I went from vim to emacs and now I using them both on a daily basis. Really stuck, please help.

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