NotOscarWilde

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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
c. You agree to pay $ 100,000 for your use of the Estatis Free Password Security Checker if we ever ask for it.
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
> If I had a choice, be born as a chicken (...) or not exist at all Consider all the sperm or eggs you're "wasting" by waiting for the right moment to be a parent -- you are consciously choosing to not give life to many su
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I concur. In my opinion the "impossibility of improving IQ" in gwern's first sentence should be understood as "impossibility of improving IQ through supplementation at the current level". I think the source of the p
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
On Steam, the games are labelled as "supporting Linux", by which they usually mean some version of Ubuntu, which Steam runs on now. Other distributions often work too, usually with some small tweaks that can be googled. If "S
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
Personally, I'm fine with Steam remaining closed-source, as this is both inevitable because of it being both a store and a DRM provider. The key question here is whether Valve's future extensions to the graphics subsystems (which
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Currently, gaming on Linux was fairly on the rise, since Steam supported Linux as one target platform and advertised it fairly substantially. If Steam renames all "Linux" entries as "SteamOS" and pus
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
> not only writing with my Namiki Vanishing Point fountain pen on a nice piece of Rhodia paper > That emotional reward really helps reinforce and perpetuate good habits Please take note of the fact that a large part of the "emoti
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I have learned Dvorak by taking a week off during the summer (I was a student back then, great for doing things like that) and spending an hour or two each day through a touch typing course. In my case, I used gtypist, because I'm a GN
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I've never found moving from computer to computer with dvorak that much of a problem because it's rather easy to switch to it on anyone's computer, if I'm using it for more than a few minutes. Custom keymappings are much
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I did own a couple of 4000s because I was intrigued by its good reputation as well as its design. While the general ergonomics is much better than it is in standard keyboards, I've never liked how much force is needed to push a single
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
He doesn't sound like a Zen master to me either. I know it's probably hard to distinguish between Buddhist sects but "success and happiness" (the subtitle of the book that is promoted in the video) are not terms Zen Budd
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
It is a definitely interesting project, but what would benefit "us" (as in, humanity, I guess) most is a nigh-free online university with respected accreditation and as much high-quality content as possible while keeping costs at
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I guess you know this, but just for some context: ctrl-a is the default prefix for GNU Screen which was the unopposed leader in terminal management for a long time, so most people are just used to it. As for the ctrl-a shortcut, I admit I u
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
As long as you don't remind anyone that uses it implicitly that he is wrong, feel free to use it as you wish.
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
The interplay of memory and skill is something that interests me a lot, even though I claim no expertise in the field. Historical evidence implies that it is true that the people who are able to leverage the tools at their disposal (be that
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I think a lot of features -- especially if you want them accessible inside INSERT mode -- are accessible through CTRL+letter, no? At least omni-completion, the most useful one, used to be when I last tried it. (Has that changed? I'm not doi
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
Some general hints: don't be afraid to skip. It may happen that some books have an intersection, even though they complement each other -- usually the authors try to be self-contained. Also, most of the books I mentioned have about 50% dedi
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
It seems there are a lot of gaps in his primers -- he includes topology and some intro to Python, but the actual heart of programming -- algorithms and algorithm techniques -- is mostly missing. This is of course his right -- it's just a co
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
> What happens if the hits keep coming as technological innovation accelerates and new mass employment industries are not created? I would not invest too much time into speculative futurology at this point. I mean, if somebody brings da
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
This happens a lot in the game industry kickstarters. The most money usually goes to a large studio or a famous game designer appealing to his fans. Examples: Ragnar Torquist's The Longest Journey sequel, Richard Garriott's kickstarter, Dou
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
He explicitly said he misses the configurability, so I wouldn't blame him for that. As a Mac user that runs triple boot, the "just works" mentality in OS X is present only as long as you don't step out of the typical use case scenarios. It'
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by NotOscarWilde 13y ago
I do believe that doesn't change anything; having it available on a proprietary 32-bit application that happens to run on Linux does not make it web-based. As a person who still uses Firefox (on Linux), denoting "works in Chrome only" as "w