OvidNaso

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by OvidNaso 7y ago
Why not just make driving a car as serious as piloting a plane? Planes are so much safer not because they are easier to fly, but solely because we take it seriously. If driver's licenses were giving and enforced like pilot's lic
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by OvidNaso 8y ago
I'm new to using all the new chat programs and LOVE the idea of matrix, but was somewhat surprised to learn there isn't a bridge for Signal, since it's open source. Is there a reason and/or any possibility of it happeni
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by OvidNaso 8y ago
It's a pulsed electromagnetic device (PEMF) and they have also been around quite ahile. While they've been show to aid bone growth and they probably help recovery in some other, subtle, ways...EMSculpt is classic snakeoil bullshi
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by OvidNaso 8y ago
Vimium has this option. Check the box on the options screen " Use the link's name and characters for link-hint filtering"
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by OvidNaso 8y ago
Well, there are several tag formats, ie Id3v1, Id3v2, Vorbis comments, APE tags, which have have most needed metadata keys already part of the spec and many can add custom pairs.
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by OvidNaso 8y ago
Is your plumber a child?
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
Well that is like saying gravity is an emergent property of space-time. Perhaps it is, but that doesn't finish explaining what it is or why it is an emergent property.
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
The computer is not the program.
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
Because it is hard core dualism, which is generally considered non-scientific.
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
Why can't they say that? Because that sounds exactly like what their parent organization (the university), does every year. This thread seems to be really down on the exclusivity part, but I feel I'm taking crazy pills, because
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
i3 has mode maps which are not quite like chained commands, but pretty close (e.g. you have to exit the map instead of just abandoning the chain if you change your mind halfway through a press). I love them, they can do anything and you hav
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
It also educates him about addiction which helps disseminate correct information back to the public (hopefully).
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
'ls -lh | column --table --output-separator "," | cut --delimiter="," --fields=6-8 --output-delimiter=" " | sort --month-sort' I statred this to show how easy it was, but it quickly became pretty hack
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by OvidNaso 9y ago
Oh, the beauty of emacs, the self-documenting editor...This is highlighted at the top of the built in tutorial if you change your keybindings: >NOTICE: The main purpose of the Emacs tutorial is to teach you the most important standard E
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Well, there are already a several org-mode parsers[0]. Some of them are quite good too. 0. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tools/
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
It's real easy to get the default look back. Hit ":" for the commandline and then enter setguioptions+=mrB. One of the coolest things about pentadactyl is that I can make any combination of the UI into keyboard shortcuts (or
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Or, it's rat park...
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
And most opiate addicts (heroin) get hooked from opiates supplied by their violent doctor and local pharmacies.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Take my opinion with a grain of salt because I put this books down after only 100 pages or so, but it seemed to exemplify my main gripe with many/most popular science/non-fiction publications these days...padding. Many authors se
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Then how is it our species has colonized most of the planet. Surely their is an intense, universal, drive to migrate.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Your talking about a company that owns at least 50% of it's success to the i.p. of characters it didn't create. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast...i could go on. I don't think anyone wou
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
The reason it always seems to stop at step one is because the experience feels like a natural consequence of those two factors. A step two would be something like "exercise those social skills with your contacts" and that seems r
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Well, we can also just say the same things about paradoxes of all types. Partially the point of science-fiction (and science/philosophy) is that our thought experiments have parameters consistent with our current knowledge of reality
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
and don't forget it was also argued passionately that it would ruin scholarship and the intellectual mind by some pretty smart and influential figures, one being Socrates.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
<Keyboard macros are dope. My keys are bound to f3 and f4 but I don't remember if that's standard. Basically you hit f3 to open a macro, do some stuff, and then hit f4 to close it. Then you hit C-x e to execute it from the poin
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
>One counterpoint to that is every political system since the dawn of time has held up people like Pinker who say we're living in the best of all possible systems and the other ones are awful, people need a strong government to keep
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
If you use zsh, there is deer[0], which has ranger like navigation and some useful features, but starts up instantaneously, unlike ranger. Great for quickly moving around complex directories structures. 0. https://github.com&#x2
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Directory Opus is great, but it is expensive. Last time I checked it was 70 dollars for one computer and that doesn't include "major" updates which seem to happen fairly frequently.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
The increase in suicide rates seems to be evidence against this hypothesis.
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by OvidNaso 10y ago
Heroin is an opiate, and opiates do almost zero damage to the body. I know meth and heroin have culturally maintained their status as horrific amoungst young people despite the drug war's campaign of misinformation, and opiate addicti

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