RheingoldRiver

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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Woah, what's going on?? I've always played Set with stripey cards, is this a custom deck or did they change it at some point??? This is wildly disconcerting to me
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> Think about Japan, where kids are often taught to wait quietly for meals or gifts Author got the country and items correct but not associated correctly. In Japan, kids pass the marshmallow test with flying colors but fail the same test
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
This is the only thing I think of now when I hear "that's amore" - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/moray-eels-eat-la...
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
ohhh I thought it was primarily a repository for people to browse each other's bookmarklets, I am going to check it out if it would let me do my management in a more sane manner! I am still using the system in that blog post with regex
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I have a couple bookmarklets scattered in a couple blog posts that you may find interesting / want to add: * https://river.me/blog/bookmarklet-stay-here/ * https://river.me/blog/firefox-k
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> I actually prefer ebook for both - including for studying. Really?? What ereader do you use? How are you taking notes (that you would be able to retrieve later in a reasonable manner), using the index, etc? I've wanted for years t
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
If you want to always use old.reddit and not have to rely on being logged in: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
That is a dead butterfly [0] being reanimated, not a live butterfly flying [0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Yes, I traveled recently and flights were about 20% cheaper if it was Thursday-Monday than if any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday was included. Even given the extra nights of hotel I overall saved money on the trip because I extended it.
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> Using LLM based tools effectively requires a change in workflow that a lot of people aren't ready to try This is a REALLY good summary of it I think. If you lose your patience with people, you'll lose your patience with AI to
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
hmm, I am not certain that I prefer the option without the source listed. For example, I might prefer an image from Wikipedia over another image. Or if I am searching for a map and the URL has the word 'historical' I would not cho
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> I can't mute other people's video you can switch to another tab, use a miniplayer, in some apps u can focus one person's screen and if you choose someone who has a static avatar up you'll barely see other people&#x2
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
A is for Array: A is for array, some things in a list B is for byte, how computers exist C is for character, one letter in a word D is for destination, where results are stored E is for event, interaction in the DOM F is for file, sometimes
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
The important context here is that this book is not "HTML for programmers," it's "HTML for people who are probably pretty damn scared about the word HTML right now" In this case, the single most important thing is *
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
it's not about knowing the basics of using a computer, it's about eliminating the possibility of tiny mistakes like 1 typo in a file name causing everything to break, which can put someone off coding forever
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Also don't forget that any large gaming wiki will want significant amounts of either Cargo, Semantic MediaWiki, or (god forbid) DPL
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
You may also want to install: https://getindie.wiki/
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> Step 1. Create a folder on your computer I don't need to read farther than this, I'm never going to recommend this over freecodecamp. Let alone that a lot of people are usually on mobile during learning time, it just makes it
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
> 15 years is a long time; longer than I’ve been waiting for Winds of Winter don't do that to me
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Why "instead" ? they seem completely different from each other Hunt for Vulcan is a fun history lesson with some interesting insights about human nature. It's history of science, not science. It took about 3 hours to read and
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I highly recommend this book! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25238350-the-hunt-for-vu...
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I rarely need to sync to my laptop (only when I travel), so when I do I just copy my Mozilla appdata folder over. Works like a charm
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I do too, I use my history to navigate by typing a couple characters of where I want to go in the location bar
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I use autohotkey for errors like this, I'm not sure the ahk 2.0 syntax but here's a snippet from my 1.0 script: Hotstring("EndChars","`t") ::mcuh::much ::jsut::just ::tempalte::template ::Tempalte::
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Over the years I've gotten more and more nervous around paper. I think because my most vivid memories of paper are getting papercuts, and the less I use paper in my day-to-day life, the more I associate paper with papercuts and nothing
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
it has a notification history feature (at least on PC), it's just impossible to find and deleted messages disappear from it. Upper-right corner is your "inbox" which is totally worthless, and tabbed behind that is your notifi
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
My personal complaint is that "jewelry making" is on their todo list....jewelry making is like 20 different hobbies!! I make chainmaille jewelry. I know nothing about wire wrapping, let alone working with heat. Then you can have b
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
I don't quite understand, what makes "Okay I've" more correct than "Okay so"? No meaningful context was provided here, how do we know "Okay I've" was at all meaningfully correct? For the longer c
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
slack very helpfully reverses the order when u are in format-as-code (triple backticks) mode, giving you the worst of both worlds: it's usually enter to send, AND you can get confused about which is which! (there's a preference to
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by RheingoldRiver 2y ago
Caltech alum. difeq is part of the common core that everyone must take to graduate and taught to sophomores first term, although a few (maybe 10-15 or so each year? out of about 200-250) (as of about a decade ago) students will test out of

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