TheGreatCabbage

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by TheGreatCabbage 2y ago
One example is people supporting terrorism; it shocks me that some people who claim to be feminists can support such an unthinkingly misogynistic group as Hamas. Of course, some genuinely care about the Palestinian people and don't app
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by TheGreatCabbage 2y ago
Most degrees do not create an educated person. An educated person needs a grounding in science, history, philosophy, literature, and - especially in our new age of disinformation - critical thinking and psychology. I studied one of the hard
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by TheGreatCabbage 3y ago
> If you are sedentary, intellectually inclined, and not cut out for a job in the trades, school may be good for you. The intellectually inclined are also badly affected by school. The slow pace of learning stifles intellectual curiosity
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by TheGreatCabbage 3y ago
I developed a program to help with this — it's called "gitprof", since it helps with Git profiles. It's not completely flawless but it works fine, and I find it very helpful. https://github.com/CabbageDev
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by TheGreatCabbage 3y ago
In my case, it only took a few months to be more effective with Vim than without it. Since I spend most of my time working, Vim is a great improvement to my quality of life. The benefits of Vim include not just productivity, but also comfor
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by TheGreatCabbage 4y ago
Lately I've taken to reading almost only classic literature; since books published before 1923 are in the public domain, the ebooks are very cheap indeed (i.e. completely free via Project Gutenberg). The other advantage of this approac
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by TheGreatCabbage 4y ago
If I'm learning educational material, I prefer to listen at 2x speed and pause regularly when I need to ponder something. I can't learn well at low speed because I'm apt to zone out and start my own train of thought, necessit
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by TheGreatCabbage 6y ago
I found that one of my Python programs, which performs heavy calculations, was actually faster in WSL 2 than when running natively in Windows. I haven't tested it with WSL 1 though.