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aboardRat4
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
Of course not. Or at least they won't enjoy it. Physical activity is enjoyable for most people, whereas mental is painful.
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
When MPEG-5?
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
It's a shame that HPE doesn't make graphics workstations any more.
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
Well, I might have been too harsh. Listening is better than "skimming". It is actually slower, so you're retaining more. >greatest novels of all time I was forced to read it at high school, finished about a quarter, didn&#
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
>they don't have local reporters digging into local stories and so are not worth reading. National newspapers don't have reporters digging for stories any more as well. Actually, for many years. 90% of newspapers are buying or
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3mo ago
>Americans also get much less of their news through reading than they once did. In 1975, about half of 20-somethings said they read the newspaper every day. Today less than 10 percent do. Most of the news are not worth reading. I listen
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
I'm usually listening to the stuff I'm expecting to be not really worth retaining, but useful to skim though once. Like "crime and punishment".
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3mo ago
>But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff. This finite amount is still enormous. I have downloaded many gigabytes of music from rutracker, and I don't think I'll get through it
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAA2dU8RmhA Tl;dr: different races have different fertility peak ages.
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
Why choose the word "imitate" here? I bet Bill Gates doesn't actually use MS Word that much.
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aboardRat4
3mo ago
What do you mean my "mimick our employers"?
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3mo ago
> It might seem odd to prefer shell scripting over a full-featured dynamic scripting language, but shell scripts like this have some material advantages over Python Nothing strange. Shell is the most natural dynamic language. It's a
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4mo ago
Just switch to xlibre. Wayland is a dead end.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Just switch to X11. Wayland is never going to work.
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4mo ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ba...
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
It is not possible to steal something which doesn't obey conservation laws. Don't try to scam physics, is always wins.
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4mo ago
> https://www.musictheory.net/lessons Nice website! I will have a look. Unfortunately, their mobile version is for iOS only ;-( >why your flute's FFT visualization has multiple bumps I am not surprised it has mult
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Duolingo is garbage based on dry cramming.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Is there some program that teaches all this mumbo-jumbo that other commenters are using so freely in their comments? Ideally one which looks kinda like a game with scores and achievements. My understanding of music is quite basic, I know wh
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4mo ago
>The article is very good and informative. But you don't know which parts of it are true.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Yes. I don't live in the US though.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Is anybody still using email in 2026? Everybody I know uses IM systems like Wechat, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Copy (5) of Outlook (2).final.revised.4.exe
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4mo ago
Gatekeeping is only good when there are no easier options. When IRC is the only instant messaging system, and it has an entry barrier, clever people will pass this barrier, and stupid people will not. But when there are easier alternatives,
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
Hot take: you don't need CSS in your book, a few of <style:'width: 100%;'> is enough.
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aboardRat4
4mo ago
What about lightspark? htps://lightspark.github.io
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4mo ago
>It's not like you couldn't create an IRC-client with better UI than discord No, you cannot. You cannot, because you need a team for this, and they need salaries, and unless you push ads into people's throats, there won&#x
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4mo ago
Lol. You must be from the "wayland is just a protocol" bunch. UI(IRC) = MIN_{c \in clients : #user(c) > 100 } UI(c) But even if you take "max" and not "min", it's still horrible.
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4mo ago
IRC's UI is horrible. (Like email.) No wonder people don't want to join it. (Saying that as someome who has his own bouncer.)
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4mo ago
Which of those 6 substances do you expect to poison your water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_used_for_fra...
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