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by abrowne 5y ago
I use my thumbs just as much for the control key for keyboard shortcuts, which I move [using xkb on Linux] to the keys left and right of space. I got used to it there as a Mac user (where it's the command key). I can't imagine try
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by abrowne 5y ago
I recently switched from compose key to this layout (and suggested to the developer to update the Linux release ;-) and it is much nicer to type eg AltGr+a for à instead of Compose+` then a. (I keep compose on PrtSc for extra characters lik
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by abrowne 5y ago
> EurKey? https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/ > It's preinstalled on Linux Note that at least on Ubuntu/Debian, the included version is older and a bit different. Not unusable or anything, but not the same
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by abrowne 5y ago
I remember reading that architects have one of the highest job dissatisfaction rates in the US. Which makes sense comparing the kinds of projects I saw the architecture students due in college with the architects I've met, whose excite
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by abrowne 5y ago
Yeah, I think my partner is tired of me me mentioning it when we read our 15-month son picture books. (Some of the best that I remember are in the book Little You .)
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by abrowne 5y ago
I'm seeing it score 1 out of 2 on the dead butterfly scale. https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
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by abrowne 5y ago
Only if you skip updates that require a reboot?
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by abrowne 5y ago
On the other hand, the physical labor of grinding the kernels into meal, done by women kneeling at large mortar and pestle like tool, was intense and visible in skeletal remains.
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by abrowne 5y ago
One wlroots possibility would be Wayfire https://wayfire.org/
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by abrowne 5y ago
I'd guess Kwin.
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by abrowne 5y ago
The Mitanni was the one of the most interesting things to learn about in that book!
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by abrowne 5y ago
Yes, before reading the article, I was going to suggest a book I recently read, but I see it's the rejected "the commonly held association" footnote 7 (Anthony, D. W. The Horse, the Wheel and Language ), so this will be inte
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by abrowne 5y ago
Ubuntu is my hypervisor.
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by abrowne 5y ago
John McWhorter⁰: > To wit, the more common usage of “discrimination” has semantically narrowed — in usage — regardless of what the facelessness of dictionary definitions, often initially penned eons ago, might indicate. This is also tru
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by abrowne 5y ago
The goal of a romanization isn't always to represent the pronunciation in English. They may have other goals, like a one-to-one mapping of letters between alphabets or something. English doesn't pronounce 'q' like '
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by abrowne 5y ago
> the name is pronounced Parandzem (not P'aranjem) Even with the same pronunciation, the spelling depends on the chosen romanization scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Armenian (Based on th
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by abrowne 5y ago
Once I bought a used copy of a 1200+ page book and took the binding off so I could carry a couple of chapters at a time back and forth to work to read on breaks. Luckily it was a 10+ year old history book that was available shipped for unde
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by abrowne 5y ago
Pompeii wasn't a "civilization", it was one destroyed city (a couple, really, with Herculaneum). The Roman Empire lasted quite a bit longer!
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by abrowne 5y ago
Pedantically, I don't think the US was ever part of the UK. The UK ultimately had sovereignty, but that's not the same thing. Even now the United Kingdom's former colonies are not part of the UK: it "has sovereignty ov
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by abrowne 5y ago
Xi would look strong if they win.
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by abrowne 5y ago
The Baltic states were part of the USSR, unlike Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria etc.
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by abrowne 5y ago
One difference is the alcohol rules are a remnant of (post-)Prohibition and are meant to make alcohol harder or more expensive to get.
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by abrowne 5y ago
+1 for Brave search. I had used DDG for a couple years before and it was fine, but Brave actually seems good. (I don't like their font but that's an easy fix with userstyles.)
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by abrowne 5y ago
Personally, I found reader mode missed just enough — like images loaded with js or footnotes referenced in an article — that it was more trouble than it was worth. And as much as I liked the "readability", I missed missed seeing t
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by abrowne 5y ago
IIRC, when Jobs said that sentence, it was the first time the team was told of any plan to make it a standard. There hadn't been any legal or technical review that it would be possible. (Not in 11 years now they couldn't have made
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by abrowne 5y ago
Do you block third-party cookies? It prevents Drive downloads in any browser with that setting, Chrom{e,ium} included. Recently I saw Drive give a suggestion about this, but a year ago when I was testing third-party cookie blocking in Chrom
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by abrowne 5y ago
iBooks is now Books too.
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by abrowne 5y ago
True, although I think that's hydropower? At least that's what I remember from when I studied there ~15 years ago.
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by abrowne 5y ago
Keep in mind Iceland's population is under 400k. That's less than the city proper of Minneapolis, for example.
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by abrowne 5y ago
The listed link goes to a Android bug on the "Android Public Tracker".

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