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Eustress and Distress: Neither Good nor Bad, but Rather the Same?(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by amadeuspagel 8mo ago|0 comments
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> (Alternatively, I would consider getting rid of numerical ids altogether and relying on name alone. Internet Archive does it at e.g. archive.org/details/leroy-lettering-sets, but that has some serious limitations that are not
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Tried this with german as native language and greek as language I want to learn. First question: Wie steht es um Ihr Greek? Greek is obviously the english and not the german name of the language. But "Wie steht es um Ihr Griechisch?&qu
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Inventing implicit promises and then wondering whether they're broken by mistake or on purpose is not a good way to understand people. When people move, it's not because they want the exact same community they had before. People m
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Yes, people who disagree with me about which program has the best implemention of a tab-based user interface remind of people who tattoo things on their face as well.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
I'd expect the website for a design system to look beautiful (or oddly satisfying, if that's the goal here) but this one doesn't. Tailwind's website looks better. [1]: https://tailwindcss.com/
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> unless you have side-by-side columns with headings or pictures mixed in, but this is seldom seen outside print, partly because the web doesn’t support it well It does now.[1] [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/d
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
All other browser I've tried (firefox, vivaldi, edge, safari, atlas, many others) and all other programs with a tab-based UI I use (zed, vs code, sqlitebrowser) look worse.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
But the intention to dissent can be what makes a cliché thought-terminating?
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
So a cliché is thought-terminating when it is intentionally used to dissent?
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> Some such clichés are not inherently terminating, and only become so when used to intentionally dismiss, dissent, or justify fallacies. How do you parse this sentence? Dismiss, dissent or justify fallacies? The fallacies are being dism
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> First came the infamous infinite scroll. I remember feeling uneasy the first time a web page no longer had a bottom. Logically, I knew very well that everything a browser displays is a virtual construct. There is no physical page. It i
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Why isn't the link directly to the github repository[1]? [1]: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Instead of giving parents vouchers, that they then use at a fraudulent daycare, in exchange for a fake job, while they take care of their children at home, parents should just get money, so that they can stay home taking care of their child
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Trying to login with google I got a social auth error: https://app.vecti.com/dashboard/social-auth-error/
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Salesforces market cap today is 180,35B. That, not the change, is the market's judgement of how valuable salesforce is, despite any risk from AI. If salesforce stock drops with a new AI model that doesn't mean that investors think
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Banning infinite scroll comes close to banning good design. If removing pointless interruptions is illegal, we might as well throw every designer in prison. And why stop there? Why not force TikTok to add other pointless barriers, like maki
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Thanks. So this has modern "s" characters, rather then characters that look like an "f" with the horizontal bar missing, which is an improvement. Still, when an "s" or "c" is followed by a "t&quo
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Beautiful, and would be so much more beautiful if it used a modern font, without these weird cs and fs. I actually had to copy-paste "reproduction" to convince myself that this is a c character, and I'm not reading something
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Glenn Greenwald is tweeting about TikTok alternatives[1]. The more important question is: Where are you? When someone defends freedom of speech that you hate, does it make you so angry that you just block them out, so that when they defend
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> PHANTOM OBLIGATION > The guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do. Another name for it might be parasocial obligation.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Whether it's censorship or not, excluding content from recommendation engines is certainly not new.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
I discovered InfiniteGlass[1], a window manager with a zoomable infinite canvas recently. I wasn't able to install it though, even in a virtual machine with Ubuntu Mate 18.04, which the README says it's tested for. [1]: https:&#x
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> Requiring a handwritten cover-letter greatly raises cost for poor/fraudulent submissions, imposes a comparitively smaller cost for genuine ones I find handwriting physically painful and people feel the same about reading it.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
> Ubuntu, however, is not playing ball. Canonical has opted to invest in its own packaging format, Snap, which no other distro is adopting natively. Snap is a lot better then the alternatives. Snap was the only way I was able to install
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
When I visited London for the first time (from germany) I was impressed by how you can pay for the tube by swiping your credit card at the entry and exit. It's not just a great experience for the rider, but it also gives the transit ag
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The Cognitive Foundations of Decline Narratives in Human Societies(link.springer.com)
2 points by amadeuspagel 8mo ago|0 comments
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
What countries do you have in mind? Where is school done differently? Early start times at least seem to be a problem everywhere.
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by amadeuspagel 8mo ago
Dank can't configure the taskbar to have a dark background while the system stays in light mode.
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School is worse for kids than social media(unpublishablepapers.substack.com)
10 points by amadeuspagel 8mo ago|2 comments

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