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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I remember a lot of "Hitchhiker's Guide" being random floating out-of-place objects. It stops feeling creative after a while. Even characters soon stopped commenting on them.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Polish short story collections sometimes differ in content, but my favorites were: - Ticket to Tranai ... and another one which included two separate stories with machines in name, one of which was more less "Machine Which Didn't
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I hope the meaning doesn't devolve the way `troll` did.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I do. You can't enjoy Monty Python without enjoying absurd. Everyone draws the line in a different spot I suppose.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
The proper term is a 'HN meme'. I'm using "meme" in the original meaning: a viral idea.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
This reads like a Robert Sheckley short story. I never understood the fuss about Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. To me, Robert Sheckley is the master of witty, provocative sci-fi short form. Douglas Adams is seems like random absurd for
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I think there will come a time when we come back to it. Today we have computers and very fast lookup, but an encyclopaedia won't tell you what you don't know. If you're a specialist, you'll have a hard time to making a d
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I think it's condescending towards the antique people to claim that they couldn't have figured these things out themselves. People were in all ways as smart and capable as us, they just had lower technology level and different con
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
As I've said in a thread I made on forums a while ago, search&replace has other advantages. Reviewing matches, as long as you use /gc, is the default in vim. It's opt-in in kak, which I think is a bad default. Does kakoun
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Right? I think it's because DooM is so recognizable and so snappy. Fast action, clear visuals, no cutscenes or chainsaw animations to interrupt the flow. Only Quake1,2,3 games have similar traits and are also used for tech demos and pr
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Computers have essentially 1D instructions. They execute instruction after instruction. Making a 2D programming language would cause an extra layer of abstraction between the programmer and instructions. There would be performance and memor
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Disagree. Humans operate in a 3D world, but act on a 2D plane. Very few places in nature let you have one sector over another (one person over another). We have 3D presentation, but there are 4 cardinal directions, no up and down because we
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
This was also a conclusion in a thoughty2 youtube video I watched: This Is Why Inbreeding Is So Dangerous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmv-z851BOE I'm pretty this is why people all over the world like to keep track
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You feel this limitation because Alt key is overloaded in Kakoune. Which in my opinion is a downside of having less modes than Vim. Only normal and insert. When you look at kakoune forums, there's constant head scratching where to put
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
A bigger problem is the common shortcut: kak
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Applications that are not integrated into Emacs sometimes implement 'vim keys' for interface. If you get used to kakoune keys, you may struggle each time you use them.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
And I consider multiple selections a flaw, a poor man's search&replace. Particularly with neovim's set inccommand=split (live substitution). Vim's confirmation prompts make it more comfortable, as well as off-screen match
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
In Poland, many people look down on pasteurized and UHT milk (which is most of it). The city where I presently live has a vending machine(s) for raw milk, you can even bring your own bottles to save the environment. A big benefit of raw mil
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I used the weasel words "so far". It's more like 2400 at the moment. The fact that the epidemic develops later supports my statement that Poland is a backwater country. Which doesn't mean it will go around us. https:&#x
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I read and write in English (comments mostly :-) all the time. Now I have a valid excuse to play team shooters regularly.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
No. In backwater countries like Poland English is caught at school, but people don't speak or write in it. Many still prefer polish-language media because LACK CONFIDENCE in their english. It typically goes like "Oh, I had English
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Wouldn't teaching by socratic method - asking them questions - be a great solution to this concern? It's almost the opposite of telling people what to do. I say almost because the questions typically try to point in a specific d
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
When you browse articles about Polish workplaces, the word "folwark" comes up pretty regularly. Typically in a phrase like "employer treats the company like his folwark". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You might find our Polish workplaces a refreshing change. Employees are often treated like feudal peasants . Poland never really had bourgeoisie/townsfolk class. Jews were the closest, in part because they were forbidden by law to o
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
What exactly are you trying to say?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
According to a book I read, Cheyennes divide birds into three groups: plain, great, and sacred. To my great amusement they count magpies into the sacred ones. They like them because they live close to humans, talk, and announce visitors.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Jays (another corvid) are fast, sneaky, and mostly silent until they screech. The funny part is they're great at mimicking sounds. Here's a jay mimicking a cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YFdO_5DgK7M
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I like the antivirus software analogy better. If your operating system is bug ridden, yes you need an antivirus.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Consider the Confucius quote above. What are your memories of learning math? Can you learn math from a podcast? Does it work better if you see it done on a blackboard? How about solving a list of problems yourself?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
5 Tips To Stop People Pleasing (Richard Grannon, edited down to 15 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRprOhOaDSo 8 signs you're too nice for your own good (Psych2Go, 5:45) https://www.youtube.com&#x2F

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