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961.
by copperx 4y ago
That's quite the non sequitur.
962.
by copperx 4y ago
I just hope Elon adds a dropdown soon.
963.
by copperx 4y ago
> Dostoevksy's works are entertaining. But they certainly aren't great. You can't just dismiss Dostoevsky like that. Can you elaborate why his works don't qualify as great literature?
964.
by copperx 4y ago
> When I started my PhD in physics our group leader told us repeatedly not to talk to people from MIT or Caltech about our work too early, because there will be a postdoc who will do what will take you about 3 years in the space of 6 mon
965.
by copperx 4y ago
Are PhD students really racing against competitors? I can imagine that in some instances they might, e.g., in the race to discover the structure of DNA, but I don't think it's true in most cases.
966.
by copperx 4y ago
Is it ever laziness? I think that the myth of the lazy bum is just that, a myth.
967.
by copperx 4y ago
Certainly. That's what every taxpayer wants, but it's not clear why the government doesn't do anything towards that goal.
968.
by copperx 4y ago
Nutrient deficiencies are associated with a longer lifespan, so I'm not sure there's a real reason for concern.
969.
by copperx 4y ago
And what is FFS? Fast forwarding service?
970.
by copperx 4y ago
What OS, if I may ask? I find browser choice heavily depends on the OS you're using. For instance, I can't stand anything but Safari on macOS. There's nothing better than Firefox on Linux. But on Windows, Chrome is king.
971.
by copperx 4y ago
The real problem with the world is underthinking.
972.
by copperx 4y ago
Don't forget Midnight Commander, which uses a TUI just like this one.
973.
by copperx 4y ago
I thought most of the claims of that book had been debunked.
974.
by copperx 4y ago
SawStudio. A DAW written in x86 assembly with 64 bit integer computations throughout and excellent but non-standard UX. It's not dead, but the community using it seems smaller everyday. It's an impressive technical achievement. Pr
975.
by copperx 4y ago
I love TUIs, mainly because they emphasize keyboard control. This looks much more usable than directly using ncurses!!!
976.
by copperx 4y ago
Any particular reason?
977.
by copperx 4y ago
Cooler than Tiddlywiki?
978.
by copperx 4y ago
Tiddlywiki is exactly what I want as a note-taking system, except for one detail: image handling. I have heaps of screenshots that I want to store along with my notes, and Tiddlywiki either: 1) embeds the image into the wiki itself (not sus
979.
by copperx 4y ago
As someone who studied high school in Mexico and the US and saw students get bullied in both, cultural issues at play make all the difference. Even the most vicious bullies had a sense of "oh crap, we've gone too far" in my M
980.
by copperx 4y ago
PDFs can be concatenated using Preview.
981.
by copperx 4y ago
+1 Contexts solves my #1 annoyance with macOS.
982.
by copperx 4y ago
Can you explain a bit?
983.
by copperx 4y ago
Descent but with modern graphics and an outside world. There's nothing like being able to move in all directions.
984.
by copperx 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's a waste, as the video needs to be reencoded somewhere.
985.
by copperx 4y ago
He has indeed said that, I can confirm that much. It should be easy to find in one in the interviews.
986.
by copperx 4y ago
There's one interview where he talks about a special sofa that he uses to read (and write, I believe), but I haven't been able to find it with all my Google-fu.
987.
by copperx 4y ago
WhatsApp is like the metric system. Used almost universally, except in the US.
988.
by copperx 4y ago
That's "uncanny feeling", not "uncanny valley".
989.
by copperx 4y ago
I have never been as excited in a movie theater as when I heard that quote at 12.
990.
by copperx 4y ago
Yup, I steer clear of calcium enhanced OJ, because it ruins its flavor.

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