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by dbtc 4y ago
I can relate, but I really appreciated what Herbert did there for the 5th book, which had much more enjoyable characters for me, like the 1st book.
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by dbtc 4y ago
I've long held the first Dune novel high on my list of good books, but only recently I've gone through the following 6 (as audiobooks), and I highly recommend them. The scale of ideas and events absolutely dwarfs the first novel.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Depending on where you live, there may be hispanohablantes nearby too
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by dbtc 4y ago
Nice, here's mine cat `which ddg` #!/usr/bin/env sh w3m 'https://duckduckgo.com/?q='`echo $@ | sed 's/ /\+/g'`
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by dbtc 4y ago
idagio
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by dbtc 4y ago
40 days would still be amazing.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Have you looked at mosh?
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by dbtc 4y ago
I occasionally open tmux on a remote machine from within a local tmux. Using c-bb to get to the nested one doesn't seem that bad to me as long as it's only 2-deep. But why not just change the escape key on each machine's .tmu
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by dbtc 4y ago
Here's a good place to recommend the browser extension vimium (and vimari for safari).
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by dbtc 4y ago
The reward of reading well does not require anyone's approval. Study Shakespeare and prosper.
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by dbtc 4y ago
More like a separate field without the old wisdom.
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by dbtc 4y ago
This sounds similar to what both psychedelic trippers and meditation practicers often describe.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Also some of his lectures and conversations are available on your local video sharing platform. He’s a witty speaker.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Some recommendations: Mark Kurlansky's book 'Paper' Marshall McLuhan The Secret History of Writing - BBC Full Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fuXitEwhk
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by dbtc 4y ago
Driver?
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by dbtc 4y ago
That "moral attention" may be key to human happiness.
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by dbtc 4y ago
What about the gimp?
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by dbtc 4y ago
I am enjoying Raga's Dance, which is nothing like what I was just listening to. Thank you for the recommendation ;)
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by dbtc 4y ago
I agree, yet I think rewriting - even for no reason at all - can make the thing better.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Do Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOUBETTyMI
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by dbtc 4y ago
90 degree angles are the beginner's, training-wheel, paint-by-numbers, bowl-with-the-rails-up way to do it. Once you master the 90s, then you can vary the angles and spacing according to a more personal aesthetic. Attention is the key.
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by dbtc 4y ago
And (at least parts of freebsd) inside all of Apple's devices.
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by dbtc 4y ago
> App developers have a lot more influence on mobile devices than they do on desktop OSes Interesting. Hadn't thought about this before. Why? Is it the app store that makes their influence possible?
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by dbtc 4y ago
We should stop letting them have it as if it was their property.
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by dbtc 4y ago
It's like arguing whether a mountain ought to be experienced from a distance, so you can see it, or from the top, so you can see from it. Both!
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by dbtc 4y ago
Treat it like a game for a while. Don't even try to be productive, just play with it and see how the pieces fit together.
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by dbtc 4y ago
You're describing the what, but if you ask a (meditating) buddhist how to this, they'll tell you to observe your breath (or some other concentration technique), which is an exercise to train your ability to manage your attention.
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by dbtc 4y ago
Why did you have to ditch?
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by dbtc 4y ago
Maybe not so much for the individual user's experience, but society as a whole. We're seeing that targeted (political) ads are a powerful way to hack a democracy. If everyone is seeing the same shitty advertisement, at least they
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by dbtc 4y ago
"Give me the 1st item" --> a[1] "give me the 2nd item" --> a[2] "how many items are in the array?" 5 "what is the index of the last item?" 5 I am used to 0-indexed and prefer consistency... yet

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