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by farrelle25 3y ago
Maybe a long-shot: Last year I did 15 hrs a week proofreading CS and Engineering journal papers. Got around $300 - $350 per month - Company 1: https://cactusglobal.com/careers/freelance/ - Company 2: https:/
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by farrelle25 3y ago
I found a lot of practical CS applications in this one: "Coding The Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications" https://codingthematrix.com/ It used to be on Coursera too, has video lectures and
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by farrelle25 3y ago
You might enjoy "Excursions in the History of Mathematics" - Israel Kleiner. It's sort of inbetween popsci and Graduate Maths, probably undergrad level. Lots of historical "essays" covering Number Theory, Calculus&#
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by farrelle25 4y ago
Yes OSC 52 is very handy for vim over SSH: instead of X11 forwarding - you can just yank text from remote vim into the local clipboard using OSC 52 [1]. Overall it's much quicker - as yanking in vim with X11 forwarding and '+clipb
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by farrelle25 4y ago
I use TMUX all the time inside Gitbash for Windows. Some panes are SSH sessions into Linux servers etc. While other panes I use vim to edit local Windows txt files or just run other local Windows things. (This mightn't be what you were
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by farrelle25 4y ago
I run Termux on an Onyx Boox Leaf (e-ink reader). As well as using Onyx for ebooks, I keep 10 years worth of notes in markdown txt files that I edit in Vim & sync with git.
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by farrelle25 4y ago
> I've noticed in the past couple of years that my anxiety levels decrease significantly when I get ill. Gosh that's really interesting to read. I suffer from huge anxiety at work but this summer was sick for 3 weeks (but still
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by farrelle25 4y ago
The ancient Christian monks battled against procrastination, lack of motivation, etc.... they called it "Acedia" aka "The noon-day devil"... Apparently the monks felt a huge urge just to sleep, rest and abandon their stu
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by farrelle25 5y ago
I was eventually diagnosed with Aspergers late in life and I can relate a lot to the sentiment in this comment. (I'm not as talented as 'aspergersadd' but usually came up with good technical solutions for companies I worked f
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by farrelle25 5y ago
Yes I thought "Dragons Egg" was a classic. I remember reading it as a child and getting interested in Physics. I read it's an example of the "hard" science fiction genre - I think the author Robert Forward was actua
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by farrelle25 5y ago
Autojump is great. Another similar one with less functionality but a stripped down script is "bashmarks": https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks
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by farrelle25 6y ago
That's so true about playing with language... We had a resident with Downs who needed assistance every day ... But he got tired always asking "You help me?"... and started saying "I help you!" (and laughed)... We kn
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by farrelle25 6y ago
Fair play - it must have been tough with that pressure to support your family... I'm a bit frantic for more mundane reasons - suffer from an anxiety condition that triggers sometimes. It's ironic, working in that home with the res
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by farrelle25 6y ago
In 2006 I worked for six weeks in a residential home for people with disabilities - some had Down Syndrome. Even though the work was stressful & I've had many jobs since, I still remember each resident so clearly. I don't know
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by farrelle25 11y ago
Adding/adjusting these two variables in ~/.tmux.conf should stop TMUX lockups and control the flow: c0-change-trigger c0-change-interval edit: you probably know those 2 already so maybe they don't control large tar.x
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by farrelle25 11y ago
On Lubuntu: When I get stuck on Flash I use the following script bound to a key (Ctrl+shift+l in my case): #!/bin/bash # Activate Firefox window wmctrl -a "Mozilla Firefox" # Move cursor to specified position
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by farrelle25 11y ago
"I gave it all up to work with my hands doing something." Yes I did this as well. Worked for 15 years as a programmer in financial services. Really found it depressing. Retrained as a care assistant to work in a nursing home. Find
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Peace app creator pulls top ad blocker(theguardian.com)
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by farrelle25 11y ago
On my old iPad 2 I use "Weblock" which blocks most ads and makes browsing on Safari bearable... Apparently it sets up a "Proxy Auto Configuration" that has a blacklist, any ads get routed to > /dev/null (but
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by farrelle25 12y ago
Dealing with strangers in a public space is often a problem women have to endure. Both my sisters have told me about borderline harassment and/or inappropriate attention they received while going about their daily lives.
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by farrelle25 14y ago
Bookmarks from the Firefox URL bar are very handy. I have about 1000 bookmarks and have the set the option: "When using the Location Bar, suggest: BOOKMARKS". This gives me fuzzy bookmark matching from the URL bar. Can find any bookmark in
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by farrelle25 14y ago
Totally agree with this. I've just finished a BSc Physics-Math at a UK "Top 20" University. The standard of many lectures was very poor with only a few exceptions. Without Khan Videos I wouldn't have grasped many of the concepts. (The lectu