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by girzel 9y ago
One of the most amazing disease-related things I've ever read was something about cholera (of course I will never remember the original source), and the fact that it doesn't have to be fatal at all, so long as you rehydrate proper
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by girzel 9y ago
I am often late, despite trying not to be. I am also sometimes early. I once arrived 24 hours early for a flight. On two occasions recently I arrived at a doctor's appointment the day before. The first time they thought it was quirky,
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by girzel 9y ago
Looks like some sort of Star-Wars-style planet-destroying ray has been used on the sphere. Weird things happen after the initial burn passes, too -- the play of smoke on the surface is pretty interesting.
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by girzel 9y ago
To me, this effect is only prevented by the fact that I get the articles emailed to my Kindle. If I was just marking something to "read later", and expecting to read it later on my computer's web browser, it would never happe
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by girzel 9y ago
It's fun to consider that the British Isles (and indeed all of Europe) was once a vast forest. I visited Dartmoor a few years ago, and the moors have such a feeling of antiquity about them it's easy to forget that they, too, were
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by girzel 9y ago
I work in publishing, and tangentially with children's books published inside and outside of China. My main observation is that the Chinese market for children's books (read: parents) is totally uninterested in books produced in C
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by girzel 9y ago
Properly formatted (ie, in LaTeX), the real ellipsis character is the only way to go. With fixed-width fonts it's ugly, but with fixed-width fonts most of the typography is in your imagination, anyway. The hideous [dot][space][dot][spa
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by girzel 9y ago
Ten mph faster, not ten times.
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by girzel 9y ago
I think it also has to do with a certain masculine energy, or exuberance, or desire to act. It's feminine to worry about consequences. It's masculine to damn the torpedoes. There's a real need for action – any action – and th
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by girzel 9y ago
That was a fun rabbit hole. I was amused to learn that bluetooth is named for a Danish king, and the bluetooth icon comes from runes.
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by girzel 9y ago
They ought to have said Gnu/Linux, as per their own propaganda! I'm guessing if the word "Hurd" doesn't appear anywhere on the page, it's still Linux.
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by girzel 9y ago
Not true for Asia. Perhaps some smaller South-East Asian countries have seen the writing on the wall and started learning Chinese, but for the most part the defining characteristic of Asian countries is that they each pretend they are the o
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by girzel 9y ago
> “I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems.” "M-x doctor" aside, try getting on #emacs and talking to fsbot. I swear I have seen some of the eeriest exchanges between human and robot in that channel – it's
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by girzel 9y ago
I believe it's better! But it is still trying to handle application/octet-stream. Ie, it must have registered itself as a default fallback somewhere, and I can't find where...
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by girzel 9y ago
Switched yesterday, so far loving it! My objection to Chrome was mostly on principle (anti-Google), so it's nice that there's a performance-based reason to switch to Firefox as well. Though I just ran into a problem that reminded
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by girzel 9y ago
It's only a two-year school! Some stay for three years, for reasons that are beyond me, but two years is the norm. And every year, at least one person bails after one year. That was very nearly me.
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Arete Project: A Deep Springs College for Women(newyorker.com)
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by girzel 9y ago
Basically, they were too busy to write unit tests.
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by girzel 9y ago
Damn, I didn't realize I hadn't been updating the Android client. Just did it. The only sad thing is that the previous no-updates message has been replaced. It used to read "Congratulations! Your apps are up to date (or your
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by girzel 9y ago
> (Disclosure: Mindfulness helped my anxiety a lot. I believe it to be more than placebo, but then I would, wouldn't I?) I don't see why this would need to be dismissed as a placebo. A placebo is something that works by trick
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by girzel 9y ago
Nick Bonner, the author of the book reviewed in the article, once ran (still runs?) Koryo Studio[1] in Beijing, which carries a bunch of North Korean art and "stuff". I once bought a slim volume of film theory there, by Kim Jong-i
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by girzel 9y ago
Asking for money might be a bit much! It's still Lars' package, after all, and no one has asked for money for it so far. Plus, I'd be afraid of the "you broke it, you bought it" policy – I don't want to be res
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by girzel 9y ago
I agree with all of the above! I do use it, and am working on refactoring it (very slowly). I wrote a generalized search language for it a few months ago, which relieved some of the searching pain, but it is waiting for another rather large
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by girzel 9y ago
Don't give up on Gnus, it's still got plenty of life in it!
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by girzel 9y ago
I wish the Github page said something (anything) about how this is different from/better than Emacs' existing Notmuch client...
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by girzel 9y ago
I don't understand this either. The only way Facebook would be allowed to operate in China is if they do what the other Chinese social media sites do: have armies of staff on hand to delete politically sensitive content. Facebook would
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by girzel 9y ago
The enforcement of regulations in China is frighteningly efficient and effective, while the issue at hand is foremost in the minds of leaders . The government insists on retaining personal control over the country, and weakens the country&
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by girzel 9y ago
In the global race for valid metaphors for quantum theory, I thought this was a pretty good one, thank you.
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by girzel 9y ago
So: EPA BAD
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by girzel 9y ago
Here's where Chinese history diverges from "everyone else's" history. In China, dynasty-ending revolutions have nearly always begun with peasant uprisings.

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