hc-taway

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by hc-taway 6y ago
Oh yeah, I love the "office suite". It reminds me of when I ran Linux and used some of the lighter, alternative office-type options (OpenOffice was so damn heavy and not all that pleasant to use) like Gnumeric, Abiword, et c., e
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by hc-taway 6y ago
A note for any macOS n00bs out there getting M1s: the first rule of having crazy-good battery life on a MacBook is to use Safari . Chrome and Firefox eat battery (and memory, and CPU cycles) like it's free. If you've not used Saf
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by hc-taway 6y ago
That they last so long (and, consequently, have high resale value even when they're several years old) is part of why Apple can charge so much in the first place. The resale-value thing also helps people justify those 2-3 year replacem
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I have to disable most of the Touch Bar (set it not to change with context, and replace most of it with a blank "spacer") to make it usable. I tend to just barely brush it when striking number keys during normal typing (which ha
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Agreed that iOS7 was a big UX downgrade. It went from being the only OS I'd be halfway-comfortable turning older tech-illiterate relatives loose on, to yet another OS that would leave them confused and lost much of the time. Discoverab
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Once you're above the grade of "cheese" that I'd suppose Europeans wouldn't recognize as such at all, even our low-end actual cheese in the US is incredibly expensive compared to (Western, at least, IDK about the
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Looks worriedly and significantly at my sleeping cat .
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Trouble is, lots of laptops are subtly (or not so subtly) damaged over time by extra stuff being closed in the lid. Apple laptops, notably, but plenty of others too. It'd be much better for it to be built-in. Covers also ruin the (abso
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by hc-taway 6y ago
1) physical kill switch for camera (as in, it breaks the power or data connection to it, physically) or at least a physical cover. 2) physical kill switch for the microphone These are very much not "nerd" concerns, either. I see a
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by hc-taway 6y ago
The norm used to be never to post personal info online. Yes, some things could still be found out, and there were still attack vectors, but typing your real name in a web form, except maybe (and only fairly late in the time period I&#x2
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I've started searching for "ethnic" recipes in their home languages, because the English-language ones are often so badly under-spiced that the called-for amounts aren't even useful as a rough estimate (for e.g. shopping
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> Prescriptivists never seem to add that clarifying nuance to their advice though. They often do, in my experience. AFAIK it hasn't been common to attempt any kind of real, strict prescriptivism in English since the middle of last c
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by hc-taway 6y ago
A lot of writing rules are of the "follow it until you know how and when to break it" variety. That way if you never learn how to break them correctly, your writing is still a lot better than it was. It's no surprise that stu
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> Fiction and poetry vs whatever type of writing blogging is. Essayists, pamphleteers, and diarists (blogs), and aphorists (Twitter). Genres with centuries-long histories.
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> I would argue that academic writing tends to be pretty poor. The above-namedropped David Foster Wallace certainly thought so. Among people who spend their days thinking about language I'm pretty sure academese is considered more o
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by hc-taway 6y ago
If they’re just warning but letting you proceed, that’s fine. They do that because they see looooots of people screwing up their own email addresses in a few common ways. Run any email signup with a general audience and any kind of volume a
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Sports are another big reason parents want older kids to get to school earlier than younger kids (as they can't take everyone at once, or else you need way more busses)—longer daylight hours after school for practice. Any attempt to ch
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Yes, as is Pop Shell implemented on top of Gnome (mentioned in another comment). You can tell they've made some questionable decisions when you try to use Gnome on very weak hardware. On an old dual-core Celeron w/ 2GB memory I fo
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> There are qualitative differences in response between people with and without ADHD, that manifest across the board, not just on few school metrics - and a psychiatrist will be able to see them. I was under the impression that this &quo
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it. Unless all the kids illegally buying ADHD meds to do better in school when they have not been diagnosed with ADHD (and adults doing t
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> Well said, Cephalus, I replied; but as concerning justice, what is it? --to speak the truth and to pay your debts --no more than this? And even to this are there not exceptions? Suppose that a friend when in his right mind has deposite
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> ORY Kratos, as an example, will happily create different conceptual types of users and you can store arbitrary data in those user documents, but it is modified through an API and exposes to you stable IDs against which you can code the
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Around ‘08 or ‘09 they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and decided webspam could rank highly as long as it didn’t get too nasty. The whole web (as far as searches results will tell you) promptly turned into webspam. I imagine thi
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by hc-taway 6y ago
The effect of amphetamines on kids with ADHD is to improve school performance. The effect of amphetamines on kids without ADHD is to improve school performance. The effect of amphetamines on kids without ADHD but who've been diagnosed
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Two of my kids (one a boy and one a girl) act absolutely nuts and "must" have something like ADHD... until you make sure they run around outside at least 4hrs a day, consistently. Then they're fine. Unfortunately this is effe
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by hc-taway 6y ago
King Solomon's Mines would count as fantasy-adventure, for its time period. It gets listed among influences on or precursors to 20th-century fantasy literature pretty often. I think it's 200ish pages, maybe 250. It's closer
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> As if I had left a traumatic situation, I vividly remember enjoying a lot finally having time for myself after work the first few years after I dropped out of high school. I had to put real effort 8 hours a day, then nothing else was e
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by hc-taway 6y ago
My graduating class was remarked on through multiple schools as an exceptionally smart class. We had lots of very bright boys and girls. Maybe our class was unusual in other ways so this isn't part of a broader trend or tendency, but p
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I think it depends on where you're coming from—like, what do you already read? Romance? Sci-fi? Fantasy? Contemporary adventure fiction? Young adult (Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, et c.)? There are a couple kinds of classics: there a
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I only mentioned the tax thing because for some reason when I've brought this up other places people thought I was trying to avoid paying taxes. So I figured I'd head that off at the beginning. I just want to move somewhere with

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