medstrom

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541.
by medstrom 5y ago
That's a bold claim, can you unpack? Also, important for who?
542.
by medstrom 5y ago
It's always better if they speak a bit too fast, since you can pause at any time to digest what was said.
543.
by medstrom 5y ago
Yes, what I've sometimes done is search F-Droid first, then find that same app on the iOS app store.
544.
by medstrom 5y ago
I also love Clickbait Remover (1) to get rid of the customized thumbnail and instead show a random snapshot from the middle of the vid. These days the thumbnails are all noise and no signal anyway. 1: https://addons.mozilla.org&#
545.
by medstrom 5y ago
I've primarily used touch as a timestamp updater, not a file creator. But to be charitable, it is under the headline "Creating an empty file".
546.
by medstrom 5y ago
You should read about the CIA's study about words of estimative probability : https://waf.cs.illinois.edu/visualizations/Perception-of-Pro... Basically, when you use a term like "seemingly likely", you
547.
by medstrom 5y ago
Also there's an addon for hiding results from specific sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/
548.
by medstrom 5y ago
Does KDE not do the same for you? It was pretty strange back in the Plasma 4 days, but since Plasma 5 it's felt extremely "normal" and unsurprising, like Windows 7. I'm not a regular user so it's just my surface imp
549.
by medstrom 5y ago
Basically LXDE got rebranded into LXQt, though since DEs and WMs don't get obsolete fast, LXDE will continue to work for a long time. You can still pick LXDE in Debian if you prefer Gtk 2 for some reason.
550.
by medstrom 5y ago
LXQt seems like a marriage of great concepts, but I had difficulty finding end-user help last time I tried it. What sites would you go to? Where's the community at? Unrelated, but I wonder if anyone else feels this. All DEs seem broken
551.
by medstrom 5y ago
More than accent, in Europe you can hear odd word choices and sentence structure, because people internally translate from their native languages. "Take it careful when crossing the step" - what does this mean? You can also hear &
552.
by medstrom 5y ago
Sounds useful for an interactive shell. Perhaps even Fish shell could adopt it.
553.
by medstrom 5y ago
While this makes sense, an alternative hypothesis also makes sense: that consciousness just came when the hardware was there, and a standby state for it then evolved afterwards. It's easy to buy if you just postulate that the standby s
554.
by medstrom 5y ago
I've had the same experience with sleeping more after my coffee runs out, but it's only temporary, lasting maximum one week.
555.
by medstrom 5y ago
Another valuable lesson I got from that rabbit hole is that a "segmented" night's sleep is actually nothing to get upset over. If you wake up in the middle of the night, it doesn't indicate anything is wrong, and you can
556.
by medstrom 5y ago
This puzzled me until I realized you're talking about mainstream news-type sites. I agree on that, but these barely qualify as writing in the first place, since none of the traditional goals apply. It's like if the only kind of vi
557.
by medstrom 5y ago
Just a nitpick, but it doesn't matter what you value if you can't find it. Else the data would look quite different, e.g. all incels would be married. So what matters is what women find, not what they value.
558.
by medstrom 5y ago
Sorry, just anecdata from people I know. Perhaps I should not have posted.
559.
by medstrom 5y ago
In Sweden highly educated women are marrying down. Just goes to show there's no reason not to break this sort of data analysis up per country and sex, it's not hard to do and will give much more relevant numbers to whomsoever it c
560.
by medstrom 5y ago
Yes, it's not very relevant for an opinion piece how and where it's published. I could make a video that criticises YouTube and it still makes sense to put it on YouTube.
561.
by medstrom 5y ago
For the unaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
562.
by medstrom 5y ago
It's my understanding that when a customer appears this confused, they'll come back with loud complaints and bad reviews if you just sell them what they asked for. And the Apple Store doesn't want to look like they do bad ser
563.
by medstrom 5y ago
>but practically, how much influence does a person (who is not in a position of authority) have? Surprisingly much, for the kind of people who stay quiet. They underestimate their own potential impact.
564.
by medstrom 5y ago
Going by Wikipedia, it's not agreed why exactly he was executed, but you don't execute someone for being annoying. The official charges were impiety and "corrupting the youth". Probably some political groups felt threate
565.
by medstrom 5y ago
It seems reasonable to me; maybe I'm not modeling "most people" well, but it's hard to imagine someone going to dealerships multiple times for information; rather, they are shopping around for the dealerships to underbid
566.
by medstrom 5y ago
No. It's a matter of being used to something. When used to 1.8 cm, you go "wow" at 1.55, but going in the reverse direction is a shrugging matter. For weight it's the opposite. When used to a light laptop, you find a sli
567.
by medstrom 5y ago
I thought you could fix that by enclosing "BRST" in quotes, but apparently not. DuckDuckGo (which uses Google) returns a couple of results that do contain "BRST" in a medical context, but most results don't contain
568.
by medstrom 5y ago
TIL, thanks. Guess cui bono isn't a reliable method of deduction.
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by medstrom 5y ago
The code was always going to be possible to use under GPL2, even if it said GPL2+. It's not really placing their trust with anyone since they wouldn't lose anything. It's more of a flag waving op to keep corporate interest --
570.
by medstrom 5y ago
I agree it wouldn't hurt to redesign for CUA, but I'm not sure how much young blood it would actually invite. Hotkeys are just the first thing on a long list of things to learn, and if that first thing puts them off, maybe they w

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