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by rg111 4y ago
> "As a challenge, last year, when I taught a class (as a volunteer)- I made all my slides with Impress." You missed this bit? I did use Impress to make slides for 7 classes (>100 slides). I will go with PP for now. And, y
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Thank you. I will try Ted Chiang.
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I am fortunate enough to work at a place where I don't have to make more than bare minimum number of presentations. If I had to make a lot of them, then maybe I would have learned Impress up to a level. But as that isn’t the case, I st
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I am currently reading The Joy of Abstraction. This is a fine book. But what this book needed is a good editor. Most space of most chapters of the book is written like a preface. This book also suffers from what many technical books suffers
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I loved Three Body Problems as well. What are your other favorite sci-fi novels, and books in general? (Send some general fiction recs on my way if you feel like it.)
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> "Linux on laptops has been a tremendous pain in my experience. " Using Linux ~99.9% of times at both work and personal use for the last five years. 0.1% is Windows, because PowerPoint. Using Pop OS (NVIDIA) for the last 2.5
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ChatGPT.
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Good question, because it is indeed the default behavior. But you can always tweak settings to run the 3rd party sync app always in the baclground, and override the battery optimization setting for that particular app.
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It's always the policy that should be modified, and not the tech that should be stopped. Because bad policies can do only damage. And tech can do both good and bad.
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You can always use Mega sync. And it has 15 GB free forever, just like Google Drive. Mega sync has native clients in MacOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android.
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How he became a prominent podcaster- that I don't know. I can tell you why I like him. It's because he gives so much space to his guests, and these podcasts are solely structured as interviews. Many other podcasters think highly
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Why does this have to be true? My experience with life has been different. I took some elements from the person I was born to be. Only some elements of careful choice. This made me a better person, a better human in the long run. In the sho
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What is the most fun and best source to learn OCaml for a programmer? I know this one [0] so far. Also the famous Coursera PL course [1] covers ML. [0]: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html [1]: https:/&#
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What is the most fun and best source to learn OCaml for a programmer? I know this one [0] so far. Also the famous Coursera PL course covers ML. [0]: https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
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My question is, for Physics or CS or Bio, Indians coming to West makes sense to me. But why for Sanskrit, too? India should be the top place to study Sanskrit and do research in it? Why is that not the case?
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Does Sanskrit research- linguistic research in general- require much funding? I would think that it is like traditional number theory or philosophy research in terms of funding. Please inform me if I am wrong.
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I started using Linux with Linux Mint. Then moved to Pop OS NVIDIA edition 2/3 years ago. I _NEVER HAD_ a Linux Evening. I only faced problems for my noobness in my earlier years, and help was always a reddit visit away.
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It's interesting that a Sanskrit breakthrough happens not in India, but in England, a Western nation, by a PhD candidate researching under a European scholar. Can someone explain to me why the breakthrough didn't happen in India?
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> currently it is handwriting recognition on iPad, I haven't tried it in years and I can't believe how good it is now Could you please let me know which app are you talking about here?
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Yes. Breaks are wondrous in problem-solving. When stuck (and when not), take breaks and do other stuff. In ~95% of the cases, solutions come to you. In the rest 5%, you reach out to someone who can help. Breaks are miracles in problem-solvi
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Yes. Why do you need to tie your whole self to one IDE/editor? I use VS Code when writing IoT code, or trying a new language/framework. I use vim for regular editing. And I use Jupyter Notebook for all my Deep Learning work. I don
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> That’s why I am currently trying to get back to using Emacs. I just wish that people write such posts six months after they have made the switch. The author has only started. He only has stuff set up and checked speed. He hasn’t ye
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Obsidian for notes, wikis, and, anything that needs to live for more than a week. This is, by far, the most used knowledge management app used by me. Simplenote's free, one-click web publishing feature for single pages I need to check
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American Football watchers grow up watching American Football. Compared to that number, nobody grows up watching Dota.
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- Work has to be interesting and should make me better. - Nice and sophisticated co-workers, and its overlap with company culture- which is significant. - Should provide work-life balance. - Either should be a very stable company with lower
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Can someone please explain to me how can a company by stake in a stock exchange ? How can an exchange even have stocks for sell? How do they profit? What will MS gain from it?
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I have been a nerd all my life with long reading and computer hours. My eyesight has barely gotten worse. Here are the things that I do: - Blue light filter on all screens, whenever indoors. That's 100% of times on most days. - Lowest
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Same goes for me. I get bored while walking/running, and can only do it while having music on (running) or have a podcast/audiobook (walking). Music doesn't really mess with your mind going somewhere. And you can discover con
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Only if you live in a place where sunshine is pleasant. Treadmill has been a lifesaver for me and has finally let me have a consistent running/walking habit. Couldn't go out in the dawn as I am a night owl. When I managed that,
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Just get a treadmill. Not as pleasant as walking in nature, among trees, or by a lake. But beats walking in a crowded city or having to cross roads anyday. I live in a place where it is too hot, and only time people can go on walks is dawn&

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