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by sleightofmind 5y ago
This, then, is a limitation of your induction unit. Mine has two modes: Heating, and Temperature. In temperature mode, the cycling you describe occurs. For this reason I almost never use temperature mode. In heating mode, I get the most con
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
It has an interesting EULA.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
The daughter of a friend of mine (just a grade-school-aged child at the time) demonstrated for me how she could hold one eye completely fixed (staring straight ahead) and move the other eye independently, turning it outwards as far as she c
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I love seeing the awareness, gratefulness, and empathy in this page of comments. Bless you all and the Nadellas.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Yep. Plain text. Offline first. I pretty much consider markdown a form of plain text, whether or not that point of view is orthodox. The only two other doc tools I regularly use are a) completely human-readable plain-text hierarchical noteb
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Yep. When marking many files for selection the twin-pane file managers let your mind (and your stomach) rest easy. I sometimes use ranger with two or more tabs to similar effect. There was/is a Tcl/TK twin-pane file manager I like
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I'm thankful for Firefox reader view. Had that not worked, it would have been a quick Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V into my fav editor. Good article. I'm not sure why someone would intentionally make it more difficult to read. The world
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Don't know where to find it, but I read another such mystery involving the same real life detective, that involved a girl who when into a motel, and never came out. I'm sure someone will know what I'm referring to. OK, found
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
There is something quite satisfying about stumbling on a superbly-written, over-the-top rant after a long drought. Rants are just so much fun when they're done by a competent wordsmith with a great sense of sarcasm. It probably helps t
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I find Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, followed by a visit to my favorite text editor often works like a champ -- even when scrolling is disabled and only a paragraph or two is visible.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Calling that article excellent is almost understatement. One of the most fascinating true crime articles I've read. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Love your ironic sense of humor -- intentionally misspelling Grammarly in a comment on a style and grammar checker. Too rich!
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Despite the assurances from the Google employee (Danny Sullivan) at the end of the article, I have not found quoting a phrase to work reliably, especially if trying to exclude the phrase. But what I have found to work is typing the quoted p
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Ask HN: Why can't I open an ePub image/chart in a new tab?
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Sadly, I live in this Sheriff's jurisdiction. It's embarrassing. And yeah, puns about his last name using a short "i" are in order. Civil asset forfeiture disturbs me. I mean it really, really disturbs me -- deep down in
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Yep. Agreed. There comes a point at which silence is no longer an option. Navigating family gatherings has probably always been treacherous. Hard to know when to remain silent, and commiserate later with the obvious target of undeserved cri
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I like your analysis, and it sounds reasonable and true to me. But in it, there are the seeds of an approach to better Turkey Day dinners. Their reluctance to criticize sounds like a recipe for getting along at large seasonal family gatheri
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Please, a hardware rocker that serves as an up/down arrow key. Make it dirt simple to enable/disable in software (via, of course, the touch screen). Millions of people, with of without physical challenges will thank you by buying
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
The gnome aisleriot collection of solitaire games has something similar. Select menu item Control, then Click To Move. It's not quite as visual as what you describe, though. Once you get used to it, conventional drag and drop is a pain
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Useful insight. Just what I needed. Thanks!
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Actually, her very first book, We the Living, is to me the best of the bunch. Because of its setting, it makes it very clear where Ayn's hatred of collectivism/socialism/communism comes from. Also, it tends to show rather tha
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am anything but a medical professional, and I fully expect to be corrected on some things I write here. No offense will be taken. You may very well have had AFib as confirmed by a cardiologist, so don't take this comment
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Thank you for this comment. So beautiful. Similar experience three years ago, including Mom's Alzheimer's, and falls for both. Dad lived long enough to see Mom out. It's all he wanted, then he was ready to go, and did two wee
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Well said. I can tell you're speaking from hard-earned experience. To respect your aging parent's agency as long as their mental faculties permit is one of the greatest acts of love one can give to their parent. It might be hard t
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
This. A thousand times. I'm an oldster -- and no, 40 is not old. My vision varies from dead sharp to blurry depending on eye fatigue, probably blood sugar levels, and how my rather large floaters are behaving. But by the end of a day o
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I feel for your "gut". Often, if I'm learning a new math concept, my head says, "Yeah, I can do that manipulation just fine," but my gut says, "Something's not right here. Nope. Uh huh. Don't like it.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
He just discarded it. It wasn't a fancy restaurant, though some of the cooks had fine dining experience.
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
When I was a young man, nearly 50 years ago, I worked as a trainee with a cook who did something somewhat similar. He would cook one side of the eggs in a small egg pan, and then slide them onto a large dark leaf of lettuce (romaine?) place
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
Preparing to duck... Xojo is proprietary, free for non-commercial use, software platform that I'm told is quite similar to Visual Basic. I never used VB so I can't vouch for the similarities, but it looks similar. Usable on Linux,
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by sleightofmind 5y ago
I use gjots2, a hierarchical plain text note taker. If I need photos, LaTex, inline math, or such, I use Zim -- a local desktop wiki. And of course, I use text files, permanent and otherwise. The nice thing about both gjots2 and Zim, is tha

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