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It might not be as easy as it used to be, but when I did remote PC tech support ca. 2008-2010, all day every day was almost nothing but removing infections of rogue (fake) antiviruses and their supporting rootkits that people got via "
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For Dallas PD active calls: Screenshots: https://vgy.me/album/v8fzwq7Z crontab: https://snippet.host/ymeofo DB schema (which I'm sure could use some refinement, lol): https://snippet.ho
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2y ago
So, some tie-ins with "in the beginning was the Word" and "I am the Way", etc.?
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Couldn't say -- I'm just making a reference based on second-hand understanding of what the "literal" translation reads like. I hadn't heard about that bit being used as an intensifier, interesting.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia+AcademicPsychology+...
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2y ago
Handwriting in America, Thornton
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2y ago
Tao can Tao not constant Tao; Game can Game not constant Game
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Yes, normal Dvorak is not great for use on a smartphone, unless you usually type with both thumbs. For one thumb, especially swiping, I've found one-handed Dvorak for right hand to be a great fit. Works well for me on Multiling O Keybo
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After y'all've had such great success with the Stacked Contractions movement starting in 2017 -- which I would like to take credit for independently spearheading on the Neopets forums in the mid-2000s, but I'dn't've
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for (let i = 1; i <= 4; i++) { woman.getOn(floor); try { getDown(); } catch (e) { if (e instanceof NotUpError) { getUp(); getDown(); } } }
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I'm getting intermittent timeouts, here's archive in case we hug it https://archive.fo/kfSVV
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Lol, no, I hope not.* But here's something that did happen: I applied to an insurance data entry job to fill the gap. It was Q4 2019 and I'd been in the workforce since 2008. Lots of tech support including big-boy serious-business
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Granted, I don't know that there's not something to the idea of some kind of special benefit or effect that only handwriting has. It does feel meaningful and important in some way. But I more strongly suspect that it's a ma
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Here, have some fresh NOLF-inspired tunes while you revisit (I had Ba De Dum stuck in my head, lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry0IKvcjF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22CbAsfAV6M
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This is the National Court Reporter's Association; participating membership is for, as you say, stenographic court reporters and [stenographic] captioners, CART providers, and the like. Their membership FAQ mentions transcriptionists a
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Yeah, I tried Copilot for the first time the other day and it seemed to be able to handle this approach fairly well -- I had to refine the details, but none of it was because of hallucinations or anything like that. I didn't give it a
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Geez, shove it down my throat, why don't you? I'm free all w--
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I thought it was fine, I wasn't confused for a moment. The only real problem here is that HN attracts a certain brand of nerds who are inclined to think it's hilarious when Maurice Moss says "Yes, it's one of those"
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2y ago
slap up a mediawiki and let people contribute VR dev documentation
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https://purelymail.com/pricing https://purelymail.com/docs/features
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More, now from books, defining or illustrating center-embedding. I'm not convinced that the constructions addressed by Martinez, et al. qualify, nor that legal writing has a particular problem with actual center-embedding, strictly spe
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From the supplementary material of their 2022 study "Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language"¹ (in this example, embedded clauses, the best example of which, in my opinion, can be fo
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Multiling O Keyboard
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Java Keywords Poem
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Someone in the Root Access chat room on superuser (StackExchange) asked a bot to post a list of Java keywords. Potential leapt out at me, and some hours of shuffling later, I had this. It uses a few extra reserved words rather than just the
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Lol, now for some reason I'm wondering what you think of the old "how to shoot yourself in the foot" / "how to determine which programming language you're using" jokes. I guess one actually realistic versi
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This (roughly) came up in a chat just yesterday. Someone posted a screenshot of a web browser using a font face with no glyphs or something, or I assume this is what causes this display of the codepoints(1). Reminded me of the kind of amate
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>Think deeply about the impacts of that I gave it a shot, but I wasn't able to get very deep about it in the first place. I couldn't even begin to come up with any ideas of what could really go wrong if everyone's papers c
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>further discussion and help with any difficulties This is the part where you "draw the rest of the teacher"(1) The part where all the magic happens. Public school teachers' day jobs anymore are rather focused on curriculu
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Seems vaguely worrying but maybe I'm just becoming fuddy-dudded or something. I've never used a car with a backup camera (did have a rear dashcam in one though) so maybe I just don't know. But the fields of view I see in imag
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