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by wharvle 3y ago
“Reminders” is better for things like shared shopping lists (not to say Notes shouldn’t be working better for you for this use case, but Reminders is another option that’s specifically for that kind of use case) [edit] in the latest version
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. A certain edge to that theme of the book did get dulled by that compromise made in the adaptation, I see what you mean.
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There exist programs to export them to markdown or what have you. Dunno how well they handle embedded media. I do a lot of copy-pasting screenshots or embedding PDF pages… or entire pdfs. [edit] “why screenshots?” 1) To record gui workflows
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I use Apple Notes and don’t bother to organize anything unless it’s a whole bunch of related material that I’m going to use together—notes for an rpg session, say. All the rest, I just make sure that I give it a title that I’ll recognize wh
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Yeah, it was alright. They did a really good job considering it was made-for-TV.
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When I’ve been at companies large enough to need to solve communication issues, I’ve seen two major styles: 1) Need something? Post in the relevant channel. Use @s if appropriate. If you’re in the wrong place, someone will let you know. Bre
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by wharvle 3y ago
My wife hates when media codes feminine as weak, as in pointedly avoiding ever displaying a strong female character being upset. Her perception is that a lot of media (and usually pieces trying to be extra-feminist) communicate “women can b
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Dourif’s daughter is in the sadly-truncated Dirk Gently show, and is an absolute delight.
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I like both Dunes for different reasons. I do think there’s a major challenge in adapting Dune, which is that Paul’s arc is just starting at the end. The narrative tension doesn’t let up until three books later. If you’ve only got one mov
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> why does that sand woman shout when Jessica says a certain word? This kind of thing is a “how much do you trust the audience?” thing. How literate are they in following a narrative? How much cultural or genre context are you relying on
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I can’t both listen well and take (extensive) notes. I have to pick one. Listening in class tends to be better, because then I can ask questions and will have followed along with what’s going on at least once. If the topic’s at all tricky f
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I dunno how it worked, but I went much of my childhood without an inner voice. Didn’t seem to hinder me at all. One day I played around with imagining my thoughts as a voice in my head. Kept it up for a few more days. When I tried to stop,
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These are interesting claims and points, perhaps, but remain disconnected from the original material. In particular: > They can incubate them elsewhere. Which, indeed, they do, as I have said. This needs an immense amount of developmen
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The claims he's addressing are, boiled down: 1) That leftist movements inevitably become more prone to violence (purges, genocide, violent repression of opponents in general, "reigns of terror") over time, and 2) Democracies
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by wharvle 3y ago
But the argument you'd prefer to focus on isn't connected to the topic in Scott's piece, because Scott's writing to address specific claims with predictive power (as in: we can "replay the tapes" of history and
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I remember being pleasantly surprised at how much gaming mileage I could get out of my 2014 MacBook Pro with Intel graphics. A huge proportion of Unity-engine games, for one thing, ran just fine, some even at high graphics (which, they stil
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by wharvle 3y ago
Last time I tried to totally banish Windows (it's only on my gaming machine), Linux hated my ~3-year-old AMD card (as in: a known-that-whole-time but unfixed driver bug that reliably made X and Wayland randomly crash a couple times a
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> Business owners are rewarded for shifting resources away from activities that consumers don't value highly (as evidenced by their willingness to pay for them) to ones that they do. If you feel that businesses are focusing on the w
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by wharvle 3y ago
I think you'd have to make some outlandish claims if you wanted to connect most of the material you're trying to bring in to the direct topic of this piece . Re-read the pieces Scott is responding to if you want to see what I mea
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My current hot take, as a longtime casual outside observer of the movement, is that the Rationalism movement is basically just Mensa with no membership requirements. And if you know Mensa's reputation....
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They're risky if you do know what you're looking for, because of all the counterfeits and return scams and such. They're basically only OK if you're buying trash-tier goods on purpose , because there's no reason
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Blaming consumers for the modern advertising industry is like blaming Soviet factory workers for bread lines.
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Right, the key reason this line stings so bad is precisely that 99.9% of money and effort spent on advertising is capitalism-friction. It's waste-energy. It's escalating zero-sum games. It emphatically does not need doing . It&#x
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Entertainment has gotten really weird now that we have (multiple forms of) recording, plus quick on-demand transmission to practically anywhere. Basically all "need" I have of new recorded (to include video games—on-demand and not
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I get actively angry with them over their absolutely terrible election coverage ("what are the implications of this event for so-and-so's campaign, and how might they respond? Let's ask our panel..." OH MY GOD MONDAY MOR
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I'm a big fan of Staniforth's translation. It reads remarkably close to a literal translation. I've done line-by-line, side-by-side comparisons with the Greek & Greek-English dictionary lookup, a painfully-literal Engli
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NPR when I was in college used language and an affect very similar to broadcast news from the 60s or 70s, which is before I was born so it's certainly not like it was "speaking to me on my generation's terms" or whatever
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Yes, I really think that all of this is both more money and more effort than a very high proportion of page-views on the web are valued by the person causing the page-view. I think there are implementation challenges to making a good system
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If I had to go back to a Linux desktop full-time—compelled by a witch's curse or something, I dunno, doesn't matter why—and it were an option (it's not) I'd pay quite a bit of money just to get supported version of Apple
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Excellent, quick, automatic, transparent-to-the-user OCR on basically all images that use native toolkit controls on both iOS and macOS was the kind of thing that instantly felt like a feature an OS needs to not feel incomplete . One of th

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