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whatisyour
3y ago
Research has shown that writing notes by hand leads to better retention than typing even if the notes are never read in the future. However, given that writing is just 7000 years old, I'm not sure how long will it take before typing to
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whatisyour
3y ago
And you can see it everywhere. People prefer being salaried to starting their own companies.
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whatisyour
3y ago
Well yes, but in era of reproducible science, we need fonts which can be reproduced by the people who recompile the scientific data and regenerate the reports. Proprietary fonts are kind of a bottleneck in that respect.
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whatisyour
3y ago
In era of reproducible science, fonts being reproducible by people matters a lot more. And free fonts can be very good as well.
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3y ago
most distros are moving towards reproducible builds.
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3y ago
Fraction doesn't have to be rational.
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whatisyour
3y ago
if two different office suites failed to work with a document, then it might be that the document format is at fault. ;-)
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whatisyour
3y ago
A big reason for English being what it is in terms of pronunciation is exactly because of non-Anglophonic influence on English. The number of non-native speakers of English is twice the number of native speakers. At that point, there's
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3y ago
but mai tais on beach don't get you money, and if you are going to type on something, its better to make sure its comfortable for you.
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3y ago
It really depends on how much of neovim do you actually use. If you just use vim navigation key bindings then the VSCode neovim mode is nice. But if you are slowly curating the editor itself over time as you find new needs and implement you
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3y ago
VSCode plugins still take a massive effort to write in comparison to vim/neovim where you could basically do everything in your vimrc.
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3y ago
Vim (Or rather neovim) now is that tool that grows with you as you age. So, as you mentioned, even I have small small things I've added and removed from my vim/neovim setup over the years as I have changed with the code. For me pe
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3y ago
Yes, its no different from any other server. If it was a desktop computer, you will connect your HDMI to it to a monitor and put GPUs on its PCIe slots and attach hard drives to NVMe.
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3y ago
it's a normal chip like your x64 chip.you install ARM variant of your linux distribution on it and run it natively. source: I have one
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4y ago
This is indeed extremely stressful. When I say work from home, I only have to make sure that I am present for the correct meetings and have the work done. No one cares otherwise.
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4y ago
I disagree. There was ARM which would have taken over the mantle. And given the recent wins of M1 just due to abilty to decode instructions better, x86 would have died much earlier.
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4y ago
Itanium failed because of VLIW instruction set, not because of any other reason.