CryingSofa

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by CryingSofa 5y ago
Somewhat. The free educational license was only acceptable for 'personal' projects, so not suitable for class work.
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
Sadly they don't solve conflict resolution. They just push the problem to the application developers. From [1]: > All the DHT does is accumulate all these [updates] and present them to the application. 1: https://develope
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
Oooh, so that's why I've never ever seen the buttons for breakout rooms or to participate in votes? And there's nothing out there that says that's the reason. Any searches I did to find out why these things don't wo
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
Definitely, and not just for creating things. Continuing here allows you to keep your train of thought without a distraction. The button I use most in my file manager is 'Open in Terminal' and I love it because I don't have
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
Absolutely. I recently switched my bookmark to https://news.ycombinator.com/best and I get much more high-quality links in the list. Now, I read about 60% of the stories. Previously it was more like 10%. Also, links stay on
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
The definition of 'retirement' is a common debate in the FIRE space. Often (not always!) it boils down to fights over definitions. Would you call daily volunteering at a soup kitchen (or church, or whatever) 'retired'? B
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by CryingSofa 5y ago
This is mostly nitpicking: What you describe is the idea of FI (financial independence), no RE (retire early). In my impression, this is actually what by far the most FIRE-achievers turn into sooner or later (well-known examples: chooseFI,
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by CryingSofa 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of obsidian.md. It should tick all your boxes.
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by CryingSofa 6y ago
Yes, but some knowledge is a requirement to really understand something. Trivial example: can you really understand addition of numbers if you can't remember how to do it? Pure memorization of facts is also really helpful to creating n
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by CryingSofa 6y ago
Besides learning vocabulary, the one place I'm really getting great results with Anki is exam preparation. Exams are often in a very well-defined scope where you can rote learn most of the definitions, and the few exercise variants tha
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by CryingSofa 6y ago
IIRC only the AppImage works properly on Linux. Snap and Flatpak give trouble for many users.
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by CryingSofa 6y ago
Zettlr is a Zettelkasten tool that has great bibtex and Zotero integration [1]. [1] https://docs.zettlr.com/en/academic/citations/