alessivs

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by alessivs 4mo ago
I've been using this shoelace knot on all kinds of laced shoes–even those featuring bad quality, tubular, inflexible, shoreline convenience shop-like laces since 2010-ish; in fact, I've found it to be the only efficient knot that
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by alessivs 7mo ago
Let's get this behavior to be the default in Wordpress and Laravel for public sections—that would cover a lot of ground. I regularly encounter and suffer from unmodified instances of Laravel's default session cookie timeout of 120
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by alessivs 10mo ago
Drew's direct engagement into tech cancel-culture (with targets such as DHH, RMS, Andreas Kling, Jack Dorsey), makes it difficult to do business with him (assuming hosted sourcehut service as an alternative to codeberg). Furthermore, a
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by alessivs 1y ago
Radiopharmacy / Nuclear pharmacy. While peaceful, it's a delicate science and some kind of inspections are usually enforced. Thankfully, Iran did allow IAEA inspectors and is a signatory of the NPT (non-proliferation treaty). One
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by alessivs 1y ago
Ultima games incorporate archaic language constructs in their dialogues and texts, but they are fictionalized rather than historically informed. I call it "langfic" (as in "fanfic"). The French edition of U7 is also noto
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Please go away, Tim Berners-Lee (2019)(matthewbutterick.com)
13 points by alessivs 4y ago|3 comments
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by alessivs 5y ago
They also fail to acknowledge the thousands deaths on both sides since 2014 until today, since the coup and introduction of Maidan snipers to kill the innocent. To name a concrete example, you can freely consult the magnitude of the casualt
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by alessivs 5y ago
You could have spared us the affronting lack of tact in purporting to be both litigant and judge in an ongoing conflict, the infantile role-playing as a war tribunal, and the omission of your conflict of interest in your diatribe (part of y
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by alessivs 5y ago
That isn't it either. See [1] There are analyses and processes (both software-based and relating to one's assessment of learning significance when deciding to add material) only possible with the priority queue implementation in S
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by alessivs 5y ago
Yes, go ahead and read deeply. In spite of the chosen TLD, disagreeing with any piece of advice doesn't accidentally invalidate other ideas like some guru's all-or-nothing self-contained theory. There is also no luring you into si
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by alessivs 5y ago
Moderators sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.
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by alessivs 5y ago
No relation with https://epicpython.io/ ?
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by alessivs 5y ago
> I need to once over a paper to even be sure the cards created are worth remembering. In my experience, this task is still better when distributed over time. Time-distributed reading involves distributed judgement of quality. What Incre
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by alessivs 5y ago
Every mentioned problem (workload, new vs. old reading task distribution, scheduling, plus retention) is exactly what incremental reading–at least, as implemented in the other prominent SRS–aims to solve (which it does, rather well). Does t
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by alessivs 5y ago
> I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs ...snip... some multicolored highlighters xournalpp, okular.
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by alessivs 5y ago
I was referring to a choice between WebKit and Chromium/Blink in Otter, not the web in general, though the sheer resources required to keep up with the Web(R) from other players may be leading us that way (hopefully not). For example,
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by alessivs 5y ago
As noted in a sibling to your comment, there's a choice between WebKit and Blink (your build allowing). Here's QT's note addressing your concern in QtWebEngine: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine#Relationship_to_C
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by alessivs 5y ago
> The web needs independent browsers...[websites] should work on any browser Unfortunately, independence ends with the choice between WebKit (QtWebKit) or Blink (QtWebEngine), albeit with a faithful Opera 12-like interface that's le
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by alessivs 5y ago
Depending on your build, you have a choice between: - QtWebKit: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_WebKit - QtWebEngine: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine (I realized I replied to a previous version of the parent comment)
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Why SuperMemo thrashes any note-taking system(masterhowtolearn.com)
2 points by alessivs 5y ago|2 comments
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by alessivs 5y ago
It is the process you broadly describe, and more. I use it and it has turned addictive. The very registration of texts into a priority queue (SuperMemo implementation) relieves from stress inherent to keeping reviews of high volumes of poss
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by alessivs 5y ago
(The expanded and updated version of the parent's first referenced article is [1].) I'd say on-topic. The core of incremental reading is a highly configurable mechanism of distributed exposure to your notes over time, which is an
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by alessivs 5y ago
Domain presstv.ir is still functional. Here's their reporting on the events[1]. [1]: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/06/22/660671/Iranian-Regi... Edited to remove co.uk and tv, which seem to
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by alessivs 5y ago
> The real answer is to legalize & sell it, no more drug dealers On the other hand, there are huge profits and motivators for money laundering. Ask HSBC, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Western Union, or Citigroup.
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by alessivs 5y ago
George Steiner discussed this in «The Secular Messiahs» (part of «Nostalgia for the Absolute» ): > [They]...are not only attempts to fill the emptiness left by the decay of Christian theology and Christian dogma. They are themselves a
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by alessivs 5y ago
Where does MusicXML interoperatibility fall short the most?
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by alessivs 5y ago
Pollen is just a very extensible and composable slate for you to compose content. Under the hood, Pollen may be equivalent to the Scribble language without the fixed export structures and styles. That the outputs look very good may be corre
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by alessivs 5y ago
> On the "toxic" front, one of the core team apparently ... was arrogant. An ingredient that may contribute to judgment of this video testimony, is that the same person that describes this toxic environment accuses someone prov
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by alessivs 5y ago
Is this public information? Where can I read more about SM-19?
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by alessivs 5y ago
Alt+Tab is usually bound to "Switch applications", which means all of the target application's windows come to the front, possibly sending every other application window out of view. Sometimes a more direct approach is to use

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