wastholm

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by wastholm 2y ago
As a tiny and very informal experiment in metacognition, I once told ChatGPT something along the lines of "I will now ask you a question. If you are not sure you know the correct answer, you will respond with only '418 I'm a
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by wastholm 2y ago
Not OP, but I found a series, not a movie, titled _One Cent Thief_ that fits the description. Sounds interesting. https://archive.org/details/OneCentThiefSeries
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by wastholm 3y ago
The best frying pan I've ever owned is the cheapest-possible cast iron one I got when I moved out of my parents' house 30 years ago or so. Very rarely does anything stick and when it does I fill the pan half way with water, put it
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by wastholm 4y ago
I still use (KDE Plasma's) wobbly windows, but set very low. In general in GUIs I prefer a very quick animation to an instant change, perhaps because it helps make things seem more fluid and dynamic and because it guides my eyes to whe
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by wastholm 4y ago
Something like this? https://store.planetcom.co.uk/ No affiliation, just a (mostly) happy owner of a Gemini. They don't seem to sell those anymore and I can't vouch for the other models but they look nice too, I g
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by wastholm 5y ago
> If not pure coding projects, at least for things like markdown, having a preview could help. Everybody's needs are different, of course, but I personally find that Vimwiki [1] gives me all the preview I need, right in the editor,
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by wastholm 5y ago
To each their own indeed. For me, as someone who uses KDE/Plasma by choice and Windows because sometimes I have to, it has been a source of humor for years and years how an environment literally called Windows can have such hilariously
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by wastholm 5y ago
A nitpick perhaps, but I was surprised to see `cite` used to enclose the author's name in your `blockquote` example. I was under the impression that `cite` is meant to be used to mark up titles of books and similar, not author names, a
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by wastholm 5y ago
A very significant part of the pool of interesting projects in "my" market is only available under framework agreements for which solo consultants will not be considered (but Kvadrat will). If I were completely solo, I would have
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by wastholm 5y ago
I work at a place where about 500 independent consultants/contractors have outsourced branding, training (to a degree), office admin, and, above all, sales to a shared organization.[1] Those who want can become "partners" by
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by wastholm 5y ago
Thanks, I'll keep this in mind. (I have given some Calf plugins some light usage in Qtractor without noticing any obvious problems.)
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by wastholm 5y ago
> Stay away from CALF even though they look pretty. Why, what's wrong with them? Thanks for a very informative comment!
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by wastholm 5y ago
> mobile web browsers provide a worse experience compared to native applications, unlike Electron or Chrome on Desktop that provides a much better experience in general Electron apps are perhaps faster and cheaper to make than native des
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by wastholm 5y ago
I've been using KOrganizer[1] for longer than I can remember. For better and/or worse, it's pretty tightly integrated with the Plasma desktop. For now at least, I use it with Google Calendar as its backend. Every once in a lo
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by wastholm 5y ago
I don't know if it qualifies as a "mathematical coincidence" or not, but I find it amusing to demonstrate to kids that you can multiply 142,857 by 1, 2, 3, etc., and the result is always a number with the same digits but in a
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by wastholm 5y ago
I got a 404 at that address but this seems to be the same article (I had to override a TLS certificate warning to get it): https://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/...
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by wastholm 5y ago
I have not but it looks interesting so I will. Thanks!
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by wastholm 5y ago
Sure, you can SCP all the files you want but even if they're PDFs or EPUBs they won't show up in the interface. (I can't remember if I actually tried this or if I just read it somewhere. Maybe it's worth a shot.)
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by wastholm 5y ago
Yes, but the "only over USB" thing is unfortunate so I find myself mostly using the bundled cloud service, which is usually something I try to avoid relying on. Some sort of peer-to-peer sync like Syncthing would be great.
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by wastholm 5y ago
I bought a Remarkable 2 a month or two ago because I wanted a cool hackable e-ink Linux computer. But instead I immediately started using it as an e-book and document reader and note-taking pad, and nothing else. And, so far at least, that&
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by wastholm 5y ago
KDE -- I guess they want us to call it Plasma nowadays -- still has this feature (it's off by default, but you can enable it in Desktop Effects). It's pretty clunky to use, though: you have to hold down both Shift and Meta while d
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by wastholm 5y ago
> Never noticed someone trying to send a email to any addresses I haven't previously used. At least a few years ago, I noticed a lot of spam to <random first name>@<my domain> -- i.e., completely made-up addresses that I
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by wastholm 6y ago
> You don’t have to be a nationalist far-right in order to have an objective look at the situation in EU Sure, but I didn't say that. I said those are the only ones I hear making unsubstantiated alarmist claims about Europe, and&#x2
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by wastholm 6y ago
> COVID showed Europeans how dependent they are from China industry and US tech. I absolutely agree with you here. > Most Europeans know that Europe is declining and sinking slowly. Sorry, you lost me here. Outside of the nationalist
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by wastholm 6y ago
Same end result though. If I randomly get medical advice by people at my local bus stop and I therefore [mostly] stop trying to get it from other sources, the randos at the bus stop will have become my [main] source of medical advice.
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by wastholm 6y ago
I have never understood why people insist on getting news from Facebook. To me that seems a bit like heading to the nearest bus stop in search of medical advice. While I don't have a Facebook account myself, I do recognize that apparen
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by wastholm 6y ago
As someone with a daily email "newsletter" of my own [1], I am aware of (many of) the vagaries of spam filters. I use plain text only, though, so I couldn't use tracking pixels even if I wanted to. I do unsubscribe users if m
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by wastholm 6y ago
What irks me is when email newsletters that I'm willfully subscribed to (the Economist comes to mind) inform me that "since I haven't been interacting" my subscription will be terminated. I have too been "interactin
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by wastholm 6y ago
In case I'm not the only one who had no idea: MBSR = Mindfulness-based stress reduction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduc...
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by wastholm 6y ago
> The demise of checks is greatly exaggerated. That varies a lot by jurisdiction. I'm 50 and I haven't written a single check in my entire life. (Sweden.)

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