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One example is people supporting terrorism; it shocks me that some people who claim to be feminists can support such an unthinkingly misogynistic group as Hamas. Of course, some ge…

Most degrees do not create an educated person. An educated person needs a grounding in science, history, philosophy, literature, and - especially in our new age of disinformation -…

> If you are sedentary, intellectually inclined, and not cut out for a job in the trades, school may be good for you. The intellectually inclined are also badly affected by school.…

I developed a program to help with this — it's called "gitprof", since it helps with Git profiles. It's not completely flawless but it works fine, and I find it very helpful. https…

In my case, it only took a few months to be more effective with Vim than without it. Since I spend most of my time working, Vim is a great improvement to my quality of life. The be…

Lately I've taken to reading almost only classic literature; since books published before 1923 are in the public domain, the ebooks are very cheap indeed (i.e. completely free via …

If I'm learning educational material, I prefer to listen at 2x speed and pause regularly when I need to ponder something. I can't learn well at low speed because I'm apt to zone ou…

I found that one of my Python programs, which performs heavy calculations, was actually faster in WSL 2 than when running natively in Windows. I haven't tested it with WSL 1 though…