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No, one cannot. Modern medicine is part of our environment. Failure to make use of it is a failure to adapt to the current environment which lessens the disadvantage of individuals…

Jira. My only pet-peeves are: * it breaks native keyboard shortcuts. After disabling the shortcut overrides in settings, "/" is a NOP (which is weird, since disabling the overrides…

It only does full-exact-word searches. If a word is written in a slightly different form or you write only a part of it, it won't find it.

On the other hand, Swift changes so frequently that book authors teaching the language can't keep up with Apple to write up-to-date books. By the time a book comes out covering ver…

I have terminal bound to " + ". From there I run "cat > title.txt" or "cat >> title.txt" and type whatever I want to save. It's as frictionless as it can be.

> Yes, in theory all the people who refuse to reproduce will be gone and are replaced by the children of those who want to reproduce. Those, who do want to reproduce, will also be …

Just because an average user isn't able to quite put a finger on their frustration and its source, doesn't mean it isn't there. Studies show that even though users often won't be a…

> the Win10 calculator somehow needs a loading screen This right here made my day. No further comment on the state of technology today needed.

The original Emacs was written for Multics at a time when people outside of Bell Labs were largely unaware of the existence of Unix[1]. It also doesn't follow the Unix philosophy o…

I mostly agree with you and I'm not going to get even near Snaps and Flatpaks. However, ignoring the aspect of software distribution, wouldn't you agree that the approach taken by …

Sounds dystopian.

It's happening more and more frequently that once I go to a YouTube video page, I get the error "An error occurred. Please try again later.". When the issue happens, it's reproduci…

> First, this analysis was done on Arch Linux, a source-based distribution. Since you know at compile time what your environment is, I would expect the benefits to be smaller. And …

> Death is the greatest weakness of humanity, and to think otherwise is fatalist. We don't have to live eighty years at best and die. We can do better. Science advances one funeral…

I sympathize. Yours truly, C++ dev at work PS. HN formatting is a devil.

> GPU drivers are buggy (unless you use Metal Metal drivers are buggy as well and it's sometimes even better to use OpenGL: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1255250372215611397 …

> Many people need the social chitchat to feel OK. It is not a negative side of video conferencing, it is added value. It is an added value for some, and it is a negative value for…

Thank you! That's wonderful!

Another "Twitter thread" (sic!), another thing I would like to send a link to someone, but won't, because they don't know twitter and it's impossible to link to the expanded thing …

I've practised meditation in the past and it made my depression worse. Specifically, my thoughts would flow too freely between associations made in the past and made me think about…

At work we're forced to use a service for exchanging files where uploading a file is only possible in Chrome, but downloading a file is sometimes only possible in Firefox. Pinnacle…

> Emacs is a TUI too That's an alternative way of using it. And half the things you have in GUI mode stop working. > Vim is a GUI too Are you speaking about GVim? That's still real…

> Speaking of unit testing, at the beginning of 2020 we can see 34% of C++ developers don’t write unit tests That's just sad.