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I think it's a little more nuanced than "bands/producers don't care" and a bit more complex than "exporting the audio (that already exists!)". Directly exporting the audio straight…

No, there are actually four different punctuation marks, all which look remarkably similar to the untrained eye. 1. We have the hyphen, which is most commonly used to create multi-…

I feel the same way. I've used em-dashes in my writing forever, and I was always particular about making sure they were used properly (from a typography standpoint with no surround…

Any suggestions on how to get into fountain pens? I handwrite a lot, but fountain pens have always intimidated me.

I loved your article! Thank you so much for sharing. Fellow procrastinator struggler here. What's been working for me lately is carrying a Field Notes notebook everywhere with me c…

How so? Even in a perfectly egalitarian world, where no one had to compete for food or resources, in art, there would still be a competition for attention and time.

> [I probably shouldn't mention that I personally think adblockers are unethical :) ] Okay, I’ll bite. How are adblockers unethical?

> most were lucky to make it to their mid forties This is a common misconception. Life expectancy at birth being low reflects high mortality for infants and children. If you can ma…

> Because the same finite pool of attentional resources supports both attentional control and other cognitive processes, resources recruited to inhibit automatic attention to one’s…

On Windows, you can do this from the run dialogue! [WIN]+R -> https://google.com

This is the best answer. Windows Internals is a great book/reference for understanding how Windows work, but it won't teach you how to actually program Windows. The Fifth Edition o…

Maybe my favorite option is missing here. `git commit -v` This will put the diff of the commit into your commit message as comments. Makes it easy to remember what you're doing/com…

> There's a real element of media literacy (or lack thereof) that we have to consider in this issue. What was the intent of the media? You cannot ignore the impact of artistic deci…

Most everyone agrees that technical debt is a real thing, but I don’t think we’ve landed on a widely accepted formal definition of what it is. Tech debt is so often used as a quali…

Can you describe what it was like? What made it so cool?

Can you describe what that was like?

I think the point is that engineers are capable of rebuilding internal tools, so internal tools as a product to sell to other companies may not be a great startup idea. It'd be dif…

Squashes and rebaseses, used properly, are done prior to committing work into a shared major branch (like trunk or develop or whatever). The goal of the squash is to make the resul…

Does Zed have vim keybindings?

Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it _does_ eliminate a set of problems that can impede one's happiness. Which is not to say that the person with money can't then find additiona…

> The truth is, intellectual property should be protected by those creating it. The whole point of government and laws and societal norms is that not everyone has to be deeply invo…

Merge isn't superior to rebase; they're both tools with different purposes. Have you ever squashed down a branch before merging back into main? Then you've used rebase. The purpose…