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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,…

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 …

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…

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 sig…

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"…

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 …

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 omiss…

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 po…

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-con…

Moderators sometimes turn flags off when they are unfair.

No relation with https://epicpython.io/ ?

> 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 read…

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 prom…

> I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs ...snip... some multicolored highlighters xournalpp, okular.

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 ma…

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/…

> The web needs independent browsers...[websites] should work on any browser Unfortunately, independence ends with the choice between WebKit (QtWebKit) or Blink (QtWebEngine), albe…

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 versi…

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 fro…

(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 distribu…

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, …

> 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 Far…