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> Secret Agent has a slow, difficult beginning (~hour). Not much happens. And it's not clear why what's happening is happening, particularly for someone unfamiliar with Brazil's po…

Those broads limitations also make writing the stories easier, since the author/worldbuilder doesn't have to come up with 100 different reasons why it can't be done for each partic…

Consider using a TRT[1] Tinnitus hearing aid. It was prescribed me by my ENT doctor and it provides me with great relief. My Tinnitus is persistent and extremely loud. Loud enough …

This is a “crônica” about my relationship with computers in Brazil in the 1990s. The crônica is a uniquely Brazilian format that emerged in Brazilian newspapers in the 19th century…

That is usually the case. Unless you manage to stop optimizing and have a very simple system.

I know this is a website for programmers and I am not one. I like LLMs for quick answers and simple tasks like proofreading (just to fix errors, not to add or change anything) and …

Holy shit someone posted my blog post to Hacker News and it wasn't me! That's awesome!

I actually read Derrida in my time with the literature department so there was no analytics vs continentals struggle going on at all.

Deleuze is a fairly traditional philosopher once you get to know him. Derrida kinda wants to burn the very things he needs to convey ideas, so understanding Derrida feels like some…

That was very enjoyable.

Here in Brazil shadow libraries essentially make research possible. Paying for ebooks in US dollar is prohibitive to most academics.

I also don't see anything wrong with trying to do that. I am talking about communication, not development. Mussolini probably used fountain pens, but I wouldn't advertise a pen as …

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Yeah... I just tried to make st terminal to start maximized using wmctrl. For half an hour I'm not a programmer but still... It's a little demotivating.

I think more in terms of enjoyment than pure typing productivity. If I'm using a text editor that I found comfortable and fun, I am more likely to feel good while working. So a tex…

I would most certainly not compare Autohotkey to Emacs in that way, as Emacs, powerful as it is, is not really meant to be the same as Autohotkey. However, Autohotkey can do pretty…

In many relevant ways, Windows is more easily hackable than Linux. That is in no small part due to Autohotkey, but also many other tools made by independent programmers. Autohotkey…

> People also seem to like me better when I cut my mids a little bit, but additional research is required. Instead of digitally recreating your voice so people like you more, have …

VLC makes video choppy on my low-end Debian machine. MPV plays them perfectly.

That's super complicated lol. Why not use the browser extension or accessibility feature?

I am firmly in the camp where I am not answering this question only to satisfy an irrelevant need to take things literally while ignoring the actual issue being discussed.

And I answered with the actual issue that is relevant to conversation.