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I've turned against them, partly because they're too flexible. Many of the things a dash does can be done better by more specific forms of punctuation like semicolons, colons, or b…

The vast majority of readers can tell the difference between - and —. It's very noticeable. This sentence: > I use dashes in place of commas, semicolons, colons, and brackets all t…

I'm introducing examples. It's logical to judge a thing based on its context and circumstances, because those can tell you about the thing. A menu can tell you about a restaurant i…

> Is it a garage that has the same hygiene standards and medical equipment as an office? Maybe! A garage can be cleaned very thoroughly, especially if you renovate with that in min…

You're ignoring the third option, which is to make a PowerPoint slide with a stock photo and print that. Or use an online template. There are a million ways to make a cheap, adequa…

Or the contemporary "no name" brand in Canada. https://jacobnelson.ca/2022/01/17/the-beauty-of-no-name/

No, it's entirely rational to judge a service based on external signals. If you need medical treatment, will you go to a doctor operating out of an office, or a doctor operating ou…

Exactly. Modifier sequences and escape presses show up as special characters and can be inserted with `C-v Esc` or whathaveyou. It works seamlessly.

> a level of mastery where one deliberately "writes" macros (what, directly in the vimrc?) Oh it's so simple you'll kick yourself. If you save the macro to the q register, just pas…

Yeah I think this is all coming from someone who never got good at vim. Multi-cursors can be nice, but a sufficiently powerful implementation of that looks like helix or kakoune, a…

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An aficionado! Have you heard of the jam hitch (ABOK #1727)? Grossly underdiscussed IMO—I only discovered it earlier this year. It tightens like a zip tie, and (in kitchen twine at…

There are (I'd contend) four basic types of knot: Bends, hitches, bindings, and loops. Bends tie two cords together, hitches tie cords to objects, bindings wrap & grip objects toge…

I'm glad you've experienced success with these strategies, but unfortunately you can't generalize that. > They did not do phonics, they learned to read whole words from flashcards.…

Oh yeah I mean theoretically possible, not practical, haha.

I believe in school as an opportunity for intellectual enrichment, but fostering interest is not the primary goal of schooling. It's nice if school can make your kid an engaged and…

I feel like many of the more alternative teaching methodologies have unclear learning goals. What is "holistic problem-solving"? How can we measure it? Do we know that conventional…

I know a lot of people who believe this, and I think it just doesn't bear out. I am 4. I have many interests. I would love to read books about those interests, but in order to do t…

> it's not even mathematically possible to train 100 percent of teachers to be in the top 10 percent of teachers …yes, but it's totally possible to (by, say, 2036) train 100% of te…

> Getting by is one thing Yeah, and it shouldn't be too much to ask for. So it drives me crazy that I can't get by in Java without a full IDE. All I want is "show docs" + "jump to …

> Only reference types, the same as in golang Everything's a reference in Java except primitives, and even primitives get object wrappers. In Java, String, Long, and Bool can all b…

My big issue with Go is, the language just isn't that great. Zero values instead of sum types, reflection instead of proper macros, a mediocre module system… Java's warts are far w…

> and we can vote for these stuffs. Can we? We can vote for a party, but I don't know that any party here has permacomputing in their platform. If you want to add something to a pa…

No? I imagine, in this context, that he thinks of himself as an advocate against police violence, since he retweeted a video of cops kicking a man in the head and said he thought i…

You are parroting criticisms made by antiracists and intersectional feminists who are themselves part of the contemporary progressive movement. This is like when laypeople say "eco…