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It refuses to open files it doesn't like the filetype of, it won't save as an arbitrary filetype, it defaults to being a variable-width font and it has a few too many bells and whi…

I know Miranda who wrote this is a pretty heavyhanded US liberal, can't help but hear quite a lot of trump in the way Mikkelsen reads "Bye Bye": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMW…

by body count? the soviets

> New Bloomberg Terminal for 2 EUR / month no it isn't, good content, bad title

while I'm hopeful google will be responsible long-term maintainers of this accessibility feature, given their "ship and drop" attitude (music, reader, podcasts, stadia...) I'm glad…

pandoc as a service, mad times we live in, best of luck I suppose

if there were, globally, no copyright at all in any "ai" generated images, and one confidently thought there never would be, then simply using the images, in the case that one only…

the thing I've found teaching is that the place scratch really shines is teaching kids who are a bit too young to "get" Python. I think it's related to their language/visual intuit…

I was obsessed with scratch as a child. It was my way in to computer programming, and I've taught in schools using it. It's an incredible tool and I'll hype it up any chance I get!…

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this comment section is a little grim, I guess it's a bit expected that the audience for hacker news skews nerdy, single and male, but it feels worth saying that you're still likel…

can confirm, went from being a 5/10 guy to a 5/10 trans woman, attitude changes real fast when you go from 0 matches to too many matches (and loads of guys aren't even interested i…

>If you say that there are only two genders I’ll drag you is my drag not free speech too? If one insults me (or says something to me I consider insulting), I should be allowed to i…

Free speech is "about" whatever is in the first amendment Lol, USAian moment, how about the other 7.7 billion of us?

I am not a liberal. Many people are not. The paradox of tolerance is the easy counterarguement to this. If you choose to never do anything in response to the things people say that…

you're almost bang on here, but don't forget "prefer not to say"! Also you only need that text box if you actually GAF (which many do but half the time you'll throw it away), other…

Conflating mastodon and activitypub might fly in your title or your seo, but this is a technical comunity of technical people and we're all clickbait-averse pedants, so maybe use a…

sam frankman-bied

this reminds me of the compsoc cookbook( https://github.com/compsoc-edinburgh/cook-book ), a git based cookbook made by members of the university of edinburghs computing society, i…

it's an acronym, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. So if you're struggling to read books say, "Finish this book by the end of the month" is: Specific: rea…

> However, if you are too lazy to use your imagination to decide what alignment a character might be, then maybe role-playing isn’t for you Using your imagination around the roll o…

so there's not a clear "why" on this page, just a "download" digging for it yields the wiki which says: "Why Linux? More applications Linux can run many different types of applicat…

I disagree fairly fundamentally with this, I've been a club teacher in primary schools, and scratch is such a good teaching tool for kids that to this day I marvel at it. I want to…