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Indeed, this is one misleading title. The Soviets were really fond of Steinbeck and especially the Grapes of Wrath (the book) up until the moment he wrote positively of the America…

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Another approach that does not show up in comments here is to use a reference manager, such as Zotero . It integrates nicely with browsers, so that saving webpages or pdfs is only …

> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle e…

> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle e…

This text seems to quickly get rather technical, with theorems and stuff. I would suggest looking at Golomb's classical Polyominoes first https://archive.org/details/polyominoes00g…

Annoying as it may be, this situation is somewhat ubiquitous in the history of human knowledge. Transistors were invented by Lilienfeld, yet everyone knows about the work of Bardee…

The author seems to be unaware of the large market for travel data esims. Airalo and Ubigi are two examples of user-facing resellers of these, which make buying a physical prepaid …

See, this is a really interesting point there: do we separate the speaker and the speech, or do we lump them together? I.e., if a Hitler (you saw that coming) says something demons…

This is a good point. Just like it should be ok to read Kipling for his literary merits, keeping in mind you don't have to agree with his politics.

Yep. Likewise for Solzhenitsyn who denied Ukraine and its language the right to existence in no uncertain terms. See e.g. the 1990 essay "How should we organize Russia": (link in R…

Gogol is an interesting one though. There being no Ukrainian state at the time, he was appropriated by the Russian literature as a quintessential Russian writer, but his sympatheti…

The note claimed to be found at these "terrorists'" place in the bottom photo of the link you posted goes: dedicated to blah-blah, kill to live and live to kill, signature not legi…

For a slightly different take on this problem (a calendar in plain text), calendar.vim plugin by itchyny provides a wrapper for Google calendar in Vim. The option of viewing your c…

Twitter is great for threads posting science-related curiosities, you just need to follow the right people. Here are two awesome accounts of general interest https://twitter.com/Ra…

Some of the tales from my childhood that I hold very dear to this day looked at really tough topics: death, solitude, betrayal. "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter", "Timm Thaler, or the…

zotfile plugin, mentioned above in this thread, makes file names user friendly.

I am always mystified by such emails. Does the addressee think they will receive messages automatically? Or does the sender think everybody has an email in their name? Very curious…

Some of the other pages on the site are in French, so perhaps the author's first language is French.

Thanks for posting these, they are very cool. I was not trying to say he wasn't trustworthy, I am sure he means well. (plus, I am certainly not qualified to judge his advice) What …