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A simple way to "map" the keys to use both hands, two arrows each.

I second this, started around the same time.

Personal experiences with physical mail: - Post office clerk offered to fill in cheque details for me. Recipient didn't receive the payment and sued the broke 18 year-old me. The c…

Physical mail, too, is a source of gatekeeping and bureaucracy. It is labour-intensive, expensive, and you are trading your false positive rate of digital impostors for a false neg…

This accent is common among Czech people who learnt English by reading without much exposure to English audio. Some of Danyk's apparent pronunciation idiosyncrasies used to be comm…

To my native Czech ear, this sounds like the English accent of a native Czech speaker who learnt English primarily by reading, back when English audio wasn't readily available.

The side-by-side comparisons are not a good signal because the models vary across multiple dimensions, but the user isn't given the option to indicate the dimension on which they'r…

I don't have much experience with the police, but almost every drug dealer gets excited the instant we make eye contact.

I appreciate the simplicity of a system that allows you to provide your own API key. All the complexity of authentication, rate limiting, cost capping, scaling, is offloaded to som…

Your thesis is contradicted by almost every open source distributed system written in Go, including Kubernetes.

One day, I will be working with someone who will have read this article when they were learning Go, and we will disagree about these three points. I was hoping someone would add th…

I would vote this down if I could for the following reasons: - I prefer state-based TDD as opposed to interaction-based (see https://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html …

Gemini being confused by distinct concepts that share the same word is akin to people being offended by and trying to prohibit the use of certain technical terms. The machine is mi…

I mean these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interdental-Original-0-4-1-5mm-effe... The problem is that when they encounter a sharp edge, they get torn or cut off. I doubt there has been…

It would apply to all to some extent, but when you make the wrong move with an interdental toothbrush it can lose a quarter of its bristles in one session.

A conversation with my friend who was a dentistry student, ~2013. > [The friend, let's call her L, trying to dissuade me from drinking some fizzy drink] > J: But I won't get a cavi…

I don't know what exactly happened there. The two of us conducting the interview advised against this candidate in our report. About a month later the candidate was introduced as a…

I once concluded an interview with a candidate who was rather conspicuously engaged in clandestine typing, subsequently rectifying their previously incorrect answers. I suspected t…

And yet widely believed, even by recent MD graduates* . * n=1 MD graduate, 3rd Faculty of Medicine UK

The Banana Equivalent Dose is a misleading and incorrect because it has an implicit "over a lifetime" in its definition where instead it should be "until potassium level returns to…

You didn't tell it to act as an assistant so it just assumes that your input is some list of questions that it's supposed to complete.

In Czech all traffic must yield when entering a roundabout, including the tram. As far as I can tell the yield signs are there for foreigners might be used to different rules. Rega…

It could be just five or ten meters in each direction. For example this crossing always felt unsafe to me. The original crossing has been obstructed to prevent crossings and moved …