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If you know the difference between em dash, en dash, and hyphen, you start seeing it everywhere—whether thet are used correctly or not. Books tend to have correct typesetting, so i…

(To two-boxers) it's not half an analysis because once you walk into the room your choice is causally independent of the demon/AI/alien prediction. There's something vaguely simila…

Units is a cool piece of software, but I have since switched to qalculate. Mostly units has some silly defaults like needing to type tempC(30) instead of 30C; and it's nice to have…

I have been using breezy weather and I like it overall. But after reading this article I can't help but be bugged off that the information density in the main page is significantly…

Recursion would work for that, you don't need goto. The division by zero trick is pretty good too!

Although it wouldn't require a lot of work to allow side-loading apps on LineageOS and similar, LOS users would still be profoundly impacted by the death of the FOSS ecosystem. LOS…

Important to note that bamboo boards will dull your knives significantly faster than other woods. Other kinds of wood are still better than plastics at being bacteria-resistant (bu…

It baffles me that this isn't mentioned in the page, but a deck like this is extremely useful for testing while designing a new boardgame. They are very versatile and can likely em…

In some cases one can install a de-googlified version of android, and install whatever app (.apk) they wish through alternative app stores or directly. For 99.9% of people, Android…

I would say using this app to try and surprise/do nice things for your partner is, in fact, making an effort: going out of your way to think of nice things to do with them. People …

Also keep in mind: 32GB of RAM is more than enough for normal usage, but it's useless for (this kind of state-of-the-art-) ML unless you also have a graphics card of the kind that …

Regardless of wanting sane defaults, this is not something superfile can do on itself: it runs in a terminal, and normally terminal programs do not get to choose what font is used.…

I'd say everything you described is true of vim as well, especially nowadays with LSP and tree-sitter and async capabilities in plugins. The plugin ecosystem is thriving. Neovim's …

You may be thinking of "So You Want To Abolish Timezones" [1]. It's not specifically about .beat time, but it has a pretty thorough explanation of why a universal time would be ter…

That's an interesting ethical question. I am tempted to agree that there generally is. You can argue that the giving of a gift is a final act, that the gifted item belongs to the r…

True, but given that cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death, I don't think that in this specific case it's negligible. By far the bigger problem IMHO is not c…

A majority/totality of my IRL friends has a problem with spending too much time in front of a screen. Regardless of the political/liberation parts of the article, it is hard to arg…

Thank you for sharing this! I've been searching for a good open-source handwriting app with pen and pdf support on android, and this is by far the most functional I've seen. Actual…

They're also effectively creating a market for linux gaming, which will encourage developers to actually officially support linux. Note that I use "will" instead of "might" based o…

An involved alternative is to access whatsapp through a matrix bridge. It requires either paying for hosting or figuring out how to host a matrix server and the whatsapp bridge [1]…

Does it support increasing playback speed without affecting pitch? I'd like to get a capable mp3 player that I can use for podcasts, but I need to lidten tkm some of them at 1.5x/2…

Link is broken for me (I get a "welcome to nginx" page). https://archive.is/wRdWf works

Update: it seem they fixed the page so that it reads "X+ views" instead of "+X views". Maybe they read this hackernews comment chain!

I believe you're being downvoted because you missed the point of the comment you're replying to, which is not (necessarily) trying to imply the convention is that X+ means exactly …

A "link to higher chance of depression" does not mean that 100% of the people with 1 hour commute develop depression. Even if it meant that 99% do, your belonging to the remaining …