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reitanqild

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About reitanqild

Please don't upvote when I ask for clarification. Honestly.

I don't need those stupid points and I only use them as an indicator: even if nobody refutes me if I get downvoted there's usually something to learn.

I tried leaving or going readonly and I might do it for real some time - I learned a lot but still don’t feel I fit in here.

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    They are also constantly defended. Good, calibrated IQ tests measure something, and that something has a positive correlation with work efficiency in at least certain types of work…

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    Comment #38458758

    Perhaps you shouldn't use something that happened 75 years ago against someone to justify something someone else did a month ago?

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    Comment #38197217

    So intuitive. Different shortcuts from app to app. Back when I used Mac last time it frustrated me to no end that the simple system that works everywhere on Windows and Linux: - ho…

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    Comment #38160207

    Thanks! Will try something along the lines. When I am in flow state however something more drastic might be needed : )

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    Comment #38159336

    Hi again, and thanks for your website about plurality. I am not affected but I am aware of at least one person who seemed to be affected and it was really really interesting to rea…

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    Comment #38159266

    > You can try to reformat it or place it in some other context where it becomes doable, but these are specific coping mechanisms that shouldn't always be necessary, like they are f…

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    Comment #38159251

    Edit: based on interaction elsewhere in this thread, it seems I and LoganDark agree very much. I don't have time to rewrite this now, the compile finished a few minutes ago already…

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    Comment #38159208

    I realize my comment above can be read as "time dyslexia is the whole problem with ADHD" and that was not my intention. Thanks for your perspective! I also totally agree that ADHD-…

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    Comment #38158582

    ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia, and while I haven't met anyone who has described symptoms as bad as this and also know friends with ADHD who play music seemin…

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    Comment #37982866

    > Worked for satellites, Nice example! > ... worked for 1984. Another nice example, but ouch, that hurt.

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    Comment #37898368

    At the consulting company I work for Linux has been an option for 6+ years together with Mac and Windows. Hey, even at the customer I work with now (a rather influential directorat…

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    Comment #37643295

    And I don't have to wade through Stack Overflow and see all the times mods and others have tried to or succeeded in closing down very useful questions.

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    Comment #37507329

    My problem is if I start eating I feel I have to go on until I am satisfied. So small breakfasts doesn't work, it often merely triggers my hunger even if it is just egg and bacon. …

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    Comment #37506969

    I have had two problems that I have solved or tried to solve by changing my food consumption habits: 1. drowsiness around and after lunch time which sounds related to your problems…

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    Comment #37260882

    In Norway people have been paying "environmental taxes" since the eighties at least. The only problem is that these are not pooled up towards fixing environmental issues but used a…

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    Comment #36998767

    I use LibreWolf. Free, up to date and does not send neither money nor data to Mozilla. But personally I don't care so much about privacy extremism: The day another more liberal org…

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    Comment #36994979

    The implementation of the old API was a problem: extension authors could do almost whatever they wanted. Today however Mozilla stalls at giving us back basic primitives like for ex…

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    Comment #36992475

    I also think it is great that browsers seek out alternative sources of funding. My problems with Mozilla are: - Misuse of money: the browser team have brought in lots of money over…

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    Comment #36992274

    Try to search for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. That tends to upset some engines including Bing I think.

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    Comment #36987504

    > That being said, there would have been no extended conflict for Ukraine without the West's assistance, they simply wouldn't exist without the international assistance Don't under…

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    Comment #36987328

    So, in reality, it had nothing to do with the CEO and all to do with the fact that you don't care?

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    Comment #36986433

    I use LibreWolf (a rebranded Firefox clone with less tracking) with TST and just recently I exported a few hundred tabs I didn't care for anymore so now I am down to 2-300 tabs. I …

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    > Mozilla won't earn me as a user until their CEO is removed So use LibreWolf like me: Up to date, based on Firefox, but without Mozilla getting a cent.