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The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by jcranendonk »

honest_george wrote: post #67
oskarth wrote: post #60

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Wow I’m typing on my phone and I can’t see anything. I suppose if I don’t keep typing this will be all read I mean deleted. Oh well. Such is life. It reminds me of free writing. It is a form of free writing that is enforced I guess that’s useful. For things like writers block and what not. But what am I to say? Nice product? I guess it’s a cool proof of concept. But I don’t see myself using it. It is more…

Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding. It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by ’ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).

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Post by krapp »

EMM_386 wrote: post #164

I failed when I got bored and copied the text, but I'm slightly proud of my random thoughts. ---- On one summer night, I was staring at the sky pondering the mystery of the universe. Why are we here? What are we? What is consciousness? Does consciousness exist outside of the body? Where do we go when we die? How did the universe come to be? Is God the answer? Why are the laws of the universe set precisely the way the…

>In an infinite number of universes, an infinite amount of possibilities exist. That means, in any given unverse, ANYTHING can and will happen.

Not necessarily. An infinite set can still have bounded properties, and probability doesn't work that way.

For instance, the set of even natural numbers is infinite, yet they still never contain an odd number.

So it's entirely possible, even within an infinite set of infinite universes, for some events to never occur.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

mxuribe wrote: post #94
quickthrower2 wrote: post #45

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Word is pilcro hell. God knows where what formatting came in. Onenote is a disaster. There’s a reason these apps have a “format painter”.

TIL the name pilcro; thanks!

Apologies to all I have mislead! It's actually spelt "Pilcrow". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow. ¶

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Post by gmueckl »

a_imho wrote: post #73
gmueckl wrote: post #70

In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, one of the characters is tied to a cabinet containing a bomb and a laptop sitting on top of it. The character is then told that the bomb will explode the moment he stops typing.

The office worker and the mortgage?

I don't honestly remember who was the victim of that contraption. And I don't have to book nearby to re-read the passage. It's just that the silliness of that idea is somehow burned into my memory.

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Post by bromuro »

jiggawatts wrote: post #41
mirimir wrote: post #4

This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word. Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK. You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.

I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

I always press it. Now it formats my code too!
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