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1. I've never written or deposited a cheque; I don't know that I've even seen one.

2. I've written them to myself to transfer money between accounts when electronic transfer restrictions are too painful, etc.

May be I'm confused but it seems a case of either or :)

I frequently see such comments about sites not loading fine on iPhone 13/14, while they continue to load just fine on for me on a 4 year old Android device (not pixel / Samsung).

I wonder if it's the hardware or just the blockers that i use. Might be worth trying using blockers to see if it makes the general browsing experience better on Apple devices

Unnecessary (probably unintentional as well) snark detected :)

You use mobile Firefox

You're right. In fact, most write-ups on Darwinism (and evolution in general) incorporate too much intentionality in their tone when there might be none.

Ctrl+q: search for any string you remember from your notes.

That's my Helm org-Rifle shortcut for my org-notes over 10ish org files in Emacs.

Works pretty well so far

You are looking for Sousveillance ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance).

And here's a paper on his it can be attempted at workplaces: https://www.sjjg.uk/pdfs/cecchinato-gould-pitts-2020-self-tr...

Interesting approach... Just tried it (Elon and Obama) and failed. I could visualise them, tried to think what they would think, but pretty much that.

This is weird...I do have a "mental voice" - which is reading out as I'm typing this sentence. But i never had an actual conversation going on with myself that I can think of... Is that a thing?

Sometimes, I can think of a series of logical steps needed to get something done. Like, okay: so, to build this feature, we'd need this and that and next something else.

But it's always a rational thinking process, not a "conversation"...

Loads fine and smooth in Firefox on a 3 year old Android (midranger)

"I try never to take advantage of someone smaller/weaker on the other end of the negotiation"

100% this. Sure, you CAN negotiate with the roadside vendors. But please, don't.

On the other hand, did you know you CAN negotiate the room rates at 5-star hotel chains? You definitely should :)

Can confirm this approach works, based on my experience over just year or so. Have not blocked the landing page recommendations but I'm never logged in. And so they default videos are so outside of my taste, it's easy to ignore.

Still, sometimes i actively go on actively binging one video after another (from Veritassium, for example). But that's on me :)

I think u block origin displays the blocked urls without the intermediary like advertising.com which you can copy and paste directly in the browser

... in the US.

Also, the difference in divorce rates between parents of male child and female child is not something which necessarily indicates a deeper cause.

Far too often we accept such headlines at the face value and start looking for reasons than first critically examining the data itself (sample size, localisation, sampling, statistical significance, design)

Easily the best project I've seen over last coupler of days. Will definitely follow and may be contribute, if i can

If you use it on Windows and have Itfanview installed, here's is how you can do it to copy paste images from clipboard using C-c-s

(defun my-org-screenshot () "Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file." (interactive) (setq screenshot_dir ".\\images\\") (setq tilde-buffer-filename (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-name) t t)) (setq filename (concat (make-temp-name (concat screenshot_dir tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work "_" (format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".png")) (insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]")) (org-display-inline-images))

(global-set-key "\C-cs" 'my-org-screenshot)

Absolutely my feelings!

Jaw dropped when i realised the "screenshot" of the editor is actually the editor. On my phone!

Of course I've used Pixlr and i love it bur will definitely try PeaApp more

Ublock origin, uMatrix etc are pretty solid on browser based stuff.

But piHole can be used for blocking device telemetry. From installed softwares is the OS itself

I've been following the below steps for about an year now:

1. Go through my agenda for the next day every evening and commit to no more than 3 categories of tasks multiple, unplanned context switches don't work for me)

2. Try to religiously track my time. Easy to do for planned items but still struggling with tracking unproductive time. But within a couple of weeks, you start to see patterns even with such vague notes as (1230-1430: YouTube, etc)

3. Review your weekly / fortnightly patterns every Saturday. Takes no more than 30 mins a week to reflect on the well gone by and come up with one change to try the next week.

Orgmode has been a huge help with tracking the time and it ties in my workflow. And of course, the overall process itself keeps evolving, as it should.

> more men are unemployed ...

Am I reading the data (1) wrong?

1. https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/NEWSTATS/latest.htm#LFPRates

Problem with (help or any other) text in UI is with internationalisation.

I've noticed Airtel doing something similar in India but to inform of approaching bill dates.

And to discover the key people in networks you are part of. There are always some hubs to all networks and the tool makes an interesting visualisations if these hubs changing over time.

The guy was also involved with an earlier iteration of the tool: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/

In fact, i had used the tool and thought this new one looks familiar. That's how I came to know of Hidalgo. Some pretty interesting projects he's been part of

Bonus: Quite a few simple, minimal templates from the links to other personal websites

A streaming service is _not_ just a collection of your favourite songs. Content discovery and auto-playlist are some of the not so easily irreplaceable featured offered by the likes of Spotify.

And anyway, the diss about ownership Vs rental is far too broad a swipe for the topic at hand.

Honest question: With so many alternatives to Amazon (direct brand retail, Walmart, Target, regional competitors) probably offering lesser fake products and still failing, doesn't it mean that the overall consumer base is not as concerned about the fake product issue?

It could be because:

1) Fake product issue is not as widespread (per user, seller or per transaction)

2) Fake product cases are usually resolved in a satisfactory enough way to dissuade the consumer/seller from seeking alternatives

3) The annoyance of getting a fake product is outweighed by other conveniences offered

If any of the above is true, well, there is not a real problem for Amazon to address.

Of course, the assumption is that there are theoretical alternatives to Amazon for getting stuff you need, minus the convenience perhaps, but with higher degree of trust in product quality.

I cannot say just how much this resonates with me.

I've had similar experiences in the past of successful "learning binge" by making something daily, but never for a sustained period of more than a month.

Desire having considered doing it all again in public, posting my progress on GitHub maybe, I am now weirdly hesitant to even apply for this free service which enables me to do just that!

I think it's the fear of commitment. May be soon but not today.

But congratulations on successfully rolling out the first version of this awesome tool. All the best for iterations!

Didn't even know paid accounts are a thing at Wikipedia! Wow...

Wouldn't getting able to restore a recently closed tab even in private mode be somewhat similar to having your browsing history being kept, even if for that particular browsing session?

I prefer this behaviour of limiting the browsing history per tab per session instead of the way Chrome implements it