Yep, whenever you find yourself being the smartest person in the room, you need to find yourself a smarter room.
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> Heck a smart CS junior would come up with it.
That’s somewhat worrisome.
Following the rename we can now call them Xits, the x being pronounced as in Chinese ('sh').
There’s a lot of xit-posting on X, after all.
That was my initial thought: he may get his exemption from use, but TFA doesn’t indicate that he will be evaluated differently during performance review.
To go one step further, would such allowances have to be accompanied by different performance standards, like oral exams for students with dyslexia also have increased time limits?
Or would the allowances be granted for the duration of employment, the latter being shortened due to performance problems?
No cash means no freedom.
E.g.: I painted the Mona Lisa.
“I” meaning “I with the help of a JPEG on a computer and a color printer”.
"Rebranding surveillance capitalism as ethically driven is one of the more cynical takes I've seen".
Back in the day, your OCR would just OCR things. Now it has opinions, and you have to fight to convince it.
- I’m thirsty.
- It’s not your time to drink yet.
Ok, suppose the strip club is the website, and the club's door is the OS.
Would you fine the door's manufacturer for teens getting into the strip club?
There's always `M-x term` for a full terminal.
It's not just you.
I've been on HN since about 2008, and the change is steep.
Since the site acquired social clout, status seekers have swarmed in vying for status, and an opinion orthodoxy has formed that's becoming increasingly intolerant.
Pity, but it's a natural progression.
That's why I'm still holding on to a bulky Core 2 Duo Management Engine-free Fujitsu workstation, for when personal computing finally goes underground again.
Apparently for as long as it will enable Microsoft to profit by training its LLMs on people's code.
For people uncomfortable with working on free/libre stuff with git directly I always suggest Codeberg as an alternative, but hands on git is also an excellent option.
Because Market Forces said so :(
Personally, I've been using one form or another of journals and notebooks for over three decades. I did go through the "plain text is king" .txt phase, but, while search is useful, I always revert to a handwritten notebook.
I find that I have a sort of visual memory of the location of a note or scribble, and can sort of easily find my way back to it "in the lower-right side of the page near the end of the notebook".
Another meta-metric that's interesting to access and is lost when typing is the changing quality of my handwriting, and how it exhibits the underlying mental state.
The notebooks/journals started from standard local composition books (B5) to narrower 14x21-ish cheap hardcovers. There's also dates (manual), titles or topic tags (manual), page numbers (manual), cross-references with arrows (which do stand out amongst the handwriting, e.g. -> p. 20, or -> C/20 to xref back to notebook C when you're on notebook E), indexes (also manual), earmarked pages, and a physical bookmark string. I've also reverted back to pencil, which I find more "quiet" a medium - I've been using Faber Castell's sleek TK4600 since elementary school, and it was quite interesting to return to it a couple of decades later.
Plain text is still king nowadays, but it's also diagrammatic, and hyperlinked, the only difference being it is manual, and seems to assist immensely with the memory and personal internal coherence. I can write down a note to myself, working something out, and then return to it a couple of months later, cross-reference it and expand it, gradually reaching new understanding.
No need for slip card boxes when you have a running log of your thoughts and works that can be referenced and cross-referenced, nor is there a need to limit the length of your text because of the medium - write a bullet list if you want, checkbox it, or a 200-word vignette, or just let loose over a few pages, it's all good: a plastic medium for a plastic mind.
In all, for me journaling/notebooking is highly recommended. And for the younger folk who are keyboard-first, perhaps the deliberate slowness and scratchiness of this quaint medium will reveal a meditative quality.