tbirrell

Yes and no. If you gave me a single number, I'd see it and everything around it. So it has its own space and orientation, and if anything else is nearby in space I'll kind see that in my periphery. For example, 76 is directly above 66. And 56 is directly below. So I'd be aware of those as well as 65 and 67 if I think about 66. It's like every number is there, and then I zoom in on the location of the one I'm thinking about. Does that make sense?

Spatial synesthesia is the weirdest thing because it does not conform to physics. In my head at least. Technically speaking, 1-5 and 20-23 or so should be on top of each other, but they never are.

I am something like this

5 6 7 8 9 10 4 11 3 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 2 1

then its just lines like this (but upside down to the bit above)

etc 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Yes, a little bit. If you gave me a word in a certain color font, that would take precedence. Its not like I was see "my" color. But if I thought of the word out of that context, it would be its normal color again (usually based on the color of the first letter like described in the article). Exceptions are things like logos which have a fairly strong association with certain colors.

Discovering you have (what this article calls) classic synaesthesia is a very interesting experience. Suddenly many many things fall into place, but you also realize you experience the world in a fundamentally different manner than anyone else.

That was not something I needed to know.

This could cause the next computer revolution. We would suddenly and abruptly increase our computational power exponentially. No, asymptotically. The ability to create a stable, functional, and enduring trinary computational system will make everything we have accomplished in the last 50 years appear laughably small minded.

If the Super Bowl had automatically turned on in every television in the nation and only happened like 3 times a century, I'm sure the figures would be more equivalent.

Sure, it would seem obvious that the loaner is the one to lose out. The things it, I'm not sure who all the various loaners are these days or how much the economy itself would be affected by these people suddenly not having $1.3 trillion (or whatever the figure is these days) coming to them.

Serious question: Who loses out if all the student debt got canceled? Not the colleges, I assume, because they already got the tuition. And not the students. So would it be loan companies and the US government? Would such an action be catastrophic?

That's an excellent title.

Ease of scale basically.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

No.

Why would this ever be a good idea. The education is already in very real danger of becoming an anachronism. There is nothing inherently better about the current system. Technology is a way of life, trying to force students (or anyone for that matter) to not use technology is holding them back for no valid reason.

Education needs to catch up with the modern era. We can't hold students back because professors are afraid or incapable of teaching in the modern era.

This is not the actual tl;dr

Its still down

Personal pain points. What do you find to be annoying? Are other people likely to find it annoying? Go from there.

Having children impacts your career (assuming you make choices with them in mind) because suddenly, long hours are less appealing, you can't put all your energy and time into your job, and a job you can hang onto for 5-10 years is more appealing (moving a lot with young children is a royal PIA).

Regarding job safety when you can get another right away: Finding and getting another job is stressful. You have to acclimate to a new environment. You probably have to learn or relearn some skill. So while doing this once every 2-4 years is fine, every couple of months or even once a year is disruptive.

Similar, yes.

Redefining a thing to do a different thing to achieve the same result. You'll see it a lot in older systems where you have a billion deprecated functions, and instead of changing each instance to use the new version, you trick the system by appropriating the old version to point to custom code that runs the new version and passes back whatever the old version is expected to return.

In one of these situations, it is someone making a choice to inconvenience themselves in order to do something they believe should be done.

In the other, it is someone inconveniencing someone else because they don't want to do something.

Link?

I thought we had already moved on to the next big scandal.

How does this work? Do you change it every time you log in? Or do you just force yourself to not look at or save the password each time you retrieve it?

Pagedown integration. I use Stack Overflow on a daily basis, so if I could write and save my questions and answers in an editor while preserving the syntax (especially the key commands I'm use to), I'd get behind that.

Hmm... I might give this a try if the following existed.

1) I could sync over my Goodreads shelves. I don't want to have to start over or copy it all manually. 2) It was a freemium model. If I had access to like 3-4 features and the rest were paid-only, I could get behind this. I understand you have a 30 trial, but I don't read enough for 30 days to be a meaningful amount of time, and I have no investment in this product right now.

Sublime is a powerful text editor. I switch to it 10-15 times a day to execute random plaintext editing. If I don't need Rich Text Formating, I tend to default to using Sublime. I can see why one would use it to write and edit legislation drafts.

What does metabolism have to do with cancer?

All the Cosmere books are really good. Warning though, Stormlight is about to release book 3 of 10. Mistborn is also actively being written, but the next book to be released is 4 of 4 for "Era 2". (the eras being self contained but building on the previous)

Elantris is the least well written, so read it first or not first depending if you want to lose interest in Sanderson, or be let down by the writing style. The rest are excellent though.

How is this superior to goodreads?

You should always be learning something new. If this is what peaks your interest, do it. In a month come back and see if you want to make the switch professionally (assuming this is your day job). The worst that'll happen is you'll know something new.

How do you do this? The thing that pops to mind is getting involved on github, but what if the company does not have any OSS?