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Lexicographers can be frustrated all they want. People do indeed "like playing with language."

Sometimes one may want to be accurate but not really need to be precise. Sometimes one needs to be both accurate and precise. One should never be precise and inaccurate (e.g pi=8.739216503).

But sometimes people need to be vague and ambiguous (e.g diplomacy) and sometimes one can be ambiguous with another who knows exactly what he means.

Sometimes the gap is easier filled with non-verbals. If a waiter asks me if I'd like fresh ground pepper on my salad he doesn't ask if I want one twist, a couple of twist, few twist, or several twist. He starts grinding the pepper over my salad and says "Say when".

On the other hand, my wife has no need to ask. She knows I mean sex. (You didn't see that coming. I jest, but a couple has several ways of saying sex without saying it, some fewer than others.)

American. I only use couple for 2. Few(er) is countable (v some, less or more). Several is an ambiguous countable small number greater than 2 but probably no more than 5 (v bunch, which is also ambiguous and countable but more than several).

I will continue to use them this way.

Maybe set them up at NeoCities, depending on age, but could also move into CGI and RSS with this. I may be way off, but I feel like CGI could be a bridge between markup and programming.

My sparse knowledge of CGI dates to the 90s, and IANAP(rogrammer).

You're dating yourself with the LeBrock analogy! But it dates me too. I was too old to care about "Wierd Science" (was it?) but "Woman in Red"??? Good times!

It feels like most of that frustration is (or should be) directed at other commentors. I tried to frame my questions in a way that someone who does not read sheet music and is also unfamiliar with tabs might frame them. I saw the developer had been replying to comments or I wouldn't have bothered. I was hoping he might elaborate for potential users of his app. I certainly didn't claim it wasn't a good idea, merely that my frame-of-reference gave me no indication of how it worked for piano.

My parents never bought us a piano. My grandmother passed her decidely-not-Steinway down to us, and also paid for lessons with a school music teacher. I joined the band in 5th grade and played a school-issue trumpet until my parents could afford a used one. After my 10th grade the band teacher lost almost all his trombone players to graduation, so he taught me over the summer before I started my junior year and gave me an old trombone with lots of dings, which I used through my freshman year in college, after which I dropped band because it was a 1 hr credit and took about 25–30 hours a week (practice with band, practice on own, perform at games), and I wasn't a music major.

I can play piano, trumpet, and trombone, but hardly ever do anymore. I have been able to read sheet music since I was 8.

If the whole concept of this confuses me, and it does, it may confuse people who are eager to learn and get playing (without doing endless scales) and don't read sheet music.

I have no idea what tabs means in this context, though I am vaguely familiar, I think, with it as a guitar term (which you or a commenter came from).

Looking at the graphics on the site (I don't use Apple) gives me no clue how the notes for each hand are displayed "according to how they look on a keyboard."

What am I missing? Will someone who uses Apple, can't read sheet music, has never played any instrument and wants to learn how to play piano be able to figure it out within app tutorials?

Straight white man.

Diagnosed myself with sleep apnea. Kept telling drs it wasn't anxiety. After 10 years got one to order a sleep study by demanding one.

Celiacs. Told it was IBS and mental. Told to eat more grain for fiber. Finally developed peripheral neuropathy from B-12 deficiency. I was referred to a neurologist and I told her after all the test and only found very low B-12 I thought I had celiacs. She referred me to gastroenterologist for biospy of villus. I'm then 40, celiacs from childhood, never enough B-12.

Fibromyalgia Known I had it for decades. Flaired bad in 2020. PCM told me it was arthritis. She referred me to Occupational Health. After testing he said it clearly wasn't arthritis. I told him I thought I had mild fibro for 15 years that has flaired to border-line severe and already have one diagnostical confirmed autoimmune disease. He referred me to a rheumatologist who diagnosed fibro.

Narcolepsy type 2 without cataplexy. Excessive daytime sleepiness not resolved by CPAP so severe I would pull into parking lots or lay under a desk. Prevented me from finishing grad school. After 5 sleep drs for apnea over 25 years one finally prescribed me armodafinil.

I still use plaintext email without images so every so often I get one of those emails (required by regulation, I think) telling me they are going to stop unless I click a link.

If I want to keep getting it, I reply and tell them if my reply isn't enough to drop me because I don't click links (if something interests me more than what is in the email I go to the site and find it) or load their tracking pixels.

This is how it relates: I tell them no one knows if I receive [1], open, or read postal mail so why should they know I receive, open, or read email unless I want them to? They can't target ads to you without reading content you consume and tracking you.

So, let's rephrase: So what if the FBI reads my mail? So what if the IRS bugs my house? So what if Costco follows my car around to see where I shop? So what if Home Depot flys a drone over my house to see if I use a rusty hammer so they can sell me a new one?

In what sense should my digital life be any different because it's possible and easy? Fork them is reason enough for me.

[1] certified etc excepted.

I want all my apps in one place, right where they are, on my desktop computer. I don't have an i9 with 64gb of ram, 2 2gb ssds, and a 16gb graphics card so I can cloud compute.

I use both with Org-mode, except my R=refile and is my org-roam directory.

Some notes have a known place in a system from the start. Some need to wait for connections.

Right? What's the closest English word to gif? Gift. Gifts, gifting. No other words beginning gif. And even words like girl aren't jirl just because giraffe is. Giraffe came from Arabic through Italian.

Inventers don't get to change the language just because they invent something.

Why? Easy. We're a few months from an election year.

"This guide is meant as a loose inspiration for a poweruser looking to switch to Linux."

It's your guide, but as a non-technical Linux power user of over 2 decades, I don't think I would recommend Windows or Mac power users make the immediate shift to the (Neo)vim and i3 "metaphors" (if that's the right way to express it). I'd recommend KDE for Windows PUs and Pop? Peppermint? (I forget which disto aspires to the MacOS look and feel.

I started using Emacs for Org because I don't program, and I gradually added email, file management, irc, gopher, roam, and other "functionality" as I became more proficient. I finally switched any key binding I could anywhere to Emacs, but I would never suggest Emacs to a Windows or Mac PU unless they already used it, let alone modal editing if they never used it and didn't live in a text editor.

When I started using Org there were not many decent open source plaintext information managers that could also do agendas, to-dos, etc. I mostly used Zim prior. Not all PUs live in text editors, program, or edit configuration files in a modal editor. Why would someone who uses a text editor primarily to edit configuration files do so in a modal editor unsteady of Gedit or Kate or even nano or micro?

Today, I would likely recommend Joplin for a PU who wants open source plain text information management plus a multitude of plugins on any platform and any GUI text editor with good syntax highlighting and customization and a Desktop Manager. It would allow for more gradual transition because being a PU on Windows or Mac means making significant changes would actually be more difficult.

But you can have my Emacs when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Einstein wasn't (not is) more intelligent than a toddler in the same way he was stronger than a toddler, or maybe at all. He certainly knew more. He was actually less intelligent than he, himself, was as a toddler if one is measuring at rate of knowledge acquisition rather than acquired.

Once the analogical reasoning broke down I stopped reading, especially since I believe life is a prerequisite for intelligence and is bound to it, because intelligence does not equal computation and is more than Turing complete.

The first right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence (not declaration of liberty or equality or rights) is the first sentence: the right to dissolve political bonds. And the US actually did it again after the Revolution when the Articles of Confederate were replaced by the Constitution.

Please explain to me how the states which dissolved their bonds with the United States and declared their independence from it (many of which had done so during the Revolution and had ratified both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution while slavery was legal, and several of which did not secede until after the U.S. fired on Ft. Sumpter) were different in exercising the right to dissolve political bonds?

Bonus points if you can do it without saying but but muh racist. If you don't accept the first sentence of the Declaration the rest of it is null and void.

(While you're at the explain how the three-fifths compromise actually strengthened slave states (who wanted to count each slave as 1 person) because it actually weakened them and also, most importantly, enshrined slaves as persons and not property in the Constitution with the consentand ratification of those states where slavery was still legal.)

Life. The missing ingredient of AI. Funded by the military. What could possibly go wrong? Never bet against humanity's ability to destroy ourselves trying to "become as gods".

Not only that, but the history professor is gearing the goals towards particular professional goals and using the students to further them. I.e: "What do you want your humanities students to know about computers? How to help me professionally."

If any of those students in humanities need to do data science later for their own careers how does building websites with Snap help them?

I used federated services like Mastadon before its own "Eternal September" and it feels to me, subjectively obviously, as someone who was on the Internet when Gopher, Telnet, MUDs, and USENET were basically it (except email) that there's this new obsession with moderation and walling off networks.

Whatever happened to self-moderating? I have higher standards for my speech and on-line conduct than any TOS. Many others do too. Plus, I know how to use software that allows "kill-files" and won't use any that doesn't give me the ability to "moderate" others if I want by just filtering it.

Vetting? It's a global network. If you want vetting spin up a Linux on Linode or something and invite only,ssh only, and create a forum.

Like having access to HN via some form of Internet access?

Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to others, and people who read and write on the internet about privilege seem blinkered, to me, about how they'd sound to someone who walks two miles for water polluted by the mining of rare earth elements.

Might be a better tactic to help people realize envying check marks and emoji isn't healthy.

I'm curious if the author realizes how much potential envy having access to the internet and a blog and the ability to read and write might produce in a real world caste system. To be producing content on the internet is participating in a caste system.

Ironic, that.

Another First Things reader on HN. Nice!

Is the risk of being called a Boomer, or any other pejorative by faceless teenagers, or anyone else, a concern to 1) anyone over 20 or 2) anyone who has been on the Internet longer than a month?

I text like I type/write, and even did with a dumb phone with a number pad and did so on USENET and BBSes. Why? Because text is a notoriously more difficult medium than talking in person through which to convey meaning.

Communication is hard! Face-to-face is hard even with people you know and who know you well. Text is much harder, so removing as much ambiguity as possible is desired.

Why should the reader be left to figure out if he's reading Tumblr dialect or Reddit dialect. If you want to be understood, if you actually want your message to "translate" as closely as possible to your meaning, the onus is on you.

It took Robert Pirsig a trip into insanity but he did it. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is just that: an iteration on quality.

Metabolism, homeostasis, growth, the ability to reproduce (not replicate), response to environmental stimuli, evolution, some sort of compositional organization (not determined by a builder).

You know? Life. Too many people think intelligence is determined by some human intellectual construct like a Turing Test when there are zero examples of non-living intelligence.

Life | > Intelligence | > Consciousness

"people still behave differently in different environments."

Mostly I don't. Nearing my 7th decade, I have spent most of my adult life seeking convergence of my private and public self. It's one reason that since the early 90s I have used my initials as my username everywhere.

I highly value privacy but have no need of anonymity, though I understand it's life or death for too many.

And I don't mean I would be the same around a stranger as I am my wife of 35 years. I mean I would be my honest, authentic self for each context. Twitter or nestr, Facebook or Reddit, church or mall, my hometown USA or Berlin.

I rarely comment here because I rarely have any value to add.

President Barack Obama on January 9th, 2017, through a directive released by his Office of Science and Technology Policy, resumed U.S. government funding for research projects that could “produce a potential pandemic pathogen”

Your site doesn't get a hit, but it's referenced enough to find it. One hit was https://www.seoaudit365.com/domain/daverupert.com

It says your IP doesn't direct to your site. I wonder if that's the problem.

30 years ago it was radon. Everyone was running out to get detectors lest the ground beneath their houses killed them in their sleep. And who can forget Alar on apples or fat=bad or a thousand others.

So far I have yet to read a comment addressing the actual analysis of the studies by the author of the article. It's all: "Everyone knows gas is bad; it's axiomatic and self-evident, and anyone who goes to the trouble of actually looking at the source data and run analysis on it is a moron."

You apparently don't let people sign-up who are willing to pay out of pocket. Shame.

A shower curtain rod. My HOA doesn't allow clothes lines. My family has a lot of clothes that might shrink, air dried clothes smell better, it's all we used growing up and it saves money. I have a nook on my 2nd level deck between the chimney and the door where I hung a shower curtain rod. My house has woods behind it and this nook hides it from the side. It pays for itself with each use and let's me thumb my nose in a small way at the HOA and actually do something constructive for ecological stewardship.

Every self-proclaimed environmentalist (I consider myself a steward and ecologist not an environmentalist) trying to change entire global economics should just try drying their damn clothes with the sun, and push for laws that allow it akin to right to repair.

I also don't use a dishwasher. Utter waste of energy and water. And guess what? That pot you're going to boil water in next time doesn't need to be sanitized. Wipe it out with a dish rag and put it away. The boiling water the next time you cook your specialty frufru pasta flown in from Italy will kill any germs.