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Why not just make driving a car as serious as piloting a plane? Planes are so much safer not because they are easier to fly, but solely because we take it seriously. If driver's licenses were giving and enforced like pilot's licenses...automobile fatalities would plummet!

I'm new to using all the new chat programs and LOVE the idea of matrix, but was somewhat surprised to learn there isn't a bridge for Signal, since it's open source. Is there a reason and/or any possibility of it happening. The linux Signal desktop client is too resource intensive and it would be amazing to be able to use WeeChat.

It's a pulsed electromagnetic device (PEMF) and they have also been around quite ahile. While they've been show to aid bone growth and they probably help recovery in some other, subtle, ways...EMSculpt is classic snakeoil bullshit.

Vimium has this option. Check the box on the options screen " Use the link's name and characters for link-hint filtering"

Well, there are several tag formats, ie Id3v1, Id3v2, Vorbis comments, APE tags, which have have most needed metadata keys already part of the spec and many can add custom pairs.

Is your plumber a child?

Well that is like saying gravity is an emergent property of space-time. Perhaps it is, but that doesn't finish explaining what it is or why it is an emergent property.

The computer is not the program.

Because it is hard core dualism, which is generally considered non-scientific.

Why can't they say that? Because that sounds exactly like what their parent organization (the university), does every year. This thread seems to be really down on the exclusivity part, but I feel I'm taking crazy pills, because this is happening at universities!! All of pledges just went through a very judgemental, exclusive selection of elites...and they one that round. A further selection process is now abhorrent?

i3 has mode maps which are not quite like chained commands, but pretty close (e.g. you have to exit the map instead of just abandoning the chain if you change your mind halfway through a press).

I love them, they can do anything and you have the option of a pop up key map that displays the key function (or whatever you want) once you hit the first key.

It also educates him about addiction which helps disseminate correct information back to the public (hopefully).

'ls -lh | column --table --output-separator "," | cut --delimiter="," --fields=6-8 --output-delimiter=" " | sort --month-sort'

I statred this to show how easy it was, but it quickly became pretty hacky.

Oh, the beauty of emacs, the self-documenting editor...This is highlighted at the top of the built in tutorial if you change your keybindings:

>NOTICE: The main purpose of the Emacs tutorial is to teach you the most important standard Emacs commands (key bindings). However, your Emacs has been customized by changing some of these basic editing commands, so it doesn't correspond to the tutorial. We have inserted colored notices where the altered commands have been introduced. [More]

[More] is a list of the default keybinding, the command, and how to access the command in "your" emacs.

The keybindings are also changed throughout the entire manual (C-h i) I believe.

Well, there are already a several org-mode parsers[0]. Some of them are quite good too.

0. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tools/

It's real easy to get the default look back. Hit ":" for the commandline and then enter setguioptions+=mrB.

One of the coolest things about pentadactyl is that I can make any combination of the UI into keyboard shortcuts (or a modular key chord) to toggle visibility when needed.

Or, it's rat park...

And most opiate addicts (heroin) get hooked from opiates supplied by their violent doctor and local pharmacies.

Take my opinion with a grain of salt because I put this books down after only 100 pages or so, but it seemed to exemplify my main gripe with many/most popular science/non-fiction publications these days...padding. Many authors seem to have a great ~150 page thesis, but publishers push hard that best sellers are 400-600 pages.

Then how is it our species has colonized most of the planet. Surely their is an intense, universal, drive to migrate.

Your talking about a company that owns at least 50% of it's success to the i.p. of characters it didn't create. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast...i could go on. I don't think anyone would argue that the films they made, based on the work of others whom they did not pay, contained substantial original creative effort and that they deserve the success they gained from those films due to the significant changes they made. The great hypocrisy though is that Disney would not have nearly the success they have today if Disney had achieved then what they are striving to achieve today.

The reason it always seems to stop at step one is because the experience feels like a natural consequence of those two factors. A step two would be something like "exercise those social skills with your contacts" and that seems redundant. 'social skills' encompasses discussing professional situations and (unfortunately or not) being a person your 'contacts' are attracted to and comfortable with extending opportunity to.

Well, we can also just say the same things about paradoxes of all types. Partially the point of science-fiction (and science/philosophy) is that our thought experiments have parameters consistent with our current knowledge of reality if no other restrictions are specified.

and don't forget it was also argued passionately that it would ruin scholarship and the intellectual mind by some pretty smart and influential figures, one being Socrates.

<Keyboard macros are dope. My keys are bound to f3 and f4 but I don't remember if that's standard. Basically you hit f3 to open a macro, do some stuff, and then hit f4 to close it. Then you hit C-x e to execute it from the point, and hit e repeatedly to keep executing it. Super convenient. As an example, you might make a macro where you move the point to the beginning of the line, deletes 2 characters of whitespace, then moves to the next line. But you gotta be careful it's actually gonna do what you want; you'll get better at this over time. You generally have to imagine the point exists at a random point in a line, and find how to get it to where it needs to go, before you're able to do the real work of the macro.

Macros combine great with another amazing feature: registers. Hit C-x C-k b [0-9] and the macro can be called with C-x C-k [number chosen]. This way you can quickly use multiple macros. You can also C-x C-k n NAME to save the macro as a callable function and if you then decide that it would be useful in the future, just call insert-kbd-macro and emacs will generate the lisp code that defines your macro and you can put that in your init.el.

>One counterpoint to that is every political system since the dawn of time has held up people like Pinker who say we're living in the best of all possible systems and the other ones are awful, people need a strong government to keep them in check, and so forth.

Pinker never says anything like this I can remember and it doesn't even sound like something like something he talks about. Could you point out something that lead you to this interpretation?

If you use zsh, there is deer[0], which has ranger like navigation and some useful features, but starts up instantaneously, unlike ranger. Great for quickly moving around complex directories structures.

0. https://github.com/Vifon/deer

Directory Opus is great, but it is expensive. Last time I checked it was 70 dollars for one computer and that doesn't include "major" updates which seem to happen fairly frequently.

The increase in suicide rates seems to be evidence against this hypothesis.

Heroin is an opiate, and opiates do almost zero damage to the body. I know meth and heroin have culturally maintained their status as horrific amoungst young people despite the drug war's campaign of misinformation, and opiate addiction is a horrific thing, but clearly these drugs are not what you think they are.