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You should check out KOReader [1], an OSS alternative interface software for ereaders. I have it installed on my kobo and I couldn't be happier with it.

[1] https://koreader.rocks/

Outer Wilds is really an amazing game. I highly recommend playing it without looking at anything online: when I started I reached for google every time I was stuck, just to realise I could have found answers if I has searched just a little bit more. After a while I stuck to a rule to never look at answers online, and it was such a bliss to finally crack puzzles after trying lots of different things.

I know, but it feels much more neat to me to have even spacing between words

Not sure I get what is better about this than simply using the month, like Documents/work/202606 (which also sorts nicely and does not need a conversion in my head to know what time of the year that must be)

In addition to stuff mentioned by others, things I like:

- Fully customizable status bars, top and bottom (I like book progress at the top, chapter progress at the bottom, various indicators like remaining time, brightness level...)

- Custom dictionaries (like reader.dict, very complete), and choice over how to display them

- Advanced typography stuff (override publisher font if you like, add all the ligatures...)

- Fully customizable gestures (jump anywhere, recent locations, skim book, bookmark page, adjust brightness...)

- Book map: see a schematic view of the whole book, with chapters / subchapters length (gives me a feeling of how much I've read and is left to read, as would a real book)

- Page number / count that "just works" (epubs on kobo don't count actual page flips which I find annoying)

KOReader (mentioned in the article, an alternative OSS interface you can install on most ereaders) is really a marvellous piece of software. I was not sure about setting it up at first, fearing it would drain battery out of my Kobo and whatnot, but I never had any issue with it. The amount of stuff you can customize to your liking has no limit and I feel I have reached the endgame of reading comfort. If you own an ereader, I highly recommend installing it. I'm happy and grateful people spend time developing and maintaining it without being paid!

Did you have qualifications / an interest in this field before switching? What drawn you to this occupation in the first place? Just being curious

What do you mean they support airdrop? Natively?

One thing I don't get with this workflow, and all the ones we see in similar articles: do the authors run their agents in YOLO mode (full unchecked permission on their machine)? It seems their agents have full edit rights (scoped to a directory, which seems reasonable), but can also run tests autonomously (which means they can run any code), which equates to full read/write access on the machine? I mean, there are ways to sandbox agents in dedicated containers, but it requires quite a bit of setup, and none of these articles mention it, so I guess they are YOLOing it?

Does rewriting data help prevent bit rot? Does it mean powered drives can take advantage of it by periodically rewriting the same data over?

Also your website (https://zulip.com) is so fast and snappy, I was surprised to see everything load instantly when clicking around. I have not tried the app yet, but seeing a static website like this is quite refreshing.

For more context, the FSL was created by Sentry, who explain why it's been created and what problems it was trying to solve here: https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-lic...

This document is insane. I really can't decide if it's satire. Somehow I hope it's not.

How would reintroducing the black footed ferret reduce the plague ? It's not stated in that link.

I really don't get why people would want AI to write their messages for them. If I can write a concise prompt with all the required information, why not save everyone time and just send that instead ? And especially for messages to my close ones, I feel like the actual words I choose are meaningful and the process of writing them is an expression of our living interaction, and I certainly would not like to know the messages from my wife were written by an AI. On the other end of the spectrum, of course sometimes I need to be more formal, but these are usually cases where the precise wording matters, and typing the message is not the time-consuming part.

I believe the strength of gravitational force would not be constant either, as your center of mass would still have a fixed location, so every point on the disc have different distances to that center of mass (in addition to not being orthogonal to the surface). But maybe it might be approximated with an infinitely long cylinder, so the center of mass is infinitely far away below the surface ?

French high speed trains are fast, for instance the average speed of the train on the Paris-Strasbourg section (~400km in length) is 250km/h. This is the global average speed, so it is even faster on the high-speed section, going at around 320km/h. I often take this train, which is very convenient.

Why are there so many "Update Reamde.md" pull requests ? They all are named exactly the same, and most of the time add a single line to the readme with the name of the commit author. I guess some git tutorial somewhere shows how to open a PR with this repo as an example, and people actually do it.

Out of curiosity, how fast did you type on the frogpad ?

Bat is actually "bald mouse", not "shaved", which makes sense somehow !

What religious exemption is the page referring to ? How are vaccines a religious subject ?

I suffered from RSI in one hand for a whole year, which forced me to mostly use a single hand to type. I found out that as a developer, the time I spent typing was not that extensive, and I spent much more time navigating through code and reading stuff. Though my typing speed was more than halved, all in all I believe my productivity was not really reduced. The most annoying things were typing emails and chat, and I often called my coworkers instead of starting long chat sessions. It ended up going away by itself, and I've been pain free for almost two years now.

Here you can find a detailed report about this event, if you get intrigued as I did : https://www.iaea.org/publications/10602/the-radiological-acc...

I use ranger quite a lot when I have to explore the contents of a folder I just cloned or downloaded. Moving around with vim keybindings is much quicker than typing many `cd`, `ls` and `cat`, as you have a preview of files or folder contents on the right side.

I find it also quite useful when doing some housekeeping and cleaning, as while moving around you can mark several items to delete or move them all at once.

Could you please elaborate on the exercises you're finding helpful ? I have a mild RSI myself (outer part of the forearm, near the elbow) and have been trying some eccentric exercises for a few months now but I'm not seeing a big improvement.

What "absurdly demanding online game" is the author referring to in the first paragraph ? He mentions Overwatch later in the article but in another context so I'm not sure that's the one he meant.

This font really looks great ! I looked it up and it is Caslon [1], a typeface created in England in the 18th century.

Overall this website's design is amazing, all of it is simple and elegant.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caslon

I don't get it, hasn't E2E been already available for a long time in facebook messenger ?

> It’s, uh, really not that bad.

I guess you got used to it. I also had the chance to re-discover how many ads are everywhere on the web thanks to firefox addons outage, and I was very surprised. Honestly, smartphones screen are already quite small (even more when the keyboard pops out) and with all the ads the actual useful surface of the screen gets ridiculously tiny.

I couldn't imagine that chrome on mobile doesn't have an way to block ads, and still has such a huge user base.

Yes, it's a command you can use when the previous one failed for some reason, that tries to correct the typos if any, or adds sudo or a missing option...