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Maybe a long-shot: Last year I did 15 hrs a week proofreading CS and Engineering journal papers. Got around $300 - $350 per month

- Company 1: https://cactusglobal.com/careers/freelance/

- Company 2: https://proofreading.org/about/careers/

Didn't need a certificate in Proofreading / Editing. You have to test edit a few sample papers to get employed. My backgound: software development (but have a Science degree too from years ago).

The work is remote, flexible (you can decline papers) but *not* highly paid. Also quite hard if you get a poorly written paper. I only did it as a stop-gap.

Also: don't know if GPT has finished this market...

I found a lot of practical CS applications in this one:

"Coding The Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications" https://codingthematrix.com/

It used to be on Coursera too, has video lectures and a book to go with it.

You might enjoy "Excursions in the History of Mathematics" - Israel Kleiner.

It's sort of inbetween popsci and Graduate Maths, probably undergrad level. Lots of historical "essays" covering Number Theory, Calculus/Analysis, Proofs etc..

Has some interesting history - apparently Newton developed three versions of his calculus: infinitesimals (geometric approach), fluxions (kinematic approach) and 'prime and ultimate ratios' (algebraic). He used a mix of all three to solve some problems. Never read that before!

Yes OSC 52 is very handy for vim over SSH: instead of X11 forwarding - you can just yank text from remote vim into the local clipboard using OSC 52 [1].

Overall it's much quicker - as yanking in vim with X11 forwarding and '+clipboard' sometimes had a delay.

(ps: I think OSC 52 is implemented in xterm and URXVT, but not yet in gnome-terminal)

[1]: https://github.com/ojroques/vim-oscyank

I use TMUX all the time inside Gitbash for Windows. Some panes are SSH sessions into Linux servers etc. While other panes I use vim to edit local Windows txt files or just run other local Windows things. (This mightn't be what you were looking for)

I run Termux on an Onyx Boox Leaf (e-ink reader). As well as using Onyx for ebooks, I keep 10 years worth of notes in markdown txt files that I edit in Vim & sync with git.

> I've noticed in the past couple of years that my anxiety levels decrease significantly when I get ill.

Gosh that's really interesting to read. I suffer from huge anxiety at work but this summer was sick for 3 weeks (but still able to attend work). I was much more "relaxed" in my interactions with people and in a strange way got through the daily workload with less stress.

As you say, I think my excess thoughts and worries were "dampened down" by the illness (and my perspective about the office changed).

The ancient Christian monks battled against procrastination, lack of motivation, etc.... they called it "Acedia" aka "The noon-day devil"...

Apparently the monks felt a huge urge just to sleep, rest and abandon their study around midday... it was a fairly well recognised psycho-spiritual problem in the middle ages for some monastic orders...

I was eventually diagnosed with Aspergers late in life and I can relate a lot to the sentiment in this comment.

(I'm not as talented as 'aspergersadd' but usually came up with good technical solutions for companies I worked for - however my interpersonal relationships and ability to deal with workplace stress and emotions were a disaster)

Yes I thought "Dragons Egg" was a classic. I remember reading it as a child and getting interested in Physics.

I read it's an example of the "hard" science fiction genre - I think the author Robert Forward was actually a physicist...

Autojump is great. Another similar one with less functionality but a stripped down script is "bashmarks":

https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks

That's so true about playing with language...

We had a resident with Downs who needed assistance every day ...

But he got tired always asking "You help me?"... and started saying "I help you!" (and laughed)...

We knew what he meant & came over ... he got a kick out of swapping his pronouns :)

Fair play - it must have been tough with that pressure to support your family...

I'm a bit frantic for more mundane reasons - suffer from an anxiety condition that triggers sometimes. It's ironic, working in that home with the residents brought my own condition to the surface. I got diagnosed soon afterwards...

Thankfully life more peaceful now... and I'm trying not to be as rushed ...

In 2006 I worked for six weeks in a residential home for people with disabilities - some had Down Syndrome.

Even though the work was stressful & I've had many jobs since, I still remember each resident so clearly. I don't know why really... they've always stayed in my mind.

There was one man in his 60s with Down Syndrome and he did the same routine, slowly each day... but so unhurried, and present... it took him an hour to eat his lunch... He kind of haunts me to this day because I'm always a bit frantic, rushing...

But definitely spending time with people with disabilites opens another layer on life (although it can so hard for the parents/family caring for people with profound disabilities).

Adding/adjusting these two variables in ~/.tmux.conf should stop TMUX lockups and control the flow:

  c0-change-trigger
  c0-change-interval

edit: you probably know those 2 already so maybe they don't control large tar.xz files

On Lubuntu: When I get stuck on Flash I use the following script bound to a key (Ctrl+shift+l in my case):

  #!/bin/bash

  # Activate Firefox window
  wmctrl -a "Mozilla Firefox"

  # Move cursor to specified position
  xdotool mousemove 250 50

  # Send a mouse click (left click)
  xdotool click --repeat 2 1

"I gave it all up to work with my hands doing something."

Yes I did this as well. Worked for 15 years as a programmer in financial services. Really found it depressing.

Retrained as a care assistant to work in a nursing home. Find the physical work suits me better and enjoy spending time with the residents. Also did a Physics BSc part-time.

But mainly my headspace is free now when I come home from work. Still do some side programming though - starting Scheme and SICM at the moment...

On my old iPad 2 I use "Weblock" which blocks most ads and makes browsing on Safari bearable...

Apparently it sets up a "Proxy Auto Configuration" that has a blacklist, any ads get routed to > /dev/null (but its not a VPN, I think its the same approach as uBlock but not sure)

Anyway not affiliated at all but find it very useful on iOS...

Dealing with strangers in a public space is often a problem women have to endure.

Both my sisters have told me about borderline harassment and/or inappropriate attention they received while going about their daily lives.

Bookmarks from the Firefox URL bar are very handy.

I have about 1000 bookmarks and have the set the option: "When using the Location Bar, suggest: BOOKMARKS".

This gives me fuzzy bookmark matching from the URL bar. Can find any bookmark in about 2 secs.

Anything else I need, just google search it from the URL bar.

Totally agree with this.

I've just finished a BSc Physics-Math at a UK "Top 20" University. The standard of many lectures was very poor with only a few exceptions.

Without Khan Videos I wouldn't have grasped many of the concepts. (The lecturers often presented the formalism without really going into the concepts - I often wondered did the really understand the material themselves)

Apart from online material the only other self-study stuff I found useful for the degree were course books from Open University (OU). Excellent stuff.