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Yes, indeed, when so many projects get started and stopped, this continuity is notable, and we need more of this.

And then, this puts me in absolute awe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara

A residential university that ran for ~750 years. What a marvelous achievement of human culture and spirit!

It survived multiple royal dynasties.

Indeed! I remember first seeing it in late 2000 or early 2001, and it wasn't brand new at that time.

I used it as a companion to Richard Stevens' classics on TCP/IP.

I used to use opensuse around 2010, and had very pleasant experience with it. Things just worked, and their Yast tool was very handy. I used to joke that opensuse is the Mercedes of linux distro :).

I am wondering why it isn't more popular. Is there any sentiment/experience people would like to share about this distro?

I am not sure how I would react and what I would think, if I have to face such a situation. Perhaps, under that level of sadness and stress, an aspiration that things will continue in an afterlife is one (only?) thought that would instill hope about future.

This is an unusual situation, I think we should expect unusual coping mechanisms.

In IntelliJ, it is possible to open the current buffer/editor in emacs using emacsclient. You can configure Tools > External Tools in the preferences. With this, you can have the same line number centered in emacs.

There could be something similar for vi too, though I have not explored this route.

Could this be a good compromise?

Thanks, everyone, for your kind suggestions. Much appreciated.

Thanks for this insight. Can you kindly also suggest a good book for someone to start with Bayesian Statistics? I could really use a suggestion about first and second book on this.

About Probabilistic Graphical Models, is there book other than Daphne Koller's book that you would suggest?

While at that price point, many other, more feature complete devices become available, the ePaper devices do have their own niche.

I tried to use iPad Pro as a full-time note-taking device and found that after writing on it for up 3-4 hours during the day, my eyes get very tired by the evening. I tried various things to mitigate it, such as using dark background, changing brightness etc, and nothing seems to help enough to make iPad a notebook replacement.

I absolutely love the functionality offered by iPad-like device such as reading Kindle, browse web, notes taking, PDF annotation, scanner apps etc. I absolutely want to be able to use it as single device to hold all my hand-notes and downloaded or scanned documents. But can't avoid the eye strain.

Devices like reMarkable etc can be used at length if your ask is just to carry around all your notes. I have misplaced all my notes from grad school days. I would love an easy way to be able to write and archive for posterity all my notes.

I personally settled for Onyx Boox Max 3. It is at way higher price point, but is more functional - has Kindle, OReilly apps etc and quite functional note taking app.

I tried the earlier version of reMarkable ran into a limitation that limited its usability for me. It did not allow copying a section of text and pasting it into a new document. I might be mis-remembering, but I think it did not even allow pasting a copied section of a note into a new page in the same notebook. All this severely limited what I could use it for. It was just a paper replacement, and not much more.

Boox Max 3 did not have these limitations. Whats great about iPad-like devices is that you don't even expect that you will run into these corner cases.

I hope this update to reMarkable add such small features that increase the usability. I absolutely hope that these kind of devices succeed. They are a solution to the problem of keeping and carrying with you a separate set of notes on varied topics where no single paper notebook would do justice, and they are usable for very long stretches of time with no more eye strain than with using paper.

This is a 15-min portion from the complete hour and a half version, if that helps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFhjMQrVts

Not here to state an opinion about Joe Rogan one way or the other, but listening to an expert who has thought about crises like these and dealt with other epidemics can be helpful.

It is not Joe Rogan, but the person he is talking to - Michael Osterholm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Osterholm), that is of interest in that podcast.