Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

I loved tripping in college and as a young adult. I grew up, friends changed…and now I find myself a few decades down the line thinking I just want to drop a little and I have no contacts anymore. So frustrating.

I drove OTR a couple decades ago. I knew several drivers that had regular stops across the country. If he was hanging around for 2 weeks, and not just a few days waiting to catch up with his log, he’s probably not having another big thing going. Just the normal.

What does that do?

Religion. Even when I’ve taken the time to look up the difference is between a Catholic and a Christian, or a Shia and a Sunni, it seems like within minutes at most, that knowledge just sublimates.

ddp

I’ve been in camp Vim for decades, but I almost always suggest micro to people dipping their toe into Linux. I can’t imagine thinking nano, or whatever, would be more comfortable unless the person has never used a computer before.

Same. Makes nano a fucking nightmare.

It’s been going to shit for years, but it is almost incomprehensible how quickly it has fallen in the last 6-12 months. If I try to find any review/comparison in an attempt to be a somewhat informed consumer, and it’s just all slop.

That is a pretty great tutorial. I mean, sure, there are easier ways, but not with the same quality. Bookmarked. Thanks for posting.

Nothing would change.

I’ve thought that there should be like a 20 question “general civic knowledge” part of voting, and then your vote is weighted accordingly to how informed you actually are. But I know that’s not really doable, or ungameable, in reality.

I hate that I agree with you.

I think it’s as simple as you read, or you listen. They are different processes. They aren’t better or worse than each other, just different.

According to this page, that is just not true.

When you read, your brain is working hard behind the scenes. It recognizes the shapes of letters, matches them to speech sounds, connects those sounds to meaning, then links those meanings across words, sentences and even whole books. The text uses visual structure such as punctuation marks, paragraph breaks or bolded words to guide understanding. You can go at your own speed.

Listening, on the other hand, requires your brain to work at the pace of the speaker. Because spoken language is fleeting, listeners must rely on cognitive processes, including memory to hold onto what they just heard.

I don’t think one is better than the other, but they are fucking different. I listen to audiobooks and I read books. And I do a lot of both.

This is the first truly controversial opinion I’ve seen on this thread.

Safest approach to stay sane.

I agree with you, I just figure better is better and not let perfection be the enemy of good. Aside from that, they couldn’t go too far out of their way and have the school records make sense with their “residency”. Also, it’s too bad we’ve made higher education so expensive in general.

Yeah, I always thought Affirmative Action should be much more strongly influenced by zip code.

By the way, LibreOffice also supports OOXML, so… do with that what you want.

Yes, from the article:

LibreOffice currently handles ODF files perfectly and handles OOXML files better than Windows 365 and other software handle ODF files. Poor handling of ODF files “forces” users towards OOXML files, thus pushing them towards lock-in and protecting a business worth around $30 billion (because lock-in functions like a pair of handcuffs).