23 Jan 24

different ways to type “haha” in many languages

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E-Prime excludes forms such as be, being, been, present tense forms (am, is, are), past tense forms (was, were) along with their negative contractions (isn’t, aren’t, wasn’t, weren’t), and nonstandard contractions such as ain’t. E-Prime also excludes contractions such as I’m, we’re, you’re, he’s, she’s, it’s, they’re, there’s, here’s, where’s, when’s, why’s, how’s, who’s, what’s, and that’s.

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22 Jan 24

Philosopher Ivan Illich coined the term “Overgrowth of Tools” to describe the situation where people came to rely on tools to solve problems, but became overly dependent on these tools and on those who control them.

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16 Jan 24

A guide explaining how to configure the nix package manager on macOS

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12 Jan 24



A thorough, approachable overview of jit dev.

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Again, the internet used to be better

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git remote set-url origin --push --add user1@repo1
git remote set-url origin --push --add user2@repo2
git remote -v

Then git push will push to user1@repo1, then push to user2@repo2.

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Shantell Sans is free and open-source, licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1, so you can use it in almost any way you can imagine! Read the Shantell Sans license for details. It includes Latin and Cyrillic characters to support a wide array of languages throughout the Americas, Europe, Central Asia, and Vietnam.

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Images of hills, mountains, trees, towns and cities extracted from a 1688 map of parts of Germany. For use in manual map-making for RPGs or as assets for a computer game. The digitized source image is in the public domain, and so are these assets.

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08 Jan 24

According to Farrell, collaborative circles most often are formed among peers who meet through social networks and who share oc-cupations or interests in particular disciplines. They do not emerge from mentor-apprentice or student-professor relationship, but are driven by a sense of shared rebellion against authority figures or prevailing beliefs or approaches. As the circles form and mature, different members play recognizable roles. One person often acts as a gatekeeper or matchmaker and introduces the members to one another. One person often becomes the scapegoat; one will play “devil’s advocate” (as did Degas for the Impressionists) and one marks the boundary — taking the most extreme positions and thereby pushing the others forward toward new ideas. (In the Ultras, Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the boundary marker when she introduced and insisted on the idea that women should have the right to vote.)

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02 Jan 24

But how to choose this delta time value? This may seem like a trivial subject but in fact there are many different ways to do it, each with their own strengths and weaknesses - so read on!

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29 Dec 23

OCR-powered screenshot tool to capture text instead of images.

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26 Dec 23

The unskilled weapon damages in Dark Dungeons don’t match Rules Cyclopedia exactly 🫤

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23 Dec 23

One of the distinguishing features of Lisp and Scheme is the ability to define macros that allow you to extend the base language with new language constructs. Here are two examples what this actually means and why this is a good idea.

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3blue1brown, or 3b1b for short, is primarily a YouTube channel about discovery and creativity in math. On this site, you can find written versions of many of these lessons, often with more interactive elements sprinkled in.

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