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I came here to the comments to mention the shape "Cresti di Gallo", which I had for the first time recently and really enjoyed. I suspect it might just be another name for the same shape you posted, so maybe you can find another brand you like

I love both the show & Egan's writing, but Egan's stuff feels a lot more optimistic to me. I do like the theory that things are not quite what they seem in Severance and there might be a Ndoli Jewel-type device involved.

GoodReader on iPad has this (though you set it for the document manually). It even lets you choose a different view-time crop for odd and even page numbers.

Persi Diaconis is fascinating, it's definitely worth reading through his biography [1].

A small preview: after leaving high school at 14 to travel as a magician, a little more than a decade later he managed to get into grad school at Harvard, largely due to a letter of recommendation about his magic abilities (apparently that's a thing).

I also really enjoyed that he was shy revealing his background in magic to other Stanford faculty until he discovered that Paul Lévy also studied perfect shuffling [2].

[1] http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diaconis...

[2] https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/...

Planet Shadertoy 8 years ago

Make sure Low Power Mode is off, if it's on it'll have a big effect on performance.

I'm also left handed and have tried out way too many pens. As others have suggested, Uniball Jetstream pens are fantastic and are nearly impossible to smudge by accident. They also come in a variety of sizes. I really like the 0.38mm for taking notes on the small margins of academic papers.

The main pens I've been using these days are disposable fountain pens [1]. They write great and somehow the ink rarely smudges, though more often than with the Jetstreams. But overall I find it more pleasant to write with fountain pens.

[1] http://pilotpen.us/brands/varsity/varsity/