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Well, lucky you anyway - I'd give up a lot to be able to instantly play Jimi Hendrix in my mind!

OK. I avoided this post for a while, and then had to find out what was up. It was worth it. Ha ha, it brought a bit of levity to my afternoon.

It was in the early '90s, sometime before South Korea broke out as a dominant economic force. Yes, I'm convinced he thought I was a western educated Korean brat prancing around in his shop and was having none of it. Looking back, I still feel a sense of relief I didn't get beaten up.

As a young man many years ago I happened to be in Seoul, in a shoe store. I was casually asking prices in English and noticed the salesman or owner was getting visibly angry with me. So much so that as I went around the corner of the store I clearly saw that he had begun advancing toward me, with every intention of physically attacking me. I put my hand forward to stop him and as I did, I shouted loudly, again in English, "Stop. Let me outta here!" To which he suddenly hesitated, stepped aside and let me go.

I wondered for years what I might have done to upset the bloke - he was a well built man and I did not want to fight him! It was only after the KAL crash and the coverage it gave the Korean focus on seniority and age that the penny dropped. He thought I was Korean - I do look very Korean (and Japanese and Chinese) - and was clearly offended by my not respecting his age.

At least that is what I would like to think. The alternative is that I was somehow very offensive anyway and I'd like not to think that.

I'm usually overwhelmed beyond 10-15 open tabs.

Oh, when will you ever learn? Oh, when will you ever learn?

Marlene Dietrich

It took me a long time to get there, but I eventually did - I agree with every one of things that you listed. Fortunately, I have also learned that there are a whole lot of things that you can do to overcome each of those challenges. It does require a good bit of time to research, understand and apply them - as well as some luck.

I had a slightly better experience. For the thrill of it, I spent hours preparing for a couple of test papers making a number of little cheat sheets in tiny handwriting. At the end of the exercise I found I didn't need the cheat sheets - the stuff had gone right into memory and I did quite well in the tests.

I don't think that is the case. I think it would have to take a deeper understanding of double-entry accounting to really appreciate its genius. The key lies in the double entry that is made for each transaction. While each entry is simple, the beauty lies in how it provides the basis for detecting errors even in very large datasets simply by comparing totals - they must balance. In this context negative numbers do not provide any meaningful information at all.

I tried using John Wiegley's Ledger, which uses negative numbers. Everything was great about Ledger except for that part - I just couldn't wrap my head around it.

I'm not sure if that's the reason for it, but I'm pretty certain introducing negative numbers would confound the accounting process.

I have always lamented the loss of the tail. Every time my dog, though almost entirely asleep, wags its tail to acknowledge my presence, I always say to myself "Now, THAT is efficiency."

I'm not a furry, but I'm open to the possibility of getting that back!

Hyprland can do that, quite easily. It has windows rules that allow you to place everything just so.

Ah, you're right. I realized that was probably what was meant after I'd posted.

I never realized there was so much history - just thought the app had been orphaned for the usual mundane reasons. I've got to read that book!

Veracrypt works on Linux too. I switched over when Truecrypt was orphaned.

I was distracted by the charms and features of the HP-19B for a while, but yeah, the HP-12C is my old faithful.

<Nearly all Buddhist teachings IMO are bullshit and just enforcing natural hierarchy.>

That is as sweeping a statement as one could make about Buddhism.

You'd be surprised.

Sounds very useful to me. rsync is my go to tool - I use it to manually maintain versions of my workstation as I find it the most reliable and usable among all options I've tried.

Me too. And now I find it so invaluable.

I feel this study is incomplete - we should ask Austin Powers and Fat Bastard to weigh in as well.

Oh, I hope not. Still, at best let's hope it happens really slowly.

Well said, indeed! I am in fact working my way through some Dylan, Neil Young and Tom Petty, among others. I simply Won't Back Down. ;)

I hear you. In my case I was finally able to get to music late (past 50). I'm so grateful I was around long enough to do that. It does not pay any bills, but it gives me much happiness, even though the guitar playing is subpar.

Without a shadow of a doubt.

<It was well known that if someone robbed a Sunglass hut, the most expensive item in the store to replace was the iPad.>

Wow, that's a powerful and damning assessment.

It's a risk/reward thing. Some people go all in with their passion first, consequences be damned, and it pays off. Others, I think the larger portion, aren't so lucky. Conventional wisdom is to take the safe job first, and then go from there - the risk here is never getting out of that rut. It's a hard decision, but being really focused on defining and attaining what independence is for you, is the key to taking that safe job first. My 2c.

I've never owned an iPhone, and agree with you on every point based on my one and only experience with an iPod.

I've been dismayed with the bloat that's been creeping into Android phones (I'm currently on a Huawei P30).

I've never tried the Zenfone, but now I have to - thanks for the recommendation.

Good to know. Great to see established devs in linux audio bringing in new tools for pipewire.

I haven't tried it yet, but wouldn't a patchbay profile suffice?