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rules for thee but not for me

This could explain his aversion to pencils:

I am left handed. … When I was a child, writing at length with pencil, the side of my hand sometimes became gray from graphite picked up as my hand rubbed across the page.

Writing with pencil is fine. I prefer it, and its variations in line weight can be quite attractive. Moreover, it can be done without pressing hard and causing cramps: either accept a lighter line weight or use darker graphite.

I agree with you about the gatekeeping. Handwriting is simple but the Internet has fetishized it. Just write a lot: in a notebook, on index cards, on scraps, wherever. And don't think twice about it: in my experience, most of the time what's written has little if any long-term importance and its greatest virtue is rather to trigger the aware mind to release the idea for the mind's more-mysterious parts to then process, combine, and assimilate effortlessly in the background.

Let's balloon his ~30-year visitor count!

Send the guy (er, one of the many guys) with both national-security knowledge and a weak spot for alcohol into the lion’s den of espionage in the land of vodka. What could go wrong?

While not precisely “plain language”, the homepage’s strange execution of the en-dashes –with a space before them but not after them, like this –is ironically antithetical to the big idea behind the government’s writing requirements.

The red-dress woman's vestigial pinkie toes …

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%A7%E5%8A%9F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis#Jefferso...

How does this compare with Klack?

The giving of the speech on a way overplayed topic struck me as intended to distract Americans' attention away from Xi's AI speech.

covfefe

I went to FaceTime “Linda Harper” in the Phone app and my phone asked me to approve using the camera. That was a bit freaky.

Instead of "keeping up with the news", consider using your brainpower + LLMs to distinguish signal and noise in the sectors that interest you, and then accordingly wiring up identification of sources, searches, and reading to update yourself only as frequently as necessary.

Well, some do say Jinping the Eleventh …

that's a bingo!

- Glad to see this.

- Another newcomer is nvEnvy.

- At this point I’ve abandoned all hope that nvUltra ever gets a public release.

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Content starts at 6:48. Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wq45rvPGNHs?si=obT5TYBaiBKFvQQP...

I find this to be inaccurate. Example: Elements of Business Strategy/Effectuation requires payment. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/effectuation/1E9...

Missing link

Misleading title.

uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) — i.e., an underwater drone.

A rediscovery of the Hemingway writing method in the coding domain.

Your parent comment may be an example of Poe’s Law.

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- Alfred (launch bar extraordinaire)

- Keyboard Maestro (automation)

- TextSoap (clean text with various cleaners [regex etc] that can be saved and invoked on selected text, entire files, or batches of files throughout the system)

- Klack is fun to add typing sounds (helps me stay in the zone)

- Dark Noise for background noise (stay in the zone) — although MacOS has some background noise generation built in now

- 1Blocker (ad and tracker blocking; also for iOS)

- Voice Dream Reader (read articles / any text aloud)

- Default Folder X (set defaults for how files get saved — e.g., which directory to default to for a given file extension)

- Rectangle

- Fantastical (calendar with lots of thoughtful additional features)

- Karabiner Elements (to turn Caps Lock into a hyper key; right Command key + hjkl into arrow keys; sky's the limit)

- TextExpander

- Homerow or Shortcat

- HoudahSpot (great file search utility; can save searches, save templates, and export Smart Folders)

- OmniFocus (to-do / task management; GTD-centric)

- TaskPaper

- Good outliners: OmniOutliner, Bike

- nvALT (barely alive; Brett Terpstra's nvUltra has been on the cusp of release for like 7 years now …)

The ulterior motive may well be getting access to, well, everyone's LLM conversations through the discovery process.

Long argument short, Times New Roman isn’t bad, but it isn’t good. It is the median choice. But most of the circuit courts use it: the Third, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh.

False: the Eleventh, for example, appears to use some variation of Dante (regardless, it is certainly not Times New Roman).

Gruber's source appears to be a six-year old Reddit post. Instead, he ought to have pulled up an opinion from each (they're posted daily) and inspected the PDFs.

Apparently The Register changed the title of this article. Someone posted it 10 hours before this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749485

This writing makes more sense when you mentally add back in the LLM's em-dashes that were removed to make it look less like a nonhuman-generated marketing article.