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> Eventually, he hit on 86 syllables that expressed specific sounds, each syllable represented by symbols borrowed from Greek, Hebrew and English. Later reduced to 85 symbols...

Maybe the symbols themselves aren't new.

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https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... (https://archive.is/RE0pz)

> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.

Comment · 11 months ago
Also see https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status which I've used happily for a few years.

It's a shell script (#!sh) and therefore easy as copy/paste to install.

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If TikTok turned out to be State sponsored spyware, would you reconsider?

I support your slippery slope argument. I wonder where your red line is relative to "state sponsored spyware" and "typical advertising ID tracking" or "cool new app from company influenced by an adversarial super power".

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this is timely and useful to me -- thanks for sharing

debugging with this method is much nicer than my previously methods: lots of `logging.debug(f"{my_list}")` and parsing pytest output

Comment · 1 year ago
I use and highly recommend this framework as the starting point for any technical documentation. It helped me learn how to keep the detailed technical explanations out of the how-to documents. Before I learned of Diataxis, my how-to docs were much longer and hard to follow when things go right (because I had lots of, "if this doesn't work, investigate A, B, C...").
Comment · 1 year ago
The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes. I wonder how the seat height in the NGDV compares to the Grumman LLV.
Comment · 1 year ago
(not OP) Yes, the quoted strategy is from The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss 2007)
Comment · 2 years ago
That's also the definition given in the article, attributed to Richard Dedekind.

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