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That is absolutely not a bad habit, it’s a good one. Research has shown that writing things down can help memory immensely.

I don’t know that that’s true for most people; often the topics being taught aren’t as important as the skills you’re being taught/exposed to. Many people, especially Americans, never attend college. High school is the only chance before adulthood to socialize with your peers and learn what it means to interact with people of various upbringings. Anecdotally, my sibling graduated with a class of nine from a private Christian school and they are very far behind from a social and educational standpoint when compared to me, who graduated from a normal public high school with a few hundred of my peers. She also never read any of the books I was made to read in high school... I could not fathom the blank spot that has created for my sibling. Maybe I was fortunate to go to school before Common Core, or lucky I had more good teachers than bad but 20 years out from HS I might not remember everything I learned there, but the stuff I do remember helped mold how I think about things.

Reading further down the thread, backblaze responded that they are using Facebook pixel and the concern has been forwarded to the appropriate team.

If an asteroid of sufficient size were to strike Greenland, I think sea levels rising would be pretty far down the “this is definitely going to kill us all” list.

They don’t have to be expensive! More than the $30 Big Box special but often cheaper than a comparable “gaming” keyboard. I’ve built boards for as little as $50 and you can do it for even cheaper if you have access to a 3D printer and don’t mind some tedious wiring and soldering.

I put all my oft used symbols on the home row on a layer. I have fewer keys than a 60/65% board on my daily driver, but I like it so much that I generally map all my keyboards the same way, even full-size or larger boards.

Super easy if you have homing indicators on the keys (F and J on QWERTY layouts) like you would on other keyboards, only slightly more difficult if you don’t.

It’s a neat idea. If I can make a request...

Please make the color themes work through the whole app. A dark sidebar is nifty and all, but when all other text boxes are stark white with black text it sort of defeats the purpose of having said color themes. I realize this is probably low-priority, but it is currently unusable for me.

But if your government was downplaying the seriousness of licking eyeballs when the whole world knows how bad locking eyeballs is, you can lay at least a little blame on said government, right?

The US has over 200k dead from COVID-19. This could have been avoided if the government had been staunchly pro-mask and social distancing from the start. Instead, they downplayed it as nothing to be worried about at best and a full-on hoax at worst. If the government had done the right thing from the start, all these people who can’t manage themselves would at least be wearing masks and staying away from each other if for no other reason than their president told them it was the right thing to do. I think we can safely blame the government for this one.

If you’re already typing correctly, you’re relying on muscle memory. Adding some layers into the mix isn’t too much of a leap. I would argue that a good split keyboard is much more useful than a standard keyboard; better positioning for ergonomics or desk space, easily stowed when not in use, truly programmable (firmware not software) that works between systems with little or no setup and a keymap that works for the user instead of against.

I like having all my often used keys in the home row. I don’t have to move my hands to use arrow keys because I use vim bindings on a layer. Hyphen,underscore, grave and tilde are on the home row, too. I can program a key to be a combination of key presses, too. My workflow is much improved using my own custom keymap and keyboard.

Like a dock and menu bar? Tint2 for the dock. I believe Cairo dock is also an option. Polybar for the top bar.

Keep in mind that achieving specific looks often requires tons of time in configuration and hunting down specific tools or fixes. For instance, rounded corners might be a feature of your WM, your compositor or a combination of both. Some stuff will only work correctly if you’re using the right DE while others will only work if you use no DE at all.

Controlled burns need to come back with much more regularity and aggressive practices. Hard to do when many of these areas are close to suburbs. Even as late as the early 2000's I remember many controlled burns happening in Southern California, but it obviously wasn't enough because vast areas would still burn every few years. Now it's seemingly every year or even multiple times a year. We're never going to catch up with prevention unless we actively burn/cut vast swathes of land... Like probably hundreds of thousands of acres. It's probably naive to think that will happen in a short enough timespan to actually impact current conditions, though we can hope.

I'm the same way. Modern UI is often (seemingly) purposely obtuse. It's maddening. It (the UI) doesn't seem to respect people who read the information given to them by actually presenting that information. I shouldn't have to click through a dozen links to get to documentation.

A big frustration of mine is sites/apps that bury their support info. If I need support, I'd like support. Expose your FAQ to me, point me towards some forums, but don't bury the actual contact info somewhere like the footer, or worse, omit it completely. If I type my problem into the supplied form and the chatbot that opens up asks me to type that info again (often after a redirect where the session info gets overwritten so that I can't even copy-paste my already written text) I'm much more likely to be unnecessarily rude to the support person in the other side... Assuming it's a person and not the aforementioned chatbot.

I’d recommend Doom Emacs over Spacemacs for a few reasons: Spacemacs tries to be everything-for-everyone and it is far too dense for someone trying to learn Emacs. Evil-mode is its “killer feature” but that’s available without Spacemacs. Doom Emacs is more like Vanilla Emacs with an obvious lean towards evil-mode. It comes with sensible defaults and loads up so much faster than Spacemacs does.

Perseverance is the name of the game, much like it is in everything else we do.

I’ve been learning Vim and Emacs concurrently with Doom Emacs. I find that if I don’t use the tools for actual work, where speed/familiarity is necessary, I become acclimated to the new environment and start transitioning to its use full-time. Just editing configs is enough to get familiar and it’s low-stakes as far as fucking things up goes.