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I gave Notion a quick try on my Android Handset, but it felt quite slow and unresponsive, adding a subpage gave me a spinning wheel animation, that took a little bit, and trying to reorder items by dragging quickly flashed the keyboard over the content.

My preferred way to keep notes of thoughts that I have on the way, is "Simplenote". I've tried other Note taking Apps, but so far Simplenote feels the most solid when it comes to syncinc the content. Syncinc NEVER blocks the App, it happens automatically and quickly in the background, I Never had to wait for the sync, or press a button or refresh anything.

Other than that, "Simplenote" feels very lightwight and fast, exactly what I want, when I want take a note when in hurry.
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What's the catch? How are you providing this for free.
two iterations of new emojis

OMG, somebody find me a fainting couch fast!
This is my experience with Google Home. Haven't tried others.

It is almost always somewhere between faster and much faster to pull out my phone, switch app, type, than to waken up the device, ask it, wait for an excuse, rephrase my question and wait for it to read it.

That said it shows promise and if I still trusted Google I'd be somewhat enthusiastic :-| (Now I'm mostly scared.)

Since I do not trust them I have it in my office and turn the mic off when I'm not experimenting with it.

Next up: figure out if that mic is actually disabled in hardware if I "turn it off".

@Googlers: a good step forward wrt trust would be to allow the semi paranoid ones like me to turn on the mic on my phone on demand. I can live with the annoyance of tapping some button three times or whatever.

After China and a bunch of other stuff I do not trust you to value your relationship with your customers over your relationship with your bank.
Probably the gun nature of the guns.
Sounds like a case of criticism vs feedback. From:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-ent...

> Criticism focuses on what’s wrong. Feedback focuses on how to improve.

> Criticism implies the worst about the other’s personality. Feedback is about behavior, not personality.

> Criticism devalues. Feedback encourages.

> Criticism implies blame. Feedback focuses on the future.

> Criticism attempts to control. Feedback respects autonomy.

> Criticism is coercive. Feedback is not at all coercive.
Hopefully, a UX designer would consider comments here as data points, or at least as a source of ideas for experiments to run.
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I wonder if anyone else relates to this. I feel like up until the last few years, my understanding of "empathy" was always very different than how it is often used now. Empathy was literally putting yourself in another person's shoes, understanding their emotional perspective. But the key there is that it was one person. Like, a friend, or a therapist to a client, etc. A relationship free of agenda.

Now I often see it as almost a corporate kind of buzzword, like with UI/UX people having "empathy" for their users (in order to understand "their" needs and make more money from them). Or people having "empathy" for populations for political reasons as a way to build political support for something. It seems more related to the language of branding and marketing now.
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I’m considering taking on some freelance programming work and am looking at using https://www.and.co for tracking hours and invoices. It’s free which is a plus. Playing around with it the software seems pretty easy to use.
Is there a demo of the UK voice anywhere? I could only find the American one.

Very impressed with the audio quality. What's the revenue model?
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Just yesterday i was thinking that it would be great to have tree style tabs, and here it is
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Your problem seems that you are relying on someone else to employ you. Why not create products by yourself and become a potential employer? Unless the society itself crashes due to large scale wars or natural catastrophes, people will always want and use useful software, and that includes time wasting entertainment ones. There are so many things that need to be done, so as long as what you create is not yet another tool that does the same old thing that twenty others already do with no differentiating aspect to it, its worth pursuing this path.

Software engineering is the most equalizing field in modern society. I mean, anyone with interest and reasonable intelligence can get good at it; they just need a used laptop and a decent internet connection. Add a good amount of CS understanding, and general creativity, one stands to make it big in this field. Compare that with trying to build the next generation automobile by self studying mechanical engineering, or creating a drug to cure your least favorite disease by learning bio chemistry through a MOOC.

Software engineering is the new humanities, albeit a lucrative one, in that you need just a bit of push in the beginning after which it is all up to you to explore and get good at.
The illusion of the requirement for a College Education to get a high paying job in any field is starting to diminish. Now Yes, it will be a bit harder to get a job when your competition has 6 Masters degrees and 2 PHDs. All a degree tells a potential employer is that you are supposed to know the degree field. It isn't ordinary for employers to give you a test to determine your knowledge, that's why everything on the Resume is vital and a degree usually stands out above the rest. With that out of the way, Especially when it comes to IT, most companies look for experience. Light up your resume with the experience in Ruby (or any other knowledge you have) and pound on it, sell it to the employter that you know what you're doing even more so than Joe Smith with his 90+ Degrees. I highly doubt that the demand for IT will go down in any field.
If that is the case; You can always learn Welding (which will require a very short technical school,about 3-6 months for the price of a few paychecks dependending on where you live)
Construction is also a decently simple field to get into and its usually union with very.. very high paying opportunities along with the self satisfaction of building structures to be used for years.
But I recommend staying IT, Many other companies have a plentiful amount of openings in IT though it may not be Software Developers, Your experience so far will help you honestly find any door in Information Technology regardless of a degree.
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As well, sometimes the difference is months of brain development.
Because they're still the same price as they were at launch. It feels really bad paying 90% of the cost of current gen. In some cases Apple increased the price years later on the same product - MacBook Air 2013/2015. Combined with hitting a trillion dollar market cap it really makes the customer wonder.
They can if they purposefully add sound insulation, but it does cost a decent amount more in construction and is hard to add in after the fact. Concrete is quieter without doing anything to it but it also costs from the start.
I don’t know if you realize it, but your complaint is “hardware vendors change things too frequently”. Kernel hackers don’t make up the need to do extra work for hardware support just for kicks.
Yes, the hits everyone: Windows loses support for old hardware much faster than it used to. Even the closed-ecosystem of OSX/macosx/macOS leaves hardware behind these days. Mobile phone hardware changes so frequently that you can’t even be sure that the same make & model of handset will use the same hardware. In many ways, it’s both a sign of progress and the baseline cost of doing business.
It is one of the factors that they check for as part of an ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) diagnosis, yes. But if it is severe they will strap on the OCD diagnosis as well.
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Top of wearables market. I assume Apple wanted more than that (ie a much larger wearables market). Like with smartphones, it wasn’t enough to just beat the competition already around in 2007, they wanted to grow the smartphone market exponentially (which is what happened). The Apple Watch is definitely at the top of the wearable market, but it hasn’t grown it massively yet like the iPhone did with the smartphone market.
"King estimates that the average soldier goes into action with a hefty 20 lbs of batteries."

That seems insane. And to think that I don't even like to carry my 4 lb Macbook to the bus stop.
Which part are you correcting?

The declaration "int bar[3];" is an array of 3 ints, which are bar[0], bar[1] and bar[2]. Declaration mimics use but it's not exactly the same; in this case the size replaces the indices, which are all less than it.
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I've been a professional C programmer for years, but I rarely find cdecl useful (command line or website). Not because complex C declarations are intuitive to me, but because cdecl fails on any unknown types. Real world C code is full of typedefs.
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I have been in a few situations where I could have found bugs, because I was exploring deep behavior, but the lack of legible documentation on the expected behavior made me back off. I have no clue on what’s expected or not, the man pages are just a joke and lkml is mostly unreadable.
Just like lawyers.
I've been in a similar situation in another company, where the whole team was working 12 hour days for a week or two to meet a deadline, but those didn't really feel productive... and the project ultimately failed. I believe it was mismanaged, which caused the overtime in the first place and made all those extra hours not worth it.

On the other hand, I've heard lots of stories like yours, where the project was only possible due to the pure grit of everyone working on it. Most of those stories were in game development, which seems at least twice as chaotic as regular software development.
I’m happy to pay $5/month. The content I receive far outweighs the content I create and I’ve learned so much from others. The servers aren’t paying for themselves.
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It would be not surprising that folks on here would have Aspergers.
Who wants a 32gb iphone too, 16gb is barely usable nowadays. The typical app is 500+mb plus the extras it downloads afterwards. Which is a whole other story.
For a variety of reasons, snark is omnipresent in security culture. This writing style is immediately familiar to me as a result.
Thanks for clarifying. I remembered it as a point of contention in the Scheme community.
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Wow, that's a lot of stuff!

Just on the Toughbook topic, I've found similar to you (although 'only' in mining, not in a military context). They're heavy and clunky and slow, and it really doesn't make them any more durable. I just use a cheap laptop and replace it whenever it gets too beat up and it's far cheaper and far more pleasant than using a Toughbook. Everyone I've talked to who uses them says that the slight increase in durability doesn't justify the overall annoyingness of using one.
Your real issue here is the irrational worry, not the lack of alternative career paths. I'd look into techniques for coping with anxiety if this seriously bothers you.
> bed also means low light, and current FaceID doesn't like thatat all

The Face ID sensor is basically a tiny Kinect (infrared dot grid), so low light shouldn't be a problem. I have the most trouble with it in the morning when I first wake up, usually squinting at the light.
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Seems like a manifestation of Chesterton's Fence! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
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If you think my position is the nihilistic option of "we can't do anything,so let's throw the whole thing out" then you have gravely misunderstood.

My point isn't about the cost/benefit analysis. It's about finding and understanding the boundary conditions of the system and not trying to get to some delusional Utopia.

I'll state it another way. Freedom of Speech. Widely considered a good thing. Except for those who don't like what you're saying and want to shut you down.

Ok, so we have a lever that we can slide to different settings. Either, you're allowed to say absolutely anything with zero restrictions, or you're not allowed to criticize the regime in the slightest or the lever is set somewhere in between. The question is "where is the optimal place to set the lever?". It seems setting it to North Korean setting where everything is completely restricted doesn't produce good results. Ok, so we set it in the other direction? You can say anything. This seems to be much better. Except it has this consequence that since people can say anything they can say ridiculous things that you wish they wouldn't. And you just have to accept that. There isn't a setting where you can say whatever you like and so can everyone else and no one ever says anything you wish they wouldn't. That setting doesn't exist. This leaves you with the reality of "there's always a small amount of shittiness even in the optimal system."

That's what I mean when I say you have to go with the grain and take the good with the bad. It means learning to live with the parts you don't like, not pretending they don't exist or advocating for the levers to get set to some impossible, magical Utopia setting that isn't commensurate with reality on a fundamental level.
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This is really interesting and insightful thanks for sharing.
Telegram does not store private keys only on client. On the other hand telegram splits the private key and stores in multiple severs in several countries making it legally very very hard to process requests. But this also means the founders or just some developer who has access to the servers can read the messages as they have access to private keys. Signal app is more secure.Signal app does not store private keys on the server.
The following faq is from telegram site.

Q: Do you process data requests?

Secret chats use end-to-end encryption, thanks to which we don't have any data to disclose.

To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people's privacy and freedom of expression. Telegram can be forced to give up data only if an issue is grave and universal enough to pass the scrutiny of several different legal systems around the world.

To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.

### End of Faq ####

Even the secret chats in telegram are not secret because the protocol is custom developed by amateurs devs. It is not tested and have seen some articles on methods to attack, could not get the link now.
>Very impressed with the audio quality

To me it sounds not much better than Google's standard wavenet TTS (seen here: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/) which is admittedly pretty state of the art but nowhere as good as actual human dictation.
> not being controlled by any government

That's not the same as "not being backed by". Uncle Sam seems to be doing a pretty good job of asserting his control over it[0], while the Fed isn't guaranteeing it. Worst of both worlds, isn't it?

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/goodbye-fungibility-ofacs-bitcoin-b...
Wow, a great poem.
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Don’t let indecision become your decision, like mine. I’m in my 40s, and while I’m happy in general, my chances of doing something really aligned with solving the problems I’m passionate about diminish rapidly. Just pick something and flow with it. Life will find a way to guide you as long as you don’t just sit it out.
Nothing, but thats not what this is for at all.
> I listened because why wouldn't I?

This is the typical-mind fallacy. Not every kid is reasonable or easily biddable.
This is so interesting. Any thought on the cultural norms driving so much gear to be individual? Personal gear could be common gear instead, with perhaps a cost to hygiene and individual sensitivities. Combat gear (partially) as well, especially for non-combat roles. And being the designated carrier in a two-man team, that's cultural for sure.
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I found that small positioning changes can make a big difference with my Echo -- it used to be on the a kitchen counter in a small corner formed by a beam, I had to be close and very clearly enunciate "Alexa" to get it to wake up. One day after cleaning the counter, I put it out in front of the beam instead of the corner, and it was a night and day difference, it could suddenly hear me across the room.
"It was his body. He could lick his hands if he wanted to."

Bloody hell, the state of western women is constantly getting worse.

Quit being so delusional and just put some hot sauce on the goddamn kid's hands while asleep and he will stop licking his hands. Works like a charm and is known for centuries as this problem is nothing new.

Inb4 tech libs call this child abuse, lmao doesn't work on a slav, try somewhere else.
I currently use Bear but your app looks really nice!
I carried roughly 48kg in the field, on “easier” movements, it might drop to 35kg or so. I was an officer so I was a bit luckier than the guy carrying the MK 48. And God save us all when we had to go MOPP 4. (MOPP 4 is when you have to wear full-Chem-Bio protective gear.) Doing all that at almost 6000 feet makes it even less fun.
Funny how plainly strong the connection between your brain and your gut is (feeling butterflies or distress when you are anxious) yet it hasn’t really been strongly investigated for diseases.
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You might enjoy this similar anecdote from an SSC post.

> The Hair Dryer Incident was probably the biggest dispute I’ve seen in the mental hospital where I work. Most of the time all the psychiatrists get along and have pretty much the same opinion about important things, but people were at each other’s throats about the Hair Dryer Incident.

> Basically, this one obsessive compulsive woman would drive to work every morning and worry she had left the hair dryer on and it was going to burn down her house. So she’d drive back home to check that the hair dryer was off, then drive back to work, then worry that maybe she hadn’t really checked well enough, then drive back, and so on ten or twenty times a day.

> It’s a pretty typical case of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it was really interfering with her life. She worked some high-powered job – I think a lawyer – and she was constantly late to everything because of this driving back and forth, to the point where her career was in a downspin and she thought she would have to quit and go on disability. She wasn’t able to go out with friends, she wasn’t even able to go to restaurants because she would keep fretting she left the hair dryer on at home and have to rush back. She’d seen countless psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors, she’d done all sorts of therapy, she’d taken every medication in the book, and none of them had helped.

> So she came to my hospital and was seen by a colleague of mine, who told her “Hey, have you thought about just bringing the hair dryer with you?”

> And it worked.

> She would be driving to work in the morning, and she’d start worrying she’d left the hair dryer on and it was going to burn down her house, and so she’d look at the seat next to her, and there would be the hair dryer, right there. And she only had the one hair dryer, which was now accounted for. So she would let out a sigh of relief and keep driving to work.

It's a great essay overall. Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
Your question reminds me of a humorous quote - "I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought that some of my packages might not be running as fast as they could be.".

PS: The above quote is just one of the gems from https://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/ - a humorous portal to a lost world from the 90s - 2000s (ie the gentoo subculture).
There's a CTRL-O for creating new note/folder on the same level and CTRL-P for creating nested one.
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I knew a guy whom tried to commit suicide by shotgun. He blew the part of his brain out that controlled most of his muscles. He spent 25 years in hospital bed. His depression cleared up after his failed suicide attempt.
It depends on your motivation but if you really want to learn about graphics programming (as opposed to learning an API) then I think the best way to do so is to remove any API from the picture. There is an absolutely phenomenal book that does just this: Andre LaMothe's 'Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus'. It was published in 2003 but when you remove APIs from the picture it's just as relevant today and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

The book starts with little more than plotting a pixel on the screen. By the end you'll have a complete lit, shaded, 3D game engine that you've written entirely from scratch. And in the process you will learn absolutely everything that goes into it.

And one thing I'd add is that this might sound somewhat overwhelming but it's really not. The book is extremely well written and clearly was a labor of love. If you get some pleasure out of math and code, you'll have no technical troubles working your way through the book and in the end will be rewarded with an intimate, flexible understanding of graphics development that won't be hamstrung by dependence on a specific API.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Programming-Gurus-Advanced-Gra...
Just some hopefully constructive criticism, I found the voice used on the "Smart Natural Voice" section to be the most robotic sounding of them all. Specifically, the "Say goodbye to robotic voice, this is nothing like you ever heard before." line sounded very robotic and a bit awkward.

I'm not sure if maybe the content of the copy is a little clunky or if it's the voice itself, but that section sounded worse than the other ones, IMO. If possible, I would think about toying with that. The girl's voice in the "Voice Pitch and Speed Control" section sounded far more natural and impressive.
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