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His wiki page probably has sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rainer

But in anycase this has little to do with genetics, the poor guy's pituitary was a mess


Y'all don't map the Caps Lock to a secondary backspace? Do you never make mistakes? Do you have long fingers that can reach the original backspace without taking your hands off the home row? What do you do ?

Foe me, having a backspace in place of the CapsLocks is absolutely irreplaceable


Heh, that's actually a pretty cool idea.

But to answer your question, yep, long fingers: I can keep my forefinger on the F key while hitting Backspace with my pinky, and it's not that much of a stretch.


I use right thumb Command and H as backspace and G as forward delete, better than a pinky Caps lock, especially for repetition


  Caps+f = Backspace
  Caps+d = Delete


That would be a good way to strengthen my pinkie, I would also do it the other way around, d to backspace (move the cursor left), f to delete(move the cursor right)


I have Escape there.


> time sink without any value

Indeed, time is little and precious and should be spent wisely. Very virtuous of you.

> hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information

Ah the virtue of doing hobbies

> New posts are 99% attention seeking posts without value

Only the most virtuous of us completely avoid the trap of attention seeking, well done.

> political virtue signalling

Ah the biggest virtue of all, avoiding virtue-signalling. You've really tapped into the big one here, well done and thank you for letting us know that you're not some filthy virtue-signaller.


Some of your points might have merit, but your tone is very off putting.


I use uBlacklist, it puts a little "block this domain from results" button next to google results


I just installed this! Thanks for the suggestion!

Don't forget to use ungoogled chromium if possible

The only downside is you will have to load unpacked extensions instead of using the Chrome "store" and you will have to manually install Chromium updates from the same site:

https://chromium.woolyss.com/


Why not just use firefox?


Some people might still prefer Chromium for other reasons?

Eg there are performance and memory differences between the two browsers, and different extensions are available.


> you will have to manually install Chromium updates from the same site

That sounds like a bad idea for something like a browser that should get security updates as fast as possible.



Indeed we're running CentOS on the cluster at work. I always wondered, why not Debian ?


Support. Commercial software packages that you may want to run often come with a list of supported operating systems which usually only includes RedHat and maybe SuSE. Ubuntu and Debian are rarely officially supported. And although you usually can get things to work somehow, your application software support will be useless because all tickets get closed with "unsupported OS, use RedHat". With CentOS you at least might have a chance to get a non-useless answer from you application's support team.


> The meaning of the term scientific theory (often contracted to theory for brevity) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usage of theory.[4][note 1] In everyday speech, theory can imply an explanation that represents an unsubstantiated and speculative guess,[4] whereas in science it describes an explanation that has been tested and widely accepted as valid. These different usages are comparable to the opposing usages of prediction in science versus common speech, where it denotes a mere hope.

Please take a minute to consider this and realize that you should never repeat what you just said.


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Someone wrote a script to post this on every Darwin-related thread??


As clearly stated above, you are using the vernacular definition of theory, not the scientific definition.


What I think it means is irrelevant. It only matters what Darwin thought it meant. You are not inside the head of a person who lived generations ago and loved Victorian novels.


Why should it matter what Darwin thought of it, given that the theory has underwent much further development and ratiocination since his time? The only people who see the theory as solely his intellectual property are creationists.


Are you?


>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole.

That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as well. How would you argue that consciousness is a seamless whole and not just the illusion of one?


Our awareness of the outside world isn't seamless, e.g. our blindspot. But our experience of the outside world is seamless. This experience is normally what consciousness refers to, i.e. qualia.


You also have an argument with saccades, not just the eye's blind spot.

And in looking closely at electrical currents, is there really an entity or is it just a of collection independent electrons acting on each other?

Still, to look at the current and imagine that collective action creates a higher order entity (like the water in a river) is really poetic -- even if it doesn't turn out to be the case.


You might also want to have some more proofreading done. I cought this "[..]Nat get's a good[..]" 5 seconds into your page


Ouch! Thanks for letting us know! Just fixed it :) You found our main landing page :)


Also "prep'" should be "prep.".

I strongly disagree with your tag line. I think the only way such note taking should be is open source and completely private, otherwise a) you're locked in and b) you risk sensitive info leaking.


Thanks! Yeah that makes sense as well, it's a different way of looking at it.

We found that you have to look at those things like a scale: Open source <------> Ease of use

We've decided to focus on the ease of use but there are of course many other note takings apps focusing on the other side :)


"Open source" and "Easy of use" do not represent opposite sides of a spectrum.


Exactly. They aren't mutually exclusive, as can be confirmed by many real world examples.


That will just incentivize companies to pay better salaries. Let the market decide what job positions are worth existing


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