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_1a | 2 years ago | on: Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?

Exactly the same experience and feeling for me. Taught myself how to solve the cube during the pandemic but now all I know how to do is solve a cube in a specific order.

It takes the same amount of time every time and it doesn't actually feel like I'm solving it but instead putting it back to its original state.

_1a | 3 years ago | on: Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux by No Starch Press

It's a shame that the GIMP and Audacity books are in every bundle.

I have yet to use or have the need to use either of those but to have them featured here as a Linux bundle is strange.

_1a | 3 years ago | on: 'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles

There's a similar story on the reply-all podcast about a group trying to take a woman's Snap Chat handle because it was Lizard.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k/

_1a | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

After reading Practical Vim by Drew Neil I went to his site to check out what else he has. Well he's selling a course that looked like the majority of what he's covered in the book. When I saw the $150 price tag I couldn't believe my eyes.

I left the site and bought his other Vim book instead.

_1a | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

How many times have you pasted this as a reply?

What are you doing, <C-r><C-p>0 ??

_1a | 4 years ago | on: Sinclair C5 Restoration – Clive Sinclair's Electric Vehicle

Can you give me a synopsis of the 35 minute part 1 video as well?

_1a | 4 years ago | on: Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Is halfstep and whole steps common academic practice?

Not being from the US I was always taught with semitones and tones. Whenever I saw YouTube videos with half steps and whole steps I thought they were dumbing down for the audience.

_1a | 4 years ago | on: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

This was one of the features I was actually sad to see go when I updated Firefox.

I used this feature a lot as it was mainly manuals that I was saving.

They also replaced the default start page to be Collections instead of bookmarks, which b of course for me was empty.

I think I've got used to the new layout that I probably won't downgrade just for the offline capabilities.