Ctrl+Shit+U + 2014 (em dash) or 2013 (en dash) in Linux. Former academic here, and I use the things all the time. You can find them all over my pre-LLM publications.

It really speaks to the weakness of your original claim that you're applying this level of sophistry to your backpedaling.

There are 1135 Erdős problems. The solution to how many of them do you expect to be practically useless? 99%? More? 100%? Calling something useful merely because it might be in rare exceptions is the real sophistry.

I think some people are just the center of gravity, and that particular friend circle revolves around them. Before COVID, we had a friend group that would hang out fairly regularly. Once I left (for a job, not fleeing the city), none of them hung out without me. Everyone was friendly with each other, but everyone also had their own lives going on with their own friends and other circles. While I was the glue for that circle, it wasn't like everyone just stayed at home having pity parties when I wasn't around.

My anecdote might have limited relevance here, but I think it's something worth considering.

Do any of those friends organise anything for any of their other friend groups?

I get the feeling that some people organise, while most people don't. I haven't seen the situation where a person organises stuff for one group, but not for another group. It always tends to be the same people doing the organising for all their friends. At least that's what I've observed, I'd welcome any other observations.

edit: poor choice of words

That attitude, the some people are leeches, to me is part of the problem. If you go in with the expectation that others owe you something or they're bad people, you're only going to be going down the path of not doing it.

yeah probably a poor choice of words, thanks for the correction

"Most people have less than the average number of friends", or The Friendship Paradox:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox

PhDs do the research. Not your typical overworked family practitioner.

They don’t develop treatment protocols or testing modalities either. Knowledge gets disseminated as best practices and gets applied as needed to different specialties.

If probiotics is what you’re after, why not eat or drink something fermented?

Firefox + ublock origin. Nothing was hijacked, I saw no ads, and I found the name in the 3rd paragraph. You can improve your web experience immensely.

I find this funny.

On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads. They were part of programmming..

On web, people."feel" its the same thing. "Oh let the poor owners earn a bit" because of sob stories of content creators and "only source of income".

They dont see ublock as something important

> On tv, back in the day, we used to have mandatory ads.

_we_ didn't.

Safari on iPhone

There are mobile users in the world too you know

Mobile user running Firefox + uBlock Origin here. Works great. Probably not on iPhones though...

uBlock works on Safari on iPhone too.

I didn’t get ads or redirects.

https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

The lite makes a lot of difference, it's only using the iOS content blocker and it doesn't work effectively in many use cases.

I haven’t found that to be the case at all. I replaced adguard with uBlock lite months ago and haven’t noticed any problems since.

Off by 10+1. Someone who graduated college in 2000 = 25 + 22 (4 years of college from 18) = 47, not 57, and not anywhere close to the retirement age. It might be pedantry, but the original comment should have said 1990, not 2000.

There's a mistake with The Rust Programming Language. It counts Programming Rust as the same book.

Just to nitpick, that doesn't imply profit. They could be breaking even (and probably are working at a loss).

As the Romans said, festina lente.

Hard disagree. I find that Linux (particularly but not exclusively Gnome) is actually even better than Windows or Mac OS. I hate having to use Windows or Mac again for how clumsy and poorly thought out they are. It took how long before they finally got Window snapping? And file search is still atrocious on both, and getting worse on Windows.

It always seemed to me the people who deride Linux's desktop GUI are those who actually never bothered to use it, especially not seriously in the past decade.