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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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I have a novelist friend, she usually starts with the characters and the ending and as you wrote, "filling" the details backward/forward

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You delete a file on Linux while a program has it open. What happens?

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The most elegant code I've ever written, is of a , using a tribool return (null, undefined, boolean) to denote status. I find it perfect.

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This #tome about #Tcl/Tk has me re-evaluating my plans to move to the woods to be a carpenter hermit. Now I want to move to the woods and be a programmer hermit.

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I finished Andor last night. It was a pretty solid show, even if Star Wars isn't something you're deeply in to.

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Bring back partial anterior encephalectomies

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Which part of the brain would you remove?

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It seems like removing some of the connections between the anterior and frontal cortices could have positive effects.

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I think you're perfect as you are :)

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I’m using textlog to explore the intersection of and tech, with the goal of building an app that solves a problem in this space. Named , it's word represented as a hex color. Of all the words there, it is a cocoa-ish color and is an appropriate name for this idea.

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Érdekes ez a 4, 2-es irodalmi, valamint programozási hagyomány, amire Douglas Adams hívta fel a figyelmet, nálam ebből a hagyományból 4 a pszichiátriai, 2 a rehabilitációs téma, ami érdekes módon maga is 4, 2-es, ami olyan, mintha rekurzív kezdene lenni, de mégsem az teljesen www.textlog.hu/a-4-adel-es-2-szuzett/

This 4, 2 literary and programming tradition, which Douglas Adams drew attention to, is interesting. In my case, 4 of this tradition are psychiatric and 2 are rehabilitation topics, which is interestingly itself a 4, 2, which seems to be starting to be recursive, but it is not completely www.textlog.hu/a-4-adel-es-2-szuzett/

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is anyone also hearing rumours about a power/internet blackout or is it just here?

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It is impossible, it was designed to withstand a nuclear catastrophe. Several hops in different countries would need to go offline simultaneously.

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Got a bunch of things to do, hate procrastination, any advice is welcome

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Make a list, then tackle each thing individually until it's done

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Gotta give it try, by now making a list is like the top of the list

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Determine what matters most and make a list of the no more than 7 things. Do one thing well at a time, top down. Reprioritise as you learn more. Notes:

If you half-arse a task and decide that'll do, it's evidence it wasn't the right priority. Learn.
Any sort of productivity, multi-tasking, app, solution type thing is a scam or a money grab and isn't needed.
People tend to remember 7 things well, but struggle with longer lists and particularly fail to remember things in the middle.

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apparently there is some filtering. can't say "hit*s with hand".

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It was only yesterday that I clicked on a Translate button to read a Japanese post. Today I see a Chinese post with English translation right below. Beautiful stuff.

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Economist Lant Pritchett describes shifts in ideas as silly, controversial, progressive, then obvious. Also: "Radio has no future. X-rays are clearly a hoax. The aeroplane is scientifically impossible." - Lord Kelvin ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco

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But I already have a first note

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what happened? you might saw a cached page

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small doodle of today! ibb.co/sJ6NNMtq

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Yello folks!

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hey! welcome :)

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𐑲𐑝 𐑚𐑰𐑯 𐑦𐑯𐑕𐑐𐑲𐑼𐑛 𐑑 𐑒𐑫𐑒 𐑥𐑹 ·𐑡𐑨𐑐𐑩𐑯𐑰𐑟 𐑓𐑵𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑕𐑴 𐑓 𐑛𐑦𐑯𐑼 𐑲 𐑥𐑱𐑛 𐑕𐑨𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑑𐑧𐑮𐑦𐑘𐑭𐑒𐑰, 𐑥𐑰𐑕𐑴 𐑕𐑵𐑐, 𐑮𐑲𐑕, 𐑯 𐑐𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤𐑟. I’ve been inspired to cook more Japanese food lately so for dinner I made salmon teriyaki, miso soup, rice, and pickles.

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This is a very silly thing to be doing in 2026, but I finally tried some Quake 1 recently. Pretty cool, it's amazing how much it really does just end up feeling like Doom in 3D.

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Since I played both Doom and Quake 2 back in the day, it does feel like I've finally bridged that gap, to where I think I understand what people mean when they talk about Romero's influence in the design.

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Another thing I think it makes really clear is just how much room-over-room changes the way the game spaces feel, even if no one's actively thinking about that while they play.

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