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Re:Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? on Sunday July 09, 2023 @02:42AM (#36652199)
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.

Re:Humble Tech Book Bundle: Linux by No Starch Press on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @08:52AM (#32823609)
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.

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/

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.

How many times have you pasted this as a reply?

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

Re:Sinclair C5 Restoration – Clive Sinclair's Electric Vehicle on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:18PM (#28578180)
Can you give me a synopsis of the 35 minute part 1 video as well?
Re:Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:01AM (#28378330)
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.

Re:The most underused browser feature: reader mode on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @11:48AM (#28303141)
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.