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Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don't get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they'll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

Source: a friend of mine personally telling me what happened the last time he was in mainland China.

Friends of mine who have moved away from China. One of them had police at their door in China for social media posts that were friendly to Uyghurs (not even anything to do with the genocide, just general friendliness as a "we're all Chinese" kind of message). Being taken to police stations for even slightly questioning the state narrative is terrifying.

D&D monks be like

Docs are good, but the main thing is that there are just fewer steps due to good tooling.

As an application author, Snaps are much easier to create than Flatpaks.

BG3 has couch co-op, which is pretty neat

Our restrictions were basically lifted after four weeks in 2020 because that was enough to eliminate the virus. I think going a bit authoritarian with the lockdown maximised our freedom in the long run that year.

We had a four week (incredibly strict) lockdown in 2020 and then life returned to normal because we eliminated the virus. In late 2021 the delta variant ruined all that and the government attempted a half-assed lockdown which didn't do much and that's where a lot of the anger came from.

That could be a malita filter, which has a flat bottom.

mmm delicious 😋

What's wrong with a paper filter for a pour over?