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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

This can't help in the short term, I would consider learning steno. It used to cost thousands to rent specialized equipment to do it. Now with Plover (foss), the software component is free. You just need a keyboard with n-key rollover to do it.

I wouldn't actually recommend learning on a standard keyboard. I personally use an ortholinear for typing, and that's what got me into plover.

One way this would help one disabilities to make money is that with high-speed internet, you can caption internet broadcasts or remote company meetings. There are nonprofits that you would work for to find companies that need your service.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

You're correct in a lot of languages; Excel comes to mind. Just that's not how int rand() works in C.

Sorry, I don't why you're getting snark and even being accused of using the word "integer".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

But which consumes more energy? Like really. I'm betting AI does, but some tasks might be close.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Exactly. More precisely, the wording is making the reader confuse assets and debts. Which side of the ledger does that sheep actually belong on?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's what percentage of countries have one that would matter.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Not quite homeless, Paul Erdős was a nomadic mathematician. He use to travel to universities, couch-surf with a mathematician, and solve a problem with them.

He would say, "another roof, another proof." As a result, he has a huge number of collaborators. The stat Erdős number is like the six degrees from Kevin Bacon game.

People seemed glad to have this oddball stranger as a house guest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, he is a folk singer. But listening to what he is singing over can catch you off-guard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm not a music expert but here goes.

Paul Simon is most identified as folk. The act Simon and Garfunkel is basically pure folk if such a thing exists.

Listen to the opening of Late in the Evening. He's singing folk, but there is no guitar (to my ear). Instead it's a bass guitar playing funk. Later some horns come in. They sound like mambo to me.

There are two songs on Graceland that he recorded with a South African band. This was during apartheid. He heard a bootleg tape from this SA group, and had to travel to a part of South Africa that he was banned from doing business in.

Does he make it some powerful statement? No, that would be a stunt. He just wanted to make music with them. "I Know What I Know" is about the insipid-ness of show biz party-networking culture. It's wild.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'll sum up some answers that made things click for me

  1. She writes songs spanning many emotions.

  2. Her albums span multiple genres. (I've only heard pop and country, but I'm not a fan.)

  3. She is hard working, prolific, and puts on a show.

So with that combination it seems she has something for everyone. Personally, I only know one TS song, but it's catchy as hell. So there's no song that I hate that happens to TS song either.

About point 2.: I'm a Paul Simon fan and he spans multiple genres, but I wouldn't expect non-fans to know that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think a person who has never had the Bell is qualified to be a toilet paper tester.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You have an order of operations problem.

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