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<p>There are films which you wish you had watched earlier in life, and there are others which don’t make sense until you have had your fair share of world experiences. Waking Life falls in the former category.</p>
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<p>The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all. Now that I’ve had more nuanced discussions about these philosophical conundrums and have read a fair amount of academic literature, the surface level discussions here leave a lot to be desired.</p>
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document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="#"]').forEach(anchor => {
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anchor.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
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e.preventDefault();
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var id = this.getAttribute("href").substr(1);
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if (!window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)').matches) {
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document.querySelector(`[id='${decodeURIComponent(id)}']`).scrollIntoView({
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behavior: "smooth"
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});
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} else {
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document.querySelector(`[id='${decodeURIComponent(id)}']`).scrollIntoView();
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}
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if (id === "top") {
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history.replaceState(null, null, " ");
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} else {
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history.pushState(null, null, `#${id}`);
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}
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});
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});
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</script>
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<script>
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var mybutton = document.getElementById("top-link");
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window.onscroll = function () {
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if (document.body.scrollTop > 800 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 800) {
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mybutton.style.visibility = "visible";
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mybutton.style.opacity = "1";
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} else {
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mybutton.style.visibility = "hidden";
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mybutton.style.opacity = "0";
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}
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};
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</script>
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<script>
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document.getElementById("theme-toggle").addEventListener("click", () => {
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if (document.body.className.includes("dark")) {
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document.body.classList.remove('dark');
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localStorage.setItem("pref-theme", 'light');
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} else {
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document.body.classList.add('dark');
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localStorage.setItem("pref-theme", 'dark');
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}
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})
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</script>
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<script>
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document.querySelectorAll('pre > code').forEach((codeblock) => {
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const container = codeblock.parentNode.parentNode;
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const copybutton = document.createElement('button');
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copybutton.classList.add('copy-code');
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copybutton.innerHTML = 'copy';
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function copyingDone() {
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copybutton.innerHTML = 'copied!';
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setTimeout(() => {
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copybutton.innerHTML = 'copy';
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}, 2000);
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}
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copybutton.addEventListener('click', (cb) => {
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if ('clipboard' in navigator) {
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navigator.clipboard.writeText(codeblock.textContent);
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copyingDone();
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return;
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}
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const range = document.createRange();
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range.selectNodeContents(codeblock);
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const selection = window.getSelection();
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selection.removeAllRanges();
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selection.addRange(range);
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try {
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document.execCommand('copy');
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copyingDone();
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} catch (e) { };
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selection.removeRange(range);
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});
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if (container.classList.contains("highlight")) {
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container.appendChild(copybutton);
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} else if (container.parentNode.firstChild == container) {
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} else if (codeblock.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName == "TABLE") {
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codeblock.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.appendChild(copybutton);
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} else {
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codeblock.parentNode.appendChild(copybutton);
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}
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});
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</script>
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</body>
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</html>
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