EleanorKonik

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by EleanorKonik 7mo ago
I have learned so much about SQL databases and playwright tests and python and all sorts of things that were completely opaque to me (but are quite useful for my day job) before I started using AI tools. And a lot of these skills I'v
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by EleanorKonik 2y ago
Yeah, I read it all the way through and enjoyed most of it. The rice part got a little preachy and the speculation about dog domestication was kind of annoying, but I learned a ton. It was originally recommended by a friend. At risk of bein
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by EleanorKonik 2y ago
Back when I was reading Tamed by Alice Roberts, about the history of domestication, I remember being startled that modern ground nuts and rice were the product of irradiation.
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Another defense of reading whole books(papyrusrampant.substack.com)
2 points by EleanorKonik 3y ago|0 comments
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Takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, & optimization(eleanorkonik.substack.com)
2 points by EleanorKonik 3y ago|0 comments
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by EleanorKonik 3y ago
I've sent faxes in America within the last 2 years; they're still a thing here too.
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by EleanorKonik 3y ago
Unironically one of my favorite uses of chatgpt is to tell it to rewrite things as a Homeric epic in the style of Tennyson so it's more pleasant to read aloud and I have a better chance of remembering it
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by EleanorKonik 3y ago
Honestly, in these days of the google play store taking its cut from Amazon, using Libby is actually easier than using the kindle app to buy books. Every time I hit that "you can't buy books from inapp" button I remember th
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
I went to a public honors college / small state school, and arranged my schedule such that I only had 3 days of classes, so I could go home and take care of my sick mom and work a part time weekend job. Even then the schedule was not w
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
No; I've been to places that just outright refuse to accept physical cash at all, and I live in America.
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
I'm still immensely grateful to all the HN folks who helped me recover from my hug of death a year or so ago by teaching me the Cloudflare tricks. I'm with Ghost Pro now instead of Wordpress, but man, IDK what I would have done wi
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
We definitely need to make this more obvious, but you can import an OPML. I usually just drag it from my downloads folder into the app, but it also works if you use the 'upload file' command. The language is a little different tha
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
Sounds a bit like the Shmoo, of Shmoocon fame. > Are you familiar with The Shmoo, Mr. Fisher? Comic strip I liked as a boy. The Shmoo was a loveable creature, really. Laid eggs, gave milk... ...and died of sheer ecstasy when looked at w
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
Is this still common? I think AP recently moved away from subtracting points for incorrect answers.
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
To save other Windows users a click, it's mac-only right now.
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
> When it comes to privacy and security, it’s deathly important to be as unambiguous as possible. Did ... did they miss the giant, in-your-face warning that happens when you intentionally deactivate safe mode in order to be able to insta
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
This one is still in the manual-install phase, but you might like this plugin: https://github.com/tomaszkiewicz/obsidian-database-plugin
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by EleanorKonik 4y ago
Honestly this is one of the handful of plugins I hate trying to live without. Tag wrangler is the other.
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I can speak for Maggie, but the relevant Obsidian plugins are probably Dataview, Templater, and the Spaced Repetition plugin(s). You might find this community resource for navigating plugins by category helpful: https://publish.o
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
This is the piece I've been struggling to get at. I understand why filesystems exist and how they help with interacting with the physical structures that underlie computers, but I don't understand what benefit a database alternati
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
App sandboxing on iOS is supposed to be a security feature, I think? But it makes it impossible for apps like Obsidian to work with apps like Dropbox, which benefits Apple; they force people to use iCloud.
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I got through all of school, including two professional degrees, organizing all of my notes chronologically. It worked really well for me — right up until I tried to write a novel, hah. I think the "best process" is driven by goal
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
It's easier in the sense that if you're a brand new baby programmer, it takes fewer easily-findable-via-Google commands. Sorry if that wasn't clear! The article wasn't really written for the HackerNews audience, sorry I
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I've got over 2k files in my Obsidian vault and haven't had a problem really. I think it depends on how you categorize things? I'm never going to confuse my tax documents with my short fiction, or my character profiles for a
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I think I managed to get Cloudflare set up, let's hope that works
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
Ah, bless, this is exactly what I am doing right now and it is much less terrifying than I thought it would be. Ironically, this has been on my todo list to learn — I want to mirror my Obsidian notes and that requires Cloudflare and before
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
If I can figure out how to GET to my wordpress page for long enough, I'll set up a redirect and mirror it as an article on https://obsidianroundup.org/ — which is literally what I was working on this week, haha, the ni
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I am _literally_ mid-migration to Ghost because of how slow Wordpress is :( :( :(
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
I'm hosted on Digital Ocean, and the irony is, I'm literally mid-migration to Ghost from Wordpress — if this had happened a week later this wouldn't have happened. I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade the droplet but
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by EleanorKonik 5y ago
Oh god I'm sorry I wasn't expecting this level of traffic, let me see if I can fix it.

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