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by LeonB 3y ago
Over 1000 entries in my password Tracker.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Yes, I think it’s quite a delightful example. Small enough that it’s quite realistic to be able to read it, understand it, and add to it.
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by LeonB 3y ago
As in: “Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs ” - posted 19 days ago here on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35759449
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by LeonB 3y ago
Here is a command line based tag system for Mac osx - https://github.com/jdberry/tag - using xattrs
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by LeonB 3y ago
I saw an example tag of “due:tomorrow” … which made me wonder if there is or could be or should be a macro system… I.e. you tell dmsd to give a document a tag of `due:@tomorrow` then the tool would assess this and give the document a tag of
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by LeonB 3y ago
If a file is moved or renamed does it still have its tags? If not, then I’d say `dmsd` needs to have commands for moving and/or renaming files, while keeping their tags. Auto tagging seems like a potentially quite rich area. How are ta
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by LeonB 3y ago
I couldn’t work out what you mean by DMS. When I googled it, it said “Document Management System” Is that it? I don’t have a very clear concept of what a “Document Management System” is, other than some I’ve seen used by government departme
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by LeonB 3y ago
While I support the notion of a lengthy spell of contemplation inside the walls of a prison for all CEOs of printer companies — even prior to this cartridge issue — I cannot help but feel that anything short of summary execution is excusa
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by LeonB 3y ago
There’s more child -> uncle …relations than child -> father …relations. Plus, what you said. Might be something in that.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Soon after the printing press was invented (okay- reinvented for Europeans) many popular German pamphleteers took the art of vulgar insults to heights never obtained before or since.
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by LeonB 3y ago
Aka “the diamond dependency problem”. If the “old” A has a severe vulnerability and the “new” A has breaking changes - then there is no solution other than to avoid/replace/fork B until B is upgraded.
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by LeonB 3y ago
“Reuben” to “Rube” - Levenshtein distance 2 “Reuben” to “Ruby” - Levenshtein distance 3 (No big deal, just funny)
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’m also keen to know what else is in this kit? Thanks.
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by LeonB 3y ago
The survival of the monopolies, monopsonies, oligopolies, oligopsonists is down to whether or not they can defend, protect and retain their monopolies (etc.)
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by LeonB 3y ago
It’s not founder run though. They have a level of separation from the running of the business. (And even if they were running it, it’s no guarantee that it would stick to any respectable values… just “more likely”… but in their case… stil
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by LeonB 3y ago
Thank you very much for providing me with the info. Shows that my memory of what Turin claimed is kind of different/opposite to what he was claiming.
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by LeonB 3y ago
You wouldn’t need to get “approved” to do so… You’d go back to your regular non-specialist doctor, your GP, and ask for a new referral to a specialist, explain that you want a different one, and why… the GP would give you the referral. You
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by LeonB 3y ago
I saw a Ted talk some years ago called “The science of smell” - and I think the jury was out on whether that speaker was really on to something or was a bit of a crack pot. It seemed legit to me! I’d like to know if this research is consis
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by LeonB 3y ago
Ah wait — I realised what you meant. I pasted the quote into ChatGPT and it understood Martin perfectly — The reply was “Yes, adding quotation marks to the sentence would definitely make it clearer and easier to read. Here's how the se
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by LeonB 3y ago
Hmmm, I’m not sure what you mean? I thought — maybe you think ChatGPT wrote the comment. But then I thought - maybe you think I used ChatGPT to recall the Martin Gardner quote. Then I was interested to see if ChatGPT would get it right… it
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by LeonB 3y ago
Reminds me of this famous sentence from puzzles/logic legend Martin Gardner: “Wouldn’t the sentence ‘I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign’ have been clearer if quotation mark
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by LeonB 3y ago
If something ends with “I“ you can add two more I’s and have it go from 1 to 3. And so on. Using that appending technique works to sneak the year forward in most cases - perhaps that was the intended benefit? We can update the copyright fro
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by LeonB 3y ago
I’ve made a bunch of things that are somewhat like this (combining markdown with sql and charts) and I find it so fun to use, and so fun to implement. Interactive coding stuff is just - it’s like catnip. So addictive to use.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Agreed. It’s like if I unit tested 0.01 percent of my code but ran the unit test 10 million times, with no failures, and claimed it was therefore “statistically” better than code that had been 100% manually tested.
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by LeonB 4y ago
> Of course, they aren't putting essential cargo (or god forbid people) on these higher risk test flights. A number of Tesla-related deaths can be attributed to Autopilot malfunction. Real people - really dead.
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by LeonB 4y ago
> Compatibility between music notation across instruments is IMO a really cool feature. … true… and then it’s messed with by, for example Bb trumpets - a concept I didn’t learn about until adulthood.
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by LeonB 4y ago
I’m easy prey to any article mentioning a Beatle, but I found that quite interesting. When watching that recent Beatles doco “Get Back” about the making of Let it be, it was fascinating to see how John and Paul had a way of putting musical
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by LeonB 4y ago
What a delight. Nice work. At one point in time I had a fascination with hexagonal grids. I made little library for drawing them on the html canvas, and then made clones of a few hex based games, worked on various “game of life” variants in
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by LeonB 4y ago
Gratitudes for the explanatories, trousering this for rethinkalysing tomorn.
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by LeonB 4y ago
It’s a complex area - any time I read into the history of “antitrust” etc in the US I get lost in a quagmire of details. Overall the US seems to be incredibly open to monopsonies, monopolies, and oligopolies, and very hostile to any restra

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