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by a3_nm 14y ago
Or aalib < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib> , which I my opinion gives better results than libcaca for monochrome images. You might also enjoy their demo program bb (sudo apt-get install bb).
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by a3_nm 14y ago
In college, the machines in the computer labs had no speakers, but I found out that by logging on the TTY you could make the PC speaker beep at an arbitrary frequency. You could only play one note at a time, though... except if you used sev
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> I'm a bit disappointed that they can refuse you service for any reason at all. This is actually a problem with the methodology (I think): most probably, none of the service providers pledge to provide service to you, so they can all r
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I was about to mention that. If anyone wants more detail, what's happening is that is Free Mobile (new player on the market) is suing SFR (one of the three major players) for unfair competition. Here is a source (in French): http://www.cap
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by a3_nm 14y ago
For this use case, I'd rather take a picture of the restaurant name rather than handwriting the kanji.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Relevant thread on the ML: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2012-03/msg00028...
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by a3_nm 14y ago
ack-grep is a good tool to grep through files. grep is more than that. When I need to grep in a pipeline, I probably don't want ack-grep's bells and whistles. One example of a useful feature of grep: "grep --line-buffered" to grep with no b
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Annoying exception: scp only accepts -r as recursion flag, not -R.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
When I read "pasting text into vim", I thought of still another thing: ":set paste".
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Bash also supports set -o vi.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> I'd have to follow a couple hundred blogs/microjournals. RSS?
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by a3_nm 14y ago
You can sometimes find the papers in open access directly by googling, or by looking at the author's webpage. If it doesn't work, try to email the authors. If you know someone who has an account on a university network with the relevant sub
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by a3_nm 14y ago
The Internet != the web.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Your editor is not the bottleneck, but reducing the distance between your thoughts and the code is still pretty important. You want to be able to move around, type something and change your mind in the most immediate way possible. Whenever
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I'm curious about why you need a specific bouncer for this. I can't see any doc about what it does that usual bouncers don't do (except for "[existing bouncers] have many limitations such as not being able to sync private conversations acro
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by a3_nm 14y ago
While vim is very cool, there is certainly a lot of room for improvement. vim's codebase doesn't look like something that I would like to hack, and don't try to tell me that things like vim plugins or vimscript are supposed to be the best t
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> I never think, man, if only Sublime did x, it would save me five minutes, twenty times a week! You often don't notice how useful something is until you're used to it.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
* Full text search and tagging. (Hence, http://notmuchmail.org/ )
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by a3_nm 14y ago
I think their point in the passage that you quoted was to argue that it was environment-friendly, not cost-effective.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
You're welcome! However, keep in mind that alot is still a pretty young project. I use it to read my mail (and use mutt to compose mail, ie. 'r' in alot spawns mutt), but there are still a lot of rough edges. The nice thing is that the code
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by a3_nm 14y ago
> Ihmo there isn't so much left to innovate in an email client There is interesting innovation going on, for instance < http://notmuchmail.org/&#62 ; (and satellite projects such as < https://github.com/teythoon/afew&#62 ; and &
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Maybe it would be interesting to have a way to sort the result by "score" so that the more "natural" results appear first? (The score should be a combination of the bigram frequencies, maybe the frequency of the full domain name in the bigr
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Arranged by hand, but much better: http://www.levenez.com/lang/
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Accepting that everything has an end and nothing can't be taken away from you is fine, but this doesn't mean you should not focus more on things that can't be taken away from you easily (i.e. until you die).
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by a3_nm 14y ago
True, computer literacy today is harder than it should be (because we are only in the early days). This being said, the core of programming (being able to formalize what you want) is a rare and valuable skill that isn't going to be automa
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Same for ^C, which also does the same as Esc and is extremely convenient to type. (There is a slight difference with Esc though: VjjIblah^C does not do the same as VjjIblah<Esc>.)
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Just to be precise, only the game engine is open source. "Images are licensed under a Creative Commons License and are provided separately," and this CC license is BY-NC-SA which is neither FSF- nor OSI-compliant.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Because OCR is hard. Finding and decoding QR codes is way easier and more resilient.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
The cost of coin flipping is probably more than the cost of seat position transfer.
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by a3_nm 14y ago
Another interesting option would be to have the wristbands communicate by radio with nearby wristbands. Probably not useful to draw precise stuff, but could be fun to have possibly beautiful abstract patterns like cellular automata.

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