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by asimilator 6y ago
Ironically I think org-mode is a great example of a non-malleable system. When I started using it I slowly tried to customize it to better suit my needs, but everything was quite brittle. Posted a comment awhile back with some specific exam
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by asimilator 7y ago
It's endlessly frustrating to me that animated graphs are published as GIFs/videos (see r/dataisbeautiful on reddit for lots of examples). In this particular one, I can't read the annotations before they disappear, and t
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by asimilator 7y ago
> E.g. the school told me that I belong to some ethnicity and that there are other ethnicities I should know about. As a child I couldn't care less. Why would they tell me this if ethnicity doesn't even matter for future job? I
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by asimilator 7y ago
There's a strong case for public records (and public trials) as a check on the government. Public records allow public scrutiny of government action.
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by asimilator 7y ago
Thanks for making the world just a little bit worse :(
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by asimilator 7y ago
All of them are very wealthy due to unusual circumstances (mostly oil).
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by asimilator 7y ago
> Norway, Singapore, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia Tiny or oil wealthy or both tiny and oil wealthy. Not great examples for your point.
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by asimilator 7y ago
Every time one of these articles about Emacs is posted here I kind of shake my head and wonder why my experience with it is so different. So big caveat: my experience with Emacs is pretty much entirely limited to org-mode (which is the only
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by asimilator 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/Kz5JHuJ.png I get only 2/3rds of the headline on mobile. I guess it’s nice that the Medium app is made for readers, cause their website sure as heck isn’t ...
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by asimilator 7y ago
There are other reasons to pick AMD. Better Linux drivers. Business practices that I'm more comfortable supporting (they tend to be more open, e.g. non-proprietary, free to use FreeSync vs proprietary G-Sync). Stuff like that. I'l
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by asimilator 7y ago
... everything else people use GPUs for? There are other use cases :).
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by asimilator 7y ago
> At Mozilla, we’re always fighting for technology that puts users’ privacy first I would love to run my own Pocket server ... 2 years and counting.
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by asimilator 8y ago
So when you get to the real world and everyone in the meeting is on their laptop? ...
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by asimilator 9y ago
“Bad cases” is a lot different than “really easy”. My friend has a pump which occasionally fails (that wireless pump, forgot the name). It’s possible (in a pinch) go without it for hours. I don’t think most diabetics are that brittle that “
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by asimilator 9y ago
This isn’t accurate. A friend of mine was diagnosed with T1D freshman year of college and was still passing exams when he went to hospital with the initial diagnosis. He told me his blood sugar was so high those standard portable glucose me
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by asimilator 10y ago
I have a Fenix 3 HR, and unfortunately I couldn't disagree more. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Automatic sleep tracking is abysmal (regularly off by >4 hours, sometimes more). The wrist heart rate monitor tends to have ina
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by asimilator 10y ago
> To see more from John Carmack on Facebook, log in or create an account. Yes, it'd be nice if this didn't take up half the page.
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by asimilator 11y ago
I think you can be a professional programmer because it's your passion and still not know what a MOSFET is. Computing is a large subject.
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by asimilator 11y ago
> there is no evidence that the incidence of suicide by young professionals on Wall Street is higher than in any other industry. Doesn't this undermine the premise of the article? The deaths are tragic, but if the suicide rate of Wa
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by asimilator 11y ago
> Google has cleverly tricked us into keeping that industry aloft, essentially paying to keep something we hate alive. We hate content creators?
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by asimilator 11y ago
Yeah, this is where I stopped reading. It's such a juvenile way to argue.
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by asimilator 11y ago
> I'd do it in a heartbeat If the benefits aren't really significant why are you interested in doing so anonymously?
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by asimilator 11y ago
> I've seen a ton of movies via it that I've wanted to watch for decades but couldn't find It blows my mind how much stuff (old stuff! especially non-blockbusters) isn't available anywhere streaming. I can't imag
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by asimilator 11y ago
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/h... Can you tell the difference between uncompressed vs 320 kbps vs 128 kbps in a blind test?
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by asimilator 11y ago
fallocate doesn't do any IO; it's much faster. From the fallocate man page: > For filesystems which support the fallocate system call, preallocation is done quickly by allocating blocks and marking them as uninitialized, requir
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by asimilator 11y ago
> All SRS does is optimize those practice sessions. I think I'm struggling to see how flash cards would be an effective practice session. Why not just code something? Start a hobby project, contribute to something open source, etc.
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by asimilator 11y ago
> It's a silly analogy Right, very much so, because a live conversation using vocab is very much different than anything you'd do while programming. > The more you expand your repertoire of memorised functions and patterns,
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by asimilator 11y ago
I'm surprised that memory or memorization would be the key (for some people? for yourself?) to learn a programming language. I've studied a number of different subjects in my life, from foreign languages to computer science to mat
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by asimilator 11y ago
"Other search engines will let you perform a concentrated search using the “site:” tag (“site: the next web duckduckgo”, for instance), but it opens up in the search engine. Bangs take you directly to the site you want to find results
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by asimilator 11y ago
passwordstore just (with my distro) starting shipping a dmenu ( http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ ) script that I think is great, and personally removes the need for a browser extension. Unfortunately only available on li

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