canistel

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by canistel 5y ago
Along the lines of Getting Things Done, keep as much as you can (succinctly) in paper. In my case, I keep it in org files (Emacs Org Mode), with scheduled timelines. You can then tell yourself that you have noted it down and will come back
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by canistel 5y ago
Desiring money beyond what you need to be happy is just an accounting hobby. This did hit home, and hard. However, buffer and lots of it, is the only preparation one can do for Black Swan events. I don't think keeping money that is s
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by canistel 5y ago
+1 for Newpipe. Not available in Playstore, but easily installable as an apk. You can disable or uninstall the stock Youtube app (or any app for that matter) through adb :- pm disable-user --user 0 com.blah.blah pm uninstall --user 0 com.bl
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by canistel 5y ago
A closed source but free alternative is https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooregeditor . Full-featured and reliable from my experience.
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by canistel 5y ago
I keep a backup of Syncthing configs and then re-use it. Config.xml can even be manually edited to fix directory paths. ~/.config/syncthing in Linux, the pem files and config.xml. Similarly in Windows too (from C:\Users\<userna
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by canistel 6y ago
Denial of root/admin access too. Android - You are forced to void warranty, and try risky stuff. Once you are rooted, you have to play hide-and-seek with banking apps. Windows - You can login as admin, but unless you NSudo, you cannot
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by canistel 6y ago
+1. In my opinion Double Commander has the best multi-file renaming capabilities too. (Don't let the beta status put you off. The releases, as mentioned above, are very stable.)
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by canistel 6y ago
Discussion on spaced repetition quickly move on to Anki invariably, but I would like to highlight org-drill https://melpa.org/#/org-drill too. If you are an Emacs user, that is...
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by canistel 6y ago
My notions might be outdated, but doesn't GIMP still lack CMYK support, which is sort of the default in the printing world?
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by canistel 6y ago
I have managed to install anbox & the modules successfully in Xubuntu (without snap). However, _application manager service_ needs to be started, and I am at a loss how to do this...
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by canistel 6y ago
Works only with snap, unless you want take the trouble of building it on your own...
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by canistel 6y ago
I beg to differ on one point. I am a Christian from Kerala ( a Southern state). On most North Indian encounters, after a while, I start getting quizzed on what my ancestor's caste was. I eventually have to reveal that I have no clue, b
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by canistel 6y ago
See, you can have discourses on caste, you can deliberate as you will, but endogamy - marrying within your caste - is still the norm across India, even in the states where people are not that finicky about caste. Until this chain is broken,
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by canistel 6y ago
The so called exit exams(tests) in Indian colleges may not be what Westerners expect it to be. In Indian exams, challenging problems are not touched upon at all. Exams are about how much ground can be foraged rather than how deep you can wa
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by canistel 6y ago
One feature that has impressed me is that maps are exportable as SVG. This does comes in handy once in a while...
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by canistel 6y ago
For Free Pascal (which is used in Lazarus), you can use almost all of the native libraries (linked dynamically, and in many cases even statically). It is not as straightforward and easy as using _pip_ or _npm_, and maybe not as organised, b
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by canistel 6y ago
Lazarus(open source and cross platform) is there, alive and thriving, actively developed and used. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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by canistel 6y ago
I find mixing Catholicism and Sci-Fi a quirky but heady mix. Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow is another, where Jesuits pilot an interplanetary mission.
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by canistel 6y ago
You do not end up losing those. Both the popup menus - the site's as well as the browser's - are shown, the latter on top of the former. Press Esc to make your browser's vanish, and you still have the site's available.
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by canistel 6y ago
Being a Firefox user, I have set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled and dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled set to false, so that I can continue right-clicking and pasting.
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by canistel 6y ago
This strikes a chord, as we too made the switch from Dropbox to Syncthing recently. We also ended up using Syncthing-GTK, which is a cross-platform UI front-end for Syncthing. (For us the process does not get killed in Windows platforms whe
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by canistel 6y ago
Windows has seized control. This is exactly how I feel about Windows 10.
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by canistel 6y ago
Yes, only that it has to be done page by page and then you have to merge the pages back.
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by canistel 6y ago
In certain forms, text need to be filled in a series of square boxes. If there is an option to adjust character spacing, you can in fact fill such fields too using a monsospace font. But I am yet to come across an open source (or even free)
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by canistel 7y ago
A Swiss private bank can encrypt and keep its data outside Switzerland. Daily data processing batches can be executed over encrypted data. In theory at least...
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by canistel 7y ago
While Lazarus supports multiple OSes, Gambas is pretty much Linux only.
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by canistel 7y ago
Sorry to ask a very ametuerish question, but how is lossless compression of an image different from regular run of the mill compression (zip, 7z)? Is there any sort of underlying pattern or feature which is unique to image data that is lev
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by canistel 7y ago
I am currently using Lazarus for an open source project. I develop and test in Windows and Linux. Lazarus is feature rich and quite stable (barring a few minor exceptions). Package installation can be quirky, but you can live with that. The
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by canistel 7y ago
Play Bridge. And make a note of the hands where I could have done better, and revise these later. Unfortunately, I reside in a country where Bridge is not that popular, but Chess enviably is.
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by canistel 7y ago
It is in a way disappointing that this question gets so little attention, and yet, it might be the most significant. If a bot can false-card - if it can discern the strategy that the opponents have in mind, and deliberately mislead them to

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