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by dmortin 7y ago
The most important for me is quick storage and retrieval, so everything must be keyboard based. To make a note, I press a global hotkey, an editor window pops up, I write the note then close the editor with a hotkey. It makes it very seamle
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by dmortin 7y ago
I also use Org to store data and I use org-rifle to search it: https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle I don't know if Deft recognizes org mode entries, but org-rifle provides entry-based search.
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by dmortin 7y ago
There is some postal agreement between countries which makes it possible to deliver packages at a very low cost from China. But the US wants to end this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10
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by dmortin 7y ago
> Ultimately, self-driving vehicles require maintenance on the road, meaning a human riding along; if the self-driving capability fails, the human will take over the wheel. Maybe in the first several years. After that the technology will
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by dmortin 7y ago
> The life expectancy of a 35 year old is 50 more years. That is effectively forever when managing money. Can't they just do a lazy portfolio and put 60 percent into stock indexes, for example? Even if there will be a donwturn in th
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by dmortin 7y ago
The anti immigration thing is a political ploy by Orban, so he gets less informed people vote for him. He built a media propaganda machine which hammers the dangers of migrants day and night. Any kind of criticism against the government is
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by dmortin 7y ago
Maybe language is a problem, because Hungarian is pretty difficult to learn for foreigners, so I guess migrant workers can only be employed for simple jobs where language is not an issuse. I heard about foreign construction workers where th
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by dmortin 7y ago
> the immigrants who couldn’t come are just as human and now lose the opportunity for the jobs. Actually, Hungarian companies do bring immigrant workers form Ukraine, etc. despite what Orban preaches, but apparently it's not enough.
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> I bet there would be no shortages of workers if wages went up. Multinational companies bring factories to Hungary, because labor is cheap. If wages go up then I guess many of those factories pack up and move east for other countries wi
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by dmortin 7y ago
> I've been pair programming quite a bit lately Does it mean both party have to use the same editor? I wouldn't participate in a pair programmnig like that. Pair programming is best when everyone can use one's favorite ed
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by dmortin 7y ago
I don't know about OSS server side software, but I use the free version of Distill on my own computer in the browser, so it's run locally. My browser is always open, so it's a good platform for checking changes.
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by dmortin 7y ago
I use Distill for this which is implemented as a browser extension. Works pretty well: https://distill.io/
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by dmortin 8y ago
Does depression go away after a while if taking meds? Or does the person having depression need to take meds for the rest of his/her life to avoid relapsing?
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by dmortin 8y ago
They still read it, just not for ads: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...
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by dmortin 8y ago
I want an email provider which I can access from any platform and which provides customizable hotkeys. I control gmail from the keyboard only (using single key hotkeys) and wouldn't use an email service which forces me to use the mouse
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by dmortin 8y ago
Google said two years ago that they stopped reading emails for ad profiles and they don't do it anymore.
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by dmortin 8y ago
> There is something to be said about PHP's staying power. The only reason I use php for my own sites is because I don't want to administer any server and I don't want to be tied to a provider. PHP is a good fit for this,
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by dmortin 8y ago
> I think another contributing factor to the decline in quality of IM conversations is the use of phone keyboards. They are so much worse to type on than a real keyboard If I am at a place by myself then I just talk, using speech to text
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by dmortin 8y ago
> I think technology shouldn't make you constantly exercise self control or anything else. Always having access to all kinds of online content makes you constantly exercise your self control by itself.
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by dmortin 8y ago
> It is also not clear when people might want to talk. Synchronous IM was better because it was clear when people were available to talk That's why async is great, because people can answer whenever they like. > when they were th
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by dmortin 8y ago
In this case it's better to remove that person from the contact list, isn't it? He knows in both cases he is ignored, but if he's removed as a contact then he at least knows he shouldn't send messages in vain.
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by dmortin 8y ago
It's still strange when you write to somebody and you see the person is online, but doesn't reply. I guess turning off online status completely is the way to go. Maybe it should be off by default. What's the point of showing
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by dmortin 8y ago
> the only thing making it not realtime is maybe your self-control You could similarly ask how can people get any work done if they can also watch youtube videos all day? These days people do have to have self control, because all kinds
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by dmortin 8y ago
> Once someone started talking to you, you pretty much had to stay glued to the computer until the conversation ended. Why? Were there no chat history in those tools? Couldn't you just sign off if you had other things to do, and ans
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by dmortin 8y ago
> I don't like Orban, and his propaganda is shameful, but what he does is exactly what people want (and corruption on the side). Propaganda is the key, because he uses relentless propaganda to hammer the message that migrants want t
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by dmortin 8y ago
Note that this list is based on the tomato score which doesn't directly refers to the movie quality, it simply says if the movie is worth seeing. There is also a rating which is usually hidden by default (click the more info link on a
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by dmortin 8y ago
Thanks. I know what SEO is, the word "scraping" confused me, because it usually refers to people scraping the pages of various services.
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by dmortin 8y ago
> Great for FB/twitter share scraping, google scraping, etc. Google scraping? How/why can it be used for google scraping? Doesn't google return html result pages?
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by dmortin 8y ago
Not really, because rich people today don't live longer than average people. But imagine a world where we have, for example, 100-120 year old rulers while the average people live 70-80 years.
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by dmortin 8y ago
The rich and powerful would not allow this. They will be the first in line for anti againg treatment, and also they will be the first who can afford this. So prepare for some very old rich people ruling the planet who will live much longer

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