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> but leaves you with a lot of tabs open that are cognitively hard to deal with ("why did I think this would be interesting?") Get "Tree Style Tabs". All the tabs are in hierarchy. Anything opened via "Open in ne
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Thanks. I was trying to go as native as possible. I did get it to completion by using other tools for everything but web interface. The reason I was so disappointed was because my prior Lisp experience was with Emacs Lisp, which has probabl
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I started dabbling in CL last month, and I both of those points are valid, if for different reasons today. Most languages have a single standard way of doing basic things, and provide libraries for advanced operations that are not faced by
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Word is the worst for accidental manual edits screwing the whole document. I cannot count the number of tines I've watched my classmates manually adjusting dozens of graphs and images in as many pages one by one because they shifted so
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The good thing about NeoVim getting a real language for its plugins now is that it can start diving into and making uber complex and and uber awesome plugins like org-mode [0] Another good thing is now that org-mode is likely to have a popu
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Its organic discovery. Some I come across in HN discussions. Some I find while googling stuff. Since my interests aren't mainstream, most of the blogs I come across this way are interesting to me and I subscribe. These days there are f
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Email... defeats half the purpose of RSS. With RSS, you control what you want to receive and when. Its a pull mechanism. With email, it becomes push and then it gets abused. Remember when smartphone notifications were actual notifications w
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Org-mode has had nested collapsible chceklists since its inception, and you can do a lot of fancy stuff with it too.
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Blogs and websites that generate lots of content are akin to News. You don't subscribe to them, and have HN to let you know of something important happens. RSS is for the long tail of blogs that don't post very frequently, but whe
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Agree with most of what you said. Indira Gandhi was no saint and there were enough horror stories from her rein growing up that its ebossed on my brain. But the royals weren't the goody-two-shoes as the article mentions. Most of them w
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Hah. When I read about those privy purses I think about the startups dumping venture capital. The GoI poured money on royals when they were entering 'the market' (governance), and when they had a strong market standing, they pulle
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> I highly doubt if a farmer in a village in Kerala would consider a village in Punjab as belonging to his nation. Data point of one (and social circle of one), but this is how I feel, an average citizen coming from tiny village in one p
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Earth has been _obviously_ round for at least 2300 years. Ancient Greeks knew that because a ship on the horizon disappears below the ground instead on gradually getting smaller.
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I admit and apologize for salty tone above. It is not very constructive, and I agree, and would like to elaborate. This isn't the first time such thing has happened and it won't be last. Windows has becoming more and more painful
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Its not even braindead, just plain lazy. Although I have to agree with your second sentence.
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When I mentioned in another thread this happening to other open source projects (winmerge, kdiff3) [0], I was told I was making stuff up and/or this is in 'best interest' of users and that this only happens because these are
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Maybe uEmacs source[0] will help? Torvalds still uses it according to his last interview.. [0] https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
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That's funny, because AT&T with the rotary phone and original Windows UI, both of which have stood the test of time, were results of extensive and rigorous UX research. Hard numbers got the industry mainstream. Then we decided it w
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Unfortunately I don't clearly remember because last one was a while ago, but it was Sync conflicts due to external factors. The one where it was Syncthing's fault was years ago and is very likely fixed now.
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cesarb pretty much described the whole thing. But to add, the message store the where the texts are stored. I usually keep it all. WhatsApp doesn't care about the media more than you do, so you can delete anything not needed, and now y
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> programs that just work like this don't get traction because they don't provoke as much discussion. Agree very much. That's why I never let go of a chance to enavgelise Syncthing and its OSS ilk in other fields.
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I.. don't. My days of tinkering directly with WA db are over. These days I just want an easy and reliable backup. After restoring, WhatsApp recognizes the files and takes care of the rest.
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You can always setup Nix/Guix on your Debian. Granted, its still one extra repository, per se, but it will likely be the only extra repository you'll have to add.
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There are a few applications that can read WhatsApp database. I used one couple years ago to run some analytics on my chat, but don't remember now. I'm fairly certain it is still around and works, though.
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I agree. And that's my gripe with Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive (the big 3 that I was able to try, no apple devices). Every one of them has shit the bed on me, on more than one occasion. That's after burning my bandwidth and taking awa
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I have been using that feature for, I don't even remember how long, but definitely since it was marked beta or something. I am not a heavyweight like some other in this thread, but my current local state is 70GB and ~30k files, global
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Over long enough timeline, free software almost always gets better, acheiving parity and eventually surpassing the proprietory service. Free software doesn't need to be reinvented and can keep on steadily fixing issues. It happened for
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Syncthing is one of the "fire and forget" kind of programs. It takes some time to setup when doing for first time, but then you pretty much forget its there, and when you need it, you realise it has been chugging along doing its j
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If you ever write about yiur setup, it will be a huge help! I have a friend who is constrained for comouting resources, but eager to learn nonetheless. I help out wherever I can but it is hard for me to get his perspective, because as crapp
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Like how Apple continued the NS* trend for decades?

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