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by girzel 10y ago
I run my own small company (just a few of us, in different places), and after a couple of years of working from home, I had to rent a little office space. Too much rolling out of bed and sitting down to the computer. Too much realizing I wa
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by girzel 10y ago
I grew up with classical piano training (though I was never all that good at it), and a few years after moving to China started taking lessons in the guqin (古琴[1]). The main challenge there (apart from the fact that the instrument puts most
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by girzel 10y ago
I've noticed that the firewall really doesn't like TLS connections. It doesn't block them outright, but it does slow the traffic, and periodically break the connection. Basically they just try to interfere with it enough that
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by girzel 10y ago
Guanxi is basically a kind of transactional friendship. You make guanxi the same way you make friends, by spending time with people, and going through things together. Some guanxi is built on real friendship (or on something like having gon
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by girzel 10y ago
To what others have said here I'd add that, in my observation, the prevalence of guanxi is connected to a lack of fair, functioning, transparent social systems. You often need connections to get things done, because the existing system
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by girzel 10y ago
On Android (possibly only Android, unfortunately) there's an app called "Share via HTTP" in the fdroid repositories. Basically if your devices are on the same LAN, you can get the file off your phone, either with an IP/p
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by girzel 10y ago
I found it a bit ironic that in your comment you use the term "SJW", which literally has no function or meaning except as a dog whistle. The only way you could turn the idea of "someone who fights for justice" into a cur
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by girzel 10y ago
You can sign any lump of plain text with a GPG signature. I know I'm dreaming here, but... Honest question: How much traction has PDF-plus-certificate gained versus plaint-text-plus-signature?
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by girzel 10y ago
PDFs are great for reading , but nothing else. If you want to do something with the text, then plain text or some derived format is better. I would include searching as "doing something". PDF viewers can search, but it's a
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by girzel 10y ago
Sounds like the SpamAssassin default settings.
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by girzel 10y ago
It's like the publishing industry and digital publishing: they just don't really want it to happen at all, so they do a bad job of it.
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by girzel 10y ago
Gwene's rss-to-nntp converter: gwene.org. Which has been down for the past couple of days, and I'm missing my fix!
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by girzel 10y ago
This is the real equivalent. I don't know vim (I assume it's similar), but emacs can put killed text AND buffer locations (and a lot of other things) into registers. To me, this is a mark of advanced Emacs usage -- familiarity and
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by girzel 10y ago
I'm actually really surprised at the 67% male statistic. I guess all I have to go on is personal observation, but I have a very hard time believing the gender imbalance is that big. On the other hand, I live in Beijing, and just lookin
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by girzel 10y ago
> The changes here are as subtle as we've come to expect from Amazon. Read: "We can't tell what has changed, besides the color, so this review is pretty short." Don't bother!
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by girzel 10y ago
That's sort of amazing. Thanks for posting this!
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by girzel 10y ago
I vote for a little webby something. Get the lowest-level web framework you can find for the language, and then make a hello world. You're bound to learn strings, functions, processes and types, at the very minimum, and a web-based som
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by girzel 10y ago
I have a OnePlus Two, and yes, there are CyanogenMod builds for it, I've been running them for the past year. Just last week, the updates started coming through the in-OS updater, rather than me having to download and flash ROMs. I hav
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by girzel 10y ago
Sweet, this looks like a perfect level of introduction -- readable to novices, but still a fairly deep dive.
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by girzel 10y ago
Select menus are bad, but multiple select menus are a new level of anti-user hostility. With single select at least you can use the keyboard; with multiple select you're in for keyboard-plus-mouse-plus-squinting pain, and a real possib
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by girzel 10y ago
I bought a Mikrotik a month or two ago, expressly so I could install OpenWRT on it, and use it to get around the Chinese firewall with Shadowsocks. The OpenWRT install never worked, so now I just have a (pretty nice) router, doing what rout
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by girzel 10y ago
> To be clear, this won't actually let you get to any blocked server, since there are IP layer blocks in place too, but at least DNS will be correct. :) (Actually, detecting such blocks could allow someone to build a middlebox which
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by girzel 10y ago
A program should be able to open its own files, and Firefox should not be able to claim it can open all files under the sun, then maintain its own mimetype-to-application database. Rant++
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by girzel 10y ago
Would be curious to hear any evaluations by "people who understand these things" about where this could potentially go.
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by girzel 10y ago
Absolutely! I would put up with a fair amount of latency just to have this. I'm picturing late-night work with a lamp in front of my monitor (not kidding). And it would probably do wonders for a laptop's battery, right?
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by girzel 10y ago
I've been using radicale, and it's been a huge pain in the ass. It took me days just to get the permissions right (behind Apache), and its interaction with DavDroid and the iOS calendars/addressbooks has been totally baffling
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by girzel 10y ago
Six months ago I followed the Arstechnica guide[1] to setting up your own email server. The guide is old, and some adjustments were needed, but the essential advice was good. I did SPF, DKIM, TLS certificates, basically everything I could p
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by girzel 10y ago
I don't get it, is this like Guitar Hero where you rack up points while... "air banging"? Or are you actually supposed to find a partner and then... what? This article is severely lacking in details/diagrams. > I also
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by girzel 10y ago
I was going to comment that they're about a thousand years too late with this, but then read the article and saw that that was precisely the point. It's a lovely thought that, in this modern day, we might once again unlock our wor
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by girzel 10y ago
I'm in the midst of a (long, long overdue) redesign on the principle site I maintain, and just discovered flexbox. It's kind of jaw-dropping how much simpler it makes everything. Flexbox plus box-sizing: border-box allowed me to s

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