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by girzel 11y ago
The 7-11 slur was an anti-American slur. American 7-11s are depressing and inefficient. The slurpee... oh God.
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by girzel 11y ago
Wow, from the Wikipedia link: "Christmas cakes of this style were originally released by Fujiya, and was popularized when they began sales at Ginza, the central commercial district in Tokyo. This was during the time when Japan was goin
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by girzel 11y ago
I love how traditions get skewed as they pass through multi-national/-cultural lenses. I live in China, and any time I go into a 7-11 around this time of year they shout at me about "Christmas cakes". After a few half-hearted
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by girzel 11y ago
He mentioned Sieve in passing, I wonder what the problem with it is. I use Dovecot and Sieve, and have never had a single problem, apart from mis-written sieve rules. The syntax isn't the most concise, but how much worse could it be co
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by girzel 11y ago
I once thought I wanted to be a linguist, precisely to study stuff like this. Then it turned out that the fundamentals of linguistics are incredibly dull, so instead I went off and did literature. These "aha" moments are rare an
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by girzel 11y ago
Apropos of this, there's been recent movement on the Emacs website as well, to make it look more modern/shiny. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/195496
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by girzel 11y ago
tl;dr: In your Org mode file, hit C-u C-c C-l, navigate to the image file, hit RET RET, and you're done! Depending on your computer usage habits, it's likely faster than drag-n-drop.
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by girzel 11y ago
I entirely approve of starting small, including avoiding tags and many different TODO keywords, but I think avoiding the Agenda is a bad idea. If your files start out simply, the Agenda will be easy to use. And once you learn its commands
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by girzel 11y ago
There's another (Mac-only) bit of software called Tinderbox. I'm a die-hard Org user -- use it every day, and have written quite a bit of software on top of it. Tinderbox is the only program that occasionally makes me regret commi
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by girzel 11y ago
Truly, the difficulty of getting your Agenda on the phone is one of the great frustrations of Org. I have an Android phone, and while it's useful for some things (making phone calls, wechat), its utility would easily be doubled by havi
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by girzel 11y ago
Public discourse that was not within the control of the government. Not even a particular outcome, as such, but simply a discussion the development and outcome of which was beyond their control.
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by girzel 11y ago
I keep the repo sync'd between two computers, and have even cloned it to my Android phone, but I haven't yet summoned the guts to actually put my PGP key on my phone so I can access my passwords there.
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by girzel 11y ago
I use "pass": http://www.passwordstore.org/ Everything in GPG-encrypted files, in a git repo that I sync with my server. The GPG key is kept unlocked for an hour or so with gpg-agent, meaning I only type my key pa
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by girzel 11y ago
Seriously, the wallet thing is both amazing and terrifying. Apparently the only thing standing between me and sending all my worldly wealth to a wechat contact is a six-digit PIN. Two-factor whut? Given what I know of the Wild-West Chinese
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by girzel 11y ago
I live in China, and resisted using wechat for a year or so, until it became clear that I was essentially removing myself from the majority of China's online world. I'm still highly annoyed when I get seven minutes' worth of
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by girzel 11y ago
There's also mOrgAnd: https://github.com/hdweiss/mOrgAnd/wiki
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by girzel 12y ago
Another vote for pass. It doesn't integrate into other applications, but I don't mind that. It also doesn't sync, but it does create a git repo by default, so syncing isn't hard to set up yourself.
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by girzel 12y ago
Meanwhile, all of Chinese medicine is just sitting there, waiting for someone to "discover" it. To be honest, the Chinese themselves aren't doing a great job of it, but if there was ever a body of "folk knowledge" t
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by girzel 12y ago
The censorship barrier doesn't prevent Chinese art from getting out of China, it prevents Chinese art from being particularly good in the first place. The first volume of The Three Body Problem is looking like the most successful work
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by girzel 12y ago
Gnus in Emacs does support HTML! It's not the most beautiful, but it works, and is getting better. I also use several Gmail-backed custom domains, and that works just fine as well -- no one knows I'm using Gnus (unless they look a
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by girzel 12y ago
Chinese tea shops often use little electric kettles (maybe two cups worth) that sit on a base, and are kept at a constant (adjustable) temperature, usually just below boiling. The constant heating is good for lengthy tea sessions -- if you
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by girzel 12y ago
> monetize BTSync That's a little depressing. Not that they shouldn't make money from their work but... it seems like there's so little to the actual code. Here's hoping that they keep it to an open source project I c
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by girzel 12y ago
That's what I was wondering. I switched from Dropbox to btsync a few months ago, when I filled up my Dropbox (and Dropbox became inaccessible in China). The sole disadvantage (which is a direct and logical result of all the advantages)
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by girzel 12y ago
And the meaning of "color wolf" in Chinese is... pervert. [actually more like lecher]
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by girzel 12y ago
Seems like, if you've got Siri on your wrist, and voice recognition got a little better, the screen would be much less of an issue.
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by girzel 12y ago
Very cool, thanks to you both!
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by girzel 12y ago
I would love to read a book on this: How far can you get relying purely on design and structure, not technology. "Passive" solutions, as you say. A fascinating topic.
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by girzel 12y ago
Well I didn't mean all the way underground -- I think you'd get substantial benefits from going three-quarters down on the ground floor. If there's only one floor, skylights do the trick. For multiple stories, high windows,
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by girzel 12y ago
Why isn't this considered as a solution more often? Is it just because construction costs go up, or for reasons of culture and habit? It seems like this is absolutely the best approach for stabilizing temperatures in both hot and cold
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by girzel 12y ago
I've lived in China and studied Chinese for 13 years, much of that reading heavily (I'm a literary translator), and I'm only now, in year 13, developing the ability to scan Chinese text successfully. I'm not posing this

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