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by girzel 5y ago
I like how Amazon has a "public list" and "private list" by default, in addition to all the custom lists you can make. Seems like the reasonable thing to do in the above case is to have a default "shopping list&quot
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by girzel 5y ago
The requisite libgccjit AUR package was broken for a bit, fixed just a day or so ago.
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by girzel 5y ago
They're also working on some kind of recommendations engine: https://github.com/Open-Book-Genome-Project/TheBestBookOn.co... I don't quite know how it works -- I've been meaning to spend some time explor
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by girzel 6y ago
I've been looking at OSMAnd's nav settings while reading this thread, and they do indeed let you create a driving profile that includes vehicle dimensions and max speed!
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by girzel 6y ago
In my attempts to be a "generally competent programmer", I've waffled about how much web-dev technology I should reasonably expect myself to know. I think where I've come down is: knowing CSS well -- and yes, that means
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by girzel 6y ago
My daughter is in art school. She was considering a Wacom tablet, then did her research and bought an iPad pro instead. She seems thrilled with the choice.
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by girzel 6y ago
Amen. I'm 43, and started putting money into Vanguard around the age of 40. I absolutely wish I'd started at the age of 30; even just a bit here and there. I have money in index funds, and a Roth IRA. I have seen overall returns o
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by girzel 6y ago
I would like to know more about this point of view. There must be a different definition of "information" than the layman's, in order for this to make sense. Your post indicates we might not fully know, obviously, but my &quo
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by girzel 6y ago
> I use a metal spatula to scrape anything off (after boiling some water in it to loosen it up), or a lodge plastic scraper, and scrub it lightly with a sponge and a bit of dish soap. Don’t put it away wet. It’s simple. This is pretty mu
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by girzel 6y ago
Having an accurate intuitive assessment of how difficult a task will be, and; knowing what to Google.
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by girzel 6y ago
I also looked at the (recently-registered) domain name, which was meant to spoof FSG, but couldn't see anything meaningful from whois, etc. I actually knew the FSG editor who'd ostensibly sent the email and wrote to him: he alread
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by girzel 6y ago
Even we translators have been targeted! A couple of my colleagues have sent manuscripts of translated Chinese fiction to bogus editors. If you thought unpublished original fiction was unlikely to be a profitable ripoff, unpublished translat
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by girzel 6y ago
Ha! I showed up in Beijing in 2001 at the age of 22 or something, and was met with frank disbelief when I not only failed to sing along with "Yesterday Once More", but failed to recognize The Carpenters at all.
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by girzel 6y ago
This has to be the core question of how all messaging/communications channels work. How much work is it to effectively send messages? How much work is it to effectively consume messages? I feel like this dichotomy ends up deciding so m
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by girzel 6y ago
Coincidentally, we just watched this last night! I thought the best thing about it was how it evoked the semi-magical power of surrendering yourself to an environment. Forgetting yourself, focusing on everything around you, and allowing you
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by girzel 6y ago
I don't use anything but hot water and "vigorous agitation", no. Though as noted I do end up using shampoo (diluted Dr Bronners) on occasion. For the rest i use a coarse washcloth, and I think I come out cleaner than those sl
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by girzel 6y ago
Is the movement really "low shower"? Every article I've ever read on the subject says " don't use soap/shampoo, but shower daily ". That's what I do, and yes I'm port sure I don't smell bad.
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by girzel 6y ago
I've had rosacea since my late teens. About six years ago I stopped using shampoo as an experiment: I figured it would either make my skin worse, or better. To my surprise it had no effect at all. I had super greasy hair for about five
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by girzel 6y ago
Style rules often look like: spell out any number under twelve (sometimes twenty), and spell out any number that starts a sentence. If you're unlucky, that can get you sentences like the above.
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by girzel 6y ago
This is what I do, as well, plus taiji. I think of it as my "zombie apocalypse survival regimen."
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by girzel 6y ago
Emacs can be used to edit sieve files directly on the server, with M-x sieve-manage, so long as you have the managesieve daemon running.
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by girzel 6y ago
I was highly amused to discover recently that Pegasus Book Exchange here in Seattle had gone to the trouble of photographing all their shelves, so you can "browse" remotely. You still can't smell the books, but this might be
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by girzel 6y ago
Gnus only got moved into Emacs core a couple of years ago. Lars got tired of supporting fourteen different Emacs versions, including XEmacs, and finally just tied it to core. The ELPA package repository is developing the concept of core-b
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by girzel 6y ago
Emacs does have its own renderer, eww, that can be used to do simple HTML rendering of emails. If I'm sent something really gruesome, "K H" will send it to Firefox to display. In my experience, the mails that refuse to displa
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by girzel 6y ago
Or even a logging module in the web server itself...
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by girzel 6y ago
I feel like all I need is a good script to filter out bots and spiders. I could take the rest from there.
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by girzel 6y ago
I am a (non-native) Mandarin Chinese speaker, and I'm essentially unable to have the most basic conversation about programming. No terms that I'm aware of are phonetic transfers (Chinese does that occasionally, but not often), the
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by girzel 6y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a package called Gnorb that is meant to tie Org and Gnus more closely together, precisely for this sort of project management. It's in the ELPA repository.
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by girzel 6y ago
Okay, thanks, that was interesting to see your detailed usage. Maybe I just don't have as many tabs open as some (56 right now, and I'm surprised it's that many), or I'm just less interested in knowing their hierarchical
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by girzel 6y ago
I'm trying to like it, but I guess I don't really see what so game-changing about it. There are no keyboard shortcuts for navigating the tree, so there doesn't seem to be much you can do with it. While trying to find said key

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