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by girzel 7y ago
This article is a bit weird in that it goes in to all this stuff about the monks' struggle to focus, but never once talks about the practice of meditation. Reading the first few paragraphs, I was thinking "this is precisely what m
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by girzel 7y ago
I play the guqin (古琴), a Chinese zither-like instrument which I believe is the oldest instrument in the world for which musical notation exists. Like the Tibetan notation, it doesn't indicate rhythm or duration of notes, just successio
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by girzel 7y ago
I think info is really only usable inside Emacs. But inside Emacs, it is hands down the best documentation system I've ever used. A properly indexed manual is a joy to use, and beats the pants off anything PDF or HTML-based.
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by girzel 7y ago
Gnus on Emacs! The only mail client that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
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by girzel 8y ago
I'm a writer, translator, and literary promoter. Sometimes I think I've never done anything more difficult than reading long works of literature and summarizing them faithfully in one or two paragraphs. It's absolutely brutal
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by girzel 8y ago
The term for this strategy is "collateral freedom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_freedom
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by girzel 8y ago
Soft power influence out and defensive action against influence in are two different ball games. Again, I'm not denying that the Chinese gov't is worried about a general miasmic incursion of foreign values, just that that&#x27
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by girzel 8y ago
China was worried about Chinese people using those sites to talk to each other, in a way that could not be censored. The Chinese gov't is far more worried about that than "Western values" (though that is occasionally a conc
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by girzel 8y ago
That looks absolutely perfect! The MP02 seems to be retailing at $350, which isn't awesome, but on the other hand it sure is nice to see a simple phone that has received some serious design attention.
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by girzel 8y ago
That's the second Byzantine-related posting I've seen today. I'll chime in with Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler, which I'm reading because I'm organizing some author events for him in China. Seems very well researche
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by girzel 8y ago
I should have just tried it first -- seems to work great. 谢谢!
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by girzel 8y ago
How about fcitx?
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by girzel 8y ago
I have a yubikey, and this[0] tutorial has been open in a browser tab for I swear four months or more. I just haven't summoned the guts to do it -- a voice in my head keeps whispering "you'll brick your laptop, you'll br
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by girzel 8y ago
What would make most sense is just to have it Lisp all the way down. SBCL, top to bottom!
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by girzel 8y ago
> Code written in Rust easily interoperates with C. This means we can port to Rust incrementally, and having a working Emacs at each step of the process. This seems really important, and crucial to preventing the project from getting stu
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by girzel 8y ago
but... sublicensable?
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by girzel 8y ago
> I think OCaml has some fairly fundamental problems that keep it from being a first choice for server-side development. But what were those problems, Steve?!
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by girzel 8y ago
I just signed up for a CenturyLink connection in Seattle. CenturyLink feels like they're playing catch-up to Comcast, and thus are sort of on the humble end of the arrogant-to-humble pendulum of monopolies. They are giving me a per-mon
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by girzel 8y ago
I'm not even a programmer (not professionally), but I "run my life" with Emacs and love it. Email with Gnus, writing and project management with Org. I used to use BBDB for contact management, then wrote a replacement package
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by girzel 8y ago
My PT guy said they're apparently finding real effects for cupping. I don't remember the details, but the outline was that cupping is controlled bruising, and your body reacts to bruising by going into "fix-it mode" (tha
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by girzel 8y ago
I've heard Chinese people learning Scandinavian languages complain that they're too damn "tonal": they found the sing-songy nature of those languages (at the sentence level, not the word/character) to be very bizarr
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by girzel 8y ago
Pretty good introduction! The one thing I found a little off was in the larger phrase constructions: the explanation of how larger "words" are formed from characters isn't quite right. For instance the example of "social
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by girzel 8y ago
I recently decided it was time to get a better understanding of how makefiles work, and after reading a few tutorials, ended up just reading the manual. It's long, but it's very, very well written (a good example of one of the Gnu
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by girzel 8y ago
No outages except when I've migrated postfix/dovecot from old to new servers, and misconfigured. Otherwise uptime has been equal to server provider uptime (Rackspace, then AWS).
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by girzel 8y ago
Email patches!
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by girzel 8y ago
They are free I think everywhere outside of the US. Except for China, where it's well over $1000 to buy one from a state-owned publisher.
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by girzel 8y ago
Thanks for that! I thought you were coming at this from an Indian/Yogic tradition, and I guess the confluence is less surprising if it all comes from Daoism. My teacher is very much about awareness and the way it moves through the body
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by girzel 8y ago
I've been doing taiji for a couple of years -- interestingly, they also talk about a cycle of qi that passes down the front of the body, around the perineum, up the back, and over the head down through the tongue on the roof of the mou
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by girzel 8y ago
No. That's like saying "Why go to the trouble of putting seat belts in cars, since so many people survive car crashes?" Hopefully you'll see where to start.
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by girzel 8y ago
If we're so good at dealing with things -- which I think it's fairly obvious we aren't -- why don't we just "deal with" carbon emissions and our effects on the environment? Why opt for the more difficult to d

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