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by gkya 9y ago
I have this old and slightly buggy vim plugin [1] which uses py-ephem to determine the correct moment to switch themes every day. It's been quite a while since I've used vim and I don't maintain this, but you may want to che
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm not a US citizen so don't know much about Equifax, but from what I have read about both issues (mainly through HN about Equifax) a main difference between the two cases is that companies like Facebook are way more visible and
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by gkya 9y ago
Certainly. What I meant was the content that was meant to make money but not inherently economically viable, i.e. all that clickbait ad-ridden stuff out there.
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by gkya 9y ago
There is tagging for that. Though that may end up requiring some discipline to be really effective.
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by gkya 9y ago
Disaster is too heavy of an adjective there. You may not like it. But interacting with mailing lists using mail is common practice, possible also with mailman and majordomo, and probably with most other mailing list software. You should
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by gkya 9y ago
Issues tagged as discussion would work, no? Many projects use the bug tracker for almost any discussion. If you would want sth. like a mailing list, there's http://librelist.com/ .
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by gkya 9y ago
I think you are right about the CMS. That's what's happening in my uni for example. I did send an email about the feeds, no response. Thing is, it's so easy to add one, there's no justification to screwing RSS users,
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by gkya 9y ago
I have made checking my RSS my equivalent of reading a newspaper in the morning. And it's really easy for me: Emacs is always open anyways, so I type M-x elfeed RET G, and I have a list of updates. I have configured Elfeed such that i
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by gkya 9y ago
Nope. I was using uBlock origin on Firefox with dynamic blocking and quite a bit of the provided blacklists enabled. I just gave quick uMatrix a look, and it does not seem fundamentally different to me. I like that I can easily add some
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by gkya 9y ago
> If you can't persuade someone to pay for your content (perhaps via willingly watching adverts), then it's not economically viable content. "useless content". FTFY.
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by gkya 9y ago
Usually RSS stands for "feed", so both RSS and Atom. I personally prefer RSS format for the feeds I make because Atom feels like premature optimisation, and I do not really comprehend UUIDs, and do not understand why I have to bo
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by gkya 9y ago
> And any experienced RSS user will understand the stress of out-of-control unread counts, which easily leads to the crumbling of your RSS-based reading system. Do not follow newspapers through RSS. That's the golden advice. Most
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by gkya 9y ago
An alternate route is: view-source, search: "alternate".
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by gkya 9y ago
> RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead
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by gkya 9y ago
The page almost looks perfect with JS disabled. If the major browsers were better at giving the user a way to use and maintain a whitelist of which web sites are allowed to run JS, maybe the websites become less JS-heavy. NoScript or UBlo
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by gkya 9y ago
It's a fallacy to think of global affairs as a competition for some funny vague rank or doing good or bad, and of figures that represent power as tragedies characters that aim certain things and act in accordance with their stereotypes
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by gkya 9y ago
If a survey is conducted in almost any part of the world, I'd guess that most people (including me) would prefer to be hit by a human rather than an autonomous car. I'm not sure why this is, but having someone to blame and the fa
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by gkya 9y ago
> Reduced commute time, increased comfort and reliability. Can the reason for these be that many other people use public transport instead and thus the roads are way less busier?
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by gkya 9y ago
> a military grade bio attack This is like thinking you will survive a storm in the middle of the ocean because you have a life jacket on you.
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by gkya 9y ago
Yep: $ apt-cache show xxd | grep Source: Source: vim (2:8.0.1453-1) Source: vim
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by gkya 9y ago
Yeah that's me :) At least the second part, because with Emacs I don't really need to be invidious. TBH I do actually like Unix and Plan9, but having read a big part of cat-v website in the past, most of the views there are fanat
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by gkya 9y ago
Wow, thanks! This is why I like to err in public sometimes, you never know how interesting things will come your way.
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by gkya 9y ago
xxd is part of vim IIRC.
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by gkya 9y ago
Nostalgic Unix nerds hating on everything that (i) was not in original Unix, or (ii) in Plan9, or (iii) not implemented by authors of these.
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by gkya 9y ago
Wut? Do you really think you can convince me that USSR did not have toilet papers or pencils? Or send the first man to space? This is not about what economical model is better. People can collaborate both under central economic planning
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by gkya 9y ago
Wow this is incredibly similar to what we usually use in Turkey. But here the little faucet is already installed into the rim, and the valve is on the wall to your right. I just can't imagine how people live without using these thing
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by gkya 9y ago
This made me recall immediately the "I, pencil" article. It's stunning to remember that almost anything one gets to touch or see throughout the day is a product of almost always global collaboration, if we include a things c
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by gkya 9y ago
> For fashion brands, a high-tech mannequin offers intriguing possibilities. She, he, or it can be placed in any situation in any given outfit. Would not bet on that. If this stuff holds foot, these models will soon have rights and fana
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by gkya 9y ago
I think your interlocutor is just trying to show why some Muslim women support polygamy. And there certainly are such women. We can't just dismiss an insight into why that is the case because you dislike the situation, no?
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by gkya 9y ago
You're welcome! > Hmm a word is missing after "so"? I meant "because it's OSS" there. I really like the model where you put the code out there, open source, but sell hosting and services. You're both

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