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by gkya 9y ago
GoboLinux is incredibly interesting, along with GuixSD and NixOS, which are the three best things to happen in the Linux sphere I guess. GuixSD is my favourite, but it's full GNU, so I can't practically use it (missing drivers in
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by gkya 9y ago
The Debian processes of package authoring is very complex. I maintain my selection of packages as a private metapackage so that I can "sudo apt-get install ./goktug.deb" and be ready, basically just a list of packages, and e
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by gkya 9y ago
Wrt the title, I disagree, there's nothing creative about it. Wrt the rest, I disagree again. Obesity is a disease that you physically have, and you can't decide to not be fat anymore. Violence is a problem of society and you c
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by gkya 9y ago
Fermat tends to disagree. I prefer taking notes and quoting phrases on a separate paper block because I want my notes searchable and easily organisable, but I'm okay with writing notes or making marks on a book as long as it's mi
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by gkya 9y ago
I wasn't responding to the article's author, and the second affirmation of yours is completely subjective and myopic. I very often take notes from my favourite books, even if it's completely leisure reading. Sometimes there
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by gkya 9y ago
How do you make a note? Underline a phrase or mark a page? Refer someone to a certain passage of the book? When you want to find something, what's the equivalent of a table of contents or index or skimmint through pages? How do you
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by gkya 9y ago
This is the definition of clickbait. "I've forgotten how to read" does not mean "I feel like my reading habits have changed" or "I can not defend myself from the invasive world of social media and online conte
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by gkya 9y ago
Preferably there would be some explanation and example code that demonstrates this. A handful of words and two screenshots don't tell much. If favicon.ico files can be interpreted as HTML files, that means that they can probably be a
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by gkya 9y ago
I don't believe a book or anything similar can keep me "motivated" (that depends on one's will and outlook), but some can definitely help. A very influential text that helped me advance quite a bit in shaping my world v
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by gkya 9y ago
It's written in Go so no httpd is needed (IIRC Nextcloud and Owncloud are in PHP so would require an httpd to run), and it has an Android (and probably an iOS) app. I do use it, it's nice, tho I'd appreciate better documenta
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by gkya 9y ago
Or rather: BSD tools are more backwards- and standards-compatible that GNU ones.
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by gkya 9y ago
Knowing both is not hard. Also if you don't change too much defaults it's not hard to downgrade to vanilla programs. My init.el is above 3000 lines, but I can easily use vanilla Emacs any time if I need to (or vi/vim/e
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by gkya 9y ago
Some keybindings are ingrained. I use Quail and Electric quotes all the time in Emacs (modes which modify the letters you input), and I write lots of prose in Emacs, so using Ctrl-q <char> to "quote" a character to input it
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by gkya 9y ago
Yeah I've heard about the hygiene problem in New York metro, and that was really surprising to be honest. I guess, for all three of your points, it takes government operation to run a nice public transit system because only that can a
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by gkya 9y ago
Hi, thanks for this response! I think actually it's #2 that is the big one. See, I live in Istanbul province, in a European quarter rather up north by the Bosphorus, so nowhere near the city centre, but when I go to the centre of my
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by gkya 9y ago
.su is the TLD for the Soviet Union! It exists today because it was registered 8 months before the dissolution of the union. Mildly interesing side-fact.
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by gkya 9y ago
What I collect from my discussions with HNers on car use / public transit (I believe car use should be severely limited to cases where it's indispensable, and general public use public transportation, including taxis) is that Amer
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by gkya 9y ago
Emacs now has C extension support, which might be helpful in fast interactions with external tools too.
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by gkya 9y ago
A decent UI toolkit has accessibility built in, so using such toolkit and adhering to the platforms design language takes you quite far in not obstructing disabled people. Something like an interactive website, for example, if one follows
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by gkya 9y ago
IIRC tags databases are big files that need to be parsed and operated on via Elisp, so a faster interpreter would be beneficial there. I don't think a faster interpreter would hinder integration of external tools, given often they do
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by gkya 9y ago
Found this through the 99% Invisible article [1] on it. Very interesting topic where I find my own opinion is divided between the two sides: on one hand, limiting how long individuals occupy certain public spaces can ensure such places ser
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Designs Against Humanity(hostiledesign.org)
4 points by gkya 9y ago|1 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
The traffic lights communicating with vehicles automated or not is sinister. That would get attacked ASAP, DoS or otherwise, and crashes would happen. A vending machine provides a keyboard interface for making selections. You can integra
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Reddit users, beware its evil twin(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
4 points by gkya 9y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
I would actually prefer a world where the TLD in a domain name had actual semantical value, but except .gov, .edu and a couple others that opportunity is lost.
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by gkya 9y ago
So given only a certain population was screwed or all users were screwed for a certain amount of time, these are no big deal.
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by gkya 9y ago
With anything I'm working on, the first place I go is the dired buffer for the project root. When say I'm trying to find in which file a certain thing is, I narrow the search down with % g, then search with isearch or M-x occur i
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by gkya 9y ago
Org has archiving and sorting built in, you can sort entries such that the completed ones sink to the bottom, and archive them to an archive file. With sparse trees you can filter out uninteresting entries, and with org-goto jump around mo
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by gkya 9y ago
It would certainly be a good thing, what I meant was that programmers currently are able to be lazy because very few people are able to judge the quality of their work.
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by gkya 9y ago
It's a nice thing to have though...

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