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by gwn7 8y ago
I'm definitely no expert but; what's wrong with FTP's "ls" command? Does it list the files "barely"?
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by gwn7 8y ago
I think you are a bit quick to judge to declare this as "strange" and "weird". What I find strange for myself is the requirement of having a git web interface installed on the server and the need to use a web browser jus
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by gwn7 8y ago
> Do you mean something like this? :r! lshw | grep network -A2 | grep : | cut -d: -f2- | paste - - Not exactly. More like: - Open vim with the output of `lshw` as content: lshw | vim - - Examine the raw data - Send the
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by gwn7 8y ago
I didn't know this (I'm not much of a sysadmin), thank you for the information!
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by gwn7 8y ago
Ah. Good point. Whitelisting commands would have already been a bit painful, and now your comment shows that the parameters need to be whitelisted/blacklisted as well, which would be crazy. In a world in which shell commands respected
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by gwn7 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was a bit defensive myself as well, being a former humanities guy and a current engineer. I was just really bothered by the statement "Her presentation was a lot of the sort of thing that this ar
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by gwn7 8y ago
I would try creating a non-privileged user "up" during installation and switch to that user under the hood before running the command via `su`. (Though it would complicate installation which is effectively non-existent since there
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by gwn7 8y ago
I don't understand why this is the top comment. First of all you have this ridiculous straw man: > Shaming STEM folks for their mistakes, and claiming the humanities is the cure-all. This is so not the article is saying. It basicall
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by gwn7 8y ago
Yeah I kinda agree with this. I'm not old enough to remember the pre-Web era but I did my share of research and know that hackers of the previous generation does not hold much love for the Web, and I'm convinced that it's for
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by gwn7 8y ago
Let's start some controversy. I think JSX is popular because of historical reasons. Not the history of JSX, but the Web in general, specifically about HTML being the primary API to build web interfaces since the early days. Everyone fe
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by gwn7 8y ago
Probably accessibility. Because MySQL for some reasons is more accessible[1] to beginners, juniors, average developers, and other people who may prefer a lower barrier of entry over correctness/safety (e.g. full-stack devs, managers, p
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by gwn7 8y ago
> Monads is taking it too far. Mutation is a reality, the correct approach is disciplined mutation. Shoving mutation into convenient boxes and convincing yourself to never look inside it does not mean mutation does not exist. Monads exis
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by gwn7 8y ago
I've been happily using vis-menu which is a fork of slmenu which is a terminal version of dmenu: http://martanne.github.io/vis/man/vis-menu.1.html vis-menu is distributed with vis: https://github.c
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by gwn7 8y ago
Thank you for mentioning overtones. I think it's a very important factor that makes it possible to talk about a universal musical aesthetics, even if a very basic one. > For instance, Greek music is composed by combining intervals w
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by gwn7 8y ago
I have no problem with that, nor am I trying to control the commentary. But I have a right to criticize too, have I not? This can be seen as my humble attempt to moderate the discussion; to point the commenter to the direction of the origin
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by gwn7 8y ago
Do you have a story to share regarding this?
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by gwn7 8y ago
This is exactly the kind of comment I did not ask for. If you have an anecdote yourself please share. I'm not suggesting that it works beyond anecdotes, nor the opposite.
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Ask HN: What is your personal experience with alternative medicine?
23 points by gwn7 8y ago|38 comments
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by gwn7 8y ago
Can you be more specific or give an example?
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by gwn7 8y ago
Your points are fair. I just want to say that I'm completely aware of these criticisms on naturopathy, gaps, and Joe Mercola in particular. And I can agree with the argument that many who identify themselves as "alternative practi
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by gwn7 8y ago
Not reading recommendations, but here are a few keywords of topics that are directly connected to food allergies: - leaky gut - gut flora / gut microbiota / intestinal bacteria - autoimmune disease - food allergy connection - scd,
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by gwn7 8y ago
I agree with the article but the given recommendation is not practical for most people. Yes, there are so many things fundamentally wrong with our lives but people need to be practical. There is nothing wrong with gyms and high intensity ex
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by gwn7 8y ago
Before even narrowing down the professionals; I would strongly recommend you to question the nature of your problems and think about the possibility of them being symptoms of underlying physical problems. Most of the time and for most peopl
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by gwn7 8y ago
> Define rote: mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. This is not something that is part of every day life at all. I can understand that. It was already clear that you are not the type to give time to learn about r
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by gwn7 8y ago
> The proper method being "use rote memorization to learn about things which could have easily been made available via some discoverable visual mechanism" I already said that this is a trade-off. Nobody's claiming that the
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by gwn7 8y ago
Because the hjkl key bindings are invented by touch typists for touch typists. Touch typists are more comfortable with using hjkl than the arrow keys as the hjkl keys reside in the home row; so they are extremely cheaper to press than the a
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by gwn7 8y ago
> Out of the box the things I want to do are easy Easy what? Easy to learn or easy to do? They are arguably easier to do in vim once you learn the proper method. Just not as easy to learn. That a common trade-off shared by rather elabora
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by gwn7 8y ago
> I don't use arrow keys to move around in text anymore but forced myself to use h, j, k, l. Many people say that this is faster. After trying this for a few years, I don't think that is true (at least for me). I now just stick
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by gwn7 8y ago
My version: 1 178 35.5289% gi 2 90 17.9641% ls 3 77 15.3693% vim 4 51 10.1796% fg 5 28 5.58882% cd 6 20 3.99202% jobs 7 10 1.99601% date 8 6 1.1976% pass 9 5
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by gwn7 9y ago
Try visidata. https://github.com/saulpw/homebrew-vd

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