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by gxonatano 1y ago
> walk up to any computer Windows users seem to think their OS is ubiquitous. But in fact for most hackers reading this site, using Windows is a huge step backwards in productivity and capability.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
After getting frustrated with how unusual and convoluted BASH syntax tends to be, especially with involved scripts, I've tried almost all of the alternative shells: Elvish, Fish, Oil, Xonsh (Python!), Emacs's eshell, and even the
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by gxonatano 1y ago
Almost every time I see claims to the effect of "learn any language" or "learn all languages," on HN or otherwise, it's about a smallish subset of languages. No matter how many languages you think you support, you d
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by gxonatano 1y ago
There are hundreds of these note taking programs now, and they all suck. Maybe they're fine if you don't really know how to use a computer, but if you're a developer or some other kind of hacker, and you use a text editor, li
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by gxonatano 1y ago
In what way is it shallow? I'm advocating for reading the whole Bible, and reading it deeply and critically: by reading the best available scholarly editions, by reading it alongside critical commentary, and by reading it alongside oth
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by gxonatano 1y ago
America does not underestimate that difficulty. Donald Trump does.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
If you read indiscriminately from lots of different news sources, bad ones and good ones alike, and you have an iPhone and you do most of your reading on it, this might be useful. But I rarely read news stories which appear in 100 different
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by gxonatano 2y ago
As an atheist, I couldn't agree more. The fastest way to become an atheist, as it's often pointed out, is to read the Bible, which explains why about 95% of the Christians I've known have never read it. When asked, they say t
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Next we need JS and CSS keywords in Esperanto, so that we're not privileging English-speaking regions over others.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
> as far as I can tell, not very widely used Well, it's the most widely spoken international language, spoken in over a hundred countries, by an estimated 2-5M people. There's a rich literature (probably 30-50K books), vibrant
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by gxonatano 2y ago
My name, Ĝonatano, contains a ĝ, which is an uncommon letter outside of my language, Esperanto. But when I go to set my username to "ĝonatano," I'm often told that usernames "may only contain letters or underscores,&quot
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Funny, that's precisely why I much prefer Linux over MacOS and Windows—I don't have time to fiddle with stuff all day long. On MacOS and Windows, to get any software, I have to: 1. search around the web to find a good program for
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by gxonatano 2y ago
If students would put the same amount of effort into learning as they do into cheating, they wouldn't be ignorant as well as morally bankrupt.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
"Dice" is plural. A single one is a die.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
"Disorder," at its most basic, simply describes a lack of order, which is not the same thing as a congenital disease. These days, we tend to over-identify with a given diagnosis, as if it were a permanent condition. People talk ab
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Let's not forget that jaywalking was essentially created by the automotive industry and its lobbyists, to make life more convenient for drivers. It started in car-heavy places like California, and eventually became a law virtually ever
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Typst is a huge improvement over LaTeX, but makes the rather anachronistic decision to target paper-based media instead of screens. Unless you're planning to print out all your papers onto physical paper, and you have stacks of differe
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by gxonatano 2y ago
> Instead of measuring an institution’s wealth or selectivity, it could track metrics like: > Employment Rates: Track the percentage of graduates employed in their field of study within six months to a year after graduation. > Earn
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Attention is a skill. You can train your attention like you train a muscle. There's a real proliferation, these days, of medical and chemical treatments for ADHD. And many of them really help people. But if your goal is to build muscle
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by gxonatano 2y ago
If you think Fish is great, you need to try Nushell. It's an even bigger improvement over older shells.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Judging from the picture of this blogger's bookshelf, this is advice about reading from a non-reader. Almost any book will change your life if you let it, but that's a poor criterion for selecting a book, since you won't know
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by gxonatano 2y ago
> or a Linux phone (which is too expensive relatively) Linux phones are inexpensive, relative to other smartphones. A new PinePhone is about $150, and there are lots of older devices which can run Linux (older Pixel phones, Nexus phones,
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Here's how I would do it, very opinionatedly. - Step 1. Use only Linux. You avoid having to translate between operating systems, you avoid paying expensive licenses, and you make your environments repeatable across dev machines. If a d
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Those of us that check email in Emacs have long had this feature. Org mode has capture functions that can take an email and make a note out of it, or a todo item, schedule it, or do whatever. It's amazingly powerful, and doesn't r
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by gxonatano 2y ago
The problems these browsers are trying to solve aren't web browser problems, they're window manager problems. Your web browser shouldn't try to be a window manager. - If you want to have two web pages side-by-side, you don&#x
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by gxonatano 2y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nushell, which is a modern BASH replacement that can replace curl, jq, and other data processing tools, and not to mention ls, ps, and other core GNU programs.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
Furthermore: > Dr. Yonat Zwebner, Arison School of Business, Reichman University says First, this isn't even a scientist who makes these conclusions, which explains why there's no scientific method. There needs to be a null hyp
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by gxonatano 2y ago
You don't need to make your markup language programmable. Just write a library for a full-featured programming language which outputs the markup you want. Then you don't have to re-implement parameters, variables, loops, and such.
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by gxonatano 2y ago
English has what linguists call deep orthography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth . It has to do with the conservative nature of English spelling. English would rather maintain the same spelling for a w
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by gxonatano 2y ago
"The terminal" is a terminal emulator: just a program that runs a shell. It's easy to learn the MacOS terminal emulator, called Terminal—just read the user guide accessible in the Help menu, under Terminal Help. But what you

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