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by gxonatano 2y ago
1-5. Org mode, with plugins org-roam, org-roam-bibtex, org-noter, and org-citar. Every book I read has an accompanying bibtex file, and a linked note in org-roam. Usually it's an ebook, in which case there's an accompanying PDF as
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by gxonatano 2y ago
I'll play. My favorite software, in order: 1. Linux 2. Emacs (with org-mode, org-roam, and other plugins) 3. Nushell
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by gxonatano 2y ago
There's a sense in which this is endemic to Paris: as a city which evolved from a medieval one, with narrow ad-hoc streets snaking all around, it lends itself uniquely to wandering, in a way that New York City, for instance, with its g
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by gxonatano 3y ago
Ctrl+F Windows. Yup, thought so.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
Wait until you hear about org-roam.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
For those cases you can type until it autocompletes one of those commands, then press the up arrow key to cycle through the variations of that match. I don't know about zsh, but it's the default for fish and nushell.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
It's not a secret, and it's a feature available to all modern shells, not just BASH.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
But if you have autocomplete suggestions enabled in your modern shell (Zsh, Fish, Nushell), you don't even have to press C-r. Just type and it'll complete for you.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
I think what is needed is rather an adblock detector detector, or something which can trick the detectors into thinking there's no adblock.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
This is the kind of thing Nushell is already really good at.
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by gxonatano 3y ago
I use mu4e in Emacs as my mail client, along with org-msg and org-mode, and there's nothing better: * Compose emails in org-mode markup (like Markdown but better) and auto-generate plain-text and HTML email on export, complete with syn
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by gxonatano 3y ago
Zen Buddhist training. It's training in cultivating a permanent flow state. For starters, it's a half hour of zazen every morning, and a longer period, once or twice a week. Some people think they can get the same thing from medit
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by gxonatano 3y ago
There are lots of mathematicians, and statisticians and the like, who become interested in literary analysis. They may even go on to publish articles and books with their findings, applying mathematical or computational techniques to the st
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by gxonatano 3y ago
The comparison to Klingon is really short-sighted, though. Even though Klingon and Esperanto are both constructed languages, Klingon is a fictional language, created to mimic a natural language. Esperanto, on the other hand, is a mature,
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by gxonatano 3y ago
> I feel bad saying that I liked the language but not its speakers. I feel like it’s my fault. It is, in fact, his fault. Esperanto has an estimated 2–5 million speakers worldwide, but this guy goes to one conference, meets a handful of
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by gxonatano 3y ago
> Esperanto is only easy to learn if you already speak a European language, and even then it helps even more if you speak one of the languages Zamenhof, its inventor, spoke. That's a very common misconception about Esperanto. It&#x2
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by gxonatano 3y ago
I left a nice job as a developer to pursue a PhD in English literature. It was the best decision I ever made. I spent eight years reading novels and poems for a living, writing fun things about them, and teaching them. I got to deeply explo
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by gxonatano 3y ago
I see something like this pop up about every week: a notetaking system with maybe half the features of Org Mode or Logseq, but which is closed-source, cloud-based, and subscription-based. Who on earth thinks that's a good idea?
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by gxonatano 3y ago
Impressive project, but the tagline says "learn every language," and yet there are some very glaring omissions. Just a few off the top of my head: Haitian Creole, Breton, Taiwanese, Shanghainese, Scots, and Yoruba. But probably th
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by gxonatano 3y ago
A similar game is The Expression Amrilato, a love story where you gradually learn the language Esperanto. After beating the game, you've learned a real language, and can now speak with people from around the world. You also learn, howe
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by gxonatano 3y ago
I wanted this to be true, and I really gave Windows 11 a fair trial for a while, but I hated it. Windows feels like a cobbled-together mess compared to nearly any flavor of Linux. Take for example the process of installing software. On Linu
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by gxonatano 3y ago
Keyboards like these are the worst kind of tech debt: they're literally a pain. Layouts like QWERTY, AZERTY, and so on reproduce the same layouts from nineteenth-century mechanical typewriters, which were designed to be inefficient ,
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The Dymaxion Bathroom(blogs.uoregon.edu)
188 points by gxonatano 4y ago|104 comments
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by gxonatano 4y ago
You could certainly get the impression that poetry is dying, or doesn't "sell well," if you live in a region with bookstores that hide poetry. For example, I've been to bookstores in the American South that only seem to
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by gxonatano 4y ago
I think it's more telling about the rant and the ranter than the Esperanto community. Although the Esperanto community is pretty used to non-Esperantists or Esperanto beginners denouncing the language without trying to understand it fi
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by gxonatano 4y ago
Speaking as an Esperantist, I've heard arguments like this over and over, from disgruntled Esperanto beginners, who half-heartedly learned portions of the language, motivated by fallacious utopian impulses, and then abandoned it comple
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by gxonatano 4y ago
If Eliot really found happiness after his second marriage, great. But he was gay, as everyone now knows. So how happy was he, really?
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by gxonatano 4y ago
I teach computational approaches to literature at a university, and I always give my students a test to see if they can tell which poems were written by a computer, and which were written by a human. They tend to score about 50%. But to me,
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by gxonatano 4y ago
> The twin who remained in South Korea was raised in a more supportive and cohesive family atmosphere. The twin who was adopted by the U.S. couple, in contrast, reported a stricter, more religiously-oriented environment that had higher l
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by gxonatano 5y ago
Esperanto is widely miunderstood by the general public. It's often lumped together with fictional languages (languages from fictional books or movies) like Klingon or Elvish. But there's a very important distinction. Fictional lan

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