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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I said to him, ‘What disguise will hide me from the world? What can I find more respectable than bishops and majors?’ He looked at me with his large but indecipherable face. ‘You want a safe disguise, do you? You want a dress which will gu
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
both good authors, too.
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they're out there; https://github.com/s-kostyaev/ellama/blob/main/ellama.el for example.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
as always, it depends on which state you’re in. federalism, as a crude form of polyculture, is probably more boon than bane.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
As a young engineering student, I picked up the extremely strong impression that linkedin was for MBA students, not me, so I enthusiastically never joined yet another obviously suit-centered social network thingie. I have yet to be convince
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> It seems like a strange thing to take someone with a long and respected career and subject them to what would essentially be a Western blot and photomicrograph audit before offering them a big position. This is absolutely something tha
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
'הבל (hevel)' has the primary sense of vapor, or mist -- a transient thing, not a meaningless or purposeless one.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
"everything is constantly changing!" is the thing that never changes.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
> To quote someone about this: >>All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life. So, same as it ever was? Smoke, nothing but smoke
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LG Smart TVs, including OLEDs, now show screensaver ads(flatpanelshd.com)
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> it is very interesting to realize that peace itself is a thing, not the lack of another thing. [from] a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice letter from a birmingham jail
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
long term effects are quite well studied.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
shame nobody scraped them years ago! ... oh, wait.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
https://randomeffect.net/post/2022/10/07/use-ripgrep-all-fro... possibly?
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
there's not much of a difference. Just which end of the truncheon you think you're likely to be on.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
“it was legal when i bought it, so it’s legal now!”
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Emacs. Normally i read it locally but the web version is just as comprehensive.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
I didn't even have to read the article to know it was Lael who did it. She's a beast.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
back to the origins! I've done similar, and also with LoTR. It worked very well.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Any technical paper written in the last century. A surprising number of children's books -- either they're too simple, or too! over! punctuated?! or just carelessly written. Poems whose shape is as important as their sound or sen
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
it does. They were public letters that would’ve been read aloud to a group.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
It was normative for things to be either authored by dictation, received by listening, or both.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
some things are _meant_ to be read aloud because they were written that way one way or another. For the majority of history, it was the norm, either in consumption, authorship, or both. Poetry is meant to be spoken, with rare exception. Wr
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
The organist/math teacher sat down with a few loose pipes, a pencil, and paper, and helped Lawrence figure out why. When Lawrence understood, it was as if the math teacher had suddenly played the good part of Bach's Fantasia and
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
the antiphons and magnificat are, not surprisngly, very good advent music.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
Other favorites: his setting of the Magnificat, "I am the true vine", "And one of the pharisees", "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", his O Antiphons.
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
It's how language ecosystems work when there's no authority with real power at the top. Python doesn't have real power at the top. Of late the SC thinks it wants to be that power. The developer base, mostly made up of peop
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
with choice, comes responsibility. with no choice comes responsibility too, it's just that neither are yours, and likely aren't what you'd want. edit: at this time, incidentally, i'm choosing to not use the VC-backed out
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
nothing!
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by hprotagonist 2y ago
`pipx run litecli`

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