iamapipebomb

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by iamapipebomb 7y ago
acme could be seen as a word processor in the unix model. It's easy to pipe text to composable commands. I can put the Levenshtein perl one-liner in the blue bar and middle click it to get the distance of two highlighted words.
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by iamapipebomb 8y ago
firefox has an extension that does similar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinpointer/ discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556805
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by iamapipebomb 8y ago
I think I could replace bash with xonsh[0] as my default shell if coconut's pipe syntax were available! [0] https://xon.sh/ [1] https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1336
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by iamapipebomb 9y ago
It'd be nice if there were also a metric for number of lives improved. Like meals consumed, beds slept in, etc https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
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by iamapipebomb 14y ago
What does opera use for link navigation? I just see link step/cycling in the opera documentation [1]. Is there a better paradigm than link hitting [2]? Opera always seems to have impressive hidden tricks. [1] http://www.opera.com/browser/
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by iamapipebomb 15y ago
"....On these computers was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists around the world." Does science collaboration/espionage endanger people's lives?
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by iamapipebomb 16y ago
Independence from capital-driven data-mining freedom-subverting services is relevant, but hosting the manifesto of sorts on google is a bit ironic.
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by iamapipebomb 16y ago
As with any preference, the illusion of choice is usually necessary. If you feel you have to be doing it, it's not going to be all that much fun, at least starting out. To enjoy it, you also need to tie the effort put in to significantly re
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by iamapipebomb 16y ago
Devotion of resource arguments are detrimental to the spirit of liberty in OSS. I think of these works more like exploration than some effort ultimately asymptotic to a goal. Exploration is hardly ever an unrewarding pursuit. And it has ben
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by iamapipebomb 17y ago
slide 116 "bash-like" key mapping means emacs-like (right?)