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by jks 2y ago
PETSCII? On the Commodore 64 you could press the Commodore key and Shift together to change character sets between lowercase and the graphical characters. But the Unix login thing might have been because of teletypes? https://www
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by jks 2y ago
The Kagi founder mentions 2% in a response to a feedback thread https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
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by jks 2y ago
Yes, you can do it with a "page rule", which the parent comment mentioned. The CloudFlare free tier has a budget of three page rules, which might mean that you have to bundle all your rss feeds in one folder so they share a path p
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by jks 2y ago
Curiously, on many terminal emulators the following work: Ctrl-2 = Ctrl-@ = NUL byte Ctrl-3 = Ctrl-[ = ESC Ctrl-4 = Ctrl-\ = default for SIGQUIT Ctrl-5 = Ctrl-] = jump to definition in vim Ctrl-6 = Ctrl-^ = mosh escape key Ctrl-7 = Ctrl-_ =
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by jks 2y ago
Banking credentials are used a lot in Finland to sign into other services. This means you get phishing emails saying "your medical test results are available" or "you're getting a tax return" where the actual goal i
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by jks 2y ago
Estonia has this: < https://e-estonia.com/solutions/estonian-e-identity/id-card/ > Finland tried to copy it, but the Finnish card (while based on the same technology) is used very little. Finnish banks al
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by jks 2y ago
Would be interesting to hear from someone who has compared this and https://daylightcomputer.com/
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by jks 2y ago
I recommend checking out Caddy < https://caddyserver.com/ >, which replaces both Nginx and Certbot in this setup. Tailscale < https://tailscale.com/ > can remove the need to open port 22 to the worl
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by jks 2y ago
The blip could be a focal seizure, you might want to talk with a neurologist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_seizure
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by jks 3y ago
You can run it in Jupyter notebook. They have a lightweight implementation of that at https://live.sympy.org/ but the closest counterpart to Maple would probably be SageMath, which includes sympy and a lot more. https:&#x2
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by jks 3y ago
"Sizes are first come first serve" so I suppose they estimate how many of each size they need and then let people get a shirt as long as their size is available.
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by jks 3y ago
The TurkuNLP team does have the best previous-generation language model for Finnish (FinBERT). The current version of ChatGPT speaks passable Finnish, although definitely not at the level it speaks English. None of the open-source models I&
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by jks 3y ago
I think they were credited in each season finale - a "Thank You for Calling" screen.
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by jks 3y ago
I heard this from a Russian friend years ago (so I might get the details wrong): to make the Cocktail Recursive, mix - 1 unit of vodka - 2 units of water - 3 units of Cocktail Recursive
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by jks 3y ago
In the other direction (and on a different scale) I hate it when the bus-schedule app I use tells me that my bus leaves "in 8 minutes". Ok, I'll put on my shoes and jacket, check if I have all the stuff in my bag - darnit, I
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by jks 3y ago
There used to be a Finnish sauna endurance competition where the temperature was 110℃. It was canceled in 2010 after one contestant died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships
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by jks 3y ago
If you don't like drugs, look up Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). It is kind of a collection of tricks, but it goes further than your basic sleep hygiene checklist. One thing it includes that helps many people if they
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by jks 3y ago
That dose may be ten times too high: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... I was prescribed melatonin by a doctor, and the dose went up little by little from 3mg to 10mg before we de
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by jks 3y ago
This is because && and || are often used as conditionals: [ -e README ] && cat README avoids an error if the file README doesn't exist, and [ -e README ] || echo "You should write a README!"
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by jks 3y ago
Somehow kagi.com manages to rank the top results better than Google: - a stackoverflow answer that has a useful example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18351977/ - the Python documentation: https://docs.py
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by jks 3y ago
I think the trend may be because longwinded writing gets you authority points on Google, or at least because writers think it does. Recall the famous laser printer review from earlier this year: https://www.theverge.com/2364
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by jks 3y ago
Of course you could still use {} etc, they just might show up as localized characters in your source code. There was no character set conversion involved at the source code level, your terminal font just might have had the glyph for ä in th
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by jks 3y ago
Just look at all those services available from nic.funet.fi: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.... Archie, X.500, ftp, gopher, telnet, irc, mailing lists, USENET, WAIS, WWW (rem
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by jks 3y ago
The earliest description about the hardware I can find on archive.org is: > The main server is a Sun4/630MP-41 with (14-Feb-94) over 20GB GB archive disk space https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014909/htt
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by jks 3y ago
Because 7-bit ASCII didn't include accented characters used in many European langauges, there were national changes. The Finnish variant replaced {|}[\] with äöåÄÖÅ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Replaceme
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by jks 3y ago
I rarely see Emacs freeze even with Tramp, but admittedly I rarely see broken connections. I think in that case VS Code will throw up a modal dialog telling you to reload the window, and after reloading you have the option to sever the conn
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by jks 3y ago
This reminds me of the story in which Don Knuth wrote a literate program in WEB (reportedly over 10 pages) to do some text processing and Doug McIlroy did the same thing in a six-line shell script: http://www.leancrew.com/al
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by jks 3y ago
I changed from .emacs to .emacs.d/init.el when it became possible, because that seems neater. Some years later I decided to see what fancy packages the young folks like, and started using vertico, orderless, marginalia, embark, and con
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by jks 3y ago
In that scenario you can often use Tramp - run Emacs locally and let it use ssh and scp to modify the files on the target system. Does the VS Code remote editing require some kind of server component on the remote system or does it manage i
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by jks 3y ago
shellcheck can remind you of most pitfalls

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