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by jks 3y ago
My experience is the opposite: I can keep my init.el in version control, and it contains Lisp code that I can run and debug by hand if needed. If some mode doesn't work right, I can step through its code and examine its variables. If I
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by jks 3y ago
I remember reading a weekly newsletter (perhaps in email but probably on Usenet) that listed all the best new websites that had been set up. One week such-and-such university's law school had set up a site that listed their state'
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by jks 3y ago
Back when a Finnish radio channel got a website, they had an infuriating ad where they played Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys and invited everyone to come surf on their site, and read out their URL: aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash
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by jks 4y ago
Yes, but for those purposes it doesn't matter if the email features are left to die, such as the monospace fonts that don't render or the message read/unread status that's flaky.
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by jks 4y ago
In Finland there are "kansanopisto" that are a little like the Swedish ones described in the article but with less resources. I spent my final year of upper secondary school at one of them ( https://www.paivola.fi ) whic
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by jks 4y ago
Your description of the downsides of a gym brought to mind Reinhard Engels' "Shovelglove": wrap something soft around a sledgehammer to protect your floor. Then do shoveling and similar movements for some short period of time
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by jks 4y ago
Hello from Helsinki. I have a therapy lamp on my breakfast table and on my desktop at work, and it helps a tiny bit but not much. People clearly have different reactions, and I guess mine is worse than that of most people. But of course, I
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by jks 4y ago
It's not exactly a cheat sheet, but have you looked at https://tldr.sh ?
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by jks 4y ago
I sometimes fill in my name as [object Object].
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by jks 4y ago
Some emergency rooms are full because there is no place to send patients for further care. The emergency room is not supposed to be a place to spend a lot of time, they just treat your immediate life-threatening problem and then send you ei
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by jks 4y ago
Way back in the 1990s I worked in a place where we had to use Ada and follow a strict style guide. The guide prohibited using raw numeric types (such as "unsigned int" or "double" in C-like languages) and required creati
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by jks 4y ago
Perhaps first try it out at https://huggingface.co/spaces/togethercomputer/GPT-JT to see what kind of things you can do with it.
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by jks 4y ago
https://www.ethicalads.io I mean, I haven't audited their systems and haven't seen any reports from independent auditors, but at least they are making direct statements about privacy that the other ad networks aren&#x2
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by jks 4y ago
NextDNS has a "Native tracking protection" blocklist for Apple. Looking at my logs, it has blocked iadsdk.apple.com and many subdomains, and supportmetrics, securemetrics, books-analytics-events, weather-analytics-events (all unde
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by jks 4y ago
My favorite is the "Lemma that is not Burnside's". Also known as the orbit-counting theorem, the Pólya-Burnside lemma, the Cauchy-Frobenius lemma, and of course Burnside's lemma.
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by jks 4y ago
Happy user of Finda here: https://keminglabs.com/finda/ Don't know if it works on Ventura, not upgrading until I know.
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by jks 4y ago
Sounds like the optimistic merging principle of the late Pieter Hintjens: http://hintjens.com/blog:106
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by jks 4y ago
How about this one https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1196447880728453120
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by jks 4y ago
There is a language exchange subreddit where you can find someone to have Zoom calls with: https://www.reddit.com/r/language_exchange/
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by jks 4y ago
With CentOS, Red Hat pulled a cunning move: they started supporting the project themselves, then after some time changed its direction from a repackaged white-box Red Hat to a fast-moving prerelease Red Hat. Now it's much harder for a
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by jks 4y ago
Yes, the hard drive on a "Late 2014" Mac Mini (A1347) had died and I swapped in a SATA SSD.
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by jks 4y ago
Can this do three-way merge? If I have to resolve two conflicting code blocks, it is often useful to know how each of them change the code from the shared parent.
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by jks 4y ago
I've changed parts on several Apple laptops and one Mac Mini using iFixit manuals. In every case, it was really useful to read all the comments left by readers. Sometimes the comments tell you that you can skip several steps, in some c
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by jks 4y ago
Try Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5339/Street-Fighti...
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by jks 4y ago
> I worked for a company that didn't let people know if they where safe, for a week. A friend worked for a company that didn't let people know for 3 months. Finland has in some respects even more stringent employment laws than
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by jks 4y ago
They are very popular in Finland. A bit of news a few years ago was that the Finnish translation of Donald Duck had the largest readership of all weekly publications in Finland.
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by jks 4y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines continues to hold: So, how likely is it that Meta will actually pull its services from Europe? In reality, the chances are probably pretty slim. Meta has said it has “no desire” to leave the
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by jks 4y ago
Emacs has the similar Tramp, which can use various different ways to access remote files (or, in some cases, local files): https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Connection-types
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by jks 4y ago
This seems to resemble how Google Reader used to work. I think you could share items to your contacts, or perhaps it was just "starring" items and your contacts would see what you had starred. You could write comments on items tha
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by jks 4y ago
> esc esc esc :qa!<cr> (8 strokes) Yes, that seems quite complete against any preceding keystrokes I can think of, and agreed, it's better to use ^C instead of ESC. However, your friend's environment variables caused vim

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