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Publishing an E-Zine on the Net (1995)(web.textfiles.com)
4 points by kmstout 1y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 1y ago
> how much of that JS is functional Lots of sites become more functional with JS disabled.
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by kmstout 1y ago
Best article ever.
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by kmstout 1y ago
To go along with (2), "C-h k <KEY SEQUENCE>" and "M-x view-lossage" are excellent starting points for investigating what any key stroke means. From there, one can follow links in function and variable help all the
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Bulletin Board Systems in the Modern Era and Beyond [video](youtube.com)
2 points by kmstout 1y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 1y ago
Data point: A few weeks ago, I spent some time shuttling text between one of the Llama models (have to check which one) and Dunnet, the text adventure packaged with Emacs. Over several trials, the Llama never realized that it needed to dig
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An Extensible Iteration Facility(reindeereffect.com)
1 points by kmstout 1y ago|0 comments
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Cook My Meat(up.csail.mit.edu)
5 points by kmstout 1y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 1y ago
Let's flip it around: Who are the survivors who did none of the things people prescribe?
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by kmstout 1y ago
I have routinely noticed this sort of construction since a few years [1]. Does it correspond to standard usage in other languages? If so, which ones? --- [1] See what I did there? Eh? Eh?
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by kmstout 2y ago
For reading anything of length, I like to split horizontally into three balanced windows [1], put the buffer in all of them, and `M-x follow-mode'. At that point, I get a nice columnar display that makes better use of the screen real e
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by kmstout 2y ago
> help command_list
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Calculus Rhapsody [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kmstout 2y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 2y ago
And monads are like burritos. Therefore, monads are like planes. How shall we represent diverted luggage?
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by kmstout 2y ago
> (Keeping in mind that traditional regexes can't balance brackets; presumably they can't properly track indentation levels either.) You're right: Regular expressions are equivalent to finite state machines[1], which lack
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by kmstout 2y ago
In Common Lisp, it's common for special variables' names to have "earmuffs" (i.e., asterisks at each end), so Luke's sister could be *princess-leia*. (edit: added formality)
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by kmstout 2y ago
Years of listening to C-SPAN have taught me the value of declaring what I intend to do and then proceeding "without objection." [1] (I'm still waiting to "yield myself such time as I may consume.") --- [1] https:&#
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by kmstout 2y ago
$ aspell dump master | egrep -i '^i.{18}n$' institutionalization internationalization
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by kmstout 2y ago
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by kmstout 2y ago
> Def not making an account on whatever random website heatpumped.org is. Yet another example of a paywall that can be defeated by disabling JS or using a text mode browser. Those are my second favorite. The most entertaining are the one
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by kmstout 2y ago
RSS is great for this. The vast majority of my 200+ feed subscriptions are for rarely updated blogs or YouTube channels.
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by kmstout 2y ago
For BBSes, MUDs, etc.: - https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ - https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/ Plenty of boards run Multi-Relay Chat (MRC), which is IRC-ish.
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by kmstout 2y ago
A couple things: - Between using Bash's functions and breaking large scripts into multiple, separate scripts, one can keep things reasonably tidy. Also, functions and scripts can be combined in all the ways (e.g., piping and proce
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by kmstout 2y ago
I lost track of how many articles I had to open to hit their paywall in Firefox, but disabling JavaScript will nicely bypass it.
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LinkedIn: We're too boring for kids for social media ban(bbc.com)
1 points by kmstout 2y ago|1 comments
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The Dark History of the Treadmill(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by kmstout 2y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 2y ago
"The next time they bug you about Grant's drinking [...] tell them you're gonna find out what brand he drinks and send a case of it to all your other generals." --Bob Newhart, as Lincoln's PR consultant https:&#x2F
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by kmstout 2y ago
It's fine in a text-mode browser.
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by kmstout 2y ago
> [...] screen real-estate is also important [...] This is why I've been spending a lot of time (ab)using Emacs's browser, eww, in conjunction with follow mode: The two together allow me to view most things in an efficient colu
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by kmstout 3y ago
Not quite. Late last year I began running a Searx instance locally, less for privacy than for having a hackable meta-search engine. Since it supports several "bangs," like !ddg and !yt and the like, I generally use this for quickl

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