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by knight17 6y ago
This is a subjective take. I don't know whether any of you share this concern but I feel like almost all new UIs are unattractive. (Maybe except Apple, and I'm an Android/Windows user). The new windows UIs are flat, colourin
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by knight17 6y ago
Here are some other SQL Learning resources I have collected in my note taking TiddlyWiki (mostly from HN itself). Interactive SQL Tutorials : ▪ Chartio Interactive PostgreSQL SQL Tutorial - https://chartio.com/learn/sql
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by knight17 7y ago
Is there any alternatives suggested for this medicine?
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by knight17 7y ago
The American editions make some changes, such as: car park -> parking lot, lot -> bunch, dustbin -> trashcan, punch-bag -> punching bag, sellotape -> scotch tape, cinema -> movies, post -> mail, trolley -> car
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by knight17 8y ago
Here is another one I noticed—'unphased' is used instead of 'unfazed'. >Unphased, Nick kept publishing.
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by knight17 8y ago
Firefox had a way to display RSS/Atom feeds earlier which they removed, but it did not allow subscribing to them in any meaningful way other than live bookmarks.
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by knight17 8y ago
I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to mak
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by knight17 8y ago
See https://www.japanfs.org/en/news/archives/news_id034293.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-japanese-shri... In many western countries many important traditional skill
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by knight17 8y ago
Similar to this post, Jack Kinsella has written how he used Spaced Repetition Software to learn and keep programming knowledge in the following articles: http://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method https:/&#
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by knight17 8y ago
Generally this is true, but I think you are being dismissive by throwing this truism at his note taking attempt. The point of keeping a personal wiki, is tonote the things that has come to his attention and not to forget it and to come back
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by knight17 8y ago
It is interesting to me that only four of them are protesting—German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak—by blacking out their sites on 21 March 2019 in opposition to the proposed EU Copyright Directive. Why is it that other EU Wikipedia language ed
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by knight17 8y ago
How can governments identify which properties are foreign owned when companies incorporated abroad can buy real estate via local arms and byzntine holding structures?
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by knight17 8y ago
It appears so. What a filthy guy. Don't read if you don't have the stomach for it https://blog.timesunion.com/animalrights/descartes-and-anima... Gary Francione (Introduction to Animal Rights): “Descartes and
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by knight17 8y ago
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not y
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by knight17 8y ago
Excel has named cell ranges. So instead of =A5*A6 you could have =interest*principal You can create them easily too -- can name the individually, can assign names from existing tables and so on. You can have constants too, tha
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by knight17 8y ago
Thank you for mentioning it. It is a useful way to organise a book for busy people who wants to cook. I found this aspect of the book interesting and searched for some reviews and found this critique of its ingredient list; that it is expen
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by knight17 8y ago
Just press F5 in Notepad to insert the current date and time.
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by knight17 8y ago
One of the things I like about wikis is the concept of backlinks [1]. I currently use TW5 (TiddlyWiki) for my 700+ notes and I always find something that I have written but have forgotten ever writing those down. From the screenshoots it ap
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by knight17 8y ago
Now it is self-administered eye drops (inefficient) or an injection to the eye (ouch) [1]. This thing, if it gets adopted [2] can be used by the patient themselves and at the same time will deliver the drug better. Here is the reporting fro
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by knight17 8y ago
Consistently recording logs is the importannt factor. You don't need fancy tools, a simple text-editor is all you need to have. In Emacs one has org-mode, in Vim, vimwiki, even for plain Notepad, one can easily create a time log by pre
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by knight17 8y ago
Some other similar tools I added to my notes from a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905666 Interactive PostgreSQL SQL Tutorial - https://chartio.com/learn/sql/ Select STAR S
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by knight17 8y ago
What is an iodine protocol?
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by knight17 8y ago
Here you go : https://archive.fo/9kz4u
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by knight17 8y ago
Feed URL : https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/... Project URL: https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content
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by knight17 8y ago
Please note that the video may be disturbing to watch. Here is the report on the BBC site: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45599973/cameroon-a... https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithap
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BBC uses technology to solve Cameroon atrocity. Finds soldiers who killed woman(twitter.com)
9 points by knight17 8y ago|1 comments
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Firefox extensions: from Vimperator to Tridactyl(nullprogram.com)
3 points by knight17 8y ago|0 comments
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by knight17 8y ago
Francis Galton was Darwin's cousin. Reading the Origin of Species he became convinced of evolution. He believed that “what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.” He was also into stat
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by knight17 8y ago
The author mentions writing down a summary after every chapter in the book itself. The final notes are prepared from each chapter's annotations and handwritten summaries. If anyone is interested in reading to retain more, try How to Re
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by knight17 8y ago
"For the very niche topics, i basically maintain myself lists of sites." I have a Google CSE for the sites I have subscribed in RSS reader. It provides results that I could never get with straight Google search. Curious to know wh

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