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by knight17 8y ago
A good alternative to Google news is http://newsnow.co.uk It has high information density. It is headlines only which makes it easy to scan lot of information in one go. The categories are also very wide covering everything one
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Somebody, please put Google News out of its misery(rba.co.uk)
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by knight17 8y ago
Great link. "Happy mortal. When you read me, I will not be any more, "writes Joachim Martin on one of the found plates, clearly showing his will to leave a trace of his existence, but also of his thoughts. "My story is short
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by knight17 8y ago
mGSD is based on TiddlyWiki Classic, here is GSD5, a new project, built on the current version, TiddlyWiki 5: http://gsd5.tiddlyspot.com/
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by knight17 8y ago
John Gruber recently blogged about Frontier: > If you never used Frontier, it’s hard to explain what made it so special. My very favorite thing about Frontier is the “object database”. It wasn’t like using a database in the SQL sense. It
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by knight17 9y ago
Thank you for suggesting this. I never knew about this. I learnt that it is from/ part of Imagemagick [1]. Unoconv tool [2], recommended in another comment here, is also great to convert documents to and from formats that are supporte
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by knight17 9y ago
Hawkins wanted to keep the familiar voice he has been using. He did not want it replaced with 'better' voices because he came to identify strongly with the voice. They (Intel?) replaced the hardware and software with a better syst
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by knight17 9y ago
> I can't shake the feeling that Regexp could be written just as efficiently as a fluent interface with a more human friendly syntax. You can use SRL - Simple Regex Language ( https://simple-regex.com/ ) for making
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by knight17 9y ago
I am fearful of switching because of all the keyboard shortcuts I'd have to relearn. Sometimes an established layout like Dvorak and Colemak has scripts/modifications readily available from the community that can help you to get t
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by knight17 9y ago
I think Outliners are great for thinking and note taking. For me tools to help me think usually means those that help in writing. Writing is thinking on paper, giving it a tangible form. You write after spending considerable time distilling
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by knight17 9y ago
How long did it take you to learn the new layout? Why this one instead of Dvorak or Colemak?
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by knight17 9y ago
>>That's one of my absolute favourite things about Mac OS Mine too, but I'm on Windows where none of this work out of the box. However, I've found XKeymacs [0] which allows Emacs keys system wide. It is not fool proof,
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by knight17 9y ago
This is neat. Few other tools that do the same job: - PurifyCSS https://github.com/purifycss/purifycss - Google Chrome dev tools https://www.labnol.org/internet/remove-unused-css/28635/
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by knight17 9y ago
First time seeing this usage, can you tell me what is this called exactly, in grammatical terms? Tried to Google and can't seem to reach anywhere.
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by knight17 9y ago
WhatsApp groups are not discoverable (or publicly listed) unless someone invites you or provides you with a specific invite link with which you can join the group.
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by knight17 9y ago
Instead of clicking you can use / or h to focus on the search field, press [right] arrow key and your preferred bang (!g) to open in google, no need to add any space to the last word (as you said). https://duck.co/help&
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by knight17 9y ago
You can try using an exporter to see how much more work you'll have to do to make the new static version work to your liking. https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress https://import.jekyllrb.c
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by knight17 9y ago
Thanks for the Wiby link. Million Short is a search engine that can remove popular websites from the search results. You can set how many sites you want to filter out when searching, for example, you can remove the top 100, 1000, 10k, 100k,
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by knight17 9y ago
>warning controversial hypothesis Prior to 1790, Clark asserts that man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food, but was quickly gobbled up by higher populations. In Britain, however, as diseas
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by knight17 9y ago
Similarly, I have observed 'abject' going with 'poverty', usually.
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by knight17 9y ago
Emacs calc can do financial/TVM calculations, too. A useful tutorial by Andrew Hyatt on doing financial calculations [0]; he has wrote many other calc tutorials [1] in the Emacs Google Plus community [2]. [0] Emacs financial calculati
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by knight17 9y ago
By copy, I think he meant the writing of the page, copywriting. Please pursue the below links, you may find them helpful. I also recommend redesigning the site to be little more visually appealing. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by knight17 9y ago
Similar to Fermats Library is the annotated version from Genius.com: https://genius.com/3869621
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by knight17 9y ago
That is my default assumption too, that I will not get what they are saying. OT: This paper is produced using a wordprocessor; my PDF reader says it is produced by OpenOffice.org 2.4. The word spacing and justification of paragraphs makes m
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by knight17 9y ago
This is similar to Farley file [0], a file kept by politicians to record all the people they meet; and they meet a lot of people daily, dealing with a variety of issues, so it is good to write everything down. When it is time to meet them a
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by knight17 9y ago
Having your body weight under control helps in controlling diabetes. This finding is, however, not new. Here is a 2011 study [0] using the same 600 calorie/day diet. This study only had 11 people, the current study [1] has 298. By red
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by knight17 9y ago
I also begrudge the loss of many useful extensions in my workflow. It is a sad loss. But couple of your annoyances can be fixed rather easily: 1. Get back the toolbar back: View (or Alt-V) - Toolbars - Menu Bar 2. To clean recent history:
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by knight17 9y ago
Yes: https://www.lesserwrong.com/feed.xml . Firefox auto-detected it.
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Imitating the greats before venturing on your own was an accepted practice in the earlier days. It is called copywork. Many famous writers used this method to hone their writing chops. Benjamin Franklin, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson
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by knight17 9y ago
There is a link between power structures and illegal activity. It is heartening to see this positive development where both government and communities are working together. As the article suggested, the poachers along with the entire networ

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