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by krysp 5y ago
The point about escalators in subways being designed for marketing exposure resonates with me. More and more I walk around and see advertisements everywhere; they seem to be becoming inescapable in our modern cities. I block them on my devi
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by krysp 5y ago
I'd be very interested in this, please email me your PayPal!
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by krysp 6y ago
Very similar to tmuxinator, but in python: https://github.com/tmux-python/tmuxp I use this one as I found it easier to set up, and a bit more intuitive to script. Also if you use python rather than ruby, it's easi
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by krysp 6y ago
Can't argue that being a self employed cleaner would be lower stress. What's your friend charging and what kind of work does she do? I only have limited experience with paying cleaners in the uk, but she must be charging more than
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by krysp 6y ago
The best remap in my vimrc: " Map jk to ESC in insert mode inoremap jk <esc> Once you've finished what you wanted to insert just hit jk. The combination never occurs in the English language and is right on the home row :)
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by krysp 6y ago
On the point about AWS, there are settings in your account to prevent that happening - whoever is managing it may have set the log out time a bit low.
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by krysp 6y ago
Strangely, I can reproducibly crash my phone by playing the video on this link. It goes into a "lockdown" loop and eventually reboots to recovery mode with a warning about data loss. (Pixel 3, Firefox mobile, Android 11 with lates
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by krysp 6y ago
Awesome achievement! What was the part of the mission you were most concerned about / most likely to go wrong?
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by krysp 6y ago
SQLAlchemy is really special - coming from Django I wasn't convinced initially, but I think the reason it works so well is it doesn't try to hide any magic. It's simply a nice way to represent objects in your database, you st
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by krysp 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I have the Kensington with four buttons. I never use the extra two for anything - probably because, like most people in the comments, I'm trying to stay away from the mouse. Two buttons is plenty!
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by krysp 6y ago
If you setup your dotfiles correctly, your vim environment should be accessible with a simple `git pull`. The plugins are very worth it, there's no need to handicap yourself locally just so your environment matches some bare bones serv
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by krysp 6y ago
Seems like you and everyone in the replies to your comment may have misconstrued what the parent meant; if he's from Europe, socialist isn't a dirty word like the US. In most of Europe it's quite a positive thing to say your
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by krysp 6y ago
That depends on the cause of death. If a "lethal encounter with police after speeding" is gunshot wound whilst being detained, a Bugatti veyron might allow you to avoid that outcome. No police vehicle could keep up, unless they br
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by krysp 6y ago
Your argument rests on the assumption that poor people consume a set of goods completely distinct from middle income and wealthy people. If the price of a loaf of bread increases by 200% in an attempt to take advantage of increased purchasi
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by krysp 6y ago
Fzf. Fuzzy completion is a godsend for working in the terminal, remembering commands is a thing of the past. As a nice bonus there is also a wonderful vim plugin :)
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People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules(bbc.com)
2 points by krysp 7y ago|0 comments
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by krysp 7y ago
Merry Christmas to everyone on the best and most informative forum of ideas I've found on the internet - and here's to everyone's 2020!!
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by krysp 7y ago
Quite honestly thought that video was a joke until the final cut
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by krysp 7y ago
That really does sound like a better combination! Never done system remappings on OSX, how did you go about it?
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by krysp 8y ago
I never use the true HN site other than for comments now, the hckrnews.com interface is just so good!
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Instagram issues(downdetector.co.uk)
1 points by krysp 8y ago|0 comments
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by krysp 9y ago
This is especially relevant in tech. I feel a lot of language hype and framework churn is due to this obsession with whatever is newest and most shiny.
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by krysp 9y ago
I suppose it isn't really a GUI but it does manage them. http://xmonad.org/