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by marttt 4y ago
> An advantage to buying better hardware in the first place: it will still be worth enough for someone else to buy it from me. Yep, a great source of inspiration for this line of thinking: https://forum.thinkpads.com/
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For me, this is one of the main (subconscious) reasons why I stick with old tech for as long as I can. It is really frustrating to imagine a computer I would "throw away" to literally land on a landfill and rot there. In reality,
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Until around 2020, I used a 2006-ish Thinkpad T42 for almost everything, including radio program production (warmest greetings to the author of Non DAW [1]!) and occasionally even live recording. It's a 15" 4:3 model with IPS, Pen
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Picolisp has Pilog: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?tutpilog
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The article on the original homepage; extra points for the section title "Modest proposals": https://web.archive.org/web/20081019042406/http://www.modest... What would be some 2022-ish addition
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by marttt 4y ago
Long time ledger-cli user here. I recently discovered PTA [1, 2, 3], a Perl script by OpenBSD developer Ingo Schwarze. I'm in Europe, so the account numbering he uses is much preferred in my country as compared to Ledger's system.
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Not a member myself, but after reading a fellow HNer [1], I got curious about the Something Awful Forums [2] because of their (apparent) moderating policy. Oh, and I think I used to be a member on IlXor [3] in around 2004. Loved their UI (I
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How much coffee/tea do you consume during the day? Has this amount increased, and do you ever feel "h-angry" (easily irritated, impatient, not nice with your peers) during the fasting windows? This is something I've been
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by marttt 4y ago
Nice. This reminds me of Daniel Lucraft's Plain Text Organizer (from 2008). Nice free-form syntax for calendar, and a clever notation for "30-day trials": https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/pla
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A recent experiment: publishing your online stuff as PDF files : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375013 The author calls the HTML website -> PDF zine switch "deurbanising the web" in his/her manife
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I was completely blown away when I found this years ago. I'm a kid of the early 1990s, and this was music on dot matrix printers. I just couldn't believe my ears when I first listened to the whole thing. I did some radio produ
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I had a successful low-volume bookmark system in a single text file: 1. paste the URL in the file 2. add a free-form description to it by hand The hand-typing part proved to be a fairly good "bullshit filter": typing a descripti
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As someone with rural/countryside roots, I recall similar advice on physical labor: it is best to work at a steady, consistent pace all day long without getting sweaty or breathless . You'll avoid (or postpone) dehydration, remai
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If you're afraid, don't do it; if you do it, don't be afraid. -- my dad I remember reasoning like this a lot in my early adulthood when I had to to use our (diy, somewhat inaccurate and scary) table saw.
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For the "why PDF?", Vol 0 of the zine was discussed on HN earlier this year (413 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880905 There's also Vol 2, which is a PDF/A document that also parses as
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A PDF zine readable in any plain text editor, and it's also an MP3 [pdf](lab6.com)
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Maybe Computer Science Unplugged would offer some inspiration? Teaching CS fundamentals without using a computer: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/at-home/ "Classic" version of the book with all the activi
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How to program a text adventure in C (2012)(home.hccnet.nl)
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Several forestry workers I know used the same argument: while working with a brush cutter, they prefer not to use a FM headset because it would distract them away from also hearing what the machine's engine is doing. I personally have
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See also The Sokal Affair on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Quoting that entry: "Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which aut
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Transgressing the Boundaries: Prof Phys Sokal's postmodernist sham paper (1996)(physics.nyu.edu)
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An excellent heuristic proposed e.g. in the book "Modern Perl" (2015) [1] is to think of $_ as the pronoun it in human language, and @_ as the pronouns they/them . Edit : a previous HN comment thread on how sigils are der
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Have you noticed any significant mood changes as a result of fasting? Unexpected bursts of anger, impatience, being "too straightforward" with your peers or spouse etc? This is something I've experienced while on intermittent
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I assume these are Perl 5 jobs, not Perl 6?
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> ... many great Perl book authors ... Would you mind listing a few of these? I would add "Modern Perl" by chromatic: https://pragprog.com/titles/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-editio... With lots of elega
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Re: mid-career, no papers -- does this effectively result in ageism inside the academia? Widespread, but poorly hidden?
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Tangentially related, but it reminds me of a quote by Nassim Taleb: "The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
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The Future of Open Source: On Imperialism and Idealism(datagubbe.se)
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Apparently there's an overview of the differences and evolution on the Elinks page: http://elinks.cz/history.html
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Proposal for a GNU Unicode Font (1998)(web.archive.org)
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