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by marttt 5y ago
Interesting table. One more column would be great, though: number of flags for all these commands in Plan 9 or 9front.
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by marttt 5y ago
I'm undecided between Tiny Core Linux and NetBSD for an old Thinkpad T42, and I had similar emotions reading NetBSDs Guide a few days ago. Tiny Core is really great (I've been using it for 5-6 years) but: - The T42 needs undercloc
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by marttt 5y ago
+1. All these "fucks" and "shits" felt pointless, tiresome, not convincing. Overuse of this kind of language often results in a more superficial text imo.
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by marttt 5y ago
A blast from the past: I would love to read about deliberate use of Perl 5 without CPAN, or with as little CPAN as possible. Being a fan of minimal, clear languages, Lisps, Forths, Rebol etc, I've somewhat unexpectedly found myself imm
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by marttt 5y ago
OP here. I find w3m a pleasure to use in several ways: great HTML rendering (paragraph breaks also work out of the box), flawless unicode recognition, a nice and tactful way to display images if I want to, and a great barebones UI. But is t
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Experiences with w3m, a console-based web browser (2018)(vitalyparnas.com)
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by marttt 5y ago
I just started "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" [1] by Graeber and David Wengrow. I'm only through a few dozen pages, but it's definitely a compelling read in terms of how it's written. Graeber&#x
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by marttt 5y ago
Both probably, but it's much less of a problem with books (I do remember eye strain after reading for 3-4 hours in a row, but I suppose this is normal). I have an e-reader, which feels great. And I do wait for e-ink displays with consu
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by marttt 5y ago
> Now we (as a population) expect to give entertainment and give advice about our lifestyle, like we do with smartwatches or fitness devices. I always think about Lindy effect [1] in this context: the life expectancy of a technology, ide
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by marttt 5y ago
How about Tiny Core Linux [0, 1]? On a typical install it boots to RAM, thus runs really fast, making it perfect for low-end/ancient hardware. One of the main flavors is a 16 MB FLTK/FLWM desktop -- Dillo [2] for web browsing, etc
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by marttt 5y ago
I've had eyesight issues since early childhood (strabismus, ocular dominance). This seriously hindered my efforts in basketball during middle school and also later on -- but I loved books and was good in writing and thus couldn't
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by marttt 5y ago
UbuWeb has also collected interviews and other audio gems about/featuring McLuhan, including two tracks from the late 1960s Columbia Records' LP "The Medium is the Massage": https://www.ubu.com/sound&#x2F
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The Story of the IBM Model M4 Family(sharktastica.co.uk)
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Pleasing proportions borrowed from nature (2004) [pdf](finewoodworking.com)
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by marttt 5y ago
He has also written comprehensive desktop guides for Plan 9 [1], Slackware [2] and Unix console [3], this time in HTML. He has clearly put a lot of thought into getting familiar with these systems. In terms of aesthetics/visual humor,
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Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf](pspodcasting.net)
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by marttt 5y ago
Great discussion. I stumbled upon a comprehensive tutorial from 2014 just yesterday: "Learn regex in about 55 minutes": https://qntm.org/re_en Discussed on HN as well (78 comments): https://news.ycombin
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Larry Wall: Wherefore Art, Thou? (1997)(linuxjournal.com)
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Pta – the plain text accounting program (2020)(mandoc.bsd.lv)
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Additional great read: the author (long-time OpenBSD developer Ingo Schwarze) explaining his motivations and discusses other plain-text accounting systems, including Ledger: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20
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Richard A. Bartle: Players Who Suit MUDs (1996)(mud.co.uk)
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by marttt 5y ago
Great read, thanks! It also received 100+ comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897326
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by marttt 5y ago
> He was later tracked by a journalist who revealed quite a bit of additional personal info about him and his family, in a disparaging article (he "wasn’t a great coder"). She ended up finding his current employer and one of hi
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by marttt 5y ago
I've been a fan of k2pdfopt [1] for years. Single binary, command line + optional gui. Lets you slice and optimize pdfs in any imaginable way, e.g. for e-readers' screens. I think it also does what pdfsandwich does, if I understan
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by marttt 5y ago
I'm not a teacher, but a parent of young children. Echoing an educational scientist from my country: the key point for effective teaching is to realize how or what does the student or child understand right now . This should be the ba
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by marttt 5y ago
No keyboards, but -- Astrid Lindgren, the legendary Swedish children's writer, wrote her manuscripts using the Melin shorthand system. One can browse a bunch of her notebooks online, side by side with a Swedish transcription [1, 2]. Qu
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by marttt 5y ago
This topic has been occasionally raised in the Plover stenography Google group [1], I highly recommend browsing the threads there. I used to read this group, and I think there has been several proposals for e.g. orthographic steno systems.
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by marttt 5y ago
> Dumb question here, but is it as simple as starting your question with "how" or "what" rather than "does"? The former invite explanation and the later looks for a yes/no. Yes, this is the 101 of basic
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by marttt 5y ago
Also worth noting is Wily, a Unix clone of Acme [1]. A stalled project, occasionally crashing, but with a great overall feel. Acme without the Plan 9 or Inferno battery pack. 1: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/
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by marttt 5y ago
Build a floor desk: https://youmemindbody.com/aches-pains/re-design-your-work-st...

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