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by marttt 6y ago
It was a fascinating find for me as well. Great example of modular design.
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by marttt 6y ago
I used a IPS-screened Thinkpad T42 (1.5 GB RAM, compact flash card in place of HDD) + RAM-booted Tiny Core Linux + Non DAW for producing radio shows for my country's public broadcasting. The T42's sound card didn't work, so a
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by marttt 6y ago
+1, I learned English by playing Leisure Suit Larry I-III [1]. Text adventures were really useful in this regard because you had to type in more or less correct sentences. Also, at the core they were built around dialogues, that is, spoken
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“Autoprogettazione” by Enzo Mari (1974)(socks-studio.com)
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by marttt 6y ago
I optimize PDFs for my e-reader with k2pdfopt [1]. Fascinating piece of cross-platform software with thousands of command line switches. :) Another solution that I used to use is cropping them with mutool [2], a helper for the MuPDF reader&
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by marttt 6y ago
Just for the sake of it -- a great discussion about ed from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4120513 And a cheat sheet linked there: https://catonmat.net/ftp/ed.text.editor.cheat.sheet.pdf
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by marttt 6y ago
Very interesting, I was not aware of this. I see what he/she meant, but I would add "sam without the mouse is not sam, but it is still superior to ed in many ways". :) A link to that discussion would be great (if you manage t
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by marttt 6y ago
Yes, I read it and liked it. The "joking" eventually gets tiresome, though. Still a helpful book if one wants to grasp the basics of ed in 2020, though.
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by marttt 6y ago
Indeed, the Plan9 ecosystem itself (including its Linux port, plan9port) is heavily built around GUI and a mouse. Sam alone, however, can be compiled for command line only, without X11 support under Linux. This has been done in the 9base pa
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by marttt 6y ago
Sam also has a command line only mode, invoked with the '-d' switch ('sam -d filename'). This is just like 'ed', no graphics layer or mouse needed. But the command language is both simpler and more powerful IMO
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by marttt 6y ago
Plan9's sam (sam -d for command line use) is a great improvement over ed, by the way. Homepage: http://sam.cat-v.org/ Paper by Rob Pike: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam
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by marttt 6y ago
I've been worried about this as well. A lenghty Harvard blog post from 2018 indicates that a 8-hour 7am-3pm feeding period gave better health-related results than an 12-hour 7am-7pm feeding period. In other words, 'timing is key&#
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How did people use ed?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
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by marttt 6y ago
I like Unplugged Woodworking. I think he is also from the British isles. Found him when I was googling for Roman workbenches; he built one. YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcO75TzblV9-_WqgXX1mNxg/vid... Blog:
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by marttt 6y ago
"... most importantly, you don't have to set up dust collection etc ..." Also, you can work in complete silence.
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by marttt 6y ago
+1, I'm in the same camp. Check out a Hungarian woodworker building a chest in 1955: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V0gQ9M45G8 I wonder how many tools an average contemporary hobbyist/industry worker would need
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by marttt 6y ago
This is anecdotal, but I recall reading somewhere (maybe in a foreword) that e.g. Luhmann's "Social Systems" (1984; English translation 1985) was composed this way in purpose. The reader was supposed to be able to start the b
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Pablo Servigne “A future without oil” (English subtitles)(youtube.com)
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Jason Rohrer on “Should I pursue a career in game making?”(old.reddit.com)
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by marttt 6y ago
Interesting question. I did some research, but couldn't figure this out. I did find a reddit thread where org's performance with larger files is discussed: https://old.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/e
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by marttt 6y ago
Very interesting. I suppose when you use this every day, you actually won't get "lost" within it. Also, this kind of links to the One Big Text File idea (discussed here and there quite often in around 2005-2006, see e.g. htt
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by marttt 6y ago
This kind of links to Alan Kay's insights on remembering content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809285 Same thread, on not taking notes, but capturing ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by marttt 6y ago
Great list. I would like to add UbuWeb, a massive collection of hard-to-find avant garde art, movies and texts. Curated by hand by Kenneth Goldsmith. Online since circa 1996 (and I think he has also more or less kept the original layout).
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Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
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Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen(raypeat.com)
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Christopher Alexander: The Search for Beauty [pdf](dreamsongs.com)
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No Fly Climate Sci(noflyclimatesci.org)
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Plan9's Acme as an Interactive Translation Aid Environment (2008) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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by marttt 7y ago
"The Crisis of the Modern World" by René Guénon (1927), French mathematician and metaphysicist. Quoting Wikipedia, this book describes the "intellectual divide" between the East and West, and the peculiar nature, accordi
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by marttt 7y ago
More on the Canon Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErqdRE5zpQ http://www.canoncat.net/ There are also a few previous HN discussions on this machine. EDIT: I just have to post this lovely scene from the

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