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by marttt 2y ago
FWIW, I'm a single-person company with a tiny turnover and only a handful of expense categories. I've used ledger-cli for many years, but at one point, I started to migrate my data to pta [1]. The reason was that in my country (Eu
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by marttt 2y ago
> Bookkeeping using plain text files sounds both interesting and challenging. It has quite a bit of a following; I personally would never switch back to some more "complete" application. I believe all the most popular implement
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by marttt 2y ago
These two older HN comments might relate to your lines of thinking. I found both of these very insightful when I got stuck with trying out all sorts of rigid systems, outliners, zettelkasten etc: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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QBasic is actually still a great first language for children, particularly non-native English speakers. In this case, the syntax is really easy to grasp, simple UPPERCASE commands with lowercase arguments. No need to wrestle with getting cl
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by marttt 2y ago
Another interesting one is LowRes NX, a contemporary project that uses BASIC: https://lowresnx.inutilis.com/
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by marttt 2y ago
Estonians as "forest people" -- Estonian researchers tracing the roots of this myth here: https://keeljakirjandus.ee/en/archives/26316 A full-length article by the same scholars: https://www.f
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by marttt 2y ago
Fully agreed. I have accidentally drifted into that kind of SOFA-mode, having been a highly organized, checklist-manifesting person beforehand. Currently, my personal pursuits are a considerable mess, and guess what - absolutely nothing abo
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Constrained Design Processes: Steps Towards Convivial Computing (1988) [pdf](l3d.colorado.edu)
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by marttt 2y ago
Soulseek was a goldmine for those interested in rare/unofficial recordings (including from rehearsals, smaller gigs, etc). I'm from a Small Country, so our alternative music scene has all kinds of surprising links between people.
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by marttt 2y ago
+1, this entire website is a fascinating find. Interestingly, in terms of formatting, all the long-form texts on the site are centered (as opposed to left align). I wonder what's the logic behind this decision (surprisingly, it is not
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by marttt 2y ago
I know your website by heart, so it is low-tech-bookmarked for life :), and I check in fairly often. Your work and general views are very inspiring.
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by marttt 2y ago
Also remembered by youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlwUFA5Sric
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by marttt 2y ago
Born in 1966, retired in 2009, at age 42. Not that uncommon for centers even at the NBA level, but impressive nonetheless. When I was a child in Former Soviet Union, mimicking his iconic finger gesture was a beloved joke on the court -- for
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by marttt 2y ago
Ever since early adolescence, I've had interest in mind-body relations/balance -- as in, how physical actions are "mental" (=thinking), and how mental actions are "physical" (=doing). So these references are re
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by marttt 2y ago
Thank you very much for such a thorough reply. I highly appreciate the book references also.
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by marttt 2y ago
"I self-taught myself Martial Arts (JKD, Karate, Taijiquan) from books when i was young." This is very interesting and impressive. How common would you think a complete self-study of martial arts actually is? I've always thou
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by marttt 2y ago
Are there any alternative Windows tiling WMs that would hide the title bars altogether? More than a decade ago, there was a dwm fork for Windows [1] which did this, but no idea how well it works on W10/W11. 1: https://www.br
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by marttt 2y ago
I think this has to do with how a child's parents inform them about the addictive nature. I've been telling this to our children early on ("games = mostly engineered for addiction, be careful"), and the youngest (11yo so
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by marttt 2y ago
A deep interview with Arvo Pärt's wife Nora (for Estonian Televison, 40 minutes, with English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssKYgi-aHQ Oh, and a documentary, "24 Preludes for a Fugue" by Dorian
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by marttt 2y ago
Read phpBB-based forums. Many of these 1) are still very active and lively, and 2) include a lot of users who grew up in the 90s/00s internet culture. I like how the phpBB UI encouraged free-form writing/thinking and discussions,
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by marttt 2y ago
OP here. The author of this guide seems to be using XP in 2024 (Perlmonks is how I stumbled upon his setup in the first place): https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl/%5C%22/index.htm%5C%22?no... "I have been usi
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by marttt 2y ago
Yeah. Great timing for this HN submission, as I've just been doing a fair bit of nostalgia reading on the Windows 2000 UI. Apparently, some nice folks have extended the Win2k kernel to make it usable in 2024 (as I understand, this shou
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How to Make Windows XP Safe (and Fast) (2020)(wzsn.net)
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by marttt 2y ago
"Suppose you entered a region that was labeled: "In the next 10km, you will see managed forestry"" Really like this idea. In reality, though, the Estonian state forest management council seems to put more PR-efforts in s
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by marttt 2y ago
Yep, no grids or fences in Estonia, at least not in typical state-managed forests. These just get replanted in furrows or on "turfs" (not sure about the correct English term). Newly planted seedlings can appear really tiny at firs
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by marttt 2y ago
Thanks for the screencast. Another +1 for bringing it back to life!
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FWIW, there is a separate category for the derivates in the TextEditors Wiki: https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WordStarFamily
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by marttt 2y ago
What's so fascinating about projects like Aporee is the peculiar feeling one gets while listening to several of those field recordings in a row: here is a captured moment of reality that we will never get back. It's a moment of re
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by marttt 2y ago
A similar project is radio aporee, a huge corpus of field recordings from all over the world (see the "maps" section for searching etc): https://aporee.org/
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by marttt 2y ago
"Most people just aren't interested in interacting with the other people around them." Very good point, thanks for this. Might indeed be first and foremost simply a personality trait (they would have been "introverts&quo

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