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by marttt 3y ago
+1, former and trained journalist here. I would say all the best journalists I know in person (many of them among the very best ones in my country) have almost exclusively had journalism as their primary choice of career. What separates top
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by marttt 3y ago
"The Cukoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage" [1] by Clifford Stoll. The author's first-person account on tracking down a computer hacker as a sysadmin. This 1989 book was definitely influentia
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by marttt 3y ago
Ha, reminds me of Uno Loop, a late legendary bossa nova artist in Estonia. Really good guitar player, too. (Many non-natives have asked this, so: yes, this is a real name. Uno Loop. Not bad luck for a musician, I guess.) A lovely bossa viny
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by marttt 3y ago
We must also not forget the most relevant add-on for the Windows 95 UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_screen_of_death#/media/Fi... BTW, it is quite enjoyable how the linked Wikipedia article illustrates
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by marttt 3y ago
+1, came here to ask this same question. Interestingly, even though I started with DOS and Windows 3.1, I have no nostalgia whatsoever for the latter. I often very much miss the simplicity of DOS and still enjoy the aesthetics of DOS progra
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by marttt 3y ago
A single-executable perl5 (like awk, but with advanced string manipulation + sigils + timtowdy madness) would be great.
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The Cognitive Style of Unix (2011)(blog.vivekhaldar.com)
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by marttt 3y ago
+1. Happy wife, happy life. Prior to looking into books, inspect the eyes of your spouse.
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by marttt 3y ago
"Child is father to the man," as William Wordsworth put it. Congratulations to all three (+? :) of you! I'm in the EU, and in my country, this book by Anna Wahlgren gets sometimes suggested: https://www.amazon.com&
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by marttt 3y ago
I like how Awk is just a single executable. A single-executable Perl that includes only the core library would be great. There is Microperl [0, 1], but no idea how well it compiles with more up-to-date Perl versions. 0: https://g
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by marttt 3y ago
I've been thinking that mastering the 40+ year old awk language for data manipulation would probably not be harder for a regular accountant than mastering Excel formulae. Being good with awk would possibly add a lot of flexibility to t
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by marttt 3y ago
In my (Tiny East European) country, all the main outlets have tried this. Eventually, one had to pay close to the price of a whole printed issue to read a single article online. By now, essentially all outlets have ditched this model, pushi
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by marttt 3y ago
Just curious: what kind of workflow results in having over 1000 tabs open? (Oldschool Unix hobbyist here, so I always feel like drowning when I'm nearing 20+ tabs. :)
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by marttt 3y ago
Yep. Our family still makes do with a WRT 54GS v5. A carefully configured DD-WRT installation (man, I did a ton of reading for that :) and memory expanded to 16 MB. Works fairly well, even for single-person Zoom calls and our son's g
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by marttt 3y ago
Excellent reference; I think it was Dunbar's number, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can main
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by marttt 3y ago
Largely agreed, +1. However, a loosely related example: I think I have benefited quite a bit from never ever having seen neither of my parents drink vodka (aside the traditional shot for the deceased at funerals). Because of this, it is eas
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2002 paper on Audacity: A Fast Data Structure for Disk-Based Audio Editing [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
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by marttt 3y ago
The comments for the parent article included an excellent longread on bike messenger culture in Boston: https://web.archive.org/web/20050314012405/http://www.bikesu... Also, that early 2000s internet was
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by marttt 3y ago
Well, yeah. Obviously, all of this is true. I asked them to ban my son's school email (which the classmate used) for X years. In that case he would need to first create a dummy email for gaming, which, I hope, he is not capable of at t
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by marttt 3y ago
A classmate made a (13+) Roblox account for our son (under 10yo) behind my back. I wanted to delete it, followed all the steps to contact the company via their support form, and was replied quickly and politely: "We do not have an acco
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by marttt 3y ago
Have you tested SBEMU? I wonder how well or hassle-free it works in reality. I'm interested in creating a SvarDOS [1] machine for some tasks, inclding some low-end audio processing, probably with some custom "program". 1: ht
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by marttt 3y ago
Maybe collaborate with Jason Scott? His textfiles.com and c2 wiki do seem philosophically interlinked in a way.
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by marttt 3y ago
See also: Soviet folklorist Vladimr Propp identified 7 typical characters and 31 basic structural elements in fairy tales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp#Narrative_struc... Another interesting classificat
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by marttt 3y ago
Ha, I wonder what's the societal tipping point for dumb phones to become the new normal? "In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group—or many group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely
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by marttt 3y ago
> In reality, it is about social pressure, not emergency use, all the other kids have phones, why can't I? Straightforward, caring, non-judgemental talk might work: you shouldn't have it because your brain is at a too early dev
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by marttt 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I browsed the java version last week, or maybe even just 2-3 days ago. Links to the JSON-formatted pages (thanks, fellow HNers!) don't seem to work either: https://c2.com/wiki/remodel/page
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by marttt 3y ago
"I warn you now, this is going to have unfortunate consequences, just as switching to living in suburbia and driving everywhere did." -- This is a really good comparison by pg. If anything, it will be a sneaky change in human beha
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Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book(mctb.org)
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by marttt 3y ago
> I do recall online discourse being a lot angrier and less civil (not merely "more critical", but a lot more personal attacks, hateful generalizations, caricatures, etc). Tangentially related: I wonder how Usenet groups or 199
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Bridging the Gap – The Reconciliation of Intelligence and Culture [pdf](t3x.org)
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