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by marttt 4y ago
Link didn't open; archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221212005820/https://www.rbth.... Fun fact: Skype creators Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu also started as game devs
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Ken Isaacs wanted to retool the way we live (2020)(metropolismag.com)
9 points by marttt 4y ago|0 comments
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Former journalist here. DDG Lite is my browser start page. In reality, though, "!g keyword" or even "!g keyword site:somesite.com" is still the most common query. Old habits die hard. Strangely, though, I have no problem
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Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)(opendemocracy.net)
96 points by marttt 4y ago|27 comments
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FWIW, The Kalevala and Kalevipoeg, the national epic of Estonia, are linked in many ways (not surprising since we are neighboring countries, and the languages are extremely similar). For example, Kalevipoeg swims to Finland over the gulf (5
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by marttt 4y ago
Maybe also add Douglas Adams to that list. "The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.&quot
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Agreed. Also, you don't probably need highest-end tools (e.g. most expensive chisels) as a family handyman. I've come to conclude that once you're good with sharpening, even lower-end tools do the job just fine on most "
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I'm frugal by nature, and from Eastern Europe. How comfortable a life can one afford with $60k/yr or $30k/yr in the US? With this level of income, would you actually find any essential things or services lacking in life? In o
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by marttt 4y ago
Here's a recent talk by Kohei Saito on "ecosocialism" (2021, 26 min): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GVeAfW5opkk
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The Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan(theguardian.com)
22 points by marttt 4y ago|5 comments
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by marttt 4y ago
My Dell Mini 9 netbook from circa 2009 (bought used for peanuts a few years ago) is still wonderful for console-mode Linux. Tiny, fanless, good battery, sturdy and very well thought out construction-wise (effortless disassembly, iirc). I th
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by marttt 4y ago
OP here - yes, this is it, thanks for the correction. I'm quite sure I tested the URL right after posting, so initially it did work.
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The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism (2021)(tandfonline.com)
12 points by marttt 4y ago|6 comments
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+1, I was thinking the same thing, even though I am definitely and eagerly going to read the research paper on McCarthy's rediscovered interviews. There was a beauty in his reluctance to give interviews; I admit having spent a lot of
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by marttt 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Link to the paper mentioned in the NYT story, "Cormac McCarthy’s Interviews in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1968–1980" (The Cormac McCarthy Journal (2022) 20 (2): 108–135; free access): https://schol
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by marttt 4y ago
I've been using Ali G. Rudi's pdftxt with my own shell wrappers. From the homepage: "uses mupdf to extract text from pdf files; prefixes each line with its page number for searching." Usually I 1) pdftxt a file and 2) ba
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".. like many UK media outlets in the past few years, there seems to be a push to "globalize" the product .. also in reducing the cynicism and irreverence that used to make UK media worth reading even for people who weren&#x2
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> Of the players in the NBA list, only Karl Malone was playing at a high level Looking at the stats, so was John Stockton. His assists per game did drop over time, but overall stability between 1988-2003 is remarkable IMO. Essentially al
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Several outstanding NBA players have competed well into their 40s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_and_youngest_Na... Remarkably, this doesn't appear to be a "career bonus" solely for (the l
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by marttt 4y ago
Going the opposite direction, sort-of: Low-Tech Magazine's Printed Website: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/03/printed-website.html "The books can be read when the solar powered website is down due
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by marttt 4y ago
This is a really useful tip, many thanks. It has probably largely been a personal comfort zone, but I haven't dug much deeper than site: or ext: operators in recent years. A lazy habit. Also, strangely, I have always had doubt as t
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I have started to consider Google's site: operator as the only tool that doesn't noticeably "game" the results. What's the reality, though? Have the results for site: searches actually also declined in quality d
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by marttt 4y ago
Same here. For more niche stuff, <product name> + "site:news.ycombinator.com" is standard practice. Or Algolia's HN search. Another one is <product name> + "forum" or <product name> + <some tru
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I am using a Dell Mini 9 netbook daily for various reasons. Interestingly, its (cramped) keyboard causes no noticeable strain in my hands -- whereas I got carpal tunnel syndrome from heavy trackpoint usage on a beloved Thinkpad T42. When us
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by marttt 4y ago
I remembered that post of yours. Thanks for this.
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SPITBOL by/for Classicists: Accessing and Analyzing Classical Texts (1995)(hsu-hh.de)
2 points by marttt 4y ago|0 comments
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OP here. An early homepage for the (hopefully not dying) Dillo web browser provided a link to your essay (as "a MUST"): https://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~livio/dillo/new-home/Links.htm... Dillo, too, st
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The Decommoditization of Protocols (1998)(levien.com)
92 points by marttt 4y ago|11 comments
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"The idea is that very small humans interpret sufficiently complicated (in the information theoretic sense) music as a language." That was my hypothesis as well. I often played "field recordings" (captures of real-life s
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Re: domains -- good point. I found some screenshots of Dillo 0.6 -- interesting to see how little the GUI has changed over time, since 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020611213502/http://dillo.cips...

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