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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Thanks for your reply. One comment, though: > Ask them what they want, do what the want, cash the check. That person is very much not tech-savvy, and I consider my role to help them find out what they need (not "want"). (Al
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Understandable, though they don't use gmail, and I'm not sure about the quality of the spam filters of their provider.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
While I personally detest the PI vacuum machine that Google has become, this is actually quite a reasonable idea I might use in this context. Thanks!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Interesting. I can see two (perhaps a bit unorthodox) uses for this. 1. As an Emacs-lite on some server I have access to, but don't want to install full Emacs on for some reasons. Currently I use Zile for that. And yes, I know about
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Ask HN: How to obfuscate an email on a website in 2024?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Do you have any templates? Happy Ledger user here, but I'd be curious to learn how people do double-entry accounting in Excel.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
May I recommend my ebook I linked to in another comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39494344 )? You don't need a lot of commands to use Ledger successfully. 99% of the time, I only use one (`ledger bal`)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Shameless plug – last year I published a short ebook teaching the principles of personal accounting using Ledger: https://leanpub.com/personal-accounting-in-ledger . In fact, I've been using Ledger for about 10 years n
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Good point, but if you start treating indentation as part of the syntax, we all know where it would lead...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Does "Git" count? ;-) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming )
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Here's an interesting example: in the Whoniverse there is this concept of a "deadlock seal", which is kind of a lock which is almost impossible to break (it is (in)famously resistant even to sonic devices, which is a big deal
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> For good reasons I wouldn't be so sure... > just with a lot of unforeseen consequences. Exactly, a classical case of Chesterton's fence. > The laws we're passing are a consequence of belief systems too. Some of the
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Where would you put Lua on this spectrum? Also, I do not find Lisp unreadable - you train your brain to ignore the parens and look at the indentation instead pretty quickly. And you can always tell Emacs to gray out the parens if you reall
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
It is. A piece of trivia: AFAIR, you say SUM 2 3 in Logo to add two numbers, but [SUM 2 3 4] to add more. (Though I learned Logo more than three decades ago, so I might be mistaken.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Don't tempt them... ;-) Also, how do coins impact the environment? They're metal, not plastic!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
It's very common in my country, and I think it's actually a very good idea. What's wrong with putting coins in the carts/trolleys?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
You're right, but this is a different problem. Often people like doing certain things, but have trouble getting to them. I love boardgames, and I'd love to introduce my kids to some of my favorite games, but I need to set up the
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
An alternative explanation would be that this is caused by aliens who can wipe out your memories of them the moment you stop seeing them. ...am I the only one with tally marks on my hands? (SCNR.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
It's the second time in my life that I encounter the word "doolally", and I love it.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, obviously the moon is a giant egg and it is starting to hatch. The only question is, why now? It was supposed to happen in 2049...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I looked for something similar and ended up coding my own. It was a lot of fun and even did not took too much time. Of course, I had one advantage – being an Emacs user I could leverage Emacs & Org mode. And one nice thing about my o
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
One reason you might want not to use integers for stuff like user ids is that you may leak the information about the magnitude of your userbase.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Also, EINE = EINE Is Not Emacs, and its successor ZWEI = ZWEI Was Eine Initially.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Nice try, too. How would you handle Spanish quotation marks at the beginning of the sentence, then? And what about French quotes which are separated from their contents by a thin space? All of that is possible, of course, with large tabl
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
It would be quite sad. Besides, it is not an arbitrary convention, it serves a purpose.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Nice try, but the problem with this is that typography is _really_ complex. For example, there is a rule in English typography (I'm not sure if it's often used today though) that when you have a quotation spanning several paragra
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> My minority is too small I can't decide whether this is hilarious, depressing, or both at the same time. (BTW, another Pole here, who can't really comprehend the American obsession with race/skin color. I'd unders
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
How do you handle non-paired ones then?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
The article explains why all the rest is, maybe not needed, but good to have.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Good point. Fun fact: many years ago, when I studied banking, I had a class on these "deposit insurance systems". After one of the lectures I came up to the lecturer and pointed out a weak point in the system, where a very small

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