mbork_pl

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by mbork_pl 3y ago
This. I also like writing, but I love your description of technical writing as a (sort of) competition. Thanks!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
No longer active, but the archives of "The dice tower" gave me lots of joy back in the day (until they changed the format - around 2017, I guess - I liked the previous one better).
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
This is brilliant! I'm stealing it, and my only problem now is that I have no idea who to prank with this...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Mathematician/Magician Or mathemagician. ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
budget software ≠ accounting software
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Agreed, data entry in GnuCash (back when I used it, about 10 years ago probably) was a pleasure. Very streamlined experience. Nowadays I use ledger with Emacs, so it's hard to beat that, of course.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
You're 100% correct. My ledger git repo has 1300+ commits (about 0.8 per day on average).
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I do the same (ledger, not GnuCash). A few minutes each day. I used to outsource (part of) the work to my daughter when she was ~8yo (and paid her for that) to teach her that work is where you get money from.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I think any accounting software can (should?) support that. Ledger-cli certainly does. (I used GnuCash for several years and then moved to ledger.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Shameless plug: some time ago I wrote a booklet [0] about principles of accounting with examples in Ledger [1], aimed at personal/home finance (as opposed to corporate finance). [0] https://leanpub.com/personal-accoun
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> > "by the end of [2022], 79 Polish administrative units still declared themselves so-called 'LGBT-free zones'. This one is a widespread fake. As for the rest, I don't know, though I suspect similar. As for >
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Thanks. Just three quick comments. > The authorities continued to erode the independence of the judiciary. This is highly debatable, though I do not claim to know enough about this issue to be able to say a lot. > Violations of LGB
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Very, very, very interesting. Will take a look. Though part of me just wants to say "Nice, you've just reinvented Emacs Org-mode". Of course, Org-mode probably isn't for everyone. Good luck with this project!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> How on Earth is it relevant that I'm a Spaniard? He probably can't trust you because _he's known too many Spaniards_. (Sorry for being off-topic, but I really could resist making that reference to the greatest movie of
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Serendipity , for instance?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
A very nice list. I looked for vamoose , and was not disappointed. Then I looked for petrichor (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34147465 ) and suddenly I was... What it lacks is some context/flavor.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
And then someone publishes five good papers and does nothing* for the rest of their life. I mean, the idea looks nice, but there will always be people trying to game the system. But don't get me wrong – I still like your idea, I just t
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Is a spreadsheet even necessary on the go? Might be better to just have a calculator and store values in a text file? You might be right technically, but one of the features of a spreadsheet is that it stores formulae. (Like a prog
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
A personal preference is a personal preference, ofc, but what exactly are the actual benefits?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> My relatively new stance is that sometimes having an Emacs process that doesn't share the state is a feature, not a flaw. That is a fair point, though not really fitting my workflow. (Also, my Emacs needs ~20 seconds to start,
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Speed is not the only thing `emacsclient` addresses. When your $EDITOR is `emacsclient`, the newly spawned frame will share state (kill ring, buffer list etc.) with your Emacs server. This might be helpful e.g. when you (like me) are a he
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Sigh. What are "those lightsaber games that were super popular early in the app store's life"?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
What is it supposed to do?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I certainly didn't.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Interesting. I love LotR the books, but I dislike the movies a lot - maybe they are good as "standalone" films, but they change so much important stuff from the books that they were a very sore disappointment for me.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, the whole point is, they are so prevalent in pop culture that it's difficult to understand some things/references not knowing these works, at least superficially. It's very much like the list of compulsory books at sch
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, she doesn't, and I hope it stays that way until we watch TESB...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
This is a very good point. On the literature side, Harry Potter seems to have attained this critical mass, too. One of my daughter's school friends was shocked that she hasn't read it, and lent her the first book. She read it,
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
While I'm no big fan - mostly the nostalgia effect - I used to work with someone who never watched Star Wars . I found it hard to imagine. A few weeks ago I watched "A new hope" with my 13yo daughter, we both loved it. Of
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Last time I counted my kids, their number was definitely rational.

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