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by mbork_pl 3y ago
WHAT!? You can use M-x magit-log-buffer-file with an active selection and see only the changes to the selected portion? This is so obvious in hindsight and so cool... Thanks a million!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> org-mode tables are great True, though they tend not to be very fast when they grow. (I have a table with almost 2000 rows and editing it lags a bit.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I think I agree in general, but in this case he "idiom" (in fact, more of a metaphor, I guess) is actually Russian and just translated literally into English.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Nice, but nit: this is not what a "useful idiot" usually means.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Be nice and be kind. This reminded me of "Always try to be nice; never fail to be kind." Actually a very good advice (and not all advice from that, well, person is good). I mean: sometimes you can't/shouldn&#x27
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I am regularly surprised how bad the tooling is for SQL/databases. This. I'd really like to have a working SQL pretty printer/formatter. Psql is great , but lacks autocompletion in several places. That said, a big s
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I might be tempted to use Kagi (especially for my family), but the thing I'm afraid of is the quality of search in non-English (specifically Polish) internet. Anybody knows how does that work?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
A few weeks ago I learned about Hedy ( https://hedy.org/ ). Looks pretty interesting (despite the fact that I'm not a big Python fan). It is a programming language and a web-based environment which "grows with the
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I do use ChatGPT, and while it helped me with things like obscure issues with bash syntax, it hallucinated some CLI tools options often enough that I never trust it with anything important. (And I tried to ask it even fairly easy questions
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, Emacs has had a poor man's "Paint" for over two decades: ;;; artist.el --- draw ascii graphics with your mouse -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. It is not as
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
"Overmorrow", for example. Very rare, and the Polish equivalent is used pretty often.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
This is pretty impressive – it starts small, with a very simple way to create a very simple diagram, but the rabbit hole seems to go pretty deep. That said, whenever I need to create a diagram like this, I just go back to TikZ...
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An (almost) production-ready blog engine in <300 lines of Elisp(gitlab.com)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Hi fellow HNers, I wanted to start a blog. After reviewing the existing engines I decided to write my own, as I couldn't find an option satisfying all my requirements. The requirements/design goals are: - it must work in Emacs O
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> What a sexist comment. Indeed. The author seems to imply that men are so bad at understanding contextual clues that communication with them is virtually impossible, almost as if they were primitive machines and not full-fledged human
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Thanks!!! I saw the screenshot from that answer a few years ago on some blog and then tried to find it again, to no avail. Now I wrote down the URL! ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Or the Feynman one.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Cannot not think of this quote from C.S. Lewis' "That hideous strength": > “The cardinal difficulty,” said MacPhee, “in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I'll be starting a completely serious side project in a few days where I'm going to not minify anything (especially JS) so that user will be able to hit C-u and check for themselves nothing nefarious is going on privacy-wise. A
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment. Given that LOGO is a Lisp dialect, that sounds resonable.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Indeed, I'm a Pole and I found it hilarious. Though given that my country actually did disappear from maps for over a century because of joint neighbor aggression, this is a bit of black humor...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Maybe use a secret sharing scheme and give parts of the secret to a few people you trust?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
While (as a former math teacher, btw) I sympathize with you, let me point out that absolutely every teacher should "model how to be a functional human" (and in fact does, better or worse). This is true for every stage of educat
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> $8 a month is nothing to the majority of adults who would be in the "knowledge worker" category This is a very US-centric take and almost insulting for people living in certain other areas of the world. In my country (centra
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
https://mbork.pl One post per week for almost 9 years now. (In July I'm going to change this to one post per two weeks since I'm starting another blog.) Mainly Emacs stuff with a bit of JS and PostgreSQL, and sometim
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> we don't use decimals in either Measuring body temperature with precision of 0.1°C is very common. In fact, I never saw an integer in this context.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
"It's an old code, but it checks out." :-P
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
As I said elsewhere – the manual gave the impression of a very complicated tool. (Also, I lack some things I had in SM back in the day, but that's not a big deal.)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I understand all that (as a long time SuperMemo user). What was intimidating in Anki was the manual. Perhaps if I had tried to use it first there would be no problem...
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Ah, I did not know that, sorry.

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