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> Why did they take about:config from us? What do you mean? I'm running the latest firefox nightly from the play store and I can see the about:config...
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Yes! Just that regolith has all the sane defaults and i3bar and rofi bundled in, and serves as a good starting point if you haven't used i3 before.
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I switched to lenovo+linux+regolith for daily use a long time ago after my mid-2010 macbook pro started having problems. I love the productivity gain from using a tiling window manager now, and can't imagine using anything else. In ter
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This is the editor (Siddharth Varadarajan's) own tweet where he claims to have "met and verified" his sources and says it's ridiculous to think that they've been played: "Apart from Meta's 'fabricatio
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They didn't get played. From the editor's tweets while this unfolded (confirming multiple times that they had multiple sources), the obvious forging of emails from Meta and their so-called verifiers, they were deliberately attempt
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Just in case there's confusion, this isn't Wired (the tech blog). It's "the wire" and is a portal dealing mostly with Indian politics.
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There's a 14th century composition of, I think 40 verses or so in Sanskrit, that when read forwards relates events from the Ramayana and when read backwards, relates events from the Mahabharata. The musical notes to which it is set is
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> many restaurants refuse to accept cash due to combination of incentives from credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard and desire to create a frictionless experience for high-value customers This is puzzling... How does refusal to
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Looks very cool... But it doesn't seem to be getting/displaying any of the comments. Anything I press <enter> on always gives me 0 comments 0 points https://imgur.com/a/4PrpwTc I installed using brew
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If you already have a pi-hole and you want it to be your DNS, you can configure the tailscale ip address of the pi-hole server (100.x.y.z) as the global nameserver in the DNS settings in tailscale, and it will route all your DNS queries to
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nb is very good and I've used it extensively for the last 2 years or so. I especially like that you can just throw it a url and it will create a bookmark as well as download a markdown version of the page (using pandoc to convert I t
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In the Mahabharata, the dog is seen as a personification of dharma (a term with a meaning that lies at the intersection of righteousness, duty, and truth). Yudhishtira, known for never straying from the dharmic path, refuses to leave a dog
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Sridhar Vembu, the founder, is famously responsible for training kids in rural India in software development and associated skills, hiring them post-training, and being responsible for long lasting careers of many youth who couldn't ot
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Thank you, once again! Really means a lot.
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Thank you very much! Link to the "alternate proof" is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IEe81c4UF10abSRpV0SUVKVbrgk... Will also have him email you the link, in case you don't check back here.
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Your experience might be different, but that in no way makes what I said misleading. I have personally seen how a newspaper will misreport or tactically omit a piece of information to advance a government or powerful group's viewpoint,
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Ask HN: Math and Theoretical CS Journals/Periodicals for High School Students?
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It always was that way. The only thing that's changed is that information that was tightly controlled by governments via a small but powerful set of mainstream media channels to advance the notion of an open society that played by a ti
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This is the theory. In practice, this is what happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195851
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Very cool! The rendering looks great! A wishlist: 1. Rendering of LaTeX equations 2. Vim keybindings (/ for search, ^F/^B for PgDn/PgUp, etc.) 3. Should work with vim markdown composer (by setting g:markdown_composer_browser
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I've tried Sideberry and TST, but tend to prefer Simple Tab Groups[0] to either of them. The advantage is that STG reduces the clutter of tabs on the top-pane and of course allows one to group them and move them about. Sure, Sideberry
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Not everyone will like it, but uMatrix comes with more fine-grained control, and the defaults are set to block all third-party and cross-site loads, including static content hosted on other domains. So a lot of sites will break by default,
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Some reasons to continue using firefox: 1. Containers! This is one of the biggest reasons to stick with Firefox. Along with the multi-account containers extension, you can restrict opening of specific domains to specific containers. Gives a
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I've found this to be THE best book for learning awk and regular expressions. Its astounding how clear and structured the material is and how easy it is to retain in your head when presented that way.
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In India, the duopoly is already broken by UPI (Universal Payments Interface). UPI provides zero-cost transfers and mobile payments between linked bank accounts and every little streetcorner store and sidewalk vendor accepts UPI payments. A
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Ok, how does one use this? I type something and press <enter> and nothing happens. The "help" page is particularly unhelpful - it says "Activate search engines by clicking on them or using their shortcuts (indicated by
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Completely agree. This is what I do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32506923
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The reason I don't use bookmarks in browsers is that I can't stash a copy of the page for offline use and I need to properly categorize it for it to be usable later. The best way I've found is to use the MarkDownload[1] exten
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Sorry for not responding earlier, but it'll take a lot more than a comment to elucidate this in any amount of detail. Plus this needs lots and lots of references from a vast many sources to put together. Will put it together in a post
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You should read the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute's (BORI) Critical Edition of the Mahabharata - which is the definitive edition, rather than relying on unsubstantiated translations. When Kripacharya asks for Karna's roya

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