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901.
by nanna 6y ago
Where would you argue a war exists today that does not have its roots in the economic domination of one group over another, and is purely fought on religious grounds?
902.
by nanna 6y ago
Some people live their lives for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Some live their lives for the gods capitalism. I'd say the former is a lot less pernicious.
903.
by nanna 6y ago
The current state of the Whole Earth Catalog's online presence is a very sad state of affairs. http://www.wholeearth.com has been posting php errors for years, it has no support for ssl, it relies on Flash for core function
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Will UK universities need a bailout?(ifs.org.uk)
3 points by nanna 6y ago|0 comments
905.
by nanna 6y ago
Anyone able to suggest a free approach to pull up GPS coordinates based on an address search for an OSM/leaflet.js based app?
906.
by nanna 6y ago
In awe! You can also use the mouse to navigate around like on a gui map.
907.
by nanna 6y ago
The excellent Freedom of Movement blog is publishing great explainers on this. https://www.freemovement.org.uk/bno-visa-hong-kong-dominic-r... . tldr; It applies to Hong Kongers who applied for British National (Overseas) Ci
908.
Learn Eleventy from Scratch (Andy Bell)(piccalil.li)
1 points by nanna 6y ago|0 comments
909.
by nanna 6y ago
Whenever I go past the Oxford Circus store I think to myself, if only we had stores like this for Linux.
910.
by nanna 6y ago
Alphasmart HN thread from 2017 here, with comments by co-founder Ketan Kothari and Freewrite's founder too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15836866
911.
by nanna 6y ago
Requisite HN comment but also a genuine one too: Is there any chance any of these Freewrites, Alphasmarts or machines from Japan support, or could be hacked to support, emacs keybindings?
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Jugaad(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by nanna 6y ago|0 comments
913.
by nanna 6y ago
This kind of information should be in weather forecasts.
914.
by nanna 6y ago
This should be the URL of this HN post, not the one of the PNG that the OP linked.
915.
List of Basic Dialects(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nanna 6y ago|0 comments
916.
by nanna 6y ago
So long as there isn't a bureaucracy in place to get in the way. That's a limit of Free Software.
917.
by nanna 6y ago
Senior management are the ones making these calls about enforcing standardised systems, and they do not take advice from us pipsqueaks below. Right now everythings in emergency mode anyway so as far as they're concerned outsourcing eve
918.
by nanna 6y ago
The problem is that Microsoft are good at selling a product which just works out of the box and is just about sufficient, even if it's not tailored to your use-case. Plus there's so little transparency as to how much they're
919.
by nanna 6y ago
I teach at a world ranking university in the UK which has decided that in order to have a 'standardised student experience' teachers are prohibited from running their own FLOSS setup when there are proprietary contracts in place.
920.
by nanna 6y ago
I don't work in the tech field, I work in a large university, and so much of this advice rings true. The university truly is a corporation.
921.
by nanna 6y ago
This would be catastrophic. The fear of death has at least curtailed fighting.
922.
by nanna 6y ago
How far off are other countries - China, Russia, any others? - from these kinds of autonomous fighter drones?
923.
by nanna 6y ago
Anyone serous about philosophical concepts should have the incredible Dictionary of Untranslatables (2014) on their shelf. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691138701/di... It's an updated
924.
by nanna 6y ago
I think we need to be clear, there's two issues here. 1. Receiving html emails in emacs 2. Sending plain-text emails in emacs I personally do not find 1. to be a problem at all. If the html gets garbled in my automatic html2text conve
925.
by nanna 6y ago
> I saw a blog post about an mu4e plugin that would allow you to write your email in markdown, and it will htmlify it for you. Perhaps this? https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/g6ujzs/sending_richt
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Manifest Destiny – search Android app permissions and trackers(manifestdestiny.reveb.la)
1 points by nanna 6y ago|0 comments
927.
by nanna 6y ago
Thank you! Good pointers indeed.
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by nanna 6y ago
Yeah, I hear that. I still think segmenting by audiences - especially non-programmer audiences - would make it possible to really pitch it as an alternative to tools like, for academics and writers, Scrivener and Word. An audience-segmented
929.
by nanna 6y ago
> tending to a setup like this in Emacs can easily become a time-sink I've started to wonder if the Emacs community should put together versions that are ready for different kinds of users out of the box. Say, a version for scholars
930.
by nanna 6y ago
Out of interest, what's the status of Linux support for the touch bar these days?

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