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by rolandog 5y ago
Ooh, this sounds quite nice. And it would also be compliant with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Wow. It never occurred to me to approach it that way, thanks!
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by rolandog 5y ago
Ahh, I see! Thanks for the clarification!
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by rolandog 5y ago
Agreed. Please unbundle everything!
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by rolandog 5y ago
> The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good. Can you elaborate? I have had quite a nice experience on the Linux ecosyste
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by rolandog 5y ago
Also, you can comment as a caffeinated user by prefixing with cudo.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I had a very similar experience, but I started with plain Emacs, and little by little adding what I needed. I was afraid of getting something really bloated, or not understanding how it all bundles together. I think it has paid off a bit,
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by rolandog 5y ago
It should have been stipulated that unsubscribing should be offered immediately after the option to subscribe.
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by rolandog 5y ago
$2,500 would be about the average monthly gross income of a person earning $15/hr. And in terms of expendable income, that's an order of magnitude away of what people can shell out.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I had to learn this by FUBAR'ing my system a long time ago, but my setup process for working with a python package from PyPI (i.e. not installable by or updated enough in OS's package manager) nowadays is: - sudo apt install pip3
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by rolandog 5y ago
Interesting; how would you isolate the system python from the user in Debian/Ubuntu. Do you have a link where I could learn more about this?
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by rolandog 5y ago
Isn't NestedText similar to using recfiles[0]? [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
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by rolandog 5y ago
IMHO, the ISO standards are a walled garden of agreements and—arguably—best practices, but I feel that they also serve as a barrier of entry for small and middle-sized businesses. I would guess that the Right To Repair movement would benefi
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by rolandog 5y ago
> Still waiting for bcachefs to get mainlined. Me too! As well as waiting for the successful launch of the James Webb Telescope...
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by rolandog 5y ago
As a 'new' user (less than a year, and still customizing my init file), I can say that I started using Emacs because of org-mode and or-roam. As a chemical engineer, my use case is that of being a researcher, programmer, and tinke
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by rolandog 5y ago
Hey, I thought it was wonderfully written. I'm definitely part of your target audience, as I fail to easily grok some algebraic concepts. Thanks for taking the time to write it, and for making the notation easy to write and understand
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by rolandog 5y ago
Not the person you replied to, but I hadn't thought about that particular difference and I take it for granted, so thanks for bringing it up!
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by rolandog 5y ago
Or... What if you had an AI randomly generate unique irises, you then print them on adhesive paper, and paste the cut-outs on the eyes of one of those robo-faces? Unlimited money!
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by rolandog 5y ago
This is really great! I hope to try it soon.
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by rolandog 5y ago
The way I see it is that journalism is an essential service, ans—in the American brand of capitalism—essential things have to get exploited for billionaires to 'win' at their 'game' (be it services, infrastructure, or pe
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by rolandog 5y ago
On a related note, hasn't this been solved by SQRL [0]? > SQRL (pronounced "squirrel") or Secure, Quick, Reliable Login (formerly Secure QR Login) is a draft open standard for secure website login and authentication. The s
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by rolandog 5y ago
I think that may be an over-simplification; the following paragraphs from the article clarify they are talking about admissions: > He and Stanford University professor Ivan Marinovic had argued in a Newsweek op-ed published in August tha
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by rolandog 5y ago
Beautifully said! I liked your observation about future enthusiasts poring over code; it reminded me about Thom Holwerda's "WTF's/m" [0] metric for good code and bad code. I try to keep that in mind when writing c
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by rolandog 5y ago
I use several extensions that allow you to explicitly approve certain features or give permission to run JavaScript. Out of the top of my head: NoScript, Trace [0], uBlock origin, Decentraleyes, Privacy badger. As well as using a pi-hole. [
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by rolandog 5y ago
As a chemical engineer, what I can comment (without having enough time to read the whole report) are the following short facts: We cannot continue our uncontrolled population growth without increasing the effect our average lifestyle has on
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by rolandog 5y ago
I wonder if what we're reading is in part glorified propaganda of what an exemplary duty towards your country you should have.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Definitely have had this happen to me as well during phone calls where the other party is on speakerphone and in a place with poor room acoustics.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I love that idea! It could be extended to different donator tiers: - buy me a fluid dram - buy me a pint - buy me a liter - buy me a quart - buy me a barrel - buy me a cubic yard - but me a cubic meter
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by rolandog 5y ago
I'm thinking it could be almost anyone, at this point. In my case, I'm sure I've been rejected from job applications because anyone inexpertly Googling will find there are many people that have the same name as I do, but have
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by rolandog 5y ago
One of the things I have found very useful is to configure Syncthing to have "sync only once" folders (it sends the file only one time). In order to do that, I: - Set a folders in a device to "send only". - Set a folder

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