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by ropeladder 4y ago
Entity resolution/record linkage/deduplication is an oddly specialized domain of knowledge given that it's such a common problem. I put together a page of resources a while back if anyone is interested: https://git
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by ropeladder 4y ago
I don't like efficiency as a concept -- it hides too much. As a ratio of output over input, it can be used to say all kinds of things (we pay our employees less, I spent less time with my family, etc) behind a veneer of merit or techno
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by ropeladder 5y ago
This is a great idea! It's very tech centric, though (at least judging from your directory).
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by ropeladder 5y ago
This is really cool. I built https://thicket.io a while ago, which had related goals but which System really puts to shame. Thicket took a simpler approach to graphing knowledge, so it's fascinating to see how you've s
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by ropeladder 5y ago
As somebody who recently spent two weekends trying to figure out a self hosted photo solution that actually for my needs and was easy to install, this looks fantastic. (I ended up using PhotoView, which works fine, but this looks like it mi
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Now that I think about it it may have been that there was info in foobar's media library database that wasn't supported, not necessarily id3 tags. Play count and last played date are some I'm partial to that I couldn't g
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Same. Deadbeef comes close but it doesn't support all my foobar2000 metadata.
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by ropeladder 5y ago
I've been using Dendron since it last showed up here and it's worked pretty well for a large writing project. My main complaint is more of a VS Code issue -- I can't figure out how to soft-wrap lines in a way that allows for
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by ropeladder 5y ago
This is basically what I'm doing except I hate plain text editing on a phone touchscreen, so I switched to .org for notes and use orgzly on my phone (which provides a much nicer interface for navigation around files and for quick data
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by ropeladder 5y ago
The "there is no cliff" fallacy?
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Agreed. This looks like something I will be coming back to. Rules of thumb, recommendations, and reasons for their recommendations -- I'm in heaven. Too few resources hit the sweet spot between introduction and arcana.
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by ropeladder 5y ago
I've started having problems with trigger finger (can't bend fingers in to make a fist) in both my right and left hands. Has anyone fixed this sort of problem with a new keyboard/mouse? I always hear about ergonomics in relat
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by ropeladder 5y ago
And '-o', for 'OR'.
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by ropeladder 5y ago
F12 is your friend here. (It brings up the old file save as menu in most office software, wish it was more standard, actually)
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Not the OP but I'm happy to defend WYSIWIG editors. Things like font size and bold and italics exist for a reason. Markdown tables are extremely clunky. Inline images (or pretty equations) are important for many types of writing. Bulle
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Very cool! While the colors serve an obvious purpose, I initially viewed the page in grayscale and I think the maps are even more beautiful that way.
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by ropeladder 5y ago
You have built up a terrifying straw man based on a video you admit you didn't even watch. You're right that we should put less emotional stake in our code--the video actually lays some healthy ways to do this. More generally, it&
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by ropeladder 5y ago
If sequential and random reads are mostly the same on SSDs, does that make the distinction between columnar and row-based databases/data storage less important?
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by ropeladder 5y ago
Looks really nice. I built a similar site a few years back with an economics/policy/debate focus ( https://thicket.io ) but gave up/burned out after not getting any users and struggling to manage the data backend.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
On my new phone (Android 10) foobar2000 can't play tracks without stuttering. Haven't found a great replacement yet, but... that's one reason not to use it.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
It's not about being flashy. Those Windows commands are hidden precisely because they are for power users and Microsoft presumably thinks that average users don't want or need them. Which is a whole different can of worms.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
De-DRM for Kobo works great. It's basically the same as Kindle, there is just another plugin or two to install. Books are usually a bit more expensive. However, it looks like Walmart actually owns Rakuten now, so it's not like you
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Ask HN: How well is your vaccine signup system working?
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by ropeladder 6y ago
"Who cares if someone roofies your drink? Your goal was to hook up with somebody anyway." /s You are drastically oversimplifying the situation here. The goal of a protest is not to be seen, or to be harassed by police. The go
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Calls for nuance are missing the point. Nuance is exactly what we need less of, nuance is the trees that hide the forest. Does Yellen have some professional ethics that guard against her acting in a way that overly favors businesses that ha
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Newer versions of libreoffice have been almost unusably buggy for me: constant crashes, and track changes + undo has all kinds of weird quirks and sometimes makes entire paragraphs disappear. I would not recommend it in a business context e
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by ropeladder 6y ago
This looks great. I was looking for something similar to get the word out about a private event recently and the options for non-public minimalist website hosting is surprisingly limited. (I ended up just doing a password-protected simple n
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Thanks for posting this! I had read an article by him a while ago and found it pretty persuasive (or rather that it supported prior intuitions), but couldn't find it again when I wanted to come back to it.
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Does anyone have any good recommendations for screencasts of advanced Vim usage? I'm pretty comfortable with the basics (I'd say my level is "try to use macros sometimes and find them too clunky"), but in these days of r
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by ropeladder 6y ago
Can you give some examples of what you're able to do or what exactly you mean by composing in this context? I've used tmux a bit but just to split windows and restore sessions...

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