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by rvieira 5y ago
That is true. I use emacs-mac with spacemacs which works pretty well out of the box. What I try to do, to not go into the "hacking Emacs" rabbit hole, is to really avoid tweaking it unless something is really interfering with my w
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by rvieira 5y ago
Obsidian is great. I'm a paying supporter (catalyst and sync). Weirdly I started playing with Emacs + org-mode recently (never been an Emacs user before!) and I'm seriously considering making it my exclusive "second brain&quo
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by rvieira 5y ago
I completely disagree with 2). I think surrender should be completely removed and the game should be played until the end, regardless of team balance. It it almost impossible for me to find a game where the surrender request spam doesn&#x27
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by rvieira 5y ago
I recommend reading "The Preserving Machine", by PKD :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preserving_Machine_(short_...
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by rvieira 5y ago
I find materials science fascinating. Is there any recommendation of a blog on this topic for laypeople?
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by rvieira 5y ago
Some parts of Portugal are hot, others are temperate (just like Spain). Siesta is mostly a cultural thing and Portugal doesn't have it.
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by rvieira 5y ago
I really do not relate at all with this article. There is no doubt that some people will see the opportunity to cash in or become "celebrities" through their hobbies. But I think there's an healthy number of people that still
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by rvieira 5y ago
I use a few plugins to manage tasks: - "Calendar" to organise daily notes (my "inbox") - "Tasks" and "Rollover Daily Todos" - "Checklist" for a unified todo view "Day Planner" seem
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by rvieira 5y ago
You might want to check LogSeq [0] for an Obsidian/Dynalist hybrid :) (Not affiliated, just a huge fan) [0] - https://logseq.com/
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by rvieira 5y ago
I have both on iOS and I have to say I much prefer Obsidian. Although Joplin is FOSS, Obisian uses plain text files rather than a database which is a massive plus to me, personally. Also, Obsidian UI is light-years ahead of Joplin's. I
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by rvieira 5y ago
> Peter Thiel has made the characteristically sweeping observation that AI is in some sense a left wing idea — centralized machines making top-down decisions — but crypto is a right wing idea — many distributed agents, humans and bots, m
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by rvieira 5y ago
It's not the best project for your requirements (seeing the big picture and thinking deeply), but my go-to project for general-purpose languages is to implement a Markdown static site generator with a simple plugin system. It allows me
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by rvieira 5y ago
I've used it for some simple, personal usage CLI tools and simple REST services. Works out-of-the-box and really well. From my experience some libraries are hard to compile (e.g. BeautifulSoup) but not impossible they need some tweakin
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by rvieira 5y ago
Pff. I can write cURL _in Python_ in 1 line. import pycurl
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by rvieira 5y ago
I don't know if it's a social display. Some people might simply feel safer by using, even if it's not necessary (yes, perhaps not "rational" but not just as a statement).
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by rvieira 5y ago
> languages are nonsensical, illogical, and the sooner you stop trying to make sense of it all, the faster you will advance Except Esperanto, surely ;)
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by rvieira 5y ago
Best colleague: How to maximise your work. Never waste work. Everything you do, from a simple note to random thought can be turned into a blog post, conference session idea, new feature or even a whole product. Always find a use for it.
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by rvieira 5y ago
> EU citizens arriving in UK being _locked up_ and expelled I think you missed the point. The problem is not only controlling entry depending on their migration status (fair enough), but the process itself, which is meant to humiliate an
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by rvieira 5y ago
Well, the web has some obvious advantages over mostly-paper libraries. I'm sure a certain library in Alexandria would have appreciated off-site backups :)
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Why do characters never say bye on the phone?(theguardian.com)
8 points by rvieira 5y ago|5 comments
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by rvieira 5y ago
> people younger than me that just blow me away with their smarts (sidenote: are you sure it's really "smarts"? Many people (younger and older) just have a combination of superficial knowledge with good salesperson skills.
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by rvieira 5y ago
The full distro live CD was really great. As a young teen, it also appealled to my wannabe "hacker" attitude ;) I loved this idea of carrying my own almost self-sufficient OS in a pocket that I could just boot on anyone's com
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by rvieira 5y ago
btw, it looks really nice. Didn't mean it as a negative criticism.
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by rvieira 5y ago
Disappointed it doesn't take the more traditional naming "/r/ShitHackerNewsSays".
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by rvieira 5y ago
(disclaimer: I'm not a JS dev, so I'm not aware of other nuances) Wouldn't Deno be better suited for a JS CLI application? Especially now with the `compile` option.
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Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989(youtube.com)
9 points by rvieira 5y ago|1 comments
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by rvieira 5y ago
Don't know if it's true, but I was told the same when in Egypt. But this one is defnitely true and the reason why you see so many bricked windows in London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
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by rvieira 5y ago
I'm all for greater accountability of big corp when it comes to climate change, but did I miss where they said "it's not us, we swear"? It will be much more difficult to replace fossil fuels, which have a direct upside (
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by rvieira 5y ago
Obsidian publish and sync ($144/year), IntelliJ pack (£119/year), Dropbox (~£80/year) Possibly another (£200/year) in misc stuff (sr.ht, newsblur, bitwarden, todoist, fastmail, etc) EDIT: I'm only including "wo
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by rvieira 5y ago
From my layperson POV, I always assumed body/brain size ratio was simply a way of normalising the volumes to make comparisons between different species, and not an absolute proxy metric for "intelligence".

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