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Via – Your keyboard's best friend(caniusevia.com)
4 points by smartmic 2y ago|2 comments
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The Open Steno Project(openstenoproject.org)
2 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
If you do not know your audience, think of yourself as the primary audience. There is no shame in writing as if the recipient is your (past or future) self. This has nothing to do with ego, but with clarity and self-reflection. After all, y
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Mastering Key Remapping on Linux: A Practical Guide with Xremap(paolomainardi.com)
1 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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Pdfcpu – A PDF Processor(pdfcpu.io)
86 points by smartmic 2y ago|9 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
Not necessarily, if you choose a friendly alternative. In Germany, we have https://www.oekobon.de/ , I guess there a similar offers for other markets. As always, there are downsides. In this case, the eco version comes with
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Wend – minimal presentation tool for Wayland(sr.ht)
2 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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The Phillips Machine, a.k.a. Moniac (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming(cs.tufts.edu)
12 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
I stumbled upon Unicon because I installed the noweb [1] literate programming system from scratch some time ago. It uses Icon as an (optional) dependency to create cross-references during the weaving process. The fallback is based on Awk, b
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by smartmic 2y ago
This. And what about the psychosocial consequences, will it be an improvement compared to the other substances? I doubt it.
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by smartmic 2y ago
For those who type on German keyboards or in German, there are a number of layouts that have evolved around the Neo 2 layout [1]. The main driving force is ergonomics, but since not everyone works the same way, many variants have emerged (a
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by smartmic 2y ago
> PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest Where do you see that happening? I would like to see such thing, but my own experience and the general feeling is that this is not within reach.
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by smartmic 2y ago
Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and craftsmanship?
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by smartmic 2y ago
Discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351698
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Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions(nature.com)
1 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
I completely agree. It is amazing how powerful Xidel is, and also easy to use with command line oneliners - for most of my task there is no need to start writing a script or programming anything. But it would be possible with the underlying
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by smartmic 2y ago
The main reason I chose Gnus instead of mu4e or notmuch is that I did not want to sync all my mailboxes to local disk. What is perhaps not so well known is that IMAP provides its own server-side search engine. Searching mail with Gnus searc
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by smartmic 2y ago
There are many choices for email client interfaces. HTML for email does not have a good reputation among hackers. After all, email can be considered an ancient technology and is historically based on plain text - HTML breaks not only the ph
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by smartmic 2y ago
I wonder if GenCast's 15 day forecast is really the right indicator for forecasting? I could imagine that such long term ML forecasts tend to get closer to yearly averages, which are kind of "washed out", but of course look g
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by smartmic 2y ago
There is also Playmobil Junior [1] for toddlers - also no small parts and really robust. They also have very nice water and bathtub toys for indoors and outdoors. [1] https://www.playmobil.com/en-us/content/junior_
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by smartmic 2y ago
A machine with probabilistic output generation cannot tell what is a hallucination and what is not. It does not know the difference between truth and everything else. It is us humans on the receiving end who have to classify the content - a
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Stop Requiring CRLF Line Endings(fossil-scm.org)
35 points by smartmic 2y ago|37 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
If you have created a hobby project database, you have the skills to learn how to query it - it is probably part of your hobby and fun. If not, and if you do not want to open source it to get community support, you are better off cutting ou
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by smartmic 2y ago
That's the amazing thing about the apparently still enthusiastic acceptance of LLMs for tasks that are better done by experts. We've moved on before, but now sometimes it seems almost perfectly okay to peddle uncertainty, hallucin
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FPGAs vs. Microcontrollers vs. ASICs(nandland.com)
4 points by smartmic 2y ago|4 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
A capable alternative based on "boring, old" technology is multitime [1] Back at the time I needed it, it had peak memory usage - hyperfine was not able to show it. Maybe this had changed by now. [1] https://tratt.net&#
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Give Up GitHub(sfconservancy.org)
34 points by smartmic 2y ago|16 comments
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by smartmic 2y ago
Not necessarily my opinion, but here is an interview [1] about someone who gave up F# in favour of Odin ... maybe of interest here in the subthread [1] https://odin-lang.org/news/newsletter-2024-10/#interview-wit..
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Storm Clouds Ahead: Missed Expectations in Cloud Computing(blogs.idc.com)
1 points by smartmic 2y ago|0 comments

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