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GNU Idutils(gnu.org)
6 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Generate random pieces of text in the style of a particular work (1999)(rpcurnow.force9.co.uk)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Wayst – Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11(github.com)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Pelles C(smorgasbordet.com)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Oh yeah, the Git internals... I tried to find my way through them using visualization but did not progress much: https://github.com/smartmic/git2pic
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Moldable Development: Guiding Technical Decisions Without Reading Code(infoq.com)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
s/they'll still work in a few years/they'll still work in a few decades/ Related: the Lindy effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect )
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by smartmic 3y ago
Off-topic, but I stumbled over the fact that the world map is Asia-centric. I would not have expected that from the Max Planck Society, a German research institution. The way it is displayed is very unusual in Germany and Europe (actually a
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Write your passwords down (2010)(blog.jgc.org)
92 points by smartmic 3y ago|192 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
As an engineer, I find it inherently wrong to create content (here: create slides in Apple Keynote), then export this as an image to extract the content again via OCR afterwards. This could be more direct/better, no?
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Using Org in 2023(cmdln.org)
4 points by smartmic 3y ago|2 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
I use an HP-35s as a first stop for calculations. I also use Emacs Calc as my PC calculator. However, I still find it difficult to memorise seldom-used commands there, so I use my HP-35s more often. Two notes: 1) I definitely prefer RPN, 2)
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by smartmic 3y ago
> I find it bizarre that people now use the term "coding" to mean programming. For decades, we used the word "coding" for the work of low-level staff in a business programming team. I totally agree. I also don't
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A command-line murder mystery (2014)(github.com)
137 points by smartmic 3y ago|19 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Why not break these subqueries into their own common table expressions and prepend them to your join statements?
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by smartmic 3y ago
This must not be missing here then: "I don't want to learn your garbage query language" [1] [1] https://erikbern.com/2018/08/30/i-dont-want-to-learn-your-ga...
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The Template Toolkit(template-toolkit.org)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Several comments are about taking more than 3 things with you. For me it's the other way round, for me it's a success if I can keep ONE thing. And that's usually a new insight, something surprising, something I can link with
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On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language(schwarze.bsd.lv)
65 points by smartmic 3y ago|109 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Why it was created and on how it compares to https://www.ledger-cli.org/ , see https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200928123430
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Pta – the plain text accounting program(mandoc.bsd.lv)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Perhaps this is the salvation from too much influence by AI. Incest will eradicate itself. With language models in particular, it is easy to understand that only a multiplication of nonsense can be produced in a very short time if it has to
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by smartmic 3y ago
Hey, you greybeard. I couldn't find a manual either on first glance but, hey, we know about Github stars and see many colorful emoji and symbols on the frontpage. No, irony left aside. I also miss the clean, boring but highly useful la
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by smartmic 3y ago
Context and homepage of diagram: https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
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Linux Performance Tools(brendangregg.com)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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Neetdraw – a terminal drawing application with multiplayer support(git.janouch.name)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Is it really "teaching" that is being conveyed? I mean, yes, you get a suggestion for a mostly correct solution, or it points in the right direction. But how much has your brain really been reprogrammed and "learned" in
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by smartmic 3y ago
There is a valuable section about alternative tree models in the book "SQL Antipatterns" from Bill Karwin. In the end, he compares five hierarchical data designs. Unsurprisingly, all have pros and cons and it is a (somehow advance
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by smartmic 3y ago
Emacs enthusiasts have https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el I see some parallels to Hurl, but having everything inside Emacs is hard to beat, just thinking about using M-x jq-interactivly for json responses ...
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo(en.wikipedia.org)
11 points by smartmic 3y ago|7 comments

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