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by tombh 9y ago
Nothing to add, I just love where your questions send my mind, thank you.
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by tombh 9y ago
Very confusingly there is 'space-vim' [1] and 'SpaceVim' [2]. Your link is about the former, this submission is about the latter. [1] https://github.com/liuchengxu/space-vim [2] https://g
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by tombh 9y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I have been pushed, due to certain laptop problems, into 'living on the terminal'. However I couldn't bring myself to become fluent in Vim or Emacs as I felt my time to return to Sublime or Atom would
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by tombh 9y ago
From the README: Some, indeed many, may say this is counter-productive or even sacrilegious. But Vim is a lot more than just a keybinding paradigm; firstly it has one of the richest plugin ecosystems of any editor, but also it is a --if no
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Novim-mode: Use Vim like a 'conventional' editor(github.com)
4 points by tombh 9y ago|1 comments
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by tombh 9y ago
I'm at least one of them. I'm travelling so use a cheap 2GB laptop, it's almost unusable.
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Headless Browser Testing Is Here(tombh.co.uk)
2 points by tombh 10y ago|0 comments
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by tombh 10y ago
I've been doing regular week-long retreats for 15 years and recently did a 30 day retreat. Personally I just think there's way too much variation amongst my experiences, let alone if you include the gamut of others', to come
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by tombh 10y ago
Of course you can bring Harari’s emphasis on focus to bear here: is pondering the effects of 60 days meditation distracting from the simple task at hand? In which case, perhaps a better question is, what accessible and practical thing can I
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by tombh 10y ago
I'm surprised there's so little comment here about testing as a facilitator. As in something that refines your coding ability at the coalface, rather than merely something reassuring you after the fact. For me testing is like the
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by tombh 10y ago
OP here, yeah I agree, like I said the home page could be more explicit. Here's some links: https://libraries.io/about https://libraries.io/bus-factor https://github.com/librariesio&#x2
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by tombh 10y ago
Is https://libraries.io not a more comprehensive and community-focused response to the same problem? libraries.io did make it to the front page a few months ago, but I think its underlying vision might not have been driven home
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by tombh 10y ago
Have one as well. There's something primordially symbolic about having this rugged and compact device able to so easily create a safe flame from most practically available liquid and gas fuels.
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by tombh 10y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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by tombh 10y ago
I think "proper" is a bit strong. Sure there are some religious systems that prescribe breathing methods, but from my understanding of mindfulness, the entire point is the quality of awareness, not the quality of your breathing.
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by tombh 10y ago
> When you've been doing it for a while your mind will be blank all the time As others have suggested, this is hyperbole, verging on proselytising. Whilst there is rigorous scientific evidence for the therapeutic benefits of mindful
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by tombh 10y ago
I completely agree. It's embarrassing to see how superficial our 'compassion' is. It always reminds me of Baudelaire's chilling poem, "To The Reader", where he so uncomfortably spells out ennui as the worst of
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by tombh 10y ago
Just to add yet another balancing point of view: not everyone accepts mainstream Western translations of the Buddhist canon to be faithful. For instance Stephen Batchelor (see his most recent book After Buddhism) would rather strongly disag
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by tombh 10y ago
Thank you
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by tombh 10y ago
Since traveling in Asia and getting elinks into muscle memory I now use it even on good connections, it's so much more satisfying to get consistently quickly rendered text into my eyeballs.
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by tombh 10y ago
I should mention my now mostly-ignored Dharma API: http://www.dharma-api.com/ It scrapes the major meditation talk websites to provide unified JSON API access to about 25,000 talks.
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by tombh 10y ago
Bill Bryson's, A Short History Of Nearly Everything. It is literally what it says in the title. He's a travel writer so has a very narrative and readable style. Wow just thinking about it now makes me amazed at what he achieved in
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by tombh 10y ago
Which is exactly the plot of Ex Machina right? And also why I think that film is so much more believable than it's contemporaneous AI-themed sibling, Her.
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by tombh 10y ago
No I hadn't. I just checked and the nearest network is Manali, so they're on their way :) [1]. I'd heard about such networks before, but wasn't aware they were so actuvely and successfully implemented, very inspiring. 1.
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by tombh 10y ago
I did try for a bit, but the screen update FPS was annoyingly slow. Also the resolution difference required a lot of pinch zooming. I think it'd be worth experimenting with reducing the desktop resolution to match my phone cos it would
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by tombh 10y ago
I definitely considered this, it was just the look on local faces, they said that stuff does arrive but sometimes goes missing too. My screen is more like $300 so considering I have a functional setup I decided I was happy enough. Besides t
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by tombh 10y ago
I did think of that, also getting a crappy external monitor too. But I didn't want to reinstall everything again and my laptop is pretty powerful, so I didn't want to lose out on that. Also, I just like the challenge of a hack.
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by tombh 10y ago
Thank very much :)
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by tombh 10y ago
Well half the time there's no Internet at all. Then the rest of the time it's mostly high latency and Internet at ~5kbps. Perhaps once a week we get a few hours of 3G, hitting speeds of 200kbps tops.
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by tombh 10y ago
In actual fact, I have to use pen and paper more than usual because vanilla Android can't display 2 apps at once. So for example, one time I wanted to read something from Wikipedia into a Whatsapp audio message, so I had to write the s

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