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by unhammer 9y ago
work in progress, non-trivial on phone at least: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1232...
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by unhammer 9y ago
Emacs org-mode. If someone sends me an e-mail about something that needs doing for work, I hit a keybinding, and a buffer pops up with a TODO item, by default scheduled for today, with a link back to that e-mail (and any selected text added
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by unhammer 9y ago
> The word "sloyd" is derived from the Swedish word Slöjd, which translates as crafts, handicraft, or handiwork. but the origin is > Old Swedish slöghþ, from slögher (“skill, knowledge, handiness”) ( https://en.wi
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by unhammer 9y ago
That's great news for anyone writing editor plugins :-) I've worked a bit on plugins for TinyMCE, CKEditor 4 and Quill before, where the plugin had to change the content. The Quill editor (which has a separate data model similar t
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by unhammer 9y ago
If you use inotifywait a lot, I recommend trying http://entrproject.org/ which solves a lot of minor annoyances with inotifywait. It makes it easy to e.g. rebuild all web pages, restart your simplehttpserver and reload the
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by unhammer 9y ago
My girlfriend tried that on her iPhone, but it often didn't update the list of files, or updated only after a very long time, so she went back to emailing herself stuff. fsync() unfortunately still feels very beta.
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by unhammer 9y ago
They're crowdfunding one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-... (There's also a closed-source iOS app called fsync(), but I found it too slow/unstable to use.)
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by unhammer 9y ago
There's an Android app for https://syncthing.net/ that makes it fairly easy to sync photos between computers+phone, without anything going to the Cloud. (There's a crowdfund going on for an official iPhone app for
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by unhammer 9y ago
> Searching local SMS DB shouldn’t be security concern Actually, it is, since Signal encrypts your messages and only decrypts them when the app is "open". See http://esl.cs.brown.edu/blog/signal/ and
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by unhammer 9y ago
Anonymity is not the only reason for usernames though: People sometimes switch phone numbers, and some switch them more often than others (exchange/phd students going to different countries/, moving to different countries for new
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SRGBz–a minimal sRGB ICC v2 profile(pippin.gimp.org)
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by unhammer 9y ago
> every single premise established in Philosophy is rejectable until it's not, at which point it moves out of the domain of Philosophy and into physics, math, psychology, what have you.
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Emacs upto25.2 enriched text / MIME remote code execution(seclists.org)
4 points by unhammer 9y ago|0 comments
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“It's Magit the magical Git client” now on Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
18 points by unhammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 9y ago
Oh no, regional restrictions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiUtRnG-bg worked, however. But where can I find the rest of that PDP-11 soundtrack? For those late night hAx0ring sessions https://ap.mnocdn.no&#x2F
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by unhammer 9y ago
I've been using pretty much the same features from org-mode now that I used when I first started using it at least 11 years ago (actually, probably using even fewer features now, in the beginning I would export things, but these days I
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by unhammer 9y ago
And the popular lightweight interactive completion interface for Emacs called Ivy http://oremacs.com/swiper/
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by unhammer 9y ago
For those times when you click a link to a paywalled article, http://unpaywall.org is a pretty handy Firefox extension that will redirect to a (legal) unpaywalled alternative site, if it exists.
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by unhammer 9y ago
Apropos, does anyone know of a hosting provider with one-click installs of Weechat? It would be nice to have something slightly more self-hosted than irccloud to recommend to the GsoC/GCI students who keep disconnecting from freenode :
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Migrating text metrics to pure Haskell(markkarpov.com)
3 points by unhammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 9y ago
Bit of an aside: Apparantly ChrF – character-level n-gram f-score – is the new hotness in evaluating MT systems http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/W15-30.pdf#page=412
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John R. Pierce – Whither Speech Recognition? (1969)(digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu)
1 points by unhammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 9y ago
This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law The other side of the coin is that the long tail is long : the frequency of any word in a corpus is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. For la
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by unhammer 9y ago
But here http://www.shellcheck.net/ gives Line 4: export x=$(false) ^-- SC2155: Declare and assign separately to avoid masking return values.
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by unhammer 9y ago
Not that people should be expected to know this, but here's an idiom that does work: if res="$(ldap-query-for-valid-users)"; then echo "($res)" > "/tmp/all-users.sexp" else
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by unhammer 9y ago
Not heavy, exactly, though I guess it can get slightly repetitive after a while (or maybe "loopy" is a more fitting word :]). It's actually quite entertaining. If you want heavy-but-popular, try Foucault's Pendulum or Ho
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by unhammer 9y ago
What are the advantages over e.g. Subsonic? ( http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp – there are some popular forks like http://beta.madsonic.org/pages/index.jsp and https://github.com
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Interview with James Bridle about human deskilling and machine understanding(we-make-money-not-art.com)
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by unhammer 9y ago
This is such a great reference. The best part is that it's continually updated: https://github.com/sdiehl/wiwinwlh/commits/master
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by unhammer 9y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I assume you meant http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 ? That was a fun read anyway :-)

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