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Emacspeak 40.0–WowDog–Unleashed (Speech accessible UI for Emacs)(emacspeak.blogspot.no)
1 points by unhammer 12y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 12y ago
tmux (and screen) don't even let you search the history for non-ASCII characters :-( That said, the git and shell mentions in the article made things look worse than they are – e.g. in Xubuntu I didn't have to do anything special
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by unhammer 12y ago
Some other HN comment I can't remember mentioned this: A logistic curve looks a lot like an exponential curve if you can only see the "start" of it ;-)
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by unhammer 13y ago
Apropos, from the Vova article: "These kids are changing the face of juggling, evolving a culture whose values — speed, numbers, athleticism, technique — are distinct from the traditional juggling values of balance, expression and show
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by unhammer 13y ago
As a fellow juggler (well, former, I don't really juggle much these days) I agree. I find Gatto amazing in the same way other world record breakers are amazing, but apart from going "wow" it didn't feel inspiring to me
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by unhammer 13y ago
If the in/out rate of your bridge was both constant And lower than the max in/out rate of your connection, but it seems a bit of a stretch. (And of course they wouldn't know that it was your traffic to whatever site they&#x27
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by unhammer 13y ago
You might want to run a non-exit node at your home. That way you have a lot of Tor traffic all the time, and the one time you really do need anonymity, it doesn't show up as anything unusual.
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Hollywood-style surveillance technology inches closer to reality(cironline.org)
2 points by unhammer 13y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 13y ago
The new site was made by Google Code-In student http://www.skc.name/ :) The old site looked like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20140303224955/http://www.apertiu...
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Web site of Apertium FOSS machine translation platform gets a makeover(apertium.org)
1 points by unhammer 13y ago|1 comments
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First MediaGoblin funding milestone unlocked, 10k matching grant(mediagoblin.org)
12 points by unhammer 13y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 13y ago
In case others are stumbling across this, http://blog.iconfinder.com/detecting-duplicate-images-using-... was recently featured on HN, using the dhash algorithm, from which I found http://www.pureftpd.org/pr
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by unhammer 13y ago
> Non-destructive editing is not a "nice to have" feature. It's quite literally a fundamental shift in methodology - and one that apparently the GIMP devs seem to be ignoring. It's on the http://wiki.gimp.o
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by unhammer 13y ago
Very cool :-) On a sort-of-related note: anyone know of a good FOSS library for making a reverse image search? My current method is just to use findimgdupes, but this is rather slow and hard to script around. (Ideally, my desktop with my ma
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by unhammer 13y ago
For other desktops, there is this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnotifier/
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by unhammer 13y ago
The various goals look really nice and useful, I like the direction this project is taking :) And they have shown that they are able to deliver already, quite an active community it seems.
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by unhammer 13y ago
Shakespeare used the phrase "from hour to hour" as a joke to mean "from whore to whore". Doesn't quite work unless you hear it in the Original Pronunciation: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll&#x2F
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by unhammer 13y ago
> * According to OED the reason that some animal names have the same singular and plural was that they originally contained a long vowel, e.g. deer, sheep, fish. Turns out, horse was also in this group but after a sound change its vowel
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Whistled language(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by unhammer 13y ago|0 comments
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by unhammer 13y ago
> And elisp grep really isn't that slow, accessing the file system is the slow part and that's true for both implementations and both can benefit from aggressive file caching anyway. Sorry, I never meant elisp grep was slow. I
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by unhammer 13y ago
Or does not freeing Atom mean that Github is not getting enough revenue from hosting? (Eek, are they dying? Should we move our stuff off to other services? =P)
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Pitivi’s fundraiser: out of the NLE hell on Linux?(libregraphicsworld.org)
1 points by unhammer 13y ago|0 comments
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Set Your priorities for Synfig development in March 2014(indiegogo.com)
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by unhammer 13y ago
If you do any sort of work on Middling-to-Fairly-Big Data, eshell is not for you. I love emacs, and would love to love eshell, but I prefer running grep/awk/sed/etc in tmux since it's just soo much faster. And of course,
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by unhammer 13y ago
"you'll either need to be on a business-class connection with unblocked ports and a non-blacklisted IP address, or you'll need a hosting service" Hardly "your won e-mail server" then :(
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by unhammer 13y ago
grep this HN page for emacs and shell, lots of suggestions
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by unhammer 13y ago
I had the same experience, would not have expected to be so pleasantly surprised by an init system :) And writing unit files for systemd was fantastically easy. systemd actually looks like it was designed based on experience . "Worse
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by unhammer 13y ago
You may want to warn that your "convert a folder of images from JPG to PNG in parallel" might crash your machine. I didn't try it myself because I'd rather not have 230 convert processes running at once … https:/&#
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by unhammer 13y ago
They work 100 % of the time if you do it right. An example: find . -type f -name foo -print0 | while read -rd ''; do grep -l bar "${REPLY}" done find separates its output with the NUL byte when you do
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by unhammer 13y ago
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031 is a great reference. If your guide is for bash and not sh, then I would say don't teach them [, just do [[. It's safer, since it won't glob or split words, you don

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