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   by unhammer 14y ago

   I already have three such aliases in my Persona account. I'd say Persona makes it easier to use the me+thissite@fastmail.com method. Of course, if you add a hundred such, you'll get a very long list to click through when you log in …
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   I found this bit confusing too, but in a different way. The first time around, I knew I was making up a new password, just not where it would be stored. Then much later I used a different computer (but firefox sync'ed) and tried logging in
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   Well, since they get the email address, they can easily check that it ends in @gmail and stop everyone else. Of course, only supporting gmail means they have to write _more code_ than supporting every provider, so lets hope lazyness wins.
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   I always bind super-left and super-right to https://gist.github.com/unhammer/5336830 (requires wmctrl and xorg-xdpyinfo), so I can tile any two windows left/right. Also handy when e.g. reading an article while note-taking, watching a scre
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   That note at the end also made it clear that the mistakes were corrected. Did you read the first part, get upset, then reload and read the note at the end?
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   I thinks person marking on verbs and use of articles is waste, who needs? Also, "have seen" is redundant because of "have", "have see" is better. Also, "is" redundant, many language does without. Without better. Language is full of redundan
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   > I certainly wouldn't advocate that becoming a nationally recognized language. The US has no official language, so it's a moot point. The article talks about how _teachers_ should recognize the language. Not teach the language, recogni
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   Wasn't Modern English originally created by speakers of Old English consciously trying to imitate French as best they could after limited education? (Wasn't Old English originally created by Anglo-Saxons consciously trying to imitate Norse
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   by unhammer 14y ago

   When I studied linguistics, dialects were simply defined as regional variants of a language (and that includes the "central" dialect, which many would equate with the language itself), while an accent was what a non-native speaker would get
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Twitter? Their web-app is awesome. I don't use the other examples you mentioned, so I wouldn't know, but I don't see what a native Twitter app would give me. For me, having Twitter as something other than a web page seems completely backwar
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    sponge () { tac|tac; } EDIT: this doesn't work for the "sed s/foo/bar/ file|sponge file" case, but it does for certain other usages where you basically want to wait until EOF before outputting
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Some key quotes: "Tom Arah says the shift from Flash to HTML has set web design back 15 years" "Older versions of Internet Explorer offer only spotty HTML5 support" "asking visitors to download a plugin [here he's not talking about Flash] t
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    If you use GIMP, I highly recommend chipping in on the new work on resamplers: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/78/add-other-sampl... The guy working on it has already contributed lots to GEGL and ImageMagick, and the work is alr
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    2.8.2 is in the latest stable release of Ubuntu (12.10 Quantal) http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gimp (Not in the latest long support release, but can't really expect that.)
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    In 2.8 at least, turning on and off groups of layers is a single click on the "eye" icon of the layer group: http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-layer-groups.html
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Though if you can use a less common language than English, you might get an even better passphrase. I know the Passphrase FAQ says using another language doesn't make your passphrase harder to guess[0], but having worked a bit with language
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Perhaps more for the tinkerers and enthusiasts, but https://github.com/arinkverma/Apertiurm-Androind-app-devlopm... (yes, it's misspelt twice) runs the full Apertium translator offline on your Android device. Apertium is more aimed toward
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Yes! Thanks for the corrected link :-)
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    OTOH, Google Maps: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gaza+Strip,+Shamal+Sina%27,... OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.34516&lon=34.30541&...
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Ah, I guess I shouldn't keep brightness at full then :-) Unfortunately I can't get away from big compiles … Thanks for the detailed answer.
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    btw, if you do get an X220, go with the IPS screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MO-XaCZ_8
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Re: 1., I tried powertop once but was afraid to touch anything :-) what did you do to get 9-10 hrs? I don't think I've gotten far above 7. What kind of usage? (I expect you're not running make -j4 all the time =P) Also, for those two years,
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    I've got Xubuntu on an X220. 1. About 5 hrs of web browsing (though I've gotten more once I was on a cabin w/o electricity and turned off wifi etc, there's a nice hardware switch to turn off all radio on the X220). About a year ago, there w
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    For me it was a combination of things. For one, I use emacs and a Norwegian keyboard layout, and Apple handily ensures that '\' is only possible to type using both shift, option and 7. Now, since I'm an emacs user, typing meta+\ should mean
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    I haven't counted how many times I've read "magnitude" in this discussion … Does anyone actually have some numbers to back up the claims?
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    "not knowing, she accepted the default paths at compile time, and the [Ruby] binary now lives in /usr/bin" wat? Ruby's default is to install to /usr{/bin,}?? Automake and cmake at least always default to /usr/local{/bin,} as the prefix in m
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    Well, Mullvad is based in Sweden, which the asker didn't seem to like[1]. However, they do have exit nodes in the Netherlands too, if you prefer, and allow payment with bitcoin. [1] Although I can't think of any suitable alternative countri
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    In e.g. Sweden, VPN's are not covered by the EU Data Retention Directive. ISP's are. Ie. they're not required by law to log more than what they need to bill you accurately. And of course you can pay for a VPN with bitcoin or prepaid credit
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    I'm looking forward to trying ELPA (my .emacs.d is so full of stuff I've not yet gotten around to trying it). bi-di support is also really nice, I've been copypasting into other programs until now. Also always nice to get a new org-mode ver
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    by unhammer 14y ago

    (eval form t) enables lexical scoping for form. http://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/lexical-scoping-and-... is highly recommended reading btw.