vogon_laureate

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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
If you use Octal on iOS, it has a Comment Jumper option. Turn that on and you’ll be able to quickly skip from one thread to the next. I’d argue that is its killer feature.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
All the damn time. ADHD is a curse.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Do you mean other than MoCs (Maps of Content)? I use the Waypoint plugin with folders to create auto-generated maps of content within folder hierarchies. Works nicely to give me an index to use as a first port of call in a subject and works
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I was pleasantly surprised that our version of the FTC (the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority - CMA) blocked the deal. We live in a world of trillion dollar tech companies. The level of power they have is enormous. It’s about time regu
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I liked and used Bear for a few years. Obsidian isn’t as nice to use in terms of UI but once I learned how to use it I would find it hard to use anything else.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
This being HN, I read this as “cryptopreservation” and was very confused.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Disagree. Non-profit “news” can just as well mean the owners are motivated by ideology rather than truth. My experience working in the “alternative media” ecosystem was very much this. You start off thinking you’re “countering MSM propagand
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Same for me. Chronically tired all the time since I can remember. Tried everything. Exercise, diet, probiotics, meditation, sleep training. Got diagnosed for depression ten years ago. No medication helped. Finally got prescribed “off label”
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Yeah my Swedish ex’s family couldn’t speak hardly any English.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
It makes sense when you think about how much of English history is influenced by the presence of Danish raiders and kingdoms. I live near a place called Dane Hill for example. In the Northern dialects and Scotland there are even more influe
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
A web version that people can use on their computers might help. If you want to post on multiple platforms simultaneously, it’s much easier when you can keep all the platforms open in a browser tab and swap between them to deal with replies
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
This is great, but he sounds way too upbeat. Imagine this but with the guy who does the Coreteks YouTube channel.[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_t3BvnQtS5IHzto_y7tbw
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
It's been a game changer for me. I always did this anyway in other Notes apps, but Obsidian just does a great job of making it feel like it almost prefers you to write notes like that.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Damn! Going to have to bin that startup idea and go back to the drawing board. All that hard work down the toilet...
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
The thing about the BSDs, and especially OpenBSD, is that their MAN pages are phenomenally good. Documentation on their respective websites covers most of the rest of what you need. If you want to really nerd out, I highly recommend all of
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Honestly, any off the shelf or eBay x86 mini-ITX board is fairly well supported. Probably stay away from Atom CPUs (Celeron or i3 is fine) and any exotic hardware, use whatever ITX case you want and a PicoPSU, stuff it with a 2-4 port NIC a
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
binary upgrades has made all that a lot less painful.
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US Completes Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction Operations(defense.gov)
1 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|1 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
This achievement marks the destruction of all chemical weapon stockpiles declared to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. At its peak, the US possessed 30,000 tons of chemical warfare agents in explosively
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Last time I went to an NHS dentist, there was literal blood on the floor when I entered the room and a woman was screaming next door. I wasn't sure if I was in a dental clinic or an am-dram performance of Sweeney Todd.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Even if you're not an OpenBSD user, it's always good to see just what sort of innovations they (and the other BSDs) are regularly coming up with to solve all sorts of operating system problems, audit code, and improve security and
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OpenBSD Innovations(openbsd.org)
163 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|63 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Whenever the minor annoyances of life gets you down, take a moment to awe-bathe in images like these. It puts it all into perspective.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
No pain, no gain.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I agree completely that it is really difficult if not impossible to scale. But if you consider that sometimes it takes just a few key community leaders to get together and hash things out, that inter-leader level of dialogue can really scal
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
When you learn about the sheer numbers involved worldwide. The International Red Cross Committee reckons there are 30 million mines in 18 countries. Angola alone has 9 million![1] [1]: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc&#x2
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
That's the thing I don't get. Why don't people just ignore the comments they don't like and don't want to boost? Feels like some kind of Stack Overflow-esque over-persnickety moderation syndrome.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Twitter has Twitter Circles which I think it similar. I'm not really sure how many people actually use it. I remember the G+ circles at least had the novelty factor but it still felt like an effort to manage.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I would hope they couldn't because admins of the other instance would be able to read those DMs AFAICT.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I live in the South coast of England. Every few months there's a story about some WWII bomb or sea mine that's been found that needs to be safely removed.

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