TomDavey

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by TomDavey 3y ago
> In essence give a sub-3% user base a disproportionate amount of attention. Some comments in this thread are arguing that many less economically developed countries provide poorer connectivity and lesser bandwidth than elsewhere. Are th
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Emacs includes a built-in mode named Org. Org-mode offers both hierarchy and tags. Org does many things, but it's especially accomplished at notetaking. Elisp authors have written package extensions (aka "plug-ins") for Org-m
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Tut-tut, my good sir, condescension is the raison d'être of The New Yorker.
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Or, more starkly: "Reading a Shakespeare play is like listening to Beethoven by reading the score."
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Thanks for recalling the earlier discussion. It includes testimonials to Emacs org-mode, and to the Zettelkasten package built atop org-mode, org-roam. Org-mode can't be beat, IMO, if you live in Emacs all day long, as I do.
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by TomDavey 3y ago
That XKCD is hilarious! I've never seen it before: My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as "Control." Good ol' "M-x s
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Excellent example! This sentence contains no actor at all, unless the mistakes made themselves.
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by TomDavey 3y ago
Preferring the active voice to the passive voice (to use the terms from formal grammar) whenever feasible is the universal recommendation of writing instruction in English, e.g. by everyone from Strunk & White to the Random House Handbo
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by TomDavey 4y ago
I was careful to say "middle-period Beethoven." Beethoven's stylistic evolution over the course of his life truly astonishes. In his late period, e.g., the Grosse Fugue, one can hear Bartok being invented. And he was stone de
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by TomDavey 4y ago
No: music ushered in the Romantic age, earlier than Goethe and Schiller in literature. The musical style, a decisive break from the High Baroque, was initially called "Sturm und Drang." It appeared in the work of Gluck and Haydn i
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by TomDavey 4y ago
Indeed. My iPhone 6s (lovely big screen) has worked perfectly since 2015. I'm disappointed that IOS 16 won't be available for it, but I really can't complain after continuous, impeccable compatibility for almost eight years.
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by TomDavey 4y ago
I hugely dislike the POS terminal for exactly this reason: "The waiter brings the POS terminal and you pay at the table." The experience I dislike goes like this: The server gives you the hand-held terminal and then stands watchin
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by TomDavey 5y ago
Yes, Directory Opus is outstanding. I'm an Emacs fanboy to an intense degree, but I've never bothered to learn Dired. Directory Opus, although mouse-driven, is simply too powerful. What is this Windows Explorer of which you speak?
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by TomDavey 5y ago
> anticipates 538 and all the other media on elections that ultimately disenfranchise voters. Serious question: how does "media on elections" disenfranchise voters? I would have thought that they usefully inform voters, or at l
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by TomDavey 5y ago
Also on Firefox. It appears that I'm not as privacy/security conscious as are most in this thread, but I heartily second HTTPS Everywhere. However, the single Firefox extension that's indispensable to me is Tree Style Tabs. S
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by TomDavey 5y ago
It's on my list. The reviews have indeed been rapturous. Before "Dawn of Everything" (his final book) was published this year, Graeber (an anthropologist with a specialty in economics) had already been long acknowledged as on
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by TomDavey 5y ago
Emacs Calc. Mind blowing in features and power. As for the UI . . . well, it's Emacs.
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by TomDavey 5y ago
You just described the thesis of one of the wisest books I've ever read, Albert O. Hirschman's 1970 classic "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty
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by TomDavey 5y ago
+1 for Emacs autosave. Note that an autosave file is not the original file you were working on but a copy saved at the interval you specify. The original file is left untouched until you explicitly save it. In case Emacs aborts for some rea
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by TomDavey 5y ago
Here's a technique for revising and improving prose that has no analog in programming: reading the text aloud to yourself. This is the best way to fix a first draft, of short texts at least, without having to wait for it to cool off fi
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by TomDavey 6y ago
For me, "Fellini Satyricon" is his most remarkable film, even if not his greatest and certainly not his most popular. No film about the Roman world has conveyed so graphically what must have been the actual, enormous strangeness o
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by TomDavey 6y ago
A second thumbs-up on BotaBox. I drink its cabernet sauvignon and honestly can't taste the difference from ordinary bottled red, although I've never trained my palate in any serious way. Because of the plastic bladder and preserva
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by TomDavey 6y ago
I live in an apartment building in a quite noisy locale, Manhattan in New York City. I solved the problem with pliable silicone "putty" earplugs. They provide the closest to dead silence I've found. The earplugs attenuate sou
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by TomDavey 6y ago
Yes it is, or even if you're just a classical music fan who likes to listen while following along with the score. I contribute $2 USD a month to Petrucci/IMSLP for the same reason I contribute $3 a month to Wikipedia and $11 a mon
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by TomDavey 8y ago
A single Org file holds my wiki. Yes, it's big, but Org's features make it easily manageable. Org has fine hyperlinking, and equally fine searching -- including searches on headline tags and properties -- using regexps if desired.
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by TomDavey 8y ago
I haven't integrated Org with either my email or my phone (I'm on iOS actually), at least not yet. It's on the road map!
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by TomDavey 8y ago
A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-manag
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by TomDavey 9y ago
+1 for org-mode and GTD. But then, I'm an Emacs Everywhere person also. I spend all day in org-mode. It's both a task-management _and_ a knowledge-management system, my exocortex. Couldn't survive without it.
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by TomDavey 10y ago
The New Yorker magazine published a great profile of Dalio in 2012: Mastering the Machine How Ray Dalio built the world's richest and strangest hedge fund. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/07/25
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by TomDavey 10y ago
I must have adopted Directory Opus after version 5, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. DO is at version 11 now, and I absolutely adore it. It's the first thing I put on a new Windows system.

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