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by auxbuss 8mo ago
LaunchBar doesn't use Spotlight's data. And so, as a result, can't search for data inside files. That said, it provides a Search in Spotlight command – that you can assign a shortcut, if you wish – which returns its results
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by auxbuss 9mo ago
I also host my own email. In my case, Google always routes the first email I send to a new Gmail address as spam. After the recipient marks the email as good, future emails are received as expected. The only way around this is to advise t
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by auxbuss 1y ago
Gmail always rejects the first email I send to a new gmail account. It does this every time – and has done for years – despite the fact I have sent emails to hundreds of other gmail accounts, and send emails to such accounts every day. This
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by auxbuss 1y ago
Space en-dash space is standard British typography – whereas US uses em-dash and jams the words together on either side of it. It took centuries for the written word to acquire spaces between words, and then the US decided to jam them back
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by auxbuss 1y ago
I agree. And this together with the obvious misunderstanding of Exhalation re: thermodynamics led me to put down the article. I don't think the article was written by an LLM, but I'm convinced it was LLM-enabled. Which is a pity,
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by auxbuss 1y ago
Verily.
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by auxbuss 1y ago
Robert Saunders, Reader in Modern British History at Queen Mary’s London, wrote an interesting thread about “the economy”. https://bsky.app/profile/robertsaunders.bsky.social/post/3la... He starts out by noti
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by auxbuss 1y ago
Years ago, I went to live and work in Strasbourg. My French was… rudimentary, school-level, but after a few weeks I was picking up the rhythm and following along. Then the grand chef came up from Paris. During the night out entertaining him
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by auxbuss 2y ago
Thanks. This is excellent, as you'd expect from Emily Maitlis.
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by auxbuss 2y ago
Proper old school investigative journalism, and he didn't hold back. Terrific scam, but, y'know, PayPal – I'm an old timer and remember the early days of that outfit. They're still blocked at the firewall from events 25
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by auxbuss 2y ago
> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead I vouched for it, so it should be visible now.
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by auxbuss 2y ago
If you're interested in how vector calculus developed, and who was instrumental, all the way from Newton/Leibnitz to Dirac or so, by way of Hamilton, Maxwell, Einstein and others, then Robyn Arianrhod's 'Vector' is
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Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge Declares(wired.com)
5 points by auxbuss 3y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 3y ago
Stacy McGough wrote about this topic recently wrt the third Gaia data release: https://tritonstation.com/2023/09/19/recent-developments-con...
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by auxbuss 3y ago
The best – and I think the only – way to discover what good code looks like is to work with it. Eventually, after working on, say, half a dozen code bases, you'll start to understand intuitively what good code is, providing you get luc
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by auxbuss 4y ago
There's a real world example of this situation from the six-month Irish bank strike of 1970. Cheques, pubs, and trust ultimately replaced the banking system; and everything kept moving; not perfectly, of course, but neither are our cur
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by auxbuss 4y ago
293,000¹ vs 184,000², so about 1.6 times the word count. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Publish... ² https://www.anycount.com/word-count-of-books/harry-potter-wo...
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Let me present a counterpoint. I have two Apple machines. One is old and stuck on Catalina – three iterations behind the current macOS [Catalina -> Big Sur -> Monterey -> Ventura] – so for a long while I kept both on Catalina to av
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by auxbuss 4y ago
This is exactly how it was on twitter during the early years.
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Yes, this is the biggest problem. Otherwise it's a great project. But until this is fixed, not worth playing, sadly.
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Philip Pullman uses it too to great effect.
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Climate breakdown is commonly used in the UK.
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Guy Debord wrote about this thoroughly in The Society of the Spectacle (1967) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_th... And Johnny Rotten: “Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?” J.G
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by auxbuss 4y ago
Sebastian Barry is a master. Try Days Without End. Quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/50666270-days-without-... The criminally unknown Janni Howker borders on poetry in her prose. Try Martin Farrell.
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by auxbuss 4y ago
re: The Golden Compass (sic) Not only did the American editors change the title, but the device in question – the alethiometer, which is not a compass – is made of brass not gold in the original text. The US editors basically changed it to
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Instagram to require all users to enter birthdate(theguardian.com)
3 points by auxbuss 5y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 5y ago
They're called heteronyms, and there are a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
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by auxbuss 5y ago
panorama is similar.
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by auxbuss 6y ago
Marc Morris [0] has a new book out in May entitled: The Anglo-Saxons: The Making of England: 410-1066 [1] I'm not a history nerd, but his Norman Conquest book [2] almost turned me. It's more fun than most novels. For a non-academi
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by auxbuss 6y ago
In Quiver, you can right-click a notebook (or All Notes) and export to markdown – as well as png, plain text, pdf, or png.

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