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Best Pens for 2025(jetpens.com)
168 points by beermonster 2y ago|106 comments
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by beermonster 2y ago
iA Writer and it has a nice zen mode
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by beermonster 2y ago
Or dotted notebooks which allow the free-form, but help if you do need things to be level , line up etc.
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Card Game Rules(pagat.com)
137 points by beermonster 3y ago|29 comments
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Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens(jetpens.com)
168 points by beermonster 3y ago|152 comments
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by beermonster 3y ago
I've seen this '50/30/20 rule' recommend before, in the UK press (financial articles) and by banks [1] and financial resources. I'm interested in it's origin, whether it still holds true today (is the advi
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by beermonster 3y ago
Lots of so called challenger banks offer virtual cards which can be used with merchants you do not trust, thus mitigating the risk of them having your ACTUAL card number which they can abuse/leak.
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by beermonster 3y ago
Can anyone recommend some good blog articles or books (aimed at lay people) on how the global economy works, bank interactions with other banks, and government management of inflation and interest rates? I'd like to understand a bit ab
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by beermonster 4y ago
A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
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by beermonster 4y ago
Reading this[1] and getting the data structures/mental model correctly internalised in my head. Although I do use git from the cli (or magit) primarily, this knowledge has helped me pick-up front end tools intuitively and have helped o
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by beermonster 4y ago
What do you think this same idea is?
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by beermonster 4y ago
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.
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by beermonster 4y ago
https://archive.ph/FeAOl
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by beermonster 4y ago
I'll probably try out both Obsidian and LogSeq at some point. Do their use-cases overlap or are there different goals of each project?
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by beermonster 4y ago
> Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility Do you mean org-roam ?
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by beermonster 4y ago
Why don't you trust your macs since 2014. Also why do you still use them if you don't trust them any longer?
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by beermonster 4y ago
Presumably the library paid for their copy? [Edit] Also check out OverDrive / Libby
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by beermonster 4y ago
There is a nice GUI on MacOS called Vorta I think.
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by beermonster 4y ago
How does it compare to Borg?
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by beermonster 4y ago
Thanks
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by beermonster 4y ago
What is old.reddit.com?
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by beermonster 4y ago
Next we would like to hear more about what owners of open spaces are doing allowing bad humans to use them to communicate sounding words over air.
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by beermonster 4y ago
I think this means, assuming it’s not a burner SIM bought with cash, that someone could “only” identify you were a signal user. They wouldn’t be able to see your social graph , who you contacted and when, from where, what was said, what gro
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by beermonster 4y ago
There are a few secure alternatives but as stated in the article, their goal is privacy as well as security. For instance they don’t even know who’s in which groups or that a group exists and they keep as little metadata as possible. The re
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by beermonster 4y ago
This is answered in the article.
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by beermonster 4y ago
What is it you think could be improved ?
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by beermonster 4y ago
The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack documentaries on Netflix cover this in greater detail but basically they don't need to read your messages, when the can predict your behaviour so accurately. IMHO this is actually worse than readin
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Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine(bbc.co.uk)
21 points by beermonster 4y ago|11 comments
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by beermonster 4y ago
A large chuck used to be shell scripts and Perl. Not sure if this is still the case but always made the Windows experience worse.
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by beermonster 4y ago
Could just use ProtonMail

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