brensmith

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by brensmith 5mo ago
Looks great!
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by brensmith 3y ago
I particularly enjoyed "The Great Bay" by Dale Pendell. It's a collection of short stories that are linked through the next 16,000 years of Californian history after a 2021 global pandemic and subsequent environmental catastr
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by brensmith 3y ago
Sampson Boat Company's rebuilding of Tally Ho: https://www.youtube.com/@SampsonBoatCo
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by brensmith 3y ago
I'm using orgmode as well on my emacs install under macOS. By using a simple org capture template bound to SPC-o-j (space, org, journal) a time stamped entry into my journal.org file is relatively painless. Really loving using emacs on
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by brensmith 3y ago
I'm a relative emacs noob, and have just switched from Doom emacs to rolling my own with a literate config file. I started noticing more and more ~ backup files in all my working directories. Needless to say this is a great tip for tho
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by brensmith 4y ago
I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Zathura to view the newly compiled document as it automatical
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by brensmith 5y ago
Yes to this! Bamboo root structure (rhizomes) can be broken down into two basic types, leptomorph and pachymorph. Bamboo that belong to the leptomorph rhizome group can grow many feet over a growing season, and have buds along their length
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by brensmith 5y ago
These are beautiful maps, and I'd love to add one to my collection. If anyone is a fan of adding depth to old maps, check out https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization . Not sure if he's selling them any
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by brensmith 5y ago
If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree package.
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Tim Hunkin – Hinges -The Secret Life of Components – Episode 3(youtube.com)
1 points by brensmith 6y ago|0 comments
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Tim Hunkin – LEDs -The Secret Life of Components – Episode 2(youtube.com)
5 points by brensmith 6y ago|1 comments
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by brensmith 6y ago
Hi Blake! Kieran's dad here. So great to see your article on Hacker News. Your old bike is safely heading back to Colorado soon.
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by brensmith 6y ago
Agreed! Another metric to add might be $/Mb/Month. That way it's easy to compare disparate speeds.
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Neuron 0.4 – Zettelkasten note management system(srid.ca)
4 points by brensmith 6y ago|1 comments
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by brensmith 6y ago
repost from lobste.rs
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by brensmith 7y ago
Ugh. So sorry to hear this. What a great player.
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by brensmith 7y ago
I've been using it for about 6 months now, backing up my home directory 3-4 times per week to an external HD. Would also agree that it's fast, easy to use, and also easy to recover files. I'd add that the documentation is rea
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by brensmith 7y ago
I've germinated a few seeds (P. edulis 'Moso' & Fargesia Jiuzhaigou IV 'Black Cherry') purchased on AliExpress (very inexpensive). I planted about 200 seeds in July of last year and achieved a germination rate o
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by brensmith 7y ago
Ugh! As a former Apple fanboi, this is the reason I no longer own any Apple equipment. Apple products are beautiful, and very well designed, but so is a rhinestone straitjacket.
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by brensmith 8y ago
Accelerando available online. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
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by brensmith 8y ago
I'm a big fan of using vim and asciidoctor and an organized notes directory. I quickly jot down notes about certain projects or ideas using vim, then go back and format the notes at a later date with asciidoc markup. Then I run it thr
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by brensmith 8y ago
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. Helped me to understand the language of architecture. What works and why, and what doesn't work and why. To this day I can still pick up this book, turn to a random page and get
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by brensmith 8y ago
There are some consortiums that are starting to form: http://www.videoservicesforum.org/activity_groups/RIST_poste...
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by brensmith 8y ago
I agree that entering large numbers of manual transaction can be clunky, but for the occasional single transaction it can be pretty quick. For larger numbers of transactions, I've created a rules file that hledger uses to parse the dow
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by brensmith 8y ago
I'm a big fan of CLI accounting software (Ledger, Beancount and hledger) for my personal finances. Allows you to use a plain text file for recording your financial data. If you live a large percentage of your life in a command line env
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by brensmith 9y ago
Would love to see Centos7 included in your distro list.
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by brensmith 9y ago
For both windows/linux/macOS boxen we use burp. Replaced a propietary program used for over 15 years. http://burp.grke.org/ I highly recommend it.
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Cephalocon 2017 canceled(ceph.com)
7 points by brensmith 9y ago|0 comments
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Hunting for Mexico’s mass graves with machine learning(arstechnica.co.uk)
2 points by brensmith 9y ago|0 comments
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Modeling the location of hidden graves in Mexico(hrdag.org)
1 points by brensmith 9y ago|0 comments

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