gxonatano

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by gxonatano 9d ago
There are so many of these highly specialized database-like applications that are really just particular use-cases for notetaking. A beer database app so you can remember the different beers you've had. A birthday database so you can r
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by gxonatano 3mo ago
So awesome. I've been watching the Data Haskell initiatives with a lot of interest, ever since it started. Haskell is such a great language that it deserves to have a good data science ecosystem.
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by gxonatano 6mo ago
If you want to make a keyboard more efficient, QWERTY is a very poor choice. QWERTY was designed in the nineteenth century, for mechanical typewriters. It was designed to be inefficient, so that the typewriters wouldn't jam up. As a re
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by gxonatano 7mo ago
As with the "Zen of Python" or countless other "Zen of X" treatises, the connection to Zen or to Buddhism is tenuous if it exists at all. As far as I can tell, this author believes "Zen" to mean a collection of
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by gxonatano 7mo ago
I'm upset that there are 700+ courses across 70+ languages, but none is my language, Esperanto, the most successful international auxiliary language of all time, with an estimated 2M-5M speakers worldwide. I'm unable to select Esp
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by gxonatano 7mo ago
It's incredible what knowledge we'd have, if it weren't for Christianity and the Dark Ages it engendered. There are tons of palimpsests like this, like the Archimedes Palimpsest, in which the beginnings of calculus was invent
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by gxonatano 8mo ago
Without deep OS support for this kind of thing, I can't imagine it will feel anything like a native experience. There are already much better touch screen experiences with years of development behind them, in the Linux, Windows, Androi
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by gxonatano 9mo ago
It strikes me as a little unimaginative to want to improve on smartphone software keyboards but (1) stick with QWERTY, a layout designed to be inefficient , and (2) require multiple taps to enter some letters. It seems like you've inv
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
I've used dozens of notetaking tools over the years. Some cloud-based, some markdown-based, some flashy apps, some plain-text, some open-source, and some closed-source. My takeaway from years of jumping between them is this: don't
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
> ... many current and former professional educators have taken it upon themselves to do their own research. Some then wrote books collecting their findings. These books tend to be insta-dismissed as the ravings of crackpot loonies given
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
> Falk and Wade suggest the scribe incorrectly transcribed two key words A typo is a typographic error. This is a scribe incorrectly transcribing from one manuscript to another.
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
Those of us that use Nix don't have the problems you complain about. Just write (or vibe-code) a flake.nix for each project, and you can have arbitrary versions of whatever language (Node, PHP, whatever), arbitrary environment variable
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
It might not be a new area of inquiry, but the insight seems reasonably novel. If you read the article, it's about how Symbolic Show of Strength (SSS) beliefs are predictors for belief in misinformation. That speaks to something more g
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
That's not a flying car, it's just a small airplane. For it to be a car it would need to be able to drive on roads. With, you know, wheels and stuff.
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
While folks were building improved ls, cat, and so on, and jq for manipulating JSON data, Nushell has been happily doing all this in a consistent way and making it easier, to boot. I'm surprised to see Nushell missing from this list.
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by gxonatano 11mo ago
Nushell.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
I saw that this was on GitHub and I totally thought this was going to lead to a repo of some sort which solves this problem. But no. It was just complaining.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
> I keep punctuating like it's the 20th Century. I keep punctuating like it's the 18th Century, myself;—compound points are my favorites:—like the colon-dash compound, AKA the "dog's bollocks."
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by gxonatano 1y ago
> it's absolutely undeniably that the Buddhist cannon is full of batshit insane stuff, just like any other religion Buddhism is not like Christianity, where the source of truth is a book or a canon, and that the book must be believe
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by gxonatano 1y ago
So let me get this straight: HTML was originally built to have markup and style both in the same containers, and it was clunky and hard to maintain, so CSS was invented, to abstract away the styles so that content and style could be separat
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by gxonatano 1y ago
Even more ironic that the text of the Project Gutenberg license—for a public domain work!—is several times as long as Wordsworth's text.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
It's not great design. It's a dirty hack that might work for some people, but is a non-standard practice that abuses JavaScript to achieve a certain effect. Overriding scrolling behavior might work if you're scrolling with a
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by gxonatano 1y ago
This blog post, and the one it references, on the jhanas[1], belong to this weird genre which is basically in the vein of Buddhist writing, but without more than a passing reference to Buddhism, its scholarly tradition, its terminology, or
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by gxonatano 1y ago
That's a really weird headline. Looking for new software? Buy new hardware! Meanwhile, you can install Linux on your existing laptop for free.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
As a student of Zen Buddhism, I'm always a little bothered to see yet another thing called "Zen" that has virtually nothing to do with Zen, or Buddhism. The authors seem to think that "Zen" is a synonym for "ca
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by gxonatano 1y ago
> Most versions of Zen are made-up export products designed to flatter Westerners. Kind of like the samurai movie honor bushido stuff. I don't think so. If you go to a zenkai or a sesshin held by a western zendo, and then go to one
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by gxonatano 1y ago
Have they invented anything at all? You've already been able to do this with basically any mobile linux distro, as far as I can tell. At least, on the best-supported devices. You don't need a custom OS for it.
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by gxonatano 1y ago
What's absurdly ironic about these smartphone addiction apps is that * they're smartphone apps*. They require you to use your smartphone in order to use them. Far more effective, I imagine, would be anything else at all: ditching
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by gxonatano 1y ago
> the existence proof of this is the sheer number of other desktops that imitate the design That's where you're wrong. The desktop environments that imitate Win95 elements do it to provide something familiar for their users. Th
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by gxonatano 1y ago
I know there's a place for distros like these, designed to be familiar to users of Windows or MacOS, but to me it shows Linux at its laziest: where exciting new ideas in system and UI design are skipped over, in favor of bad design ide

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