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by kickaha 4y ago
Ah, nostalgia. Reminds me of my first Linux install, 1997, when I had to worry about the kernel destroying my display.
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by kickaha 4y ago
For those like me who are utterly ignorant but interested in self-hosting. Can anyone point to a useful tutorial for someone with a solid understanding of desktop Linux but for whom networking is just incomprehensible magic?
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by kickaha 4y ago
>> menus and the toolbar > The what now? :) My response was: Is it possible? Is it possible that Lars uses the menus and the toolbar?
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by kickaha 4y ago
It’s a nice coincidence that this event corresponds to the new moon, so great viewing conditions. Not at all a coincidence that the new moon corresponds to the Black Forest Star Party, if you happen to be in Central Pennsylvania this weeken
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by kickaha 4y ago
I took it to mean, worth it for the learnin’ and the fun messin’ around.
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by kickaha 4y ago
But the beauty of it is that crap evaporates in real life. I don’t want to overstate it, of course, but the effect is always huge.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Came here to say: impressive how these metaphors are simultaneously so fascinating, presumably very insightful, and so unhelpful to a newbie trying to understand git.
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by kickaha 4y ago
Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual. https://archive.org/details/representationso00said Only a little over a hundred pages, and quite accessible—straightforward, even—but like other books in this thread
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by kickaha 4y ago
Slightly surprised nobody has mentioned org-mode under Emacs. It’s a slightly orthogonal use-case, not strictly editing native LaTeX. But it does a million things well, especially organizing documents of various lengths, and then exports ve
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by kickaha 4y ago
Students often send me thank you cards after they graduate and I’ve covered a wall with them. As the years go by it keeps growing and my reverence for my own responsibility to them keeps increasing.
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by kickaha 4y ago
My wife and I are both full-time academics. She has never worked outside academia (except a dirty menial job in high school). I dropped out, wrote code for a multi-billion-dollar non-profit, and had a bunch of menial jobs. I don’t wanna say
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by kickaha 4y ago
Golly, brother. I feel you all the way down to my toes. My parents just openly, declaratively resent my leaving misery behind for a rewarding and financially secure career. Wanna hear the super effed up part? I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND their f
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by kickaha 4y ago
“I’m out.”
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by kickaha 4y ago
“emacs” and “org-mode”
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by kickaha 4y ago
Subtle point (addressed in the first sentence of the paper proper). “Lentic” bodies of water, those discussed here, means “still.” Presumably this means flux below some threshold.
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by kickaha 8y ago
You may be confusing class with credentials. (Leaving aside the accustomed confusion between credentials and ability.) Sorry to sound flippant, but I found it to be true: spend a lot of time with top level talent and you get used to it. On