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by rml 11mo ago
This is a very good feature/workflow based intro As the years go by one realizes that even these “features” like Org, Dired, etc are just illusions in some sense. They’re just Elisp code someone else wrote and put a name on. You can ta
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by rml 1y ago
If you want to learn how Org mode works, start by reading outline.el then read Dominik's outline-magic.el then see how far you can get with your own customizations on top of that to augment, e.g. plain markdown text you may find you&#x
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by rml 1y ago
see also: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1695733/
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by rml 1y ago
In the book 'Double Entry' the author explains that the guy who created GDP was actually in favor of having family caregiving and household activities accounted for in GDP. If that had happened, different world
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by rml 1y ago
For something this small we can enumerate all the cases (this is a Scheme version of the Mathematica `Tuples` function) > (list-tuples '(B G) 2) ((B B) (B G) (G B) (G G)) 3 cases have at least one girl of those 3 cases,
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by rml 1y ago
This kind of writing is what I browse the internet for.
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by rml 1y ago
The classic article on this topic is https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-... Nothing has substantially improved since the article was written. With “forever private” companies it’s onl
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by rml 2y ago
FWIW the stuff about dealing with the Feds only applies out west AFAICT There’s lots of rural land in the northeast where you can basically just go to your small town hall and get whatever done without much hassle. Or just don’t tell anyone
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by rml 2y ago
> And even when IA temporarily stopped limiting the number of loans to provide emergency access to books during the pandemic—which could be considered a proxy for publishers' fear that IA's lending could pose a greater threat i
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by rml 2y ago
I find this to be true in many areas of life, esp. in recent years. My perfect trail running shoe was made in 2006. My perfect car was made in 2008. Those products are no longer made, and the new ones are not "better", just &qu
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by rml 2y ago
I'm glad people keep writing these "how I set up my computer" articles because it's how I learned almost everything I know - thanks to the kindness of internet strangers. anyway here's my idiosyncratic setup, would
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by rml 2y ago
more examples (from https://softpanorama.org/Scripting/Perlorama/One-liners/tom_... ) # add first and penultimate columns perl -lane 'print $F[0] + $F[-2]' # print just lines 15 to 17
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by rml 3y ago
Your comment makes me think you may enjoy the science fiction book 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller (perhaps you already have :-}) It's set at a monastery in the desert post nuclear apocalypse, where scribes cop
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by rml 3y ago
automatic conversion to web page available at https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2302.07211 (more info about the conversions at https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org )
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by rml 4y ago
Thanks for this. 40s and starting to have pain in the big toe joint. Getting some better shoes and spacers as a result. Seriously, thank you!
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by rml 4y ago
Folks interested in this design space may enjoy reading about scsh (A Scheme Shell) From the scsh paper ( https://web.archive.org/web/20081010222846/http://www.scsh.n... ): > I have designed and impleme
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by rml 5y ago
If you are into Lisp Machines, this talk on Symbolics by Kalman Reti (who worked there) is worth watching (1h): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBfB2MJw3qg If you only have 15 minutes, he gives another demo here: https:&#x
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by rml 6y ago
It's not. It's a pretty typical smaller ("tier 2"?) city in the northeastern US, with several colleges and plenty of trees, parks, and museums. It's the seat of state government, and has quite a few really nice ne
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by rml 6y ago
I've had good luck on big (multi-GB) SQL dumps, which often have very long lines, with https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
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by rml 10y ago
Wow, the pages on your site load so quickly they're finished rendering before I even start reading the article. Thanks for sharing this. Very cool.
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by rml 10y ago
Regarding the swollen battery, if it's a Lithium battery it sounds like it may be close to failing. If I were you I would stop using that laptop right away. I learned during my time at an RC airplane co. that lithium batteries can be
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Show HN: Hn2org, read HN pages in Emacs Org mode(github.com)
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by rml 10y ago
I taught at a school for students with dyslexia. Handwriting comprised a large part of their tutoring. We were told (paraphrasing from memory) that engaging the muscle groups in the arm during writing engaged more of the student's br
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by rml 11y ago
An updated version by Roderic Morris can be installed as a library atop the latest version of Scheme 48. It's on github: https://github.com/scheme/scsh I think it's 64-bit (?). Most of the time it hasn&#x27
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by rml 11y ago
IMHO the nicest Scheme for UNIX scripting is scsh. Its APIs are really well thought out and represent a lot of design work that hasn't ever been replicated by another Scheme (at least that I've seen). Some good examples of scsh s
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by rml 11y ago
This is used by the Larceny Scheme compiler, which recently had a release: http://larcenists.org/download.html And it's apparently generating some pretty fast code: http://larcenists.org/benchmarksGenui
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by rml 12y ago
scsh hackers might enjoy using geiser-scsh: https://github.com/rmloveland/geiser-scsh
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by rml 12y ago
Emacs users who want to play around with scsh might like: * Geiser integration that (mostly!) works: https://github.com/rmloveland/geiser-scsh * The manual in Texinfo format: https://github.com/rmlovela
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by rml 12y ago
There might be a better way, but this should work: (for-each (lambda (x) (run (ssh ,x uptime))) (run/strings (cat /etc/hosts)))
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by rml 12y ago
I also use DDG as my primary, but I prefer the `lite` interface: https://duckduckgo.com/lite

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