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Awesome, and yes, totally makes sense -- you are more learner-centric that way. Having the full sentence context is actually one of the things I have been thinking about a lot -- t…

Very cool! Are you willing to share more technical details? - Which data sources do you ingest? - How do you transform and enrich the data? How does your pipeline look? - What are …

I think so, yes, 80% confident. Awesome, thank you!

There was another article/blog on hackernews some time ago along the lines of 'I'm an editor, here is how I edit my friends texts' with some really good advice. Unfortunately I can…

Interesting approach. I am currently looking for jobs and went the 'career coaching' route for my CV. I did a few iterations with my coach until I got my current result (ideally I …

How does Kagi fare for scholarly use-cases? Ie. searching articles, papers, citations?

Not sure how to describe this, but almost every day around midnight when I lay in bed I fall into a transient and ephemeral state of uninterrupted thought. My mind is churning thou…

"Accurate topography with regionally and culturally appropriate textures" What does that mean?

Anyone knows what the few dark spots in the availability map in Germany are? https://www.starlink.com/map?source=rv My first guess would be military and/or science, but I don't thi…

I think this is the official french military report on this: [1]. 1: https://omnirole-rafale.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Rappo...

Imo the problem with Org-mode is that it "afterloads" all the complexity into the :PROPERTIES: drawers. Those quickly transform into unreadable hideous beasts of metadata that _req…

Interesting that this has a name. I've been doing this naturally for quite some time now without knowing the science behind it; it just feels "right" for me. Thinking about it, whe…

I've been intensively using Orgmode for a year and a half (wrote my thesis in it) and then abandoned it to switch to Markdown. Orgmode quickly turns into not-quite-plaintext with h…

I am a NixOS user, but am interested in Guix. Based on a cursory look I have some questions: - How big is Guix on GNU? Does it throw wrenches in your way if you do anything "unfree…

I recently made a similar observation: Write shitty! Background: I am writing a novel. In the beginning I sat down and obsessed with every little detail, spending multiple days fig…

I personally use literate programming to maintain my "dotfiles", mainly NixOS [1], and I _love_ it. I like to describe all possible alternative tools, why I don't use them, possibl…

I personally use hnrss [1], and usually just display the frontpage [2]. [1]: https://hnrss.github.io/ [2]: https://hnrss.org/frontpage

Haha, I literally just set up Newsboat[1] and this is my second article I read from the comfort of my terminal :) So far Newsboat is great: Everything configurable with text, fast …

Does anyone know what the phenomena is called where you think about something/hear about something and then suddenly you stumble across multiple instances of it in the wild? Just y…

Can you elaborate a bit more on why ZFS is great? I am currently thinking about doing "one final install" for my system, and am undecided between BTRFS and ZFS. I noticed that most…

Luckily not [1]. 1: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-x11-graphics-card...

I think you can get going with little to no knowledge. Setup the system, choose a few cool options and packages, and go rebuild. Simple as that. The difficulty comes from the advan…

For lmt/markdown: I believe yes, to the extend the editor allows for it. It is seemingly just like regular mardkown code blocks. I get the correct syntax high-light in the ``` code…

That sounds like a nice way to do it, too. I heard about it before, but don't know R, so I didn't really consider it. The reason I chose lmt is that it correctly keeps the markdown…