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The plugin actually does support spaced repetition, but only an "exponential" algorithm. That is, you have to manually choose whether to multiply the current repetition period with…

Hey, this is exactly why I made obsidian-repeat-plugin [1]. The goal was to have most of my notes surface every now and then, which removes the need for me to do any digging at all…

From the article here it looks like people will stay on payroll until early 2023. They won't work but have to abide by Twitter's internal agreements. Does anyone know if part of th…

If you want to get a taste of some of what Ramanujan seems to have been occupied with, the mathematical physicist John Baez explained "Ramanujan's easiest formula" in an approachab…

Nice! We built something like this 3 years ago while I was still at Intoli. Instead of Puppeteer we used our own Web Extensions API based framework called Remote Browser [1], the c…

A few aphorisms about Voja Antonić: 1. He was involved as a skeptic and wrote a well-received (among my friends at least) book debunking psychics and various kinds of nonsense. As …

I wonder if the Wayback Machine people are using a (potentially more modern) version of the AOPIC algorithm to decide what to archive. I wrote an article about that algorithm (whic…

To be fair, 200X was the Year of the Linux Desktop for us Linux users.

A lot of the comments here are arguing for or against the author's specific choices, but I would like to point out how great it is that Linux desktop environments are this customiz…

My co-founder wrote a bit about Asciinema as part of a comprehensive comparison of terminal recorders [1]. There's a lot to love about it (wide availability, very nice JavaScript p…

Traffic to Lambda from the internet and between Lambda and S3 is free. The only thing you pay for are the transfer costs from S3 (at cents per GB).

The article doesn't mention it explicitly, but this is a nice example of how using Bayes theorem helps you ignore the hard-to-compute normalization term of the input space. In the …

Selenium is just a tool built on top of the WebDriver API. One of its main disadvantages is needing to run a complicated proxy program (like geckodriver, ChromeDriver, etc.) built …

It's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but Exodus is really great for this use case. You can just run exodus htop | ssh my-server-name and your local machine's copy of htop …