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darau1
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About darau1
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Comment #48284366
Maybe I'm being silly, but I felt a strange existential dread watching the video. I asked myself: who is being marketed toward? In my head, it's Apple lovers that want to larp as c…
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Comment #43811659
Modern CSS makes me long for Hi5 to make a comback. My profile would be killer.
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Comment #42055787
I'd end up with something like this if I ever had the time. Instead of a corporate wiki, though, I'd probably use something like sphinx to compile PDF files, and store them on the …
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Comment #42055779
Is this a recent addition? I recall attempting to do this some years ago, failing, and putting the tool out of my mind as a result. Maybe I was doing something wrong.
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Comment #42055768
> the plain text file is embedded Hold the phone -- some PNG files have plain text representations embedded within? That's nuts, I had no idea!
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Comment #42046575
I have a love/hate relationship with diagrams, and diagrams-as-code-things (plantuml, mermaid, etc). As a programmer, I find myself trying to turn everything in to a software proje…
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Comment #41327487
I hope this happens. I can only dream of the day when my country gets something like this.
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Comment #40925920
Yes, panic is a large part of the problem. I think I recall the feeling once, when my dad was teaching me to swim around 4 or 5. I think I tried to stand up, and just sunk, then I …
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Comment #40904302
The description makes me think this can reproduce a cool workflow demonstration I saw a few years ago on reddit[1]. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/k1eu0n/durden_wo…
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Comment #39511224
That's interesting. I've been using git every day for about 8 years, I've never found myself in a situation where I couldn't fix something I broke. But maybe that time will come.
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Comment #39484153
I think this is the first time I've seen someone say they outright hate git. Why?
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Comment #39079525
Also, there's snapdrop[1] that does almost the same thing, for free, without the need to install anything. It'd probably be wiser that snapdrop were a native application; then it's…
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Comment #38303676
I say this as a software developer using Emacs daily as my IDE: emacs is not an IDE -- at least not OOTB. It can become a competent IDE, but that isn't what it's built for. Instead…
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Comment #37962445
> It started off as a way for me to learn ... and somehow turned into something useful This is the way.
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Comment #37954835
Any change you open sourced those parsers? I also switched from GnuCash to ledger-cli a long time ago, so I'm interested to see your solution.
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Comment #37884943
I really wish there was a way to annotate youtube videos easily. Kind of like hypothesis[1], but for video/streaming content. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87h0nYi-i9o edit:…
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Comment #37860377
Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated. There is a place for this, even if people in the thread have never seen it. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQ…
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Comment #37717345
> What other stuff are they up to? I see in another comment that he was found out while under investigation for something else entirely.
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Comment #37683831
This seems seriously cool. I wonder if its constant recording is going to fill up my HDD. edit: found the storage option. It defaults to keeping all data, but I've changed that to …
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Comment #37600017
This was exactly my thought process before switching to vim.
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Comment #37499892
Can I finally have my :dumpster-fire: emoji?
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Comment #37344719
That's interesting. So, if I understand this thread at all, your projects may help me to "preserve" my "wealth", with ledger?
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Comment #37340143
Anybody care to define "wealth management" as opposed to run-of-the-mill personal accounting? Why would I use this instead of ledger[1], for example? - [1]: https://ledger-cli.org/…
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Comment #37145325
> it always get extremely messy I have found having my own, personal, task management system was the foil for this. It is extra overhead, but at least I always have a system that w…
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Comment #37088761
It always amazes me that these large companies insist on reinventing the wheel.