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lcall

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About lcall

Thoughtful feedback is appreciated, in general. My email address is found in the footers of these two sites:

https://www.lukecall.net -- a tech-simple site with many thoughts on many subjects important to me, very skimmable but no ambition in visual style; nothing for sale until I get healthy and then if you want to pay for software development/systems consulting. Suggestions/questions welcome.

https://www.onemodel.org aka OM: available, effective, and in daily use, but progress on some planned new features is slow until health improves. A highly efficient (desktop) knowledge manager, text UI, Free (AGPL), using Scala and PostgreSQL (working to move to Rust and maybe later sqlite). Something like an efficient combination of mindmap, zettelkasten and GTD in one, with much greater ambitions including for linking instances for collaboration; see site links to screen shots for some idea of how I organize/categorize things. Low-volume announcements email list available (under "community").

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    Comment #44891051

    Life has many stresses, but things can actually be OK with each of us, despite commotion and problems. In my church of 17.5 million members in most countries, we have made promises…

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    Comment #44065050

    Ditto. I posted (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881123 ) about them and other options: To send the same command to multiple servers, use pdsh: https://linux.die.net/m…

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    Comment #43977444

    I use the knowledge organizer I wrote at https://onemodel.org [AGPL], and write things wherever they fit in the deeply nested, searchable outline. Maybe it's like my own, efficient…

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    Comment #43764224

    I have determined for myself that the book is what it says it is. Details at my web site (in profile), and in the last chapter of the book itself. Anyone can put it to the test and…

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    Comment #43764211

    There is another called familysearch.org which is free and allows adding but not publicly viewing info on living persons. The site is backed by an institution with staying power, h…

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    Comment #43626527

    And the Book of Mormon. They are amazing. (Thoughtful comments appreciated with any downvotes. Thanks.)

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    Comment #42882869

    Also clusterit.

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    Comment #42881179

    The above links but clickable now are: - pdsh: https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdsh - dshbak: https://linux.die.net/man/1/dshbak - clusterssh: https://github.com/duncs/clusterssh/wiki …

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    Ad-hoc multi-server management with pdsh and friends

    Back when I was occasionally managing many servers, I would have to run the same adhoc command on all of them and see which ones succeeded identically to the others, and which ones…

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    Comment #42290798

    The article mentions low-dose rapamycin (aka sirolimus). That has recently been helping me, with my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS; overlaps or may be the same as long covid) that I…

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    Comment #42248927

    Times can be difficult but we can have peace, practical guidance, and help. Noah warned people, and prophets warn and guide today (the same God, had prophets then, has them now). M…

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    Comment #42222572

    Another recent discussion (fewer comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201302 Also FWIW, I use OpenBSD as my daily driver, and I like it especially due to the security …

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    Comment #41873690

    At least sometimes, it really helps for a test to say WHY it is done that way. I had a case where I needed to change some existing code, and all the unit tests passed but one. The …

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    Comment #41823051

    And if disagreeing, one can always say "I guess we see it differently. Maybe different assumptions or priorities. Good food for thought..." and smile and be curious about their rat…

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    Comment #41813537

    Maybe somewhat tangential, but for maintaining relationships (close or distant) in general, the best things for me (who am still learning) have been a study of the Bible and Book o…

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    Comment #41790966

    I agree with others that you are expected to read documentation and use it on supported hardware. I have been using it on my laptop for some time now, though I don't need bluetooth…

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    Comment #41768204

    Here are some translation recommendations (I haven't read them, but would add War and Peace , which I have read, and which is freely available on gutenberg.org): 10 of the best nov…

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    Comment #41427761

    Dejagnu, written in expect, is also useful for testing. I have used it in my TUI personal organizer project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejagnu

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    Comment #41392896

    On Android, Handy News Reader from the f-droid.org app store works well, once I went through all the settings and customized it, and got used to it. Except now it doesn't auto-fetc…

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    Comment #41331690

    I do similarly but my favorite git log ("gl") variant (in a bash script rather than an alias) is: set -eux git log --notes --decorate=full --source --stat --summary -C -M --pretty=…

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    Comment #41148207

    Joseph Smith never claimed to be perfect, and notably said he was not, but that "there is no error in the revelations." I have learned for myself that the Book of Mormon is true (a…

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    Comment #41103700

    Related link: https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2024/07/29/new-me... Intermountain Health, mentioned in these articles, is the founder of Civica Rx, which is the nonprofit…

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    Comment #40989297

    Doesn't it depend on the purpose of your life? I have written about this at my web site (in profile, nothing for sale, no stylistic ambition). You can email me if you can't find it…