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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 Elis…

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 t…

see also: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1695733/

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…

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 h…

This kind of writing is what I browse the internet for.

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…

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 …

> 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 …

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 ma…

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 he…

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…

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 dese…

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 )

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!

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 hav…

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 minu…

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, a…

I've had good luck on big (multi-GB) SQL dumps, which often have very long lines, with https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi

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.

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 tim…

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 th…

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 (?). Mos…

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 le…