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Re:How to Think about Pleasure on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:38AM (#27605062)
"for emperors/nobles/incredibly wealthy and powerful men" Epictetus was a disabled slave and he predates Marcus Aurelius
Re:My Life in E-Ink on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:18AM (#26202088)
I've tried it with the Boox Note Air 10.3 (arrived a couple of weeks ago!), it's decent enough but I had to install the termux-styling apk to change its background from black to white. I think it works better that way.

The refresh rate is good enough for me but I'm not very picky so YMMV. I'll try to use it for work one of these days using ssh, so I'll report back once I've done so.

Re:How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:28PM (#22174237)
We can revisit the stoic lessons from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. I find them very useful for managing stress.
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @11:16AM (#20275075)
Hey, some random Chinese one from Alibaba that we assembled. It works great but we are using LaserWeb on a PC and I want to have the RPi handle it.
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:16PM (#20266619)
2 RPis running Octoprint for the 3D printers 1 RPi connected to the laser cutter which I'm currently fixing 1 RPi that I take with me and connect to from my phone through ssh (moving to mosh and a Bluetooth terminal when I get the chance) 1 RPi that I leave in the lab so people can play with it with numpy/scipy/octave 1 RPi that I'm setting up with something like Jellyfin for my home media server
Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:31AM (#20030429)
Lovely, it was a bit of a hack I came up with that I was trying out, but your cleaned up version makes it look wonderful so into my init.vim it goes! Thanks :)
Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:34PM (#20026507)
Since I can't control the mouse so well anymore due to health reasons I grew to hate Kanban boards and Trello. Nowadays, the following goes into my init.vim along with vimwiki and it has made my work much more enjoyable :)

""" KANBAN BOARD

" Close board tab

map <leader>bc :tabclose<CR>

" Main board: soon, doing, today, done

map <leader>bb :tabnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/soon.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/doing.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/today.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/done.md<CR>

" Full board: triage, later, soon, doing, today, done, archive

map <leader>bf :tabnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/triage.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/later.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/soon.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/doing.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/today.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/done.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/archive.md<CR>

" Triage board: triage, later, soon, doing

map <leader>bt :tabnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/triage.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/later.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/soon.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/doing.md<CR>

" Archiving board: done, archive

map <leader>ba :tabnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/done.md<CR>:vnew /media/datanix/code/mdwiki/wiki/kanban/archive.md<CR>

You are assuming it wasn't intentional, which is not clear at this point (and probably never will be)
I recently learned about this piece of software when out for pizzas with a physicist friend of mine. I don't know if FB didn't know about it or didn't care.
Re:Why Vi Rocks on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:27PM (#19630328)
I've been using Neovim consistently for the last few months and it's a game-changer. Terminals within Neovim that I can paste into/from my Vimwiki files or source files is amazing. It's not very different from a Vim setup and using it with the Qt GUI on Windows gets rid if the issue of having everything close when eventually having to call <C-w>. Meanwhile, in my linux environment it runs like a charm on a terminal.
If the author is making it public then it's technically White Hat hacking and it's now up to the company (if they care enough) to resolve this exploit which potentially many others are using.
Ah, cool. Funny thing, in Chinese Einstein uses the character for "love" [ai] also because it's a phonetic approximation.
I agree that Greek might not be the best for people with a different linguistic background. By the way, did you mean Galois Theory? If it's OK to ask, what other languages do you speak mainly besides English?
Re:Linux Desktop Setup on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:15AM (#19254425)
Even though Pentadactyl is not under active development anymore, I'm pretty happy with Vim-Vixen. It doesn't have "caret mode" (from what I can tell) but the switch was very smooth. There are also a lot of other options for vi-browsing for Firefox now.
Re:Liquid: Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure on Thursday December 27, 2018 @06:19PM (#18773536)
At the very least you can add a participant to the holy war
Re:Sequencing is the new microscope on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:15AM (#18404469)
There's even 2-photon laser microscopy. I worked on such projects before and the field of optogenetics is amazing!
Re:Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:38AM (#18369173)
Haha! Yes, indeed. A UUID would be better :b
I'm a researcher myself and I guess this is one of those "does the end justify the means?" scenarios... Out bad research and its perpetrators and science loses out on a scientist that actually wants to do good work. Or don't and then watch yourself rationalize worse decisions later on for the sake of your research, slowly becoming as corrupt as they were and realizing that a lot of your cited work could potentially be as bad (or worse) as the ones you helped get published.

I really believe we need a better way. Privately funded / bootstrapped OPEN research comes to mind as a potential solution to bring some healthy competition to this potentially corrupt system. Mathematicians are starting to do this, I think computational researchers have the potential to be next.

Re:Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:50AM (#18309724)
:%s/bootstrap/VCNew/g

:%s/VC/bootstrap/g

:%s/VCNew/VC/g

FF with Multi Account Containers is heaven