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Re:Write Plain Text Files on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:46AM (#40397440)
iA Writer and it has a nice zen mode
Re:Write Plain Text Files on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:45AM (#40397434)
Or dotted notebooks which allow the free-form, but help if you do need things to be level , line up etc.
I've seen this '50/30/20 rule' recommend before, in the UK press (financial articles) and by banks [1] and financial resources.

I'm interested in it's origin, whether it still holds true today (is the advice still valid) and alternatives strategies for comparison (given today's current economical climate, rising inflation and interest rates).

[1] e.g. https://www.hsbc.co.uk/financial-fitness/everyday-budgeting/...

Lots of so called challenger banks offer virtual cards which can be used with merchants you do not trust, thus mitigating the risk of them having your ACTUAL card number which they can abuse/leak.
Can anyone recommend some good blog articles or books (aimed at lay people) on how the global economy works, bank interactions with other banks, and government management of inflation and interest rates?

I'd like to understand a bit about both the previous crash and the current banking crisis, but feel I need to do some background reading first.

Re:Please help improve Magit on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:29AM (#34945361)
A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
Re:Ask HN: What made you finally grok Git? on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:19AM (#33653555)
Reading this[1] and getting the data structures/mental model correctly internalised in my head.

Although I do use git from the cli (or magit) primarily, this knowledge has helped me pick-up front end tools intuitively and have helped others when I've never used their preferred tool. All of this doesn't seem possible unless you've put in the effort learning what's going on behind the scenes. That is to say, git itself it neither user friendly nor intuitive it must be learned.

Knowing mercurial (hg) beforehand did slow my learning progress a bit with all the false-friends. You may find it easier to learn if you don't have to re-learn some naming.

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Re:Ask HN: What Is a COO? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @01:38PM (#33613136)
What do you think this same idea is?
Re:Low-Quality Sleep Increases Glaucoma Risk, New Study Suggests on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:52AM (#33571665)
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.
Re:Writing down what I do – in Obsidian on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:07AM (#33528646)
I'll probably try out both Obsidian and LogSeq at some point. Do their use-cases overlap or are there different goals of each project?
Re:Writing down what I do – in Obsidian on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:01AM (#33528613)
> Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility

Do you mean org-roam ?

Why don't you trust your macs since 2014. Also why do you still use them if you don't trust them any longer?
Presumably the library paid for their copy?

[Edit]

Also check out OverDrive / Libby

There is a nice GUI on MacOS called Vorta I think.
How does it compare to Borg?
Thanks
What is old.reddit.com?
Next we would like to hear more about what owners of open spaces are doing allowing bad humans to use them to communicate sounding words over air.
I think this means, assuming it’s not a burner SIM bought with cash, that someone could “only” identify you were a signal user. They wouldn’t be able to see your social graph , who you contacted and when, from where, what was said, what groups you were in.

I also thought I’d read on HN recently that they were looking at making this optional in the future but don’t quote me on that !

There are a few secure alternatives but as stated in the article, their goal is privacy as well as security. For instance they don’t even know who’s in which groups or that a group exists and they keep as little metadata as possible. The remaining metadata that is required for the service to work, they encrypt and don’t even have the keys.
This is answered in the article.
Re:Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro on Saturday October 08, 2022 @05:35PM (#33136225)
What is it you think could be improved ?
The Social Dilemma and The Great Hack documentaries on Netflix cover this in greater detail but basically they don't need to read your messages, when the can predict your behaviour so accurately. IMHO this is actually worse than reading your messages.
Re:Highlights from Git 2.38 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:41AM (#33076988)
A large chuck used to be shell scripts and Perl. Not sure if this is still the case but always made the Windows experience worse.
Re:Integrating with Fastmail on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:35AM (#33007748)
Could just use ProtonMail

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