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Re:Using an old Android phone as a music player on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:12PM (#49393849)
I have an old LG V-60 lying around which with its quad DAC is the perfect phone for this
Approval still rides at 37%, which is pretty decent given the amount of turmoil that has been unleashed
He's a naturalized US citizen
Re:Remarkable Convergence of Yields in Markets on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:04PM (#45121313)
The article left me wanting more. Such as, what is actually implied by this convergence of yields and what are the implications
> I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research

Singular lack of imagination on display considering recent events

Re:Tmux – The Essentials (2019) on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:23PM (#43261854)
You must mean changing Ctrl-B to Ctrl-A
There is no official senior VP title at JP Morgan. The next rung on the ladder after VP is Executive Director
What tweet?
Texas is damn hot in the summers and is only going to get hotter
Re:Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:31AM (#36443171)
Still on RHEL 7? We upgraded to RHEL 7 from RHEL 6x three months ago :-)
Excellent way to brush up Linux CLI skills and pick up a new trick or two along the way!
Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:46AM (#33829790)
Indeed. And one of the reasons I'm clinging on to the venerable LG V35
Re:Ask HN: What Do You Use for a Personal Database on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:51PM (#33632766)
Libreoffice Base
I found klavaro to be useful for purposes of learning touch typing. Never got past 60wpm, but this is good enough in my job
Re:Vim Vixen on Monday July 11, 2022 @09:25PM (#32064450)
How does this compare with Tridactyl?
Neal Stephenson's Anathem
Re:Superb Linux Documentation on Saturday May 07, 2022 @08:17PM (#31299951)
Very nice! Nitpick, s/intimdating/intimidating/ on the landing page
Re:Grep flags – the good stuff on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:42PM (#30183751)
with awk: <hello awk '/foo/ && /bar/ && /baz/'
Which one was the best you read?
Re:Awk is the coolest tool you don't know on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:45PM (#27045587)
Which flavor of awk supports perl regex? Gawk certainly doesn't
Re:GitHub, fuck your name change on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:12PM (#26494869)
Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:57PM (#26288950)
Vim's sort is handy on Windows where the option to shell out usually doesn't exist. Additionally you have the full power of Vim regex to sort on subsets of lines.
Re:A Vim Guide for Advanced Users on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:53PM (#26287123)
As far as I am concerned, this constitutes a good read for the VIM pro. It's a shame that critical comments tend to bubble up to the top on HN
Re:My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:48PM (#25427111)
What Linux distribution do you use on HP Stream? I used Ubuntu on mine and for some reason Firefox is intolerably slow. That really does sour things for me
Apparently putting on a mask at the back of the head stopped working after a while https://books.google.com/books?id=zU7PmIjthpoC&pg=PA38#v=one...
Re:Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:26PM (#23992677)
Not really - this fine SO answer has many examples of CROSS/OUTER APPLY elegantly solving problems that would otherwise have been inconvenient to deal with - https://stackoverflow.com/a/9275865/753731
Indeed. Many Upanishads are, in spirit, opposed to the old Vedas, and some are outright critical of the ritualism that forms the core of the Vedas.
Ingenious on the part of freight company, but roses being transported halfway around the world is an indicator of what's wrong with modern commerce
Shell - for bash, I'd recommend the Bash Guide from Greg's Wiki (https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide) For awk 1. Chapters 1 and 2 from the Awk Programming Language(https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...) 2. Awk one-liners (https://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt) 3. Explanations for one-liners (https://catonmat.net/awk-one-liners-explained-part-one)

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