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For those who want a very similar setup but don't mind the risk of a vim-plugin going unmaintained, I can highly recommend vimwiki. Its a very simple markdown based wiki all within vim. A few features that I find particularly good:

- a 'diary' function that allows you to make a page per day. Vimwiki then produces an index page of all diary entries.

- you can go to your wiki anytime from within vim with a command ( <leader>ww )

- vimwiki can generate html files from yout wiki files

- the coolest thing in my opinon: since the whole thing is just markdown, I actually just use vimwiki as my personal website hosted on github pages. You just have to add some Jekyll related files and github can process everything else as is.

A small note on obselescence: I actually don't even know if vimwiki is in active development anymore. Haven't bothered updating it in maybe 4 years and it works fine. So maybe its fine to not roll your own.

Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:32AM (#14646316)
There's an article on it in NYT which provides a short list of the reaons: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/technology/north-korea-ra...

It basically comes to it looking like Lazarus Group

The WannaCry attacks used the same command-and-control server used in the North Korean hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, which wiped out nearly half of the company’s personal computers and servers.

...

Other digital crumbs linking the North Korean group to WannaCry include a tool that deletes data that had been used in other Lazarus attacks. The hackers behind WannaCry also used a rare encryption method and an equally unusual technique to cover their tracks.

I always assumed the breakfast phrase had its origin in Kafka's Metamorphosis:

> The washing up from breakfast lay on the table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of different newspapers.

But then again, I guess it would have never become such a common phrase through Kafka alone. Funny would be if the above formulation only appeared in post 1944 translations.

Yep, that's what I did on my Dell 11 (wolf) with Xubuntu and almost everything working out of the box.I just created a vanilla Xubuntu USB, turned on developer mode and made a bios patch (the Dell has a bug, other Chromebooks don't require it), and installed.

After installation, I had to run something like two scripts to get the trackpad and suspend working.

Battery life is not 10+ hours as it is with chromeOS, probably closer to 7/8.

Further reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/ (I didn't follow the Chrubuntu instructions, but used the community to get a touchpad fix) and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromebook

Re:Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots on Thursday September 18, 2014 @09:22AM (#8335016)
I feel like science fiction is somehow singled out in society as a special kind of crap.

Yeah, I think this is quite a common battle that many mediums/subjects have to fight. For this case, it seems like a combination a lack of interest in the themes explored in serious science fiction (the ones that get me and you excited), meaning that it does not get as much air-time in "serious" discussions; and the baseline exposure to the genre which does not grow into anything for most . For example, this is the case for me and high fantasy: I know nothing about what the genre has to offer.

I mean, I'm guessing that if I never transitioned into things like Gundam, Xenogears, Ghost in the Shell (can you tell I liked Japanese thigns as a teenager?) and onwards I would still think of sci-fi as cars with guns.

Re:Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:13AM (#8334773)
Or maybe I'm unaware of romance novels dealing with game theory and metaethics.

You are right, you probably won't find romance novels dealing with those issues, but that is not something to be surprised or annoyed by.

Each genre has some things that it is, through the tropes of the genre, naturally good at exploring. Science fiction and cyberpunk are really good at speculating about the future (and, of course, by extension, the present: everything is a mirror), because of the setting that they take place in. On the other hand, Romance novels they tend to make good mediators for dealing with different issues, such as sexuality, taboos, class, etc. Just look at Jayne Eyre.

Re:Ghost 0.5 milestone release on Monday August 11, 2014 @03:48PM (#8164871)
Yes, this is the release that will get me using Ghost. I've been waiting for them to introduce multi-user blogs for a while.
Re:This Professor only has a PhD degree on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:29AM (#5485079)
At the time, the PhD was not seen very highly in the department, and in the report on the defence of the PhD Moore famously said:

"It is my personal opinion that Mr. Wittgenstein’s thesis is a work of genius; but, be that as it may, it is certainly well up to the standard required for the Cambridge degree of Doctor of Philosophy’

So, it was not seen as an achievement at all!

Re:US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide on Sunday January 13, 2013 @02:00PM (#5051476)
In the work that pretty much started the discipline of suicidology and one of the most important books in sociology, Émile Durkheim's 1897 "Suicide", it is made clear that the environment you are in does matter. Alghough the text is highly flawed (biases, sexism, logical faults here and there), but the basic idea prevails.

Up till that point, it didn't occur to people (as it does not seem to occur to you) that something as intimate as committing suicide might be deeply linked to more social factors.

People are right to point fingers, the context that one is in influences the decisions they make, the options that they think they have.

Re:Brasília: an excerpt from Urbanized on Monday November 05, 2012 @01:00PM (#4744900)
Just to be sure that it is clear, Neimaier was the architect of most of the buildings in Brasilia, but not the man who made the urban plan. That was Lucio Costa.

I'm not trying to defend him, he approaches architecture with the intent to create his own brand of ‘beauty’ which results in buildings like you experienced, but he should not be blamed for Brasilia's possible failure as a city.

Re:Brasília: an excerpt from Urbanized on Monday November 05, 2012 @12:57PM (#4744888)
Actually, that would be Chandigarh[1], a city that was designed by Corbu himself. There is a lot to be said about the city, but it is probably not what people would expect from him (I've heard from people who have been that it is actually quite humanistic). This is quite common with Corbu, since he is the favourite scapegoat in architecture.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh

Re:A Modern Space Cadet on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @11:36AM (#4607931)
I've got the unicomp 122 that I use at work, and the HHKB Pro Silence∂ that I use at home.

I only got the 122 because they were out of stock of of all the Classic and Space Saver when I was ordering, and truth be told I can't think of any intrinsic advantages that the 122 brings. I do love the layout of the arrow keys (with Home in their middle), but the singe best feature of the board is the BS switches.

Back when I bought mine there were a few more configuration options for the 122, one where the additional F keys (13 - 14) would send a "normal" F13 signal, and one where it sends shift + the F key below it. For example, F13 would send Shift-F1. Seeing how unicomp does not give you options any more, you might want to check what the default is.

Also, if you like the Natural, you might be in to ergo boards? You might like the Truly Ergonimic[1] with MX browns. Watch out of the placement of the important programming keys though, since they are a bit off (~ [ ] { } ; : / \ etc.)

1: https://secure.trulyergonomic.com/

Re:Old Maps vs. New Maps on Sunday September 30, 2012 @05:43AM (#4592474)
No, it isn't.

When most people refer to a place, they refer to it by it's common name. You fly to JFK, Heathrow, Charles de Gaule, Gatwick, Luton, O'Hare, etc. There is no need to add "airport" to something which so obviously is one in the context.

The familiarity of common names is why wikipedia uses them for article names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Common...

Re:Making Jet Fuel From Seawater While at Sea on Saturday September 29, 2012 @05:35AM (#4589150)
It's not that simple:

CO2 in atmosphere -> CO2 in water -> Ocean acidification[1] -> Change in ocean ecosystem

The oceans absorb OC2 from the atmosphere, which you could argue is good, but it is not without consequences. Putting CO2 in the water moves the problem from having it in the atmosphere elsewhere, but it's still a problem. In some ways then, this can be seen as a good thing, because it is undoing the effects that increased CO2 in the atmosphere has on the oceans. Obviously though, I doubt that its effects would be at all noticeable.

The wiki article already linked has a chapter called 'Possible Impact'.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

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