Galicarnax

Add a pager like `less` (e.g. `$ projects | less`). And `exit` should close the page.

Tell that to gorillas.

The text has a strong GPT-ish flavor.

Arch.

Using it for 4 years, both at home and at work (also have Raspberry Pi 4 under Arch Linux ARM).

I'm a bit perplexed why it is considered less stable than "your typical Linux distro". Never used Debian, but I used Ubuntu with KDE prior to Arch. It was very common to have problems, from constant messages about crashing staff (AppArmor hitting the record) to reinstalling the entire OS. During 4 years with Arch I had only a few tiny issues that required 5-10 minutes to fix (not least thanks to Arch Wiki).

Not sure though if this is because Arch is so nice by itself, or because with Arch I moved to more minimalist setups (which Arch endorses so naturally).

Haven't watched much of anime, and haven't watched any for more than a decade. But back then I had huge impression from Azumanga Daioh. Nothing special in plot, just a year in the life of a few schoolgirls. But such lively and unique personages, I remember I had lump in the throat when I watched the last episode, as if I was saying farewell to close friends that I will not ever see again.

There is no arguing here against eating stuff that has meat-like properties (nutritional content and perhaps even taste). The issue is whether we have to torture billions of mammals and birds for that. I don't think it matters for your instinct if the stuff you eat comes from a killed animal or not, as long as it tastes and supplies the same.

Lions, sharks and birds, even if they have consciousness, do not have intelligence. They cannot choose whether to cause harm/pain/death to anyone or not. Humans do have that capability, and to get food could have figured out something better than imprisoning other animals in boxes all their lives.

From Kazakhstan here. Didn't use cash literally for a couple of years. AT ALL. Almost everything can be paid via mobile app (though basically only one bank - Kaspi bank). Products (including dill at bazaar), taxi, even public toilet - everything can be paid via transfer from one Kaspi client to another.

UPD: But cash is still accepted in most cases. Have no idea why some people still use it.

Absolutely. I forgot to mention - at around the same time I bought open earbuds (Samsung buds Live, to be concrete) which I found comfortable - they don't block external sound and I practically don't feel them in the ears.

For about a year already, I use ASMR audio/visuals when I go to bed (strange, not even mentioned in the referenced post). I found they help me falling asleep (though, probably, not staying asleep). Also, not just any ASMR stuff does the job, there is a lot of ASMR junk out there. Plus, ASMR triggers differ in efficiency from one person to another, so I preliminarily assess if a particular recording might be good for me. Most of all, I like educational ASMR about history/culture/languages/etc.

For me, Bram is probably among names like Tarkovsky, Stravinsky and Attenborough, who greatly affected the way I see/feel life. R.I.P.

Zotero is awful. It's heavyweight - in fact, a whole separate browser only to manage my bibligraphy (ever tried to use it with ~10k items?). Provides no CLI interface (to automate workflows with scripts). It's data model is weird - e.g., item types include such thing as "instant message", but more academia-relevant types (e.g., "dataset") are absent ("preprint" was incorporated only recently); ISSNs are treated as properties of articles rather than journals. And it boasts it has included its own PDF viewer, whereas I see it as down-side rather than improvement (more bloatware included - why not just follow the division of labor and delegate this functionality to external viewers... ahhh, yes, there is no annotating standard among PDF viewers...).

But all other alternatives for bibliography management I know of are even worse.

Was re-watching The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch recently, and realised it had a reference to Tarkovsky's Stalker in the scene with the "cinema lady".

"The best films are like dreams you're never sure you've really had. I have this image in my head of a room full of sand. And a bird flies towards me, and dips its wing into the sand. And I honestly have no idea whether this image came from a dream, or a film"

Added it into Feedly, the news appear not as expected: https://postimg.cc/KKNps2xk

Are there real-life examples where "traditional non-safe" sudo/su lead to problems?

Lua seems to be widespread in games, but in fact is a very nice tool to make day-to-day apps user-extendible (with neovim and mpv being a couple of examples).

The only downside is that it's a pain to work with a regular keyboard due to muscle memory. Though that doesn't occur often in my case.

I have remapped caps lock on my keyboard to Esc, so it works everywhere, not only for Vim. Very convenient, symmetric to Enter. I hardly ever need caps lock as such.

> Does it suck to maintain almost 200GB of audio files? Yes.

In what way does is suck? I have about 1TB of audio files on local disks, which I manage with beets + mpd. No troubles at all.

What's the point of uploading the music somewhere, and even more so paying for that?

Lenovo Legion 5 (even though I don't play games) with Arch Linux. This is the only working machine at my home, so I have an external monitor and keyboard attached. No complaints whatsoever, works fine with UWHD on external display, etc. Silent, sturdy, sexy.

It's just too often that what they say disagrees with what they do, and too often that they declare reforms. They promised the freedom of speech, and yet, right now, before the presidential elections, they try to shut the mouths of journalists who criticize them (typically, fabricating cases against them).

And, if you didn't know - the first thing Tokayev did in 2019 when Nazarbayev (the first president who ruled almost 30 years) handed the rein to him - is that he proposed to rename the Kazakhstani capital, Astana, to Nur-Sultan (Nazarbayev's first name). And of course, the Parliament unanimously supported the idea. Not a single member objected.

Few months ago it was "proposed" by someone from the Parliament (of course, not as an own initiative, hence quotes) to rename the capital back to Astana, and Tokayev supported. The parliament voted unanimously. Not a single member objected.

I do agree that things seem better in Kazakshtan now than they were even a decade ago, or even than they are now in most other post-Soviet countries. But it's still way too far...

As someone actually living in Kazakhstan, I would not take any words of the current government too seriously.