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iA Writer and it has a nice zen mode

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.

A Git Porcelain inside Emacs

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

What do you think this same idea is?

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.

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?

> 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.

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.

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.

Could just use ProtonMail

‘Something to hide’ in English often has a negative connotation meaning deliberately trying to deceive or something bad they did and don’t want you to know about.

Better would be to not use that phrase as most people have something they wish to remain private or secret, without it being anything sinister. Like their password for example !

> I find the value of having the actual surrounding context in which the code was developed more valuable

But only if those commits are real atomic changes of code which compiles and not a series of 'oops', 'tests pass once again!' , 'forgot to commit this file' type inner-monologue type history.

And then there are shops where less technical authors are contributing solely via the GitHub WebUI. So you get a commits of the ilk 'Updated <Filename>' or ''Files added via upload'.

A search for Solar Warden on DuckDuckGO [1] finds results for me, if you're referring to top results on Yandex about 'The Secret Space Program & Black Budget'?

I stopped using Google years ago as I find their search results, aside from being plagued by ads and people trying to game the results, have just become less useful. Which mainstream search engines are you referring to (I think DDG use bing).

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/q=solar+warden

Is it Nix or NixOS?