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kadal··on Democrats Are Plotting Government Efficiency in a Post-DOGE World
Rising stars in the Democratic Party are promoting their tech modernization teams in a post-DOGE political landscape.
kadal··on Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis
The point of the article is that this intervention is actively harmful for exactly the same reasons raised by experts a long time ago.

> In my opinion, that's better than doing nothing at all.

This attitude is wrong IMO. The issue with high-profile half-baked interventions is that they distract from real unsexy solutions like grab the plastic in rivers BEFORE they make it to the ocean.

This is self-evident from data on their own website! https://theoceancleanup.com/sources/ . River mouths/estuaries are also some of the most densely populated regions in the world. This bites in that it is easy for plastic to enter the ocean. But it's also a lot easier to run cleanup at the source, next to humans, rather than 3000km away in the middle of the ocean.

kadal··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
What's the best reader for KOReader? I'm in the market for a new one and would like one that handles everything a kindle does not.
kadal··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
To this excellent list, I would humbly add Bhavana: https://bhavana.org.in/
kadal··on Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
Hmm I couldn't get it to work with video chat so I should try again
kadal··on Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day
To clarify, I had nothing to do with the making of this service. Discovered it last night, loved it, and decided to share.
kadal··on Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
So sad that netflix doesn't have it any more
kadal··on Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
This vaguely sounds like MIDI to me
kadal··on Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement
I hope we get group video calls and video calls on desktop soon
kadal··on What does the 'rc' in `.bashrc`, etc. mean?
Welcome to you who have come to zombocom!
kadal··on What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)
"you won't kill me out of some misguided sense of self righteousness and I won't kill you because you're just too much fun"

I had the same thought

kadal··on Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix
Yeah I agree. Zulip is really good. It's a nice mix of email+chat. I much prefer it over slack.
kadal··on Writing a Ph.D. thesis with Org Mode
Unless (like me) you write your papers in org-mode too!
kadal··on Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
I agree. emacs-jupyter is great but I'm eagerly waiting for jupyter notebook server support since my work is on remote clusters now. For local use, it's pretty great.
kadal··on Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
Oh man, that's basically org-babel [0] but with working jupyter server support!

0: https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html#Wor...

kadal··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
I recently discovered that Umatrix has something like this. One of the buttons gives you the ability to click to enable common subsets e.g. "GitHub" , "reCAPTCHA" etc.
kadal··on Android vendors, don’t kill my app
This is so annoying! Do you know what needs to be whitelisted?
kadal··on The Friendship That Made Google Huge
And sometimes you need eagles
kadal··on Oxford English Dictionary extends hunt for regional words around the world
I think they need to go through this: http://www.samosapedia.com/by_language/english

Great way to timepass btw.

kadal··on Introducing the LineageOS SDK
Mine was unbearably slow even with Cyanogen installed. How is it working out for you?
kadal··on How Apple fumbled a five-year lead in voice control
From a single datapoint, senior citizens prefer speaking into the phone instead of typing out long messages.
kadal··on The Emacs Calculator (2009)
I use Qalculate which is awesome and has similar features.

https://qalculate.github.io/

kadal··on DIY MacBook Stand
I have this one and the thing that sticks up pokes my wrist all day. I don't think a human tested it for any amount of time.
kadal··on ASCII Art: Real-Time ASCII Art Rendering Library
Is there one that can do matrix digital rain like effects?
kadal··on Google Maps Gets a New Look
Ugh, just hope it doesn't spark another "war against christianity" thing
kadal··on Firefox 57.0 Released
https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525#issuecomm...
kadal··on Ask HN: What are your favorite magazines?
The new yorker
kadal··on Ask HN: What are your favorite magazines?
Caravan is so great. How does fountain ink compare?

As heads up for non-Indians, they have occasional articles that are not purely focused on India.

kadal··on Firefox Quantum
Win tree style tabs you can autohide. Indo that to reduce distractions
kadal··on Tufte CSS
Emacs org-mode HTML export + ob-ipython could do it for you, with some configuration...
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