ropeladder

Entity resolution/record linkage/deduplication is an oddly specialized domain of knowledge given that it's such a common problem. I put together a page of resources a while back if anyone is interested: https://github.com/ropeladder/record-linkage-resources

I don't like efficiency as a concept -- it hides too much. As a ratio of output over input, it can be used to say all kinds of things (we pay our employees less, I spent less time with my family, etc) behind a veneer of merit or technological improvement.

I prefer talking directly about inputs/costs and outputs/desired effects. This also makes it more explicit who pays the costs and who gets the benefits.

This is a great idea! It's very tech centric, though (at least judging from your directory).

This is really cool. I built https://thicket.io a while ago, which had related goals but which System really puts to shame. Thicket took a simpler approach to graphing knowledge, so it's fascinating to see how you've structured the site and all the work you've done extracting meaning from your evidence.

I hope you have better luck with user engagement than I did!

As somebody who recently spent two weekends trying to figure out a self hosted photo solution that actually for my needs and was easy to install, this looks fantastic.

(I ended up using PhotoView, which works fine, but this looks like it might have been better.)

Now that I think about it it may have been that there was info in foobar's media library database that wasn't supported, not necessarily id3 tags. Play count and last played date are some I'm partial to that I couldn't get working.

I also use album artist a lot, though that's probably supported.

Same. Deadbeef comes close but it doesn't support all my foobar2000 metadata.

I've been using Dendron since it last showed up here and it's worked pretty well for a large writing project. My main complaint is more of a VS Code issue -- I can't figure out how to soft-wrap lines in a way that allows for vim navigation (with j/k) within a paragraph. Gj and gk work, but that's double the keystrokes. In Vim I can use the vim-pencil plugin and set lines to soft wrap.

Also, Dendron is very clunky with even medium-sized files.

This is basically what I'm doing except I hate plain text editing on a phone touchscreen, so I switched to .org for notes and use orgzly on my phone (which provides a much nicer interface for navigation around files and for quick data entry, imo). Would love an equivalent phone app for markdown but I don't think any exist.

The "there is no cliff" fallacy?

Agreed. This looks like something I will be coming back to. Rules of thumb, recommendations, and reasons for their recommendations -- I'm in heaven. Too few resources hit the sweet spot between introduction and arcana.

I've started having problems with trigger finger (can't bend fingers in to make a fist) in both my right and left hands. Has anyone fixed this sort of problem with a new keyboard/mouse? I always hear about ergonomics in relation to carpal tunnel and wrist issues, but there is very little info (evidence or even advertising claims) about finger health.

And '-o', for 'OR'.

F12 is your friend here. (It brings up the old file save as menu in most office software, wish it was more standard, actually)

Not the OP but I'm happy to defend WYSIWIG editors. Things like font size and bold and italics exist for a reason. Markdown tables are extremely clunky. Inline images (or pretty equations) are important for many types of writing. Bullet lists in markdown more than two levels deep get interpreted as code my most syntax highlighters.

Don't get me wrong, I love plain text and I do most of my writing in markdown, but WYSIWIG editors have their place. As do things like spreadsheets (for represent lots of info) and LaTeX (for docs).

Very cool! While the colors serve an obvious purpose, I initially viewed the page in grayscale and I think the maps are even more beautiful that way.

You have built up a terrifying straw man based on a video you admit you didn't even watch.

You're right that we should put less emotional stake in our code--the video actually lays some healthy ways to do this.

More generally, it's important that we recognize that people have emotions, otherwise it makes it easy and convenient for us to treat them like shit. (hint hint)

If sequential and random reads are mostly the same on SSDs, does that make the distinction between columnar and row-based databases/data storage less important?

Looks really nice. I built a similar site a few years back with an economics/policy/debate focus ( https://thicket.io ) but gave up/burned out after not getting any users and struggling to manage the data backend. It's great to see other people tackling similar problems.

On my new phone (Android 10) foobar2000 can't play tracks without stuttering. Haven't found a great replacement yet, but... that's one reason not to use it.

It's not about being flashy. Those Windows commands are hidden precisely because they are for power users and Microsoft presumably thinks that average users don't want or need them. Which is a whole different can of worms.

De-DRM for Kobo works great. It's basically the same as Kindle, there is just another plugin or two to install. Books are usually a bit more expensive. However, it looks like Walmart actually owns Rakuten now, so it's not like you're helping out the little guy much.

"Who cares if someone roofies your drink? Your goal was to hook up with somebody anyway." /s

You are drastically oversimplifying the situation here. The goal of a protest is not to be seen, or to be harassed by police. The goal is to effect change, and surveillance is a tool of the powerful that the United States has long had a healthy skepticism for.

Calls for nuance are missing the point. Nuance is exactly what we need less of, nuance is the trees that hide the forest.

Does Yellen have some professional ethics that guard against her acting in a way that overly favors businesses that have her millions of dollars? I think she does. Are those ethics effective as a guard against corruption in the same way that, well, not taking millions of dollars would be? I doubt it. Money talks.

Maybe even more importantly, it severely hurts the legitimacy of government. How are you supposed to convince people you're on their side if you're making millions from the other side? If your lawyer was getting paid more than you could ever pay to share his wisdom with the other side over a fancy lunch, and then you lost the case, you would have every right to doubt their integrity--even if they had done nothing wrong.

The US would have would have a lot less problems with conservative populism if the centrist technocratic impulse wasn't so often so tone deaf.

Newer versions of libreoffice have been almost unusably buggy for me: constant crashes, and track changes + undo has all kinds of weird quirks and sometimes makes entire paragraphs disappear. I would not recommend it in a business context even if interoperability with Word wasn't an issue.

I hate to sound harsh, particularly when I've been benefiting from their work for years, but it's hard to imagine a workplace that would put up with those bugs.

This looks great. I was looking for something similar to get the word out about a private event recently and the options for non-public minimalist website hosting is surprisingly limited. (I ended up just doing a password-protected simple nginx server, but this looks potentially much nicer to set up and use.)

Thanks for posting this! I had read an article by him a while ago and found it pretty persuasive (or rather that it supported prior intuitions), but couldn't find it again when I wanted to come back to it.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for screencasts of advanced Vim usage? I'm pretty comfortable with the basics (I'd say my level is "try to use macros sometimes and find them too clunky"), but in these days of remote work I don't get to look over my co-workers shoulders too often, so I don't feel like I have a good idea for what I'm missing. Less "here is the way to do this thing" and more "watch this wizard at work and get inspired, maybe with a bit of commentary."

Can you give some examples of what you're able to do or what exactly you mean by composing in this context? I've used tmux a bit but just to split windows and restore sessions...

Thanks for posting this and for everyone else adding similar suggestions. I dove into web extension development earlier this year and couldn't find anything at all on automating testing. It was hard to Google testing for web extensions instead of web extensions used for testing. Couldn't find anything in mozilla's otherwise excellent docs either.