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skovorodkin··on Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
Thank you for listening!

I'm just telling you about my experience. Obviously Nyxt is very different from more conventional browsers. I'm an Emacs and StumpWM user, and I'd love to have the same kind of power in browser environment. But without easily accessible docs it's just a little bit too high barrier for me.

> it would drift from different versions people were using

Good point. Maybe as a first step just copy that paragraph from readme file to a more prominent place on site? It's very unusual for a project site to have no manual.

Then make the latest version of docs available online. It should be clear 1) what version it talks about, 2) how to check version of user's installation, and 3) how to open the embedded help.

Then if really needed add docs for previous versions, like some projects do. For instance https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html.

I suppose at least some basic concepts have been stable enough to not change anytime soon?

Or does Nyxt still change substantially from the UX point of view?

skovorodkin··on Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste
Why doesn't Nyxt have online documentation? I can only see an unstructured list of Articles, but no proper manual. Nyxt has some docs embedded in it, but it'd be nice to have it online, so users can read it from the comfort of the browser they've been using for years, playing with Nyxt in a window side-by-side.

And only after reading this paragraph at the _bottom_ of README.org on Github [1] I could find help in Nyxt:

> For full documentation about Nyxt, how it works, and how to extend it please see the embedded help. To get started, run the help command (C-space help).

Could you make it more obviuos? It would be great to have the tutorial [2] and the manual [3] in a readable form on your site.

[1] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt#documentation--custom...

[2] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/blob/master/source/tu...

[3] https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/blob/master/source/ma...

skovorodkin··on TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
Probably not as powerful as TabFS, but there's also https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab:

> bt (brotab = Browser Tabs) is a command-line tool that helps you manage browser tabs. It can help you list, close, reorder, open and activate your tabs.

It supports both Chrome and Firefox. I use it to get titles of tabs that make some sound in Firefox.

skovorodkin··on Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (2011)
"This is the corrected version of the one I put out a month or so ago, in which my animation for all the inverse operations was incorrect": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck.
skovorodkin··on Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]
For recording it's much better to speak slowly. You can always speed up slow speech, but doing the opposite (slowing down fast speech) does not bring you a good result yet.
skovorodkin··on Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?
Reading PDFs on Kindle Paperwhite is much more comfortable with KOReader. Thanks to https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ it can crop pages and reflow text unlike the native reader. It's not the best experience with some types of documents, but generally it works very well.

I don't have a solution for synchronization at this point. My current workflow is quite involved: import a document into Calibre, upload it to Kindle via Calibre wireless connection (KOReader supports it), read and highlight, get the modified doc back to Calibre, extract highlights with https://github.com/0xabu/pdfannots. It'd be more convenient to send new highlights from Kindle somewhere immediately without transferring the document itself. I haven't looked into it, but I believe it should be possible with a KOReader plugin.

skovorodkin··on Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
This amazing course is not about using database systems, but about making them.
skovorodkin··on Numeral Systems of the World
Maybe the link to [1] would be more interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems

skovorodkin··on Find stuff in org-mode anywhere (2017)
> if I yank it yanks the visual line, but I expect it to do all

I'm not sure what's the problem with yanking, but probably you want the behavior of kill-whole-line bound to C-M-backspace by default.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki...

skovorodkin··on Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
There's a lecture on Out-of-Order execution [1] in the Design of Digital Circuits course [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ALyN0-jBrw

[2] https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik/spring2019/doku.php?id...

skovorodkin··on uBlock Origin 1.20
I suppose you know it, but Firefox on Android supports add-ons! It's amazing.
skovorodkin··on Ask HN: Best books or online courses to learn networking?
Not a book, but an overview of networking by Gary Bernhardt:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protoc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14468471

skovorodkin··on Advantages of monolithic version control
> Travis ci expects a single file at the root of the project and so does gitlab ci

GitLab has a related issue to support "Several .gitlab-ci.yml for monorepos" (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18157).

skovorodkin··on Terraform 0.9
You should try out http://jsonnet.org, I love it.
skovorodkin··on Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
Check out -f parameter of pkill.
skovorodkin··on Python Dictionary: Past, Present, Future
Direct link: http://www.slideshare.net/delimitry/python-dictionary-past-p...